#milimigu

You know what? I've been uploading these to instagram, but not here, and I know it's most of the way through the month, but... why SHOULDN'T I upload them here too?? I like tumblr better anyway!

This one I put a lot of effort into! Even a whole day's worth. I haven't done many comics of my ocs but it's so fun (and also takes so long help). It really brings them to life!

So this was 5+1 things and here we have more a glimpse into Sara and Lauren's world. Their story is this: They've been friends since high school, back when Sara was an awkward, peppy Jewish "boy" with a very unsubtle crush on Lauren - an undiagnosed autistic girl very heavily in a goth phase. Despite the unrequited crush they really were best friends, and when they moved out it was into an apartment together, where they lived as Lauren started working as a graphic designer (something she could do from home - her disability makes it hard to commute) and Sara worked as a secretary(?) at a law firm(?? not sure abt this part) as she pursued her gender transition and also dated several people often at once (she's poly).

Flash forward several years, everything's going great, aaand one night Sara goes out clubbing and... does not return. After a search she's proclaimed missing, possibly dead, and that's... well. I mean. Lauren mourns. There isn't much to say about this, it's genuinely tragic. But then. Two years later. BOOM. Sara's back and she's a vampire surpriiiiise!!

Eventually they WILL settle into a sort of messy QPR. But it'll take some doing. And yes Lauren will become a vampire and yes they will adopt a vampire child and yes they might even move into a fae bookshop with two of Sara's other partners but that's all SPOILERS we're in the HERE AND NOW SOOO

this is 5 things that changed since Sara got vampirised and 1 thing that hasn't ! enjoy

p.s. "nu" means "come on" (more or less) and a "dossit" is a conservative jew, they've both got bits of jewish/hebrew slang because Sara's family history etc

p.p.s sara is supposed to be wearing a star of david necklace but I forgot it :(

thought I’d hop on a bandwagon for the first time in a while

I may not post art on here but.... like.......... whatever

It's me!

It's time for a summary of the art I did this year (including fiber arts)!!

I always love this time of year, mostly as a reflection for myself (I have ones going back to 2015 which is -- nine years ago now, that's the year I started doing digital art. I'll have to do something in honor of next year!!)

Anyways, so I didn't do much art in January. Pretty much the only thing I have from there is this pen sketch page featuring the three main video essayists I was watching a lot of on YouTube -- Abigail from Philosophy Tube, Verity from VerilyBitchie, and Lily Alexandre. All three of them are very good!! I've kinda fallen off the video essay train recently in favor of oc redesign art videos and knitting podcasts but I'm sure I'll get back to it, and to these three specifically. Oh, and I crocheted a witch hat.

In February I did a few traditional illustrations, mostly scenes with my OCs. This particular one is I think my favorite, featuring Lexa, a naga, and Sienna, an Indian-Australian librarian human woman. They're cute. I also crocheted a potted plant for my friend's birthday, and tried out tapestry crochet with a design I made up myself. The tapestry is still sitting on my shelf, idk what to do with it.

In March I started participating in the TopOC competition/art challenge (on instagram), so this was my entry for the second prompt, I believe. It's my characters Jamie (the filipina gal) and Caleb (white boy) . I'm really proud of this illustration! The lighting especially. It's probably my most polished piece all year. And also this month I finished my first ever raglan knit sweater! It's the Arendal sweater by Drops design. Free pattern.

April was a low month - I barely drew (this is a pen sketch of Caleb with the lyrics to "wrecking ball" by Mother Mother and it may be the only thing I drew that month) and I crocheted a top that was super uncomfortable, not at all my style, scratchy and horrible. I immediately took it apart. Ew.

In May we have a continuation of TopOC -- this time, Jamie and Caleb in fancy outfits at a garden party. This is a pretty fun one as well, although I was lazier on the lighting. I was also working this month on the knitting projects I finished in June.

