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finally got one! and it's made baking soooo much easier; easily cutting the process by two hours. made double batches of chocolate chip cookies with it recently, but i'm looking super forward to the endless potential! i need to stock up on more ingredients though hehe.
on another note, i am drawing! veryyyy slowlyyyy. i'm currently trying to get caught up on WAY old owed artwork, which i'm halfway through; but it's so hard when ur going through an art block. the motivation is sorta there-- there's a lot i really want to draw-- but every time i bring my pen to tablet it's not turning out exactly how i wanttt (＞﹏＜) it's making the process much much slower. need to find my GROOVE!
furthermore... what's the environment of adoptables here? i know now on dA it's like slogging through a swamp of AI slop and just oversaturated to hell, but if anyone's had experiences with making sales here or not, lemme know! i've got some designs on the backburner i wanna potentially sell :3
says right on the tin, friend of mine needs grocery money so she's selling cat designs for cheap on toyhouse! https://toyhou.se/ratcalamity/characters/folder:2180635
https://www.deviantart.com/rainpainted
whatever helps! even if ur not interested in the cats, donos are much appreciated. she's in a major rough spot, losing her job back in September after breaking her foot and her house being foreclosed on (she's currently in the process of packing up to move out) but right now she just really needs money for food!
and i am in the trenchessss. emotionally. BUT i had a good birthday!!! :] better than the previous years! if u don't count my window unit AC deciding to nearly entirely beef it the day of :'D i'm always excited for the day though, regardless of whatever goes wrong, cuz i'm a tiny bit egocentric and love celebrating meeeee
my mom decidedly went halfway all out, she made a cake out of cupcakes LOL had Nightmare before Christmas toppers and halloween lollies stuck in em! idc if i'm almost 30, i will always have a themed cake. never lose ur whimsy and joy 💪
on a less fun note my laptop may be experiencing an imminent hard disk failure, and windows 10 is losing security updates (wasn't able to sign in for the extension sadly) so i really really need to either get my hard drive replaced, or get a new 'puter entirely, and just switch over to linux OS atp. which is daunting and ESPENSIVE. or maybe everything will work out beautifully for me cuz i'm God's favorite or something. butterflies and flowers glitter around me in a family guy death pose. love and peace on planet earth
my window unit seems to be on the fritz again, though this time i think it'll have to be replaced for good. which is unfortunate! it's still quite warm where i live, and has been raining a lot. i live in an older home on the second floor, so it becomes like an oven when it's warmer outside. the old hunk of junk is frequently making this horrible clicking racket, suggesting something wrong with the fan itself inside; and i've been having to shut it off and on to give it plenty breaks because on occasion it will sound right! and then it'll suddenly start with the clicking sound again -_-
this is notttt sustainable long-term. it's been making sleep so difficult and oftentimes very sweaty. idk how many times the fan has been fixed already but there's a certain point where it's just better to get something new or like-new and be rid of it all. the plan is to be getting the like-new unit from my mother's room so she'll get herself a brand new one. meaning i don't have to pay for anything yayyy LOL. i've had so many problems with this unit to begin with; back in 2023 around the same time it was FILLED with mold and gave me a terrible bout of bronchitis for over a month. the whole cleaning process took several days and i just can't deal with that again!!! although, luckily it will get colder soon. much, much colder.
anyway. speaking of which, i've been baking a lot more again in prep for the colder months. i'm sooo ready. psyching myself up to make cookies this week cuz it's HARD to make shit without a stand mixer... recently made cinnamon rolls over the last weekend and that was a test of wills from God Himself. at least i'm getting a good upper body work-out, i guess? here's to hoping i finally get what i've been asking for the past 2 years in the coming holidays 😭 or at least my birthday next month LOL. every time my family enters the kitchen i get the same "wow, this would be easier if you had a stand mixer." yeah no shit dude.
adulthood really is... asking for gifts like AC units and stand mixers. huh. ugh. i'm truly entering the scary years. at least i'll be getting a steak dinner out of it.
kind of a nothingburger of a journal but i had to ramble about this. i will try to post some art soon! i re-drew character art i had recently posted because i wasn't satisfied with it at all and sometimes i have this habit of being a perfectionist about certain characters of mine TwT so expect something like that!
scratches head. so there's this particular trick in cel shading that i've seen where it looks like the shading itself has this darker, little outline? problem is: i don't know what it's called and therefore cannot find it without feeling like i'm hitting several walls. so MAYBE if i just blast my woes onto here, someone will know exactly what i'm talking about 😭
i have been thinking about this technique for MONTHS actually since i last saw a tutorial for it and then cannot find it again. it's something i've been meaning to experiment with for a little while! i'm always looking to improve upon my shading skills cuz i'm aware i severely lack in them (though art fight was a good practice run at it cuz i don't do it nearly enough than i should)
if u do know exactly what i mean, i'd really appreciate it 🙏 it can be anything from linking a tut u know or just explaining it step by step