I wanted to post the photos I took on July 9 this year. I was livetweeting the storm on Twitter, but this blog serves as a much better archive than Twitter, so I felt like making a blog entry dedicated to this storm that occured on July 9, 2021.
We had golf-ball sized pieces of ice falling from the sky, they destroyed the bird feeder. After the storm, there was a rainbow and pretty clouds.
I wonder what we may expect from the weather in 2022.
Now that there isn't much left of 2020, looking back at this year, one of the best/funniest things that happened to me this year was when I was like "if I earn enough with commissions/donations, I shall buy a Nintendo Switch Lite so I can play this darn Fire Emblem game I'm so crazy about
- ahaha just kidding... UNLESS..."
And that's the story of how I got my Switch.
A few days after I made this announcement, the Claude drawing I posted on the same day suddenly blew up on Twitter. Nothing I posted on Twitter for 5 years received any particularly remarkable attention before that one drawing. And all of a sudden, there was no end to notifications and even famous artists started following me. It was like everything in the universe was conspiring together to get me that Switch.
I think my Ko-fi goal was maybe $230, but I'd already had 43% of the money from earlier commissions. That was enough to buy a Switch Lite at that time. A lot of people donated (most of them came from Twitter), so I managed to collect the money and have the Switch in my hands in less than a month.
Little did I know in the summer of 2018 when I went "oh my gosh, the yellow archer kid has such a fun design, too bad I don't play Fire Emblem" that it would eventually escalate into this. XD
My FE3H fanart will meet an inevitable decline in popularity in 2021 as the game was released in July 2019 and FE3H fans are already moving on to new hyperfixations, but I'm still having a blast playing the game and drawing fanart. <3
So I guess I've officially migrated my sketches to Twitter. I originally made an account there in 2015 to stalk the cool Japanese/Chinese artists and participate in the PH69min challenge, but now I post there sketches and shit I'm too shy to post elsewhere. I log in and retweet a lot because I have the app on my phone, so it's easy to access all the time.
I still think I could use this blog for something but I just don't have the time/energy for it, I guess.
And nobody is looking at it anyway.
Bye~
Actually, not much happened to me in 2018. Still, it was a pretty great year for me. I feel like I achieved somewhat of a financial stability and I got more confident and stronger thanks to my job. I did have some depressive episodes, there were times when I was feeling down and I still have no social life, but 2018 was a good year in overall.
As for drawing, I really don't know. I am now certain that commissions were the only things that kept me going, as soon as I saw no interest and closed them, I completely stopped drawing. As I grow older, it just makes me feel ashamed. I still draw like a teenager and I'm over 30 already. I don't think I should keep forcing it since I'll never be half as good as I'd wanted to be. I've been on deviantART practicing and doing art as a hobby since freaking 2006. I saw improvement memes and they make me cry. :I
I'm not saying I shall never draw again because I'm a fickle person and will do it anyway if I feel like drawing again. In fact, I may start posting some older art on this blog or DA that fell victim to tumblr's "NO NSFW" rule.
Idk what to do with this blog. I may start using it again in 2019. Let's see.
Anyway, since my last post was a sims post in 2017, I'll post some sims again on the last day of this year. :B
One of my fav sims in The Sims 2 recently died so RIP Claudia 01.11.2015-12.29.2018 (She lived for 77 sim days but almost 4 years in real time because I've been playing the game on and off with long breaks and I have shitloads of sims/families. Haha.)
Okay so my graphics card died and I'm using this opportunity to do a big PC cleaning and reorganize/delete all the shit I saved and downloaded in the past 9+ years. I'm writing a list here of the anime I currently have on my external HDD. The ones I definitely want to keep are bolded, undecided ones are italic and the ones that must go are in strikethrough.
07-Ghost
Ao no Exorcist
Bakuman
Claymore
Code Geass
Code Geass R2
Dantalian no Shoka
Deadman Wonderland
Dogs OVA
Durarara
Eden of the East (series + movie sequels)
FMA Brotherhood
Gosick
Hakuouki (trash but looks good and maybe I can use it for art reference)
Kuragehime
Kuroshitsuji (trash but looks good and maybe I can use it for art reference)
Kuroshitsuji 2 (trash but looks good and maybe I can use it for art reference)
Magi
Magi season 2
No.6
Otome Yokai Zakuro
Pandora Hearts
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Rainbow
School Days
Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin (trash that I still liked for some odd reason)
Shiki
Supernatural
Tales of the Abyss
Tiger and Bunny
Togainu no Chi
Toradora
Umineko no Naku Koro Ni
Usagi Drop
Others:
Gintama Benizakura movie
Black Rock Shooter OVA
Spice and Wolf II OVA that I downloaded but couldn't make the file work
Oh well, there's actually a lot that I'd like to keep. I guess I'll have to delete the undecided ones then... Some of the bolded ones are bound to change too. All this anime is about 200 GB of disk space, so I could free up a lot of space if I deleted just half of these.
