Bye 2017

      Ok, one last post before the year ends. I'll keep it short:

This is actually the first thing I sketched in my new Frozen sketchbook but I didn't finish it till last night. It didn't show up in my Instagram best nine but that's fine. The porg and a couple of Helsa pictures did. I started it last week after watching the I Love Lucy special in color and they aired the fashion show episode and there was this pink dress that is so modern!Elsa so here she is wearing her own version of it, because sparkly is Elsa's aesthetic. I started out 2017 feeling so emo and angry too, but I'm ending it as a working girl and I'm pretty happy even though I can't really do any digital art. But I've adapted and I kinda forgot what it's like to draw something on a piece of paper that you can look at it whenever you can, as long as you didn't lose it. The hope is always that the next year is better and maybe it will be. It certainly will be for my turtle who finally got a tank thanks to me today. I found her two years ago while checking on my dogs because my Lab mix found her and thought she'd make a great chew toy. I realized that green rock wasn't a rock and brought in a tiny turtle to see if it was alive. Now after suffering through a dome composed of my mom's glass mixing bowl above a tiny round turtle habitat, she's got a ten gallon starter that will eventually get upgraded but she's still small and so is our house so it'll be a while. This is what happens when a broke family takes in a turtle that's an invasive species. She's a red-eared slider btw. As I was saying, my traditional art should get more interesting as I bought the following in the past few weeks (the top picture was actually taken last night):

Hopefully I'll develop my characters further and draw them more often and improve with inking 😅 We'll just see what 2018 has to offer. Till then, doodles. 

Last Friday of the year!!!

      Hello! I think this will be the last post of the year... Wow. Well I have some doodles before we finish the year so here ya go: 

The first I made in my new sketchbook based off of this fanfiction I'm following (I have not made sketches based off of chapter one yet) and I got unusually giddy while taking the picture this morning because I forgot how good the middle came out. I don't ship them anymore, they were cute while they lasted. Before that, I drew a porg. I didn't post the scary sketch that I erased to draw the final here but it was oddly popular on Tumblr (I just saw 139 notes... when did that happen?) and Instagram. And the bottom is a quick sketch of an OC's body... How did I get so good at the male form if I've been single my whole life? 🎶I've been single my whole life to find my own bae...🎶 I bought some art supplies tonight at Michael's and plan on using them so if I post colored drawings with inked lines, you know why. Hope you guys enjoy the last weekend of 2017, I don't promise any last minute posts, especially since I work on Sunday (retail 😩), but if I don't post before 2018, just know I didn't stop doodling. 

The sass is strong with this one... Flyboys

      Hello. I said Friday but I only drew two of the planned three doodles on Friday and didn't feel like posting it at that moment so I bring you one Poe and two Solos today:

On Friday, I drew Poe and Han. I didn't actually want to draw Poe winking, it just happened while I was fixing his "right" eye so I just winged it from there. Poe was drawn in the morning before I went to work. In fact, I kinda ran late to work because I got a bit confused, my dogs disturbed my sleep the night before so I ended up wasting some time with Poe Dameron but my mom got me to work on time. Worth it. For anyone that has seen the movie, do you think Poe and Connix are booty calls? Or is it just me? Han's not in this movie (I watched it this Saturday), but he does get mentioned and he was in the last movie so I drew young Han. The theme was new trilogy and original, so there. I accidentally typed Hans at one moment, whoops. He was drawn after work so there wasn't anymore sunlight to take a nice picture but I didn't put a filter on it either. I think he looks pretty damn good here. And Saturday, before I went to the theater to finally see it (I paid for my movie ticket and one of my sisters), I drew Kylo. I left the worst emo baddie for last. It's a joke. I admit now I didn't draw his hair as poofy as it usually appears but whatever. Imo, the movie was epic. Anybody that didn't see it as awesome is stupid and threatened by strong women and minorities as main characters. Also, everything you just said is wrong. There's so much going on in the Last Jedi and I think there was quite a bit of awesomeness in it, so go watch it. That is unless you're a thiry-something year old fanboy who still thinks the only good Star Wars is the original trilogy and that you are not a true Star Wars fan if you don't know the name of the alien bartender in scene yaddah-yaddah-yaddah... What's important is if you enjoy the story and the characters and the artistry behind these movies, that's what makes you a fan.

