I'm back to post a doodle of my oc, Jack~ He's a simply high school student that unfortunately got tied up to a criminal of Limbo (basically the realm of lost souls.), Yuta. He has to work with Yuta to serve his sentencing and save the souls of a strange town, where Jack's family just moved into.
I hope you like his look 'v'
I really need to draw more of the sinners, just hard to be motivated these days. (Y'all get it OTL) But enjoy this little piece and if you don't see me on the 24th or 25th, Happy Holidays, I hope you all are celebrating in your own ways and staying warm~ Keep going~
Obviously, this is not all that I've come to say. It's been a bit of a ride for everyone lately, I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed myself, very unsure of the future. Things will get harder for everyone, it's a sad fact of life in these times, but we're going to get through it - and I know it's hard for people to think that.
With that being said, I've been trying to crunch down on getting Solar 7 started. I've asked a pal to help me out with getting it going, so I'm feeling confident that we can make things happen.
So to be clear, here's the plan I'm thinking:
- Start off with shorts.
- To help me and my friend's creative processes, we're going to keep things simple for now before we get started on a real story for Solar 7.
- It might take a while to get the real story going, but I believe it'll be worth it in the end!
- The shorts will just consist of small scenarios to see how characters interact with each other. (Help get familiarized with the cast)
- These shorts will probably not be canon to the main story.
- Will there be a price on this comic?
- I've been vehement about this, the comic will not have to be paid for to read.
- Nobody will have to worry about this now, especially with the shorts, but the only way i can perceive of making money will be through printed copies of the comic, merch, and behind the scenes exclusives.
- We're going through hard times together, and all I really want to do is make something fun for everyone to be able to read without worry of a subscription or one time payment. And my friend agrees with this.
- Where will we be able to read the comic?
- So for now, with as little experience we have right now, we'll be uploading the comic to Comic Fury.
- This is a temporary move in the long run. If we had the chance to in the future, we would probably upgrade to a different place. But for now, this is where we're thinking of uploading to.
- We don't know much about this site, so it'll be a process.
- I will still be posting here about the comic and comic updates, but it won't be the comic itself.
- We are considering Patreon, but not as a place to upload the comic. Only for behind the scenes if people so choose to subscribe to. (Think of it as a donation to keep our chins up.)
- How often will you upload?
- I'm not going to pressure me and my friend to worry about a tight schedule. This is basically a passion project, so we're taking it at a pace good for us!
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That's all I can think of for now, but questions are welcomed if you'd like to contact me through my blog or comments!
Take life as easy as you can, this upcoming year is gonna be difficult. Have a good Thanksgiving and see you soon!
Another commission from my wonderful friend and their WoW ocs, Dodger and Avo! It's getting pretty cold over here (it actually just snowed the other day) so why not feel some warmth with this comm? I'm proud of how it turned out~
Thank you and enjoy!!
Enjoy this little piece~
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Ready for Halloween?
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Tis the season to be spooky! I hope you enjoy these icons I collaborated on with my datemate of our ocs, Blade and Kaun (dannymagd), as Jiangshi~ I did the coloring on the left while s/o did the linework, and vice verse with the icon on the left. Hope you all have a safe Halloween, stay warm, and get lots of candy and all the good stuff~
Enjoy Spooky Month~
You can find my datemate's art more on sites like: Bluesky, Tumblr, and Twitter (X)
I even made a lil moving pixel of her here, check it out 'v'
It's been a bit rough for me lately, mentally that is. It started off with having a little bit of family drama that kind of shook me, and it's still affecting me. Then, my pharmacy tech lessons are close to being done, so I've been fixating on getting these last lesson done along with studying for the final. And to top it all off, I've been doing some family business stuff (which the drama didn't help with, at least for me).
All in all, my mood hasn't been too great, but I'm holding on. While I'm trying not to stop productivity, my mind's just been taking things slow. So it's not the end of the world, but personally, I'm a bit frustrated with life.
But with frustration comes the want to make things better, and I really want to make things better.
Times like these I'm actually glad I haven't been on social media lately! (can't avoid it completely, but not having it has been great)
So for now, have this quick doodle of Anibo sharing in my tired anguish while Pubbi tries to help out.
Stay safe out there~ <3
I'm kind of proud of this little doodle, might use it somehow in the future, but I hope you enjoy it too~
Ani speaking~ Quite the title, huh?