Okay so I haven't written a new blog entry for almost a year. It's because 1) I don't draw much 2) I no longer have time to ramble here 3) it feels like talking to a wall 4) I sort of moved to twitter with my doodles and wips. :B
I don't write about personal things a lot because nothing interesting happens to me. But yesterday we had a terrible storm where I live and I just have to write about it a little.
Mother managed to make my digital camera work and I'd thought of editing the previous post to add more photos, but then I ended up procrastinating and thought it would be better to make a new post for more photos. So yeah...
I also thought I'd post more photos online because I put about 5 years of photos on my external HDD last summer and I recently discovered that several of them are corrupted now and I can't view them anymore... D:
This year there was a baby boom for the chickadees! There were at least 8 young birds + the two parent birds. The parents were feeding them in the beginning, but they learnt to manage by themselves fast.
Also, they bring dead mosquitos. Those are probably the sparrows who bring them, but it's funny when I find some random giant dead mosquito in my window. XD
Look at this photogenic little guy! Or gal. I made some better birdy photos on May 16-17 and this was the first one.
"Feed me, mommy!"
They are so adorable, aren't they?
Even a goldfinch came on May 16!
I managed to get some pretty close shots of them. The only distracting thing is that the curtains were reflected in the window a little.
4-5 birds is the most I managed to capture in one photo, but we counted 8-10 of them at times. Sometimes there were 5 birds at the same time in one vessel. They move really fast, so it was hard to count them let alone take a photo.
And here's something we woke up to on the 25th of May. It was raining and there was this beautiful rainbow in the sky. Unfortunately, it was behind some clouds and you can't see it that well on photos, but it was awesome in real life.
View from my window with the rainbow. This was the 2nd time in my life I've ever seen a rainbow from my window.
Casual sight in my window at 5:30 am. This was taken after taking some photos of the rainbow.
Just a random shot. We had lots of rain in May and it looks so beautiful when there are dark clouds in the sky, but the sun is shining.
This is an older sunset photo from last November. I don't even have to leave my home, I can see all these beautiful things from my window, lol. I love nature.
Ok, that's all for now. I have some scribbles I'll probably post later, but I wanted to make a separate post for photos~
Also, here's a song. I saw a gorgeous AMV of various Makoto Shinkai anime with this song once and it's a shame it was deleted from YouTube.
EDIT: Ok, I think there are SEVEN chickadees, lol. I counted 7 the next morning.
Oh my god. I've never seen so many little chickadees in my window at the same time. 8D
Me and my family have been feeding birds for years now. Last winter only a few sparrows came, so we almost stopped feeding them, but around the end of February, we occasionally started seeing chickadees, greenfinches and goldfinches as well. There was a pair of chickadees that started coming regularly. They came more and more and we figured it must have been because they started raising their little ones. We've been hearing the young chickadees chirping for a couple of weeks now, but they didn't invade our window until today. Today was raining all day and it was also "chickadee invasion day". It happened before that they brought their kids, but never so many at the same time. X'D Imagine 5-6 little fluff balls chirping in your window. IT'S THE CUTEST THING. I swear they have at least 5 or 6 chicks because we could count this many at once. Yesterday and the day before, we watched the little sparrows, but most of them disappeared today. Maybe they were afraid of the chickadee army, lol.
I managed to take a few photos with my phone:
There are 5 of them here. It was hard to take photos of so many without scaring them away.
Two of them. They can eat by themselves now, but they still start chirping and asking for food when the parent birds appear, lol.
And here's a random sunset photo I took a few years ago. I must say there's a wonderful view from my window. I love living here. I'm really going to miss this place when I have to move one day.
Alright, this has been yet another pointless post. I could post a few wips and sketches, but I won't do that now. Maybe when I have more.
Warning: This post is not going to make much sense. Read at your own risk.
First of all, I have no new drawings to post. I'm writing this now because I'm on 'holiday'. I'm currently working at the local town hall and we had to take a day off after the elections. I wanted to go to the doctor, but the receptionist told me I should have called and asked for an appointment first. Well, fuck. I've been going there for years now and I could just go, give them my health card and wait till they called me. Apparently, you need to call them to get an appointment now. Just for a frickin' prescription. :| I don't even know when I'm going to call them because I'm at work at the time you can actually call them. Oh well.