There's space on my index card for a porg. Should I draw one? Also, I'm thinking of scanning it, then inking them with my Sharpie pens I got from work a month ago because I should really start using them. I also want to do the same with my Frozen index card. I have seen artists on Instagram do best nine posts already and I'm gonna save that for December 30th because I think it would be more accurate then as it weighs out everything I've drawn and posted in the past year. I might go quiet during January, I'll make an official post if I go through with it, but that doesn't mean I won't be drawing. Just means I won't be posting during that time. Don't know if I'll doodle anything this week, hopefully I do. See you later, it's getting late here. 

Cinnamon Rolls with lightsabers (and curse America)

      Hello! I've drawn more Star Wars characters for today's viewing so let's go!

It's Finn and Luke Skywalker! Both have handled the same lightsaber and fought head on with a dark-sider Skywalker, so I guess it makes sense to post them together. Is Finn a Jedi? Not sure, John Boyega left that question unanswered on a youtube video that my sister showed me yesterday... It's usually Jedi that find other Jedi or force-sensitive people, that's from the two established trilogies, so it's possible that he has some force sensitivity. The movie comes out soon so some of our questions will be answered then. I'm not too happy with how these guys came out, guess I'll have to practice them. Oh, before I move on, can I share my theory on The Last Jedi? I think Luke wants to end the Jedi because the lifestyle has become antiquated and it didn't stop two Skywalkers from turning to the dark side and screwing everyone else over at the same time. Not everyone has Padmé's temperament or are mentally stable. Now for an extra doodle:

This happens when you live in Florida and a whole week is forecasted to be under 70° Fahrenheit... My dogs usually sleep outside (not out in the open) but have slept two nights in a row in my room on their blankets on the floor, spent this early morning in my room warming up (because the whole day and night was mild up until 5 in the morning and was stay that way until 8) and I have to bring them in tonight. My lab mix doesn't need a sweater but I have her wear one (Labrador size is tight on her but Newfoundland is loose enough that she takes it off) while my Chihuahua mix wears her sweater and an old coat of hers all day long... I drew this last night actually, after a few days trying to figure out how to incorporate the joke "Elsa is up to it again" (I blame Elsa for frigid temps) and since Olaf's Frozen Adventure caused such a stink, I can imagine her cursing America for hurting her baby's feelings. Anna and Hans are confused as to how she cursed Americans though... they need to check their hair color 😂. Tomorrow is the day they decide the fate of net neutrality... I am not prepared to fork over money to get on the internet, especially since I post my art online, so I hope they leave it well alone. Tiny hands off my internet, off my lands, out of my country. Hopefully those women will take him down. I should come back Friday with more Star Wars doodles so stay tuned!

Forceful Ladies Friday (and a frozen heart)

      Hello! I said last Wednesday I might post again on Friday... didn't think that would be this Friday... whatever, I'm here now with some goodies: 

I started drawing on another index card Star Wars characters and so far I've drawn the leading ladies of the new and original trilogies (the prequels won't fit on this card, they'll need their own), Rey and Leia. I drew a rough sketch for Rey last week but it was Monday when I did the finished product above. Used the cover of VII for reference. I know Daisy Ridley has freckles but I don't have them memorized like I do with Hans and Anna (I accidentally typed Hand... he does have big hands, unlike some people...) so I left them out. I still refer to Daisy Ridley by her full name because I have a dog named Daisy, gotta differentiate. I kept attempting to sketch Leia since Tuesday or Wednesday but it wasn't coming out right so today I erased the last sketch I had, google image searched, and in less than 40 minutes (I know this because like immediately after posting the WIP I worked on her and the time stamp on Instagram was 39 minutes ago when I posted the final) I finally had a worthy Leia likeness. I was listening and singing along to Invader Invader when I finished and I raised my arms Tuscan raider style in happiness. Yes, I'm a happy nerd 😄 I have another doodle unrelated to Star Wars but still a Disney property:

Quickly sketched it on Wednesday after hearing that Olaf's Frozen Adventure got pulled from theaters because of complaints of its length and placement with Coco. It's a sad Olaf trying to seek reassurance from an indifferent Hans. Hans isn't in the short so what does he care? There's a cold front moving along the U.S. and will affect me too (48 degrees Sunday morning). I am blaming Elsa for it. She has motive... This calls for a special doodle. The ladies have 7 likes each on Instagram but Hans and Olaf have 8... wonder what my best nine will be this year... Well, hope you have a good weekend even if it's cold outside. 

