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WIP: Strawberry Dress

Without the strawberries...for now 🤣

This dress has gone viral and I wanted to hop on the trend and design my own outfit inspired by it!

[REDACTED] Animation Test

Feeling down today so I tried to be productive and learn something about animation. I can use this as a placeholder avatar for my game now!

Heavily referenced from GRIS, although funny enough the part that I like the most (the arms) was freehanded.

New Patreon Tiers coming soon!

I'm taking the plunge and finally giving out my sticker cards as Patreon rewards! 

I'll have two new tiers for sticker cards.

• US Sticker Club: $5 a month (includes shipping)
• International Sticker Club: $10 a month (includes shipping)

As a thank you to my current supporters, you can ...

Updates on [REDACTED]

I know I've been silent about the passion project I wanted to work on (you can check the "project" tag if you're new) for a few months. It's still on the radar! But since I work at a gaming company, I need to get legal approval to work on this game as an extracurricular project, and that process has been taking a while.

WIP: Commission Thumbnails

Just some rapid-fire thumbnails I made for a couple of clients! One wanted a cash theme and the other wanted a hot sauce theme. 

Style Sketches

As you probably know I haven't been the happiest with my art style lately, so Xion encouraged me to experiment with something new. IMO I've been trying so hard to capture likenesses that I end up losing what makes my art mine, so I think now that I'm able to capture a lot of differences in faces that I'm ready to sta...

Sailor Senshi

 Apologies for the delay, I promised you a free coloring page and here it is! If you end up using it pls show me and I'll share it in my stories. 

WIP: Redraw

A few versions of the Sailor Moon redraw so far. This will be going up in two days (her birthday) so I still have some time, I'm going to sleep on it and see how I feel tomorrow. I really like the rainbow outline and want to start including it in all my looks (or some sort of colored outline), but I'm going to come back to it...

WIP: Redraw

Hopping on the Sailor Moon redraw train because it's almost her birthday! Most of the redraws have been from the anime but I wanted to redraw a group pic from the manga because the manga artwork has stayed with me more. 

I've been dying to draw Sailor Moon stuff for a while, but I was having trouble coming up with ...

WIP: Commission

Lineart's mostly done! I actually struggle with dresses (so much fabric to figure out how to render) but I'm really happy with how this one is looking <3

WIP: Drag Names

I'm trying a more familiar Nicki Minaj hairdo with this one, let me know if you prefer this or the ponytail (or something else)!

Does it look like Nicky Doll tho? I feel like with bangs she looks like Jeffree Star hahah but without bangs it doesn't seem like a signature Nicki Minaj hairdo?

WIP: Drag Names

Here's a first stab at the Nicky Doll look! I'm using both Nicki Minaj and Barbie dolls as the inspiration but I am not sure if the final result is either Nicki or Doll enough? If you have a preference let me know but also feel free to say I need to go back to the drawing board haha

I also notice that Nicky (the drag qu...

WIP: Commission

I'm going to be opening commissions this week!  Well, the truth is I have been taking commissions on the side despite saying I'm closed, which is why I figured I should officially reopen.  All current patreons will get a $10 discount and new patreons will get a $5 discount.

This is one of those black market co...

Drag Names: Who's Next?

Here are the top three contenders from the previous poll!

Btw, I deleted the previous poll because to be honest I felt a little uncomfortable with Heidi's design. I wanted to do her drag name justice because I liked it despite...

WIP: Drag Names

It's not done yet but pls let me know if it's looking too busy at this stage! 

It is very much inspired by those glass water fashions popularized by Meyoco, since Aquaria is super trendy I think it would be fitting for her to bring this IG trend to life

WIP: Drag Names

I'm doing Aquaria next but having trouble capturing her likeness lol. Does it look like her? If not do you have suggestions on how to make it look more like her?

WIP: Starry

In lighter news, I'm wrapping up the shironuri looks with a redo of one of my favorite designs! To be honest I wasn't happy with how the Cameo dress turned out -- I couldn't figure out a good lineart color in time and the current lineart colors feel blah to me -- combined with leaving MPAR I was pretty bummed this week...but ...

MPAR

As of today I have stepped down from the MPAR mod team. If you're not aware of what MPAR or paper drag is, don't worry too much about it and I'll see you in the next post.

It was a very tough decision. MPAR has taken up three years of my life and that's three years of burdens that have been weighing on me for a very lon...

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So I think I've figured out my game loop! The game loop is the main game mechanic you'll be doing over and over again. For instance, Stardew Valley's core loop is farming: planting, watering, and harvesting crops. Pokemon's core loop is battling other Pokemon. There can be other loops as well (fishing or catching Pokemon), bu...

WIP: Cameo

I missed doing this level of detail

Update on [REDACTED]

So I've been thinking a lot about shifting my game a little bit. Here's an updated game pitch:

It's (very) tentatively titled Magical Girl Cafe and it'd be a game where you’re invited to run a cafe in a citadel for magical fashionistas. You’ll explore the citadel to harvest ingredients for gourmet desserts,...

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WIP: Courtesan au Chocolat

Trying to redraw whatever was this mess of a look lmao. Can't decide if I prefer the puffy (old) or sleek (new) upper sleeves. Open to feedback!

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Drew some rough designs of the first two magical girls whose powers you can gain. I guess this is concept art now??

Every magical girl has a main "color" and these two are based on the colors pink and white, which are the two most common colors for a magical girl leader. I wanted them to represent two very different aes...

WIP: Which sleeve do you like better?

Redoing this look for fun! I like the left sleeve better but a couple friends said they liked the right more...

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Tried coding some game mechanics this week! It's just the basics of a runner - the player is on the left and the girl on the right shoots either harmful black stars or collectible yellow stars at random. Right now both are being controlled by me but the goal is to get the blonde to shoot stuff automatically. This is in Godot,...

WIP: Drag Names

Can I get opinions on which sleeves you like better? Left or right?

WIP: Drag Names

It's a little late for Valentine's Day, but guess who?

I happened to have some progress shots so you can see my drawing process a little bit. With Drag Names especially, I prefer to fully render out the face first so I can really make sure I get the likeness correct. I don't usually do this for looks where the likeness ...

Secret Project Supplement

Experimenting with how I can adapt my existing designs to a magical girl world. They're more magical fashionistas than regular magical girls, so they're more glamorous and mature than the usual anime trope.

The bottom row has the original designs, and the top row is a version designed to make them look more cohesive and...

Secret Project

My New Year's Resolution was to start working on a video game. You can find my reasoning in a previous post, but essentially it comes out of a desire to really create SOMETHING. I feel like drawing random designs can only get you so far...but I'm a...

Just a quick doodle

Fooling around with my art style - I worry that these lines look too much like a lot of other ppl's art on Instagram, but I really really love how they look so I'm torn