In connection with the elections - We always have to go to my old elementary school to vote and the drawings I did while I was a student there are still on the walls of the corridors. Looking at them now makes me think I really sucked at art back then (I did those when I was in 5th or 6th grade), but at the same time it's nice that they still didn't throw them out and replaced them with works by new students.
Putting the rest under a "Read More" because I feel like it.
I should have made a sketch today. Simply because it would have been funny to have a file name with 131211 in it, haha. But I had a busy day today...
Here's what I've been up to: - I've been working. - I've been studying. - I have little time to go online and when I do, it's usually while I'm eating lunch/supper at home or something. - I've been browsing tumblr instead of drawing. - I've been still doing a few sketches and working on things here and there, but nothing finished enough / worth to post. - I still don't have a social life. - I'm still into Magi, but I'm not caught up with the manga and I'm downloading the anime episodes, but haven't had time to watch them lately, so I'm about 3 episodes behind. However, I keep seeing all the gifs on tumblr and I read the spoilers all the time. (It's faster to read the quick translations and stuff, so yeah.) I'm aware of what's going on. 8D
Pandora Hearts is on hiatus this month. TT___TT Magi is also on hiatus this week (I think?). *cold unpleasant wind of despair and solitude blowing*
Anyhow, I haven't done much in December regarding drawing yet.
I started colouring this one I drew back in July, but his face is freaking ugly. Damn you, Oz, why are you so bloody difficult to draw? DX I wanted this to be good, but it's not turning out the way I wanted and I'm not sure if I should waste more time and energy on it...
I started drawing this in November as a random headshot doodle. Then I got carried away. I actually like this BaalSin more than my first BaalSin. I'm not sure about the designs, though. Ohtaka is the most inconsistent mangaka when it comes to different designs, so trying to figure out how the djinn equips work can cause major headaches. I tried to make his waist more skinny here because Ohtaka sometimes draws so skinny waists it looks almost unhealthy. The anime sort of corrected the weird shoulder-waist proportions and the characters look less anorexic, lol. You can say Sinbad is a relatively big muscular dude, but there are a lot of even bigger dudes in Magi. :B
Ok, I wanted to ramble some more, but I should go to sleep now. I have school tomorrow.
Ok, so I decided to log in here again and ramble about stupid things nobody cares about. 8D My birthday was yesterday, it wasn't anything special, I got some money from relatives I'm not gonna spend on anything like always and I also got a new coat from mom. I finally uploaded the photos from my digital camera to the computer, so let's post a few things here...
I finally have a new keyboard. My old one was so old you couldn't read the letters and numbers on it any longer. I got this one in August as some kind of early b-day present, lol. It's fluorescent too.
This is my 'monster' orchid. It was originally a birthday present for my grandmother, but it's in my room now. It's 4 years old now and it blooms from around April to September. When you see these in stores, they usually have about 3-6 flowers, but this one had TWELVE this year.
And these are my mother's violets. I have no clue what kind of positive energies the plants must be receiving in our apartment, but these babies just keep blooming non-stop. XD
The cherry trees were all cut out in September, though. *sad*
NOW THEN... let's post some sketches as well~
Waka!Sin + child!Ja'far sketchy from the end of September. Apparently, I have a fetish for these two. I actually prefer drawing them together like that instead of their adult versions. They are cuter, hahah~
This was a super fast sketch, but I thought it turned out okay for a super fast sketch.
This was my sketchy wip for this. I made a few changes in the process, but not that much. This contest was a good excuse for me to finally draw fanart for the Gilbert in Wonderland omake. :D
Doodle of some of my favourite guys~ I sort of copied these from official artworks and manga panels because I wanted to stick to the original styles. Magi is not as ugly as I first thought... FMA is still uglier... XD; Also, Roy and Sinbad are the same age, but Sinbad is like 10 cm taller, hahaha, shorty Roy~
EWWW, this is crap, don't look. I doodled this last week, it was originally Sin sitting with some drink in his hand, but I couldn't get his hand right and then somehow it turned into this. I can't anatomy, so blehheghugh. But I love this guy because he's totally in character even if you don't draw him clothes.
I'm gonna die tomorrow. Or not. But then I'm gonna die next week. X___x
Also, I'm randomly addicted to this song:
Oh yeah, and there's been too much Sinbad on this blog lately. I'll now write a small rant on this matter and I'm putting it under a cut for reasons...
