clonker's blog

I've decided to organise things a little more, I recently made another Bluesky account by accident and decided that two accounts is good bc I can separate Clonker spam from Corvidknight art

there is no separate instagram for Corvidknight art(for now) because I'm too lazy and hate that platform. however the separate Corvidknight specific blogs/places are: @corvidknightcomicseries on Tumblr

@corvidknightcomic.bsky.social on Bluesky

the main blog is just diary entries, rambling and maybe some non Corvidknight art? idk see how we go.

from now on Corvidknight art/info/lore will no longer be posted on the main blog and will not be included in posts here outside of mentions in passing(I'll try to stay true to this)

also my other links if you're here to look at my face and parrot @clonksney on Instagram (i know same user as here)

posts have been infrequent because devastating things happened

bird posting is over I had to put bb down - the post about that is on my Instagram I don't feel like copypasting it all here

beetle I have been depressed, most food tastes like dust and its hard to get out of bed.

blood and mucus I was dying from tonsillitis. I'm on the mend now but it's been awful. I've been coughing up blood and puss every morning. the tonsillitis occurred spontaneously due to stress, when I was given antibiotics the pcr came back negative for everything - the normal bacteria in my mouth got out of control and started eating my tonsils.

I probably have iron deficiency anemia Iron supplements have no effect so I will have to get an iron infusion my ferritin level dropped from 11µg/L to 7µg/L between the last two blood tests. My blood doesn't clot properly and injuries take a long time to heal. I got a blister on my ankle a month ago and the scab just came off recently.

the silver lining ִֶ.𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ𓅯་༘࿐

part 1 - report/market overview whatever its not my strong suit

part 2 - brand and garment review

Medieval Fight Club, if you have come upon my post please do not bring the fight to me. I like the brand and think the clothes are cool but I was required to evaluate the clothing stringently as part of my report none of this was meant as an attack.

part 3 - design approach

part 4 - collection

part 5 - methodology and elaborations

the illustrations accompany a research report & garment review document that will be posted shortly.

the design direction of this portfolio was comfortable medieval revival clothing that can be worn to history/fantasy events and casually. get a load of these extravagant wizard gowns, I'm sure someone would wear one to the pub ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆

unisex garments/garments with approximate menswear and womenswear designs

the first set (set as in vertical set, the girl in the red and boy in blue directly under) are clothes I have made patterns for and will be producing as part of a commercially oriented look. if all goes well the full look will be unisex and reversible, made up of a 3 pieces: cowl/hood, tunic and pants. I'd imagine those last two pairs are looking at each other and wondering why some garments don't gender swap as well as others.

various menswear looks featuring dagging and slashing

the more colorful(ridiculous) designs were drawn up early when I was trying things out and re-familiarizing myself with traditional. the bottom middle drawing(the yellow, orange and teal jacket) is another garment I am making this term - its not going well ::( ᯓ★ I brought a finer pen mid way through this project and to me there's a distinct difference between pre and post pen illustrations. women's wear(technically), a green lich and a bag carrying crusader

I cannot reproduce any of the shoes, I cannot cobble or blacksmith I drew the same silly pointed boots as a workaround so I wouldn't have to think about footwear or draw bare feet. a vampy tangent the cloak makes me think of Sting's Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen from Dune(1984) and the other Harkonnen (Harkonnien? Harkonnenien?) costumes/concept art from the cancelled Jodorowsky animated movie.

that might just be the red hair though...

I might make the pants from the other look if the reversible set doesn't take up too much of my time. its one of my favorite drawings from this collection(I have a lot of favorites, its hard to pick just one), I like drawing models in poses that show of the designs or interacting with the clothes - its good anatomy practice and I feel like it helps the clothing appear tangible.

idk... ┐◑—◑ ┌

he tried. the long atrophied heart represents his own heart - high cholesterol fixed it ⤵︎

toppings ⤵︎

a very strange day share with the strange junkler ୧(•ᴗ•)(•ᴗ•)୨

no cost too great($10 for 6 tries) no mind to think no will to break no voice to cry suffering (squid game arcade kid was right, you must pick the prize you want first... and then spend five turns nudging it into the corner to grab it properly)

after junkler and I won the plush the world got a bit strange. we took the train home and binge watched some bridgerton (it was ok, both of us think that Pen should've dumped Colin after reading his diary thing - like bro wrote the recency equivalent of:

'Francesca 8/10, nice rack, loved france btw' then he went to a pub and whined bc his friends were misogynistic?? not a fan, wasn't a fan of the prev season or the first season either but I'm a victim of sunk cost fallacy)

after raging at smut we went for a walk and some very interesting things happened. we arrived by a strange store that is 100% a money laundering cover up or a secret vape/bong store. Shelves were stocked with a lot of canned food, random cleaning products, lots and lots of incense?? bongs ofc, probs vapes, randomly alcohol and lots of 'mineral juice' they had massive icecream sandwich oreos too

the floor tiles were like half renovated and there were entire fridges full of stock marked as 'stock' with the graffiti S it was also a half cafe but was in this super run down little complex, every other building was boarded up. The store felt like a portal into the backrooms or some sort of anomaly - like a half rendered asset that developers forgot to polish when they released the game.

