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woaw! a whole year as passed... I'm 20 now! scary. anyway here's my summary!
I think I got more comfortable with my rendering style this year. It definitely looks different than it did last year, I think I'm more thoughtful about where I put lines and how I render different textures. I definitely got more comfortable rendering full body pieces, I remember being very scared of doing them last year and so stuck mostly to busts. Part of the reason I got more into full body pieces is because I finally figured out how legs work. which is kind of crazy, idk why it took me this long. 20 years of having legs and i only sort of get what they look like NOW?? maybe next year I'll finally learn what arms look like. I'm also a lot more conscious of what colors I'm picking for shading these days. I was relying on multiply layers a lot before, which worked fine, but personally picking out what colors I want to use makes me feel a lot more in control of a piece. I was doing that a bit last year, but I think I have a much better handle on it now. My favorite piece is definitely this one, the poses turned out so nice and I loved rendering it, I'm just really proud of it.
Next year, I'd like to get better at backgrounds most of all. I need to do more studies of nature and indoor environments. Also random knickknacks so I have a better idea what to fill a background with. Also anatomy... I need to find weirder poses to practice from and actually learn something from them. look at skeletons & muscular diagrams more. its harder to find reliable animal references for this kind of thing, but I still want to try. Another thing I'd like to work on is expressions, I feel like I could push them more. Also different face shapes for the same animal. and maybe I will finally learn how to draw and stylize a human face next year
As for less directly art related stuff, I started a lot of my stories with just putting characters in situations but they now have themes that the characters dont quite align with anymore so next year I'd like to work on revising character arcs and backstories to better match the story theyre intended to tell. I also want to finally work on 13 Beware again. I miss it and I want to actually start posting it eventually.
I want to consume more other art next year too... movies, shows, books, podcasts, etc. I have a hard time focusing on things for too long but I want to try harder actually pay attention to things. I also don't have most streaming services so i have to sail the high seas to get most of the popular stuff (the only reason i havent watched Severance or Pluribus is that i cant find it anywhere online). I want to look at less stuff that makes me mind bogglingly angry. I want to find more things that i actually enjoy. more hobbies too, i cant just draw and play games i need to do More Things. when i dont have anything to draw or anything to play i start going a little crazy, i need something else to occupy my time with. I want to be more social! comment on more posts, send more tumblr asks, text my friends first more, participate in more group chat conversations. I'm incredibly shy and i dont like talking to people most of the time but i also feel pretty lonely and isolated a lot. it would be nice to feel like im actually part of a community instead of just standing on the sidelines, only participating when directly addressed.
whoa thats 600 words! according to sheezy's little word counter in the corner anyway... thanks for reading! i hope everyone has a good new years and keeps making art forever and ever!
This meme was popular when Sheezy.art first started up and was the first journal I ever made on this website. So I thought I'd do it again to see if anything changed! here's the original if you wanna follow along
BASICS:
name/nickname: Rotten but I go by Rotty
gender: thog dont caare
pronouns: it/its
fun fact: I still collect ceramic animals!
hobbies/interests: I also still like vultures and spiders! I suppose I should also add other new hobbies and interests. I've discovered that I like needle felting
ART:
favorite medium: Still digital! but I would like to get more in to clay sculptures and needle felting
favorite subjects (what do you like to draw, take pictures of, making music about, ect): Animals still. I'm the animal guy
piece you're the most proud of: The link on the old one doesn't work anymore because I changed my tumblr username so here's the new link. I'm not very proud of that one anymore... Picking a new favorite is hard but I like how the poses and shading on this one turned out
how long have you been creating: I don't know! Since I was a little baby child, I guess. I've been posting online since 2017 though.
how did you learn: I did indeed read a lot of how to draw dragons books as a child... they taught me how to sketch and how animals are generally shaped. underneath every animal I draw is actually a dragon
how long does it usually take you to make something: depends! I can get the sketching, lines, and flat colors down fairly fast but my rendering takes much longer. I used to be a little scared of doing full body pieces in this style because of how long it takes but I've been having fun with that lately. To answer the actual question, these days it a few days to finish a full body fully rendered piece.