Second Frozen anniversary post

      Hello! I'm posting twice in the same week?!? I must be coming out of that "art block" (I don't ever define it as art block when I don't draw because it's always just a phase... maybe I'm getting distracted by something else, like sims, and I'm working now so that's a few hours where I can't draw)... I drew Hans and Kristoff yesterday on that index card with Anna and Elsa so here we go: 

Aren't they lovely? I love the way Hans came out, he's just so expressive here. I had difficulty with his "left" eye and I redrew his nose one moment because I thought it was too long but other than that, pretty easy. I need to work on Kristoff because I think the drawing could have been done better but it's nice drawing him because I'm so bad, I ignore the good boyfriend. I don't think I'd do that in real life, I did have a crush on Tom Hiddleston, but Hans is so much hotter in my opinion. Kristoff's hot but he needs hygiene, manners, and I am not very attracted to blonds. I've said it before here but my ideal guy is dark haired, light skinned, tall, handsome, thin, kind... but I find red hair fascinating so if I find a redhead with the above qualities, hell yeah. Hans fits almost all of the requirements. He could be nice if he wasn't being a narcissist. I'm gonna go cuz it's late but I might pop back in with a fresh doodle or two on Friday so till then, toodles. 

Happy Four Year Anniversary Frozen (not the full cast, but it'll do for now)

      Hello! Sorry I haven't posted in over a week but I haven't been drawing much although that might be changing as I have three doodles to share today: 

First one is from last week inspired by Lady Gaga's performance at the AMA's (P!nk's was good too... sideways on a building? That's balls) as it reminded me that I imagine Hans having been into competitive fencing as a teen. I can do a better job at the helmet/mask next time. I discovered this fanfiction writer on Tumblr who goes by wintermoonqueen during the tail end of the summer and she writes specifically Frozen fanfiction. I've read all she's got on her Viking AU Land of Eternal Winter and she started an alternate ending AU which has inspired me to draw more frequently again (and her writing brings up such imagery that I want to draw it) so I started with the back of an index card and so far I've drawn Elsa looking sad and a pouty Anna. Oh yeah, they're in my stylized realism because I should practice it again, especially since I've ditched that Disney imitation I used to do, to make better, more serious art when it's needed (because cartoons can't convey that as well). I drew Elsa last night while watching a show on Netflix called Velvet (it's from Spain but there's English subtitles) and Anna was drawn today amidst some simming (I finally got to play during the romance festival). It took me a while for both because I'm rusty but I'm happy with the results. Now for the guys... I wanna get a sketchbook just for this kind of stuff, you know, fanart especially of the fanfiction I'm reading, and I just might this week because they sell some sketchbooks at my job (already bought a pack of mechanical pencils and a two-pack of ultra fine sharpies). Today happens to be four year anniversary of Frozen's release, which I've been waiting for, so yeah! Sadly I heard there's absolutely no Hans in Olaf's Frozen Adventure (boo-hoo... they could have done a quick cameo like in Frozen Fever). How many more years do we see Elsa dominating the market? Oh well, at least Beyoncé isn't voicing her in a dumb "live-action" remake. Really? Lion King? We all know everything will be CG, just call it the CG remake because nothing there will be "live". At least Mufasa hasn't changed. I used to love that movie, key word being USED to. I grow tired of anything any of my sisters play too many times. I just got into Let It Go recently because my sister is still obsessed with Moana. The past two weekends (not this one), my dad played music through Chromecast and he'd play Let It Go... sing-along version. My parents are finally learning the lyrics I guess. Guess I'll go, it's kinda late and even though I don't have work tomorrow, I'd like to do stuff early in the day so toodles. 