So it's not entirely true that I've been off of social media. Really, my only outlet for keeping updated on world things has been YouTube for the most part. Though, for the record, I'm no longer on Twitter, I haven't checked Tumblr for a long time now, and that SpaceHey I created? Dropped it.
But I'm not here to lecture about social media, I just wanted to share what's been going on with me now that I haven't checked these sites.
I feel great.
Simple yeah? While I feel like I haven't fully severed ties with the need to constantly take in new information, I do feel better that it's not in my face for most of the day. I have problems with trying not to compare my skills to others, and having a feed that constantly showed me artists that had better skills than me (especially when they were younger than me and could doodle better than me any day ;v;) didn't help with those problems. I always think I'm never good enough to do anything, so maybe that was a bit perpetuated through social media.
And saying "Don't think that, you're great!" or "Don't compare yourself to others" is easy enough to say, but in practice it doesn't work so well for me.
That being said, I won't say being off social media has remedied that, but generally I'm not caught in a loop staring at amazing artwork day in and day out. So problem solved but also not solved? I do think I feel happier, though.
I will say, I feel like I've taken a step back from a raging storm. Getting lost in other peoples' opinions, cancel culture, or taking in AI slop had taken a toll on me mentally. Yes, I'll say it, I've become such a "Doomer." I'm trying to remedy that, and not looking at social media sites has helped very much. I want to be proud of life, and I want things to get better. And I realize sulking about it is not going to fix things.
With social media, I felt like I didn't have anything to be proud of. But looking away from the screen, I started to figure out, "Hey Ani, you can do stuff!" Which of course is great and all... Just gotta start doing those things now. xD (Being an anxious person by nature doesn't help.)
Anyway, I do have a sense of FOMO when I see others still on social media and sharing things I didn't know about. I know we as humans can't POSSIBLY know everything... but wouldn't it be great if we did? That's how I feel about that. And the constant need for convenience has been getting to me.
So, there have been benefits and problems I've had being off of social media. I would say, for the most part, I'm happy. I don't feel like I need to stress about getting a post out with this blog, and I can just come back to it whenever I feel like it. Like my own little quiet space~ I do miss seeing peoples' reactions to the art I make, that's what really made me happy on social media. At the same time... there was too much of it.
In real life, I hate being in the spotlight. I like getting praise, but apart from that, I don't like the idea of having all eyes on me. Too much responsibility, heh~ And with cancel culture becoming more and more over-reactive, I sometimes worry that people are just analyzing ANYTHING that I do, and if they don't agree with something (warranted or not warranted) that I've done, they'll start a mob, and I'll have to say something about it. Not that people shouldn't own up to their mistakes, but I do think some corners of the internet just need to chill for a second.
And maybe I'm being over-reactive myself in saying this, but the internet feels like it's trying to assimilate everyone into a hive-mind mentality.
Anyway, some people will probably disagree with whatever I say, and that's fine. I just don't want to feel like I'm losing my sense of self. And I still struggle with figuring out if I'm forming my own opinions or not.
If my thoughts sound disjointed while you're reading this, I apologize, but this has just been on my mind lately. Agree with me or disagree, I'm just glad anyone's read this post up to this point.
Well, I don't want to end on a sour note, so here's my two cents. I feel like my brain can finally breathe with having my own space and not worrying about other people on the internet. I'm tired of having to worry about liking something and then someone telling me, "Oh you can't like them cause of such and such." I would LIKE to know why I can't like something, I'm concerned about what information I'm taking in and how that applies to me, but I'd like to do my own research into it and form my own opinions about it.
It's just tiring, is all I'm saying. I want to take things slow. Maybe it's the fact that a lot of things I liked when I was a kid are starting to be cancelled (and with good reason, like all those YouTubers outed as pedos now, good, they deserve the hate in my opinion), but I don't want to take it in all at once. It's depressing, alright? It's nice to take a break from it all.
I think I got riled up while typing this all out, but it feels nice to put it out into words. And maybe someone else will read this, hopefully it helps you figure some things out.
If I want to say anything, from what I've been thinking about all of this, and it won't work for everyone, but...
Just stop logging in maybe?
Wouldn't it be nice to just look at something else?
Yeah... okay, I'm done.
⭑❤✿⭑✣⭑ Thank you for reading~ ⭑❤✿⭑✣⭑