what's the big project you haven't got around to yet: AAHHHHHHH I STILL HAVE YET TO FINISHED THAT COMIC. I started it, it has a few pages done, but not many. I have the first few chapters scripted and one fully thumbnailed but then I wanted to go back and change some of the characterization and I still haven't gotten to that. 13 Beware has existed in limbo for 6 terrible years. Will I ever finish it at this point
TAG:
Tag five people: pointing at you. do it
Who tagged you: me from 4 years ago
Blank meme: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17KwCZ--_fNcovJi6xYqBgvUYOiFkwS4ihGtRoqC3ny0/
taking this from @Khemikill
RANDOM QUESTION MEME
10 things about me
- I have 3 cats named Shott, Worm, and Beetle
- I like gym chalk ASMR videos
- Yesterday I helped my grandma unpack after moving. It was very satisfying to clear a room of boxes!
- Pretty excited about Defuctland's new 4 hour video
- I've been watching Wayneradiotv's In Search Of A Perfect World vods for the past few days, it's really fun. Making me think about MMOs I've played before
- I recently discovered Cobblemon! It's very fun. I love Pokemon but I'm not spending an ungodly amount of money on new games so its nice to do something new with Pokemon that isn't super expensive
- I think I'm almost done with Silksong. But I also keep being proven wrong every time I think I'm getting close to the end so there's probably more
- Once I've finished Silksong I plan on replaying Hollow Knight. I miss it
- I joined an OC art exchange on tumblr for new years and I'm having a lot of fun drawing for it. I want to join more events like this, I love drawing for other people
- I've been thinking about my OC Decay a lot lately. Decay is the OC I most consistently focus on, even though I don't draw it very often
Tag Questions:
What's your Current favorite song?
I've been listening to Satan's a Woman by Twin Temple a lot lately. I really like that "Wanna do the Watusi? You can call me Luci" part
What kind of things do you find most difficult to draw? What do you find most enjoyable to draw?
I feel like I should have human faces figured out by now. I'm okay at it when I have a reference but coming up with something on my own or stylizing a real face is so difficult for me. As for what is most enjoyable, I'm obviously an animal artist. While I am a furry, I actually prefer feral characters. I have a better understanding of an animal's body than a human's or humanoid's
If you were a video game character what would your weapon be?
A big cool scythe
What Element do you wish you could have control over?
Something edgy like shadows or death
What is something you want to accomplish before you die?
I want to see every species of vulture in person at least once. So far I'm at 10/23
Have you had any crazy,random...or just any kinda neat dreams lately?
The last dream I remembered enough to write down was about some strange humanoid creatures with blurry faces standing outside my house. one of them made its way in and its face unblurred to look like Obama. I tried to fight it off and its head popped off like an action figure's. I'm unsure what this says about me
Is there something in life that excites you?
I'm visiting my friend on Tuesday! We've been watching Breaking Bad together
Pick one of these 5 random weapons...Banana Sword..Cupcake Launcher...Pickle Gun...Pancake Claws..Jellybean bombs~~
Cupcake Launcher sounds like the most delicious here
What is the meaning of life? XD
I can't think of a funny joke answer so my real answer is that I don't think life has a meaning. I don't think we exist for any particular purpose. And I don't mean this in a cynical way, I mean that life is what we make it
What have you been watching/reading lately?
I just finished reading Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum yesterday and I thought it was pretty cool! I liked the gore and body horror and the ending was compelling. It's pretty short, if you like horror and can stomach gross medical-ish gore then you should read it. I've also been watching Hazbin Hotel season 2 but I haven't watched the last two episodes yet. Also the aforementioned Breaking Bad
TAG 5 PEOPLE:
does anyone actually use this anymore? whatever, do this if you want to. this site doesnt have a proper tagging function anyway. have fun and be free
stealing this one from @northofnothing
northofnothing tried to not use the same ocs twice so i'm going to try that too
1.) Which of your characters represent you the most?
I try not to project too many of my own traits onto any individual characters because I don't want to make them all too samey, but when I made Hayven I was explicitly basing them on myself. I don't think we share that many similarities anymore though. Thank god I'm not in middle school.