Frosty Fall Friday

      Hello Friday! I'm finally posting some doodles since Inktober and here they are:

I hate when Instagram doesn't want to agree with the format of my drawing. Well, on Monday I felt like doing a quick Hans doodle to get back into the game. It's not the best but it's something, since I'm spending more time working and playing the Sims. Right, now that I get payed weekly (not bi-weekly like everywhere else in Florida) I have money to buy the DLC I want and bought Cats & Dogs and Parenthood. I actually got Cats & Dogs on the day of release half off through Target's Cartwheel deal. I'm currently waiting for the Black Friday deals on City Living and Get to Work in order to get them. Back on topic, and Wednesday I finally got around to drawing the Frozen cast as they will appear in Olaf's Frozen Adventure... except I added Hans who has not been confirmed if he'll even get a cameo and he's wearing that coat from the movie. Dude, that's so two seasons ago. If I were him, I'd be pissed that I didn't get new clothes in four years. Actually, I do get pissed when I don't get new clothes. I haven't really bought any clothing yet even though I do need it, just a bra and flip flops, which I needed. Yes, I need flip flops. I live in Florida where people barely proper footwear and my parents buy 99 cent flip flops from Walmart and I have a dog that weighs nearly 70 lbs who has a bad habit of stepping on your feet. I'm typing here and my phone is being a pain by connecting and disconnecting from my computer while being plugged in with no harassment. You don't know how annoying that is. I have to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday next week but I'll try to get some doodles done, especially I bought new mechanical pencils and ultra fine Sharpies Monday at work (Publix has a small office/school supply section) when my mom asked me to get a small pack of toilet paper because they had to forgot to buy some. Don't be surprised if I announce a new episode of my sim series MFT because now I can edit them again and will probably start it back up, especially with the addition of Parenthood to my game. I haven't seen Ragnarok yet or Justice League and I haven't gotten around to the Daddy Hiddles comic I planned for the occasion partly because the tablet pen got further broken by my dad. He removed the broken nib just to end up breaking wires that I couldn't solder Tuesday. Yes, I attempt soldering. I also couldn't get the old flashdrive I used to use when I started this blog to work. Oh poop. Well, good night and have a great weekend. 

Inktober 2017 #7 and #8

      I finished Inktober and I did it without skipping a day and going back to it! I actually finished the second to last card this past weekend but I didn't want to post on Sunday the day after I finished and I didn't feel like getting on the computer on Monday after work (which was from 6:30 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon but I saw dogs and babies so it was worth it), plus my established weekday break is Tuesday and Thursday and last night I had to go out (not for Halloween) so wasn't going to be posting then. So I'm posting the last two index cards at once today, here ya go: 

I went with an MCU Marvel theme and I got to incorporate a lot of characters but there were still those that didn't get included. I started off the Marvel theme with Loki under the impression that he has flying privileges and a few other characters with piloting abilities arguing against it. Can you guess who they are? Then I drew Ant-Man trying to get Hope Pym's attention... this got captioned with "Shrinking to the size of an ant has its advantages... this is not one of them"... It was my first time drawing either of these characters and while I drew Hope from memory, I had to look him up for his mask. And then I drew Spiderman climbing a brick wall... wow, how creative. I still haven't seen Homecoming and I hear it's good so I'll eventually get around to it. I drew him so small that I think I should jump into the teeny weeny challenge started by Kasey the Golden on YouTube. This card was finished off with Steve Rogers aka Captain America doing what he does best: being dramatic and falling from heights. This could have easily been a deleted scene from Civil War considering I drew Bucky looking so done with Steve as he watches him go past the window in a salute and Falcon is in the background probably getting ready to catch Steve. It was hard executing this one because I knew I wanted Steve falling out of a tall building with Bucky catching sight of him falling but I couldn't draw it the way I first imagined it until eventually I got this, which I think is a great rendition of it. Oh, and I was watching Wonder Woman for the second time that week. Ah yes, I have finally seen the wonder that is the Wonder Woman movie. I don't think DC can top this, I don't know if they can. We'll see when Justice League rolls around. Ok, the next card was started this past Sunday and I thought I wanted to insert the women somewhere so I had them standing together with Captain Marvel who's movie will be coming soon and also they can be standing together against sexual harassment and abuse, because I believe Carol's 616 counterpart was raped. I could be wrong but that's what I read one time while perusing the internet. They didn't come out too good here but I can redo it later. And Monday was fun because I drew Hulk and Thor together with Thor still thinking he has any sort of control over the Hulk. He doesn't. I thought the movie was coming out next week but it's this Friday and I don't know if I'll be seeing it in theaters. I want to see it but doesn't mean I can't wait to see it, you know? I want to know what happens either way but no spoilers. I wasn't as affected by Steve Trevor's death as the rest of my family because I accidentally saw a spoiler about it on Tumblr. And last but not least, T'Challa not appreciating Tony Stark taking part of the Black Panther identity for a joke. I finally drew him but I don't like how the pen colored his face. I didn't want to touch his face, but I didn't want anyone accusing me of whitewashing him either. I will redraw this later because I think it could have been done better. So I completed another Inktober successfully, all while starting at my first job. I might come back on Friday with something but till then, toodles.  

