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Learning stuff. The coloring on the chess piece is based off of iridovirus. It's a type of virus that can turn isopods (pill bugs, roly polies, potato bugs) an iridescent blue color. It also shortens their life span and makes them sluggish, but I still think it's cool. This is the page of sketches my current profile picture comes from.

Besides the humans, these drawings are based off of photographs I've taken. My brother caught the rainbow trout last year, the grackle was present at a turtle pond we visited on World Turtle Day, I didn't have my umbrella when I saw the snail even though it was raining, my dad and I got up early to watch the sunrise, and... I dunno, I wanted to draw rocks in a river.

Each of these took me between 10 and 15 minutes. I wanted to work on my rendering speed. I'll probably be doing a few more of these later, but 3 pages of doodles feels like a nicer number than 2, y'know?

I've got to admit, part of the reason I do so many studies is because I'm not very creative. I know how to increase my technical skills, but I haven't found exercises that help me with my creativity yet.

...to be Eliza Doolittle Day!

Traditionally on this day my family has "lots of chocolate" while we watch My Fair Lady. I persuaded my mom to give me a piece a day early so I could make some art to celebrate, and decided to draw from life. I immediately regretted it because it meant I had to take a single bite out of a peanut butter cup and not finish it until after I had finished drawing. That took restraint.

Foil is apparently really hard to draw, I gave up after a while. Again, I couldn't have chocolate until I finished drawing. Also, the ending of My Fair Lady makes no sense to me, I'll admit that I've only seen the movie, but Eliza and Henry Higgins have no chemistry, in my opinion. (plus other life-threatening considerations)

Okay, so I forgot to do art for May 15th, which was Dinosaur Day, National Chocolate Chip Day and National Pizza Party Day. But May 16th is National Sea Monkey Day (and National Barbecue Day) so I drew a picture of a brine shrimp, which is also known as a sea monkey.

Also I will be making Minecraft map art based on the dragon in the water and the mallard was an incredibly easy thing to draw. I think I'm getting better at art. Anyways, I'm reaching that point where all the studies I do are finally letting me draw cooler things from imagination with lots more speed, which is good, because I get bored easily and also have terrible posture.

Yep, this is the Hop-bush Leaf Beetle (Callidemum hypochalceum) and it's from Australia! It feeds off hop bushes from the Dodonaea genus. That's literally all I know about it.

Basically I was just doing some studies and liked how this one turned out, plus my profile picture was due for a change and I don't feel like drawing hummingbirds right now. I love iridescence, and beetles are a great source if you want iridescence that both does and doesn't make sense. I think I'm starting to understand it a bit better though.

Once upon a time, there was a girl who got so caught up in her quest to make Minecraft map art in survival that she forgot to work on her comic for Tell a Story Day.

However, she did collect every type of tree except cherry and a gaggle of little friends, including an eternally young ball of yellow fluff she forgot to draw. The End.

Tell a Story Day is April 27th. And yes, I know this art is terrible, I hate perspective and was only willing to spend an hour on it. Admittedly, the manatee I drew a while back took even less time and looks a lot better, but counterpoint: I actually liked making that art and wasn't a little burnt out like I am right now.

It's only been like, 2 weeks, but I had to make another Minecraft map. I still don't own a mouse, by the way.

The last one was Silksong, this one is Undertale. It was mostly practice to solidify some sort of process to make map making more efficient, and I think I did all right. I got this done in only 3 days (while having tests and a cold, might I add) while the last one took a week.

Process pictures and candle sans under the cut.

I love nature. I love learning about plants and animals (especially birds) and I can find pretty much any aspect of nature interesting, especially when I think in a writing or art lens.

I didn't have time to draw anything super cool for today. I do a lot of nature art though, like that chipmunk and that turtle. I did some doodles during class a few days ago that should apply, plus here are some pretty pictures of water droplets and a little rainbow that perched itself on the stairs. I swear, one of these days I'll learn how to do glowy, rainbowy art and I'll never be able to stop.

This is my first painting after updating to Krita 5.3. Some stuff has been rearranged, which I'll have to get used to, but I am so looking forward to the additions and fixes to text, which should hopefully make making comics easier. Also they have a comic panel editing tool now.

Krita's cool. I keep learning new things about it which make my life a lot easier once I start using them, and I get to experiment with lots of things. I'm having a lot of fun right now with colors, brushes and textures.

April 17th is Bat Appreciation Day, National Haiku Day, Blah Blah Blah Day and National Cheeseball Day.

World Art Day is April 15th! I drew this a few days ago, and finals are really messing with my ability to do art specifically for this holiday so I hope this is fine!

Y'know, I need to remember that I have improved an incredible amount with my art. Part of the process of improving has been a better ability to see my mistakes, which I'll admit has led to the false belief that I've actually gotten worse at art.

man whatever tumblr's doing w ur art's makin it ominous and stuff

Wow, that's crazy! It does not look like that on either my phone or computer, so I don't know what's going on. Funny thing though, that's exactly what Krita does to the thumbnails when you're not actively working on a piece.

I guess for you and anyone else whose tumblr is darkening stuff this screenshot is like, extra dark or something.

Like, I like the vibrancy of the brighter colors and contrast and stuff I guess, and I'm a big fan of using darker colors in my art but this is much darker than the piece actually is. You're right that it's ominous looking too, which is kind of fun, but it's not what I drew.

That's definitely strange... is tumblr darkening other people's stuff too, or just mine? It looks completely normal on my end too, that's so weird. I hope it sorts itself out or something.

Inspired by my favorite bit of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. The book, not the TV series (I've only seen one episode of that). I did get bored and really didn't want to keep rendering, so I basically just did the minimum amount I could. There was a lot of experimenting with new brushes in this piece, and I had no idea what I was doing. Also I recorded a timelapse.

Trust the process...

Trust the process...

Trust the process.

This is some nice pixel art, huh? Maybe it could look a little nicer, but for someone who never does pixel art, I'd say it's not too bad. My brother hasn't played Silksong in forever... I should ask him to play it during the summer.

You want to know something else about this art that I think is pretty cool?

It's a Minecraft map.

I freakin' built this in Minecraft.

Minecraft.

Anyways, this took me around 24 hours, possibly more, so I'm going to rant for a bit because this was harder and took longer than I thought it would. You don't have to listen to me, but I think I need this.