after leaving the derelict store we came upon a bunch of wreckage from car crashes on the footpath, then a dead bird. we started to think (╭ರ_•́)

all the strange things started happening after passing the shop as if we were cursed on our way out for not buying anything. furthermore no one ever wins anything from a claw machine??? we linked the claw machine win to the appearance of the strange store and the following strangeness there were theories: 1. we altered the canon timeline by breaking one of the laws of reality(or the simulation, like in the animatrix where the athlete runs so fast he breaks the rules of the simulation and accidentally wakes himself up)when we won the plush and thus things have become strange 2. the claw machine win was unrelated and the convenience store is an entity or gateway to the backrooms or smth and we have been marked for death by entering/cursed for not purchasing anything from the store 3. these are all coincidences, its been a long day

up on the hill we saw a sign in the distance, it had a red background with big white letters. it read:

'TURN BACK'

this dramatically escalated the doomer joshing and made the possibility of a convenience store related curse feel very real (•﹏•;) we didn't heed the warning though after passing the sign we came upon two dead birds in various states of decay and a dead cat. It was probably less than a week old, it still had its eyes and fur

we planned to buy the massive oreo on the way back to restore the timeline/lift our curse and seal the portal the ether

things returned to normalcy when we got cat called waiting for the traffic lights. the shopping centre/takeaway shops were normal too shopping list:

pizza

garlic bread

subway x2

24 carton of eggs(overkill, Liam will be eating eggs for so long)

The walk back was okay up until we passed the big sign again. on the other side it read:

'NEXT LEFT'

in the same big white letters. Above this message was the bunnings logo

however this logo was only on the side approaching the bunnings from the direction of the shopping centre. this means that anyone approaching the bunnings from the opposite direction is a victim of the omen.

the journey felt far less doomed after learning the sign wasn't an omen of death but we decided to go back and buy something from the strange store just in case. buying the massive oreo was out of the question because neither of us wanted to eat dessert before dinner and it was still 10 minutes to walk home and the oreo would melt by then (ᗒᗩᗕ) We brought drinks:

orange mineral juice

solo lemonade can

yummers

we returned home and set up the feast + cinnamon roll bathbomb

໒꒰ྀིᵔ ᵕ ᵔ ꒱ྀི১ Everything was ready; comfortable on beanbags, pizza on platter, garlic bread ready, sandwich unwrapped on my lap, drinks poured, avatar: way of water ready to play on laptop the only thing missing was serviettes - on the ground just out of reach.

both of us leaned forward to grab the serviettes and my sandwich fell out of my lap and exploded on the floor

I screamed in agony ༼;´༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ༽

then accepted the misfortune and reassembled my sandwich while junk wheezed and asked if I had considered becoming a voice actor. junk and I have known each other since we were 13 and he said that he's never heard me scream like that, not when injured or frustrated, not when I smacked into the wall at rollerskating, not ever

I was very inconvenienced, I had to scoop carrot off my socks.

whatever curse has lifted now and the portal has closed the only thing marked for death was my sandwich.

I'm actually so pissed off about another sandwich related thing though, the cheese on my sub was weird. I always have my subs cold and untoasted/unmicrowaved while we set up dinner I put all the food in the microwave to keep it warm. This meant that my sandwich was sitting ontop of the warm pizza in the microwave so the cheese got just slightly melted, not enough to be nice and melty, just slightly chewy and icky. like melted cheese that has re solidified after sitting on a kitchen counter for ages it didn't ruin dinner but every now and then I'd take a bite and the cheese wouldn't taste as I expected to and I'd feel a bit nauseous. Last time the cheese didn't taste okay I stopped going to subway for four years so it was worrying, I'm glad it was just user error

I nearly burst out laughing at the vet

I'm aware that most budgies are 30-40g and mine is massive and almost double that - he's just built different my mother got him from a backyard breeder she used to work with for $20.

his siblings are probably show birds.

he has very fluffy and heavy plumage + is just bigger

both the vet and receptionist were surprised by him because he's the largest budgie they've seen. the vet also examined him and found that hes not overweight, he has some fat but its within the healthy range. He's physically active, his wings aren't clipped, he flies often, climbs and runs about on the ground - he's not dangerously overweight but losing a couple grams would be good but eh he can skip pasta I suppose ┐(´ー｀)┌

I had no idea he was a serious chungus i knew he was a bit bigger than the birds in pet shops but I didn't know he was massive.

hes also not sick? the sneezing is likely bc of his genetics/descending irritation from conjunctivitis. None of his symptoms were caused by anything external and all his swabs were clean of infection

the cure is a haircut -ˋˏ✄┈┈┈┈

his conjunctivitis was caused by his long feathers falling over his eyes, he then scratched them and introduces bacteria resulting in the infection.

the vet cut his crest around his eyes and he hasn't been gunky or sneezy much since, I've been giving him his anti-inflammatory again as the vet instructed to curb the last of the sneezy + give him apple cider vinegar(with mother) if he gets queasy.

this will likely be the end of vet related trauma(being picked up)

on the way back from the last vet visit felt horrible seeing him sulk in his carrier after getting his trim so I let him ride on my shoulder (I was not the driver) he saw a motorbike for the first time and it was a shock for him. a loud, fast and dangerous contraption