Lalala, still art block. And I managed to cut my right thumb today with my COMPUTER! XD;;; Seriously, a part of the "A" in the ASUS logo got stuck in my finger as I was cleaning the damn thing! Who thought it would come off like that?! I managed to pull it out of my finger, but it was bleeding like hell. It's a small cut but it's pretty deep. I hope it heals a bit by Monday.
Anyway, I haven't been drawing much. Tomorrow is Break's birthday, but I missed Vincent's birthday too, so I'm not gonna draw anything. I'd decided from the beginning that I wouldn't draw for these "character birthdays", but I always feel a little guilty for not doing anything while "Happy Birthday" drawings keep popping up on pixiv. ^^;
This is pretty much the only thing I've been working on recently. This will be (?) a commission for HockeyWitch. I still dislike his face, but I think I might leave it like that now. I've been messing around with it for 2 months...
It looks like this at the moment. My task was to draw Gil like he is on this picture but in a semi-realistic style. I'm not satisfied with the result, but I'm too lazy to try redoing it all. I think I realized it just now that the mouth looks awkward, haha...
I've been working for 3 months. However, this job is only for a certain period of time and it will end next year. To be honest, I'm both scared and happy about it. I'm scared of not being able to find another job, but I'm happy that I won't have to work here forever. I do like the people there and it's an okay job, but I want something more. Something where I could use my skills and solve problems instead of just being an "errand girl" and doing the most basic or least pleasant stuff nobody else is willing to do. I really don't want to complain, but the payment could be better too. (Well, it's a job for rookies so...) I like working there, but I think I'm capable of doing more.
And... and... I played Slender! In my opinion, the game is much more annoying than scary. I watched a few people play on YouTube, but their screen didn't seem as dark as mine most of the time. I can't really figure out where I'm going even with the flashlight switched on. I attempted to play a few times, but just gave up and quit after collecting 1-2 pages because I got bored of the endless walking and the trees. (Slenderman got me only once after walking for way too long.) The drumming in the background is also annoying as hell. My other problem besides the blinding darkness is the speed. Walking is frigging slow. Running should be better, but in this case, I can see even less. The scariest part of the game is the sudden flickering screen. That really made me go "Huh!?" a few times. But I think people overreact and overhype like always.
Okay, that's all for September, I guess. I don't know if there's anyone besides Axl16 who's following my ramblings here, but see you next time~
Yo! I didn't forget about this blog, I just don't have much to post lately. :(
Doodle of Lotti. I did this some time ago.
I like to do really quick doodles of Vincent whenever I feel like drawing something quickly. I don't like this one any longer, but it turned out okay for something drawn fast.
VincentxNoise. Yes. I ship Vincent with everyone. And I noticed I got a lot more confident at drawing hands, it's so much easier to draw them without references now.
Something super quick I drew today.
Dear Vincent! Please stop flooding my brain with random ideas just for a short while and let me get other stuff done. Thank you in advance. Your biggest fan,
Amarevia
PH 76 came out today. Probably the shortest chapter so far. But it's pretty emotional... Alyss, ALYSS! Yes, Alyss FINALLY APPEARED! INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE SISTERS AAAH!! We finally get to learn how Alice became one with B-Rabbit and stuff. Nice~
I got my first salary in the beginning of August. To celebrate it, my auntie got me a mobile phone holder thingy as a present. It's purple and it has my name on it. Then my mom started bugging me because of my crappy old Samsung phone. Every time you open it, the screen goes black after 4-5 seconds, its camera doesn't work any longer either and the phone itself is pretty outdated nowadays. (I think it's a model from... 2006-2007? And it already wasn't of the best or latest technology when it came out.) So yeah, mom is crazy about touchscreen phones and decided she'd buy one for me. We finally went and bought one a week ago. It's not the most expensive superawesome model either, but it's light years better than my old Samsung. It's a Nokia. My first phone was a Nokia too, I was a bit angry at my mom when she "exchanged" it for a discount of the price of the new Samsung. I'm not into cell phones in general, but currently, I'm in love with my new Nokia phone! It can even play MP4 video files my MP4 player can't play. :B And it's so easy to put shit on it from my computer! My biggest problem with my old cell phones is that I can't connect them to my compy (I don't have special data cables for them) and for some reason, I can't send MMS with them either, so there's no way to save old photos and audio recordings I'd made with them unless I keep the phones too.
I guess it's pretty easy to tell it's my phone, ahaha~
Mom is planning a big renovation in our apartment. It's possible that I won't even be able to use my compy for a couple of days. However, I have internet on my phone now, so I might be able to go online and do a few things. (Not much, tho.)
I'm feeling pretty tired and crappy atm, so I guess I'd better go now... I'll continue working on commissions tomorrow~