2.) Which of your characters represent you the least?
This is pretty hard... no matter how hard I might try, there's a little bit of me in all of them. I guess I like to think I don't share any traits with Kane, but there's probably something
3.) What is your favorite design you made?
Sincerely. I struck gold with this design, it's simple yet easily recognizable, easy to doodle everywhere, extremely cute... the perfect animal
4.) What is your favorite design you own?
I don't buy or trade designs, all of them are designed by me (a few older ones might have had a friend's influence though). So I'm sticking with Sincerely on this one.
5.) What is your biggest yet-to-obtain dreamy?
Like I said, I don't buy or trade designs so I don't generally want to buy or trade for them either. I guess it would be nice to have something from fourleafisland though, they're an extremely good character designer.
6.) What is your most prized achieved dreamie?
non applicable
7.) What is your oldest character?
That's pretty difficult... my oldest characters were all made when I was extremely young so I don't have solid documentation for a lot of them. I'm going to say Kiara, because I know she's one of the oldest at least
8.) What is your newest character?
I don't really remember, but I'm going to say Velvarn. The idea of her has been around for a while but I only recently gave her a solid design, name, and personality
(she's the one with purple eyes)
9.) Favorite feral character you own?
Lavandael... have you seen her? Now you have. One of my all time favorite OCs
10.) Favorite human(oid) character you own?
I only have, like, one. Here's Decay. It's the only human character I ever draw.
11.) Favorite anthro character you own?
Valrik. Right next to Lavandael as one of my favorite OCs of all time.
12.) First original species character you obtained?
I'm not in the original species community at all. You know, unless you count the species I've made for my own stories. In that case, almost all of them are an original species so uhhh, Aglithael. Another all time favorite
13.) What character do you plan to shower with love next?
I don't know! Whichever one my brain decides to latch onto next, I guess. I'd like it to be Bune though. She needs some development.
14.) What character holds the most $$$ value?
they are all worth a single human life (its my life, you'll have to kill me for them. If I lose the fight, I don't deserve them)
15.) What character has the most art?
Valrik, probably. I've drawn this thing a lot
16.) What character has the most favorites?
Just now realizing that this entire meme is most likely supposed to be answered on toyhouse. I don't use toyhouse anymore so I don't know </3 I think it should be Lavandael, have you seen her? She's perfect. Look at her, she deserves it
17.) Any characters you co-own?
Not anymore? I've done collaboration projects with friends before, but they all fell apart eventually. I think Raven is the closest. He's technically my brother's character from when we roleplayed with stuffed animals together so I feel bit bad about using him still but it's not like he's using him... and he's changed enough, probably
18.) If you had to give up all your ocs but one, which would you keep?
oh god thats a nightmare scenario. I have to pick one that doesnt rely on the others so much that they would stop having a story without them. uhm. Decay?
19.) Any characters based off of show/book/movie/game?
Myrith was originally based on a manga character. I'm not telling you which one, I'm shy. take a wild guess who the demon bird that makes a deal with a teenager is based on.
20.) Your smartest character?
Jack contains all the knowledge in the universe. Which feels like cheating
21.) Your clumsiest character?
Kitty could set off a whole Rube Goldberg machine by tripping once
22.) Your evilest character?
Kane, probably? He's the most unapologetically evil, at least.
23.) Your sweetest character?
Valrik :3
24.) Do you have a season/holiday themed character?
Victor is my Valentine's Day character!
25.) A character you are currently wanting to rehome more than any?
None of them. I never get rid of characters because 1. I made them, they're mine forever and 2. even if I stop using them, I like to recycle names, designs, and backstories instead of making an entirely new character.
26.) Which of your character's names do you like most?
for writing: Ruinerve, I guess? I don't think about this very often (pictured below)
for hearing: Sincerely. it's a very good word
27.) Which character have you drawn most?
Probably Velgar, honestly. I almost said Valrik but there is so much Velgar art that's been lost to time and he's so much older.
28.) Any hybrid characters?
Lavandael II and Sheriving (they're twins)
29.) Your most unique character?
I like to think that whatever Ragyre has going on is pretty unique
