OH MY GOD YAY IT WORKS. Had to search up a tutorial to make sure my boomer ass got this right, but yeehaw.
This means that I can post my VegasPete stuff here well after VP Week ends on twitter, hehe.
Speaking of....


..have some VegasPete. This is actually the first piece I've done entirely digitally--everything I do is mixed media, since I was trained traditionally (and I just prefer putting pen to paper. Never could make myself draw with a tablet, even with the technological advances). Color is all done digitally tho, and so! This was all drawn with a mouse.
I've taught myself very simple pixel art, so this is kind of the next step with teaching myself digital art, but in a way that's aggressively different from the way digital art is nowadays. Because I'm stubborn, I guess.
What else, what else. I contributed to the character+mascot design for
a good friend of mine's project, along with two highly skilled, very popular tokusatsu artists. I'm the odd one out amongst my design teammates, as I'm the, uh, less skilled queer R18 artist who draws BL--but I'm the one who originally designed this character (visually, writing backstory and whatnot is all Vintage Henshin) and came up with her overall visuals, so I am going to try and take pride in contributing. FeelsGoodMan.
I'm kind of nervous and yet looking forward to attending my friends' wedding. I've been friends with them for over 10+ years now, and they've genuinely helped me out during some rough times. I'm really happy for them, and I can't wait to see all of the rest of my friends there too. It's just, I'm very much more of a hikikomori now thanks to the pandemic, lol lmao, and especially since I've let myself go thanks to that aaaaaa.
Feels like I gotta speedrun scraping a whole bunch of shit together and pray that getting down there and back isn't too much of a hassle. It'll be fine. Gotta not think too hard...and yet here I am with one outfit put together and another I'm going to try to cobble together for backup just in case.
Also apparently I'm participating in like, three different major upcoming art projects:
SSBB August Issue (queer historical romance, probably thinking Taisho era or Grand Guigonol related)
NU: Carnivale anthology (I submitted three ideas. Ironically the one I feel like working on the most is the tamest g rated thing.)
VegasPete Week (the one I am looking forward most to. Already have something planned for how the presentation will be. Gotta set up a popiku account though and remember to censor accordingly lmao)
Annnnnnnnd I think that's about it. I've picked up a good amount of roms that I think I might try to play here and there in between streaming and work so I can play vidya not just for streaming. Wanna set up my PS4 though and get back into fighting games tho, thanks EVO.
I should go to sleep now, it's late. I'll see if I can upload more art here soon.