Apropos June -- featured here is the reference sheet for my fursona, which I remade in preparation for artfight. She's an owl-leopard hybrid. In terms of knitting I made a pink tank top thing with some faux cabling, which accidentally went in the dryer so now its fit is weirdly drapey, and a big cardigan (the Reading Cardigan by Jared Flood) for my grandma. Also this month I started my Pride illustration, but because I only finished it in November, I couldn't think where to put it in this summary sheet.

In July was artfight, and I just did art for other people, so here is a pixelart couple for j.morp_art and libbywantstosleep on instagram. I'm happy with how these two came out! Not sure why I was in a pixel art phase at the time.

In August I drew some of my newest characters - Elena, a trans woman, and her daughter Bella, a five year old girl who takes her stuffed lizard everywhere. The big triangle thing is a lacy shawl I made which I'm not super happy with but like, whatever. I mostly wanted to learn how to do lacework, and I did, kind of.

September's art was just about all cringetober stuff, funnily enough. This is a snippet from a set of mini comics I did for the prompt 5+1 things, which I think was my favorite thing, although I did like many of them. So this is Sara, she's a vampire.

In October I did a tiny bit more for cringetober but gave up on the challenge I think on day 17, so here instead is my halloween illustration of Jamie and Caleb dressed as Wirt and Greg from over the garden wall. Cuties.

In November I drew pretty much nothing new (except finishing my Pride month illustration) so this is a bit from my baby cousin's birthday card. He's one year old and he is THE CUTEST. I can't decide if the picture looks like him (he's probably cuter irl).

And finally, in December, an illustration drawn on my phone with my finger in Sketchbook: Sara again, the vampire, and Lauren. I've got another post with more details about these two, but uh, they've got a complicated relationship. This is Sara showing up in the middle of the night after Lauren thought she was dead. For two years. Ooops. -- oh, and the knitting is a Portal-themed scarf I started in August and kinda hate? I made it to practice colorwork and duplicate stitching mostly. The striped parts have that optical illusion thing where at an angle they have a picture (the Aperture logo).

Guess what? It's the 17th! Which is my half birthday actually hehe but more relevant to this post, it's time for the cringetober prompt "f2u base"! ...However, I cheated. I did not want to use someone else's base. I do not jive with this. So instead I used old YCHs I did way back when, which are BASICALLY bases!

I really love the 2015+2016 ones! I think they're stylized in a successful manner. The 2019 ones are... not as great because I think the anatomy is a bit too wack for me, like it's TRYING to be realistic-er and failing, y'know? I prefer when it's just not trying (or when it's trying and succeeding). Regardless, this was a lot of fun.

We're almost caught up, this is cringetober 13! "Rule 63" (not to be confused with rule 34 got forbid) -- genderbend! And now I get to ramble about Jamie and Caleb yayy ^-^

SO these four are from a story I wrote in 2016 with a friend of mine from high school. They're high school students (10th/11th grade), and the initial concept was: best friends who are also secretly nemeses in their superhero/villain alter egos but they don't know that! Surely a trope that's been done before, but this is our take on it.

Jamie, who in this instance is James (nickname Jamie) instead of Jamie (nickname James), is a hyperactive ADHD- and dyslexia-ridden disaster bisexual jock (In the normal universe she's a runner - in this AU he's a gym bro) with a deep unending need for external validation. Their alter ego is a superhero named Nebulous.

Caleb, or in the gender swap universe, Cali (short for California), is an angsty foster kid full of rage with bad coping mechanisms which mostly include blowing stuff up. This is mostly expressed through being Eclipse, the town supervillain, who literally never manages to do anything destructive because Nebulous always stops it (but that's okay because getting in a fight is also a good way to get rid of your anger and frustration for a bit!).

as for the other two - Neal (or in canon, Nora) is gay and doesn't know it yet, so thinks he's crushing on Cali but it's really just that he wants to be her friend, and also he likes to play pranks. And Carter (or Caroline in canon) is a really nice popular kid who everyone likes and is Jamie's friend.