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But then I over complicate things like making up all these rules like 'Nooo I can't post this character till I've introduced them and everyone needs to know the full context of everything that I'm drawing right now!!!!' and all it does is just make me sit here not posting anything. So you know what. No more rules. I'm throwing rules out the window.

Personally, I love to go on someone's blog or portfolio and have that moment of being like "Omg what character is THAT??" and digging for more of them picking up little details here and there. And sometimes the creator posts a bio, but they don't need to post that FIRST... As well I have been experimenting with doing my artwork in stages. Like I can make it exist now and just add onto it later. Storyboards can just be a bunch of incongruent thumbnails. I can do a series of illustrations in scribbly little concept sketches and only render One. Heck, I can even just clean it up and leave it at that!

I don't even have to do lineart if I don't want to. I don't have to colour things in, I can scribble on top of my coloured drawings to add more details. I am free and unhindered!!! I'm gonna just stop feeling bad about 'not finishing things' cause I know I have derived immense joy by just looking through other artist's sketches. I have the same amount of amusement and awe that I would looking at something that has been rendered more heavily.

But I have two particular games of my own in mind that I've been thinking about quite a lot as of late.

The first is 'DESTIN'. This would be a text based adventure, and probably the most feasible project I can make on my own at the moment. We follow Dustin, an astronaut in training who wakes after a van crash in a snowy woodlands and has to brave and survive the wilds crawling with dangerous mutants. It's going to be a survival psychological horror game. It's based off of the things I learned about survival psychology years ago because the base things that people require to survive and prioritize in these situations are very fascinating to me. For instance, one of the greatest enemies of survival is actually boredom/loneliness. To counteract this you are recommended to keep busy even when you aren't serving other needs like hunting or building shelter. You accomplish this through bushcraft. Amongst the things you can craft, it helps to make a 'bush buddy' an object that you can talk to, and Dustin is given this option in the game. Without giving too much away, all the run throughs will be connected, even if you get a game over, it feeds back into landing at the start again. Over the course of the game Dustin will unravel the secrets behind the mutagenic virus, it's various effects and recall things himself that had been forgotten. Increasingly, the question that will be asked is what makes someone human? What are the limits of humanity? Can this even be truely answered?

The second has the working title 'Frigid'. It is a fantasy RPG that begins when the Winter Lord; the entity that controls winters in this world re-emerges with an onslaught on all of humanity as vengeance for it's attempted murder. This onslaught is first unleashed on a small village established near it's lair and one of the victims, frozen alive is the fiance of the descendant of one of the original swordsmen who slayed the winter lord. He sets off on his quest to exact his own vengeance and slay the Winter Lord once more and once and for all.

...Unbeknownst to him however, is the resurrection of his fiance by her own force of will. She absorbs a fragment of the winter lord's power and re-animates herself. This is Daphne. The true protagonist of our game. With her new power, she too sets off on a quest to stop the winter lord. But along the way she is met with the hostility of the winter lord's thralls and human warriors alike. Resembling a thrall herself and wielding the same power, some have begun to claim that she is The Winter's Knight, created by the Winter Lord. There are multiple routes in this game based on the choices that Daphne makes in her situation, and there are other companions she may meet along the way such as a were-hyena bard and a sorcerer of darkness. As Daphne progresses, she realizes more and more that things in this world are not all as they seem and are told to be...

I have in mind some pieces I want to make for each. I was thinking about fake screenshots and box art for DESTIN and sprite art for Frigid as well as heaps of character, prop and set design concepts.

It all actually reminds me of when I was really young and I drafted up a concept for an MMO with notes about character customization, pets, different areas that you could visit and so on. It didn't really matter if it was something I could never make. I certainly wasn't considering the logistics of running an MMO - I just really enjoyed MMO's like Adventure Quest and Runescape and I wanted to make one myself.

It's been easy to feel as I'd gotten older and began considering those logistics that I shouldn't really bother with concepts for things that will never be. Like there's really no point to it if I can't make the thing myself or ever amass a team to make it happen...But I have since realized that there is so much beauty in concept work alone and so much to be inferred from a few convincing scraps. Those little pieces alone can tell you so much. And the world is better having seen these pieces, however small they may be. Our creative expression, our own ideas and our art matters, and it deserves to be seen, shared and communicated.

I have been thinking about my character Taylor Kit: an idol android that started existence as an automaton.

In my original concepts from 2008 Taylor had wings and I had likened her to a moth in a drabble I wrote about her, but now I really want to go all into that association and I think it would be interesting to make her more robotic build look like a human skeleton and a bug's exoskeleton all rolled into one.

I realized that a lot of robots do have that kind of skeletal framework and then some of them get padded up like they've been given a skin of sorts.

The way this design comes into the story is that Taylor goes through certain eras that reflect her physical and mental development. One of her earliest albums, 'Titania' is the era when she first obtained sapience and being robotic was part of the gimmick. The whole album and the tour associated with it had this very etheral feeling to it, where the robotic timbre of her voice was part of what added to that otherworldly feeling. She was outfitted with a pair of fairy wings and at that point in her development she had more of that exoskeleton sort of appearance going on.

Since then, the production team that controls almost every aspect of Taylor's existence had aimed to make her more human so that they could boast about it, but Taylor misses the way that she was. She doesn't really understand why she has to conform to human standards for her appearance or why they thought her previous form was anything to be corrected.

I've seen a lot of stories where robots seek to be more human, but I think in Taylor's case it's almost completely opposite and the irony is that giving her a will of her own and self awareness means that she becomes more and more resistant to what they've done to her and can look back on times where things were simpler and yearn for that but although obtaining the capacity to yearn for better things was against her will, she cannot shake the longing for a future where she can finally decide things for herself.

She doesn't feel like she can go back, to the point where even when that is offered to her, she can't take it because it will destroy who she has become and she will cease to live.

But maybe in her future she can find a way to consolidate all that she's become and find herself and a body that befits her...I think that's going to be an important part of her progression in her story.

Little light shining...little light guide them to me...

This is one of my favourite pieces I've made in recent time! An illustration made as I listened to Kate Bush's The 9th wave; An absolutely beautiful experience of a concept album that inspired me so much. I really love a variety of storytelling mediums and music is absolutely no exception to this.

Some more notes about my process and feelings about this piece under the cut!:

I want to host these on my neocities website eventually, but I think that for the time being it would be alright to put some bios up on this blog and I'll create a master link page for all of them so that you can find the bios and the tags I use for them.

Did some cleaned up bust sketches of Cheapskate-ler and Rich recently!

I haven't got too much to say about these, just that while these aren't really all that ambitious for me, it's really relaxing to just draw some expressions on characters I've had for a long time! I really like the way they turned out too!

Magical guardian Py!! This is my magical girl sona design ✨

This is the page I drew when finalizing the concept and to serve as reference, but I plan to draw this design a lot more to represent myself! The little fox there is a little magical mascot/familiar based on an imaginary friend I made when I was little kid. I got some more notes about my process below!

I go by Pylime but you can call me Py! I'm an illustrator and story artist who loves to create surreal imagery in my art and writing and I have a heavy focus on outfit design, symbolism and exploration of a character's psyche through my works.

I like to work in a variety of different mediums; primarily a breadth of digital mediums but I also dabble in traditional media and different art forms like bead weaving.

I have a multitude of projects on the go at any given moment, so I will be categorizing my longer projects and one off projects so each one can be found easily enough!