Mars Mars Mars Mars

Outside of Tumblr (and even a bit within Tumblr but nowhere near as bad) the TADC Episode 9 spoilers are EVERYWHERE. People posting clips from the leaks in their TikToks, people discussing spoilers openly in random comment sections, people making posts about the ending and including spoilers in the title and thumbnail.

People are REALLY not listening to that damn fish and it's making me really sad at the lack of respect for people waiting for it to come to YouTube. Especially because a lot of the people who are spoiling it so openly DIDN'T like the final episode/series. They're not spoiling it for the sake of discussion, they're spoiling it because they didn't like it, so they don't care, and they think other people shouldn't care too.

Thank GOD I've gotten back into Tumblr, man. It's so good being surrounded by people who actually enjoy the media they consume. Being on Reddit and Twitter surrounded by anti-fans really killed my whimsy and dimmed my sparkle. Tumblr is revitalizing that.

Y'all I've never been to a con before.....................................

I can't stop thinking about that damn purple cartoon rabbit so I dug up my iPad and fired up Procreate for the first time in weeks.

For today I was just experimenting with drawing Jax's facial expressions as accurately as possible (except for heads 5 and 6..... I was in a weird place for those /hj). Jax has the most simple character design so it seemed like a good place to start.

I labeled them in the order that I drew them. You can see that I improved pretty quickly, although it helps that after head #4 I learned about Procreate's QuickShape tool, drastically improving the smoothness of the head lines. I swear Procreate has so many hidden features...

I only started drawing this March and I haven't drawn with anywhere NEAR the consistency I should be if I want to improve. But I have so many ideas in my head about this damn circus that I don't want to keep trapped in my head. In particular the Open World AU comics and the Office Circus AU comics really inspired me to want to work on my art. I want to make things that inspire others in the same way those works inspired me.

Thanks for listening to me ramble. I'm still figuring out how this Tumblr World operates from the perspective of a poster. Also I know these are just silly sketches but hopefully this will be the starting point of a long and creatively prosperous journey.