didn't do as much today, was preoccupied trying to get something else done that my internet didn't agree with. liked how the liquid-y shadow pattern on the bubble helmet thing came out so decided to just do it a few more times for the heck of it

(smaller version because newgrounds compressed it to a jpeg. don't wanna delete the jpeg version cause it honestly looks kinda rad)

i have done more than this, but it's mid-step so i don't want to share that progress. should be done by tomorrow i think

This is like my fourth conceptual iteration, didn't even start drawing it til today lol. Pretty happy with it so far.

kinda cringe honestly like man fuck this

When I was a young'un, still living in Saffron Walden, I would sometimes play football with the other lads during our primary school's 30-minute break. I wasn't very good at it usually. Anyway, one time a classmate showed up wearing a new coat, very new, as in bought yesterday new, and decided to play football with it on I guess, which he would soon come to regret. At some point during the game, me and him were both trying to get the ball, and he was between me and a wire mesh fence. Now, wanting better access to the ball, I pushed him to the side, and got control of it, at the cost of ripping a bit of the sleeve of his brand new coat, which I was verbally admonished for but, to my memory, little else.

In hindsight, it's quite funny, because, on account of being an upper-middle-class bloke in Saffron Walden, he's statistically speaking a tory cunt, so I don't regret it in the slightest. Also he was in house Burleigh, who I continue to hold a grudge against for stealing points on sports day once, so honestly fuck him.

a look at my laptop clock tells me i spent two hours on the green ring apparently. lol

feel like between her and the last one i've designed some duality of "not like other girls" girls. will upload to the art portal when i can be bothered to set up an image with both of them in it. can finally start my concept of love drawing now so i might not be bothered for a while.

I haven't been running at max efficiency recently as far as art has concerned so getting this far with this design is nice. She's technically not finished because I have to do another of those weird halo things but the main design is cool imo.

Well, in name anyway. I think someone more altogether than myself would've prepared some kind of art to share at this milestone but that's not me so instead have this rather cryptic wip

I won't be sharing details about what this is until I'm far enough in that I know I won't burn out on it but you're free to guess.

on a discord server i'm in, we were tasked with designing magical girls (this is very on-brand for the server in question) based on pokemon (less on-brand, this is only the second time in over a year), though how much we adhered to the magical girl aesthetic was entirely up to us. someone, when looking up regional variants (this following the decision to collaborate to design a magical girl based on every version of vivillon) found party wurmple from pokemon go,

and somebody else asked them if party wurmple had party evolutions (it doesn't) and i said that it didn't matter because dustox is always party dustox (i mean look at it) and so from there was destined to create this. at some point while i was working on this, or perhaps something less relevant to this post, someone on that same server suggested creating a beautifly magical girl design, which i was kind of hoping someone would do but no-one did, and now i've put it upon myself to do that. i did say in the description of my last art submission that i was going to cut back on major projects in illustrator but i don't consider these major so i'm only failing in spirit. anyway this'll be on the art portal when i finish the beautifly design, which will happen, at some point, can't tell you when, i'm not working on it yet.

for no particular reason i would like to mention that, contrary to what doing as much fan-art recently (by my standards) as i have would suggest, i am not actually that big of a pokemon fan, i just keep bumping into reasons to draw them

i didn't do anything. i'm not going to defend myself.

i've also finished writing some indulgent fluff text. i don't feel like uploading it today so you don't get to see it :)