Inktober 2017 #6

      Hello. It's Wednesday and I finished another Inktober card yesterday so here ya go:

Yay, dinosaurs! Haven't drawn those in a long time. First one was the angry Triceratops defending its baby. I drew that on Saturday and had to look up Triceratops because I wasn't getting the head shape right. Oh, Saturday was my first day of work, did I mention that in my last post? I don't remember. It's possible I was supposed to stay longer but I left after three hours, I don't know anymore. I understood I could go at 1 when I had only been there since 10 in the morning. And then one manager told me Monday at 3 but I was scheduled for 11/11:30 to 7:15... and I got a call from the other manager about having missed work... whoops. SUNDAY (let's get back on track) I drew what was supposed to be a raptor but could be like any dinosaur going down a well-traveled path and leaving behind footprints. Monday I drew the Corythosaurus munching on a fruit. By this time I found out I messed up with work and I was feeling uninspired, like the look on its face. And yesterday I drew what I wanted to be a Spinosaurus but it could also be interpreted as a Baryonyx (I only drew a head, a weirdly shaped one at that. I see why they're always portrayed with their mouth open) that has seen plenty of fights in his day, including the one that caused loss of sight in that eye. Was it another spino? A croc? A bee? 😂 I went to work just fine yesterday and I stayed as long as I was scheduled, which was from 4 to 10:15 pm. Yay, I did something right. Oh, I rescanned last inktober card with Frozen:

It bothered me how it had been skewed, turns out it was me. I finally saw Wonder Woman, just a couple hours ago actually. I'm currently hearing Sims 2 music but I just heard her theme song because it got stuck in my head but I LOVED it. Both the theme and the movie. The part I enjoyed most from BvS (did I mention I saw that last month finally?) was Wonder Woman. Lex Luthor needed a puffy white room. I have to get going, I've had a headache almost all day and I'm late with today's inktober doodle , so toodles. 

How about a sandwich shop run by aliens? (that actually sounds like a simming idea)

      Hello. I finish this latest card tomorrow, so why am I posting now? Oh, it's nothing...

Nothing at all... My dad upgraded the family computer from Vista to 7 a long time ago (I don't remember how long it's been but it was recent) and with his very quick attempt at backing up right before that, we lost Photoshop. We just recently got it back and today the photo tile on my phone decided to remind me that this was an unfinished project so I was like, yeah I can work on it quickly today... I had to delete the original PSD file because neither Photoshop nor FireAlpaca would open it. Oh, and I was under the impression that I had to go into work in the afternoon so I went out in the morning and turns out I was scheduled to go in in the morning... I felt so bad about it so music, editing Santino Fontana so it looks like he's saying either sandwiches or aliens, and playing the sims 4 to feel better. I go in tomorrow for work in the afternoon (I have been double checking because part of the reason for today was I didn't think to check the schedule, I was just going by word of mouth) so I won't post again on here till Wednesday or work on any more silly stuff like this. I don't know when I'll do more stuff besides inktober but my work schedule for the time being will be three days a week so I'll have plenty of time to draw doodles, especially when I get paid and use my paycheck for art stuff. Well, I should be posting more inktober on Wednesday and maybe I can work with the schedule they give me at work and not accidentally miss more days 😱

Inktober 2017 #5

      Hello. It's Friday and I finished another inktober index card so here we go: 

Ok, this kinda scanned weird and I might rescan it to fix that but later, I have to go in to work tomorrow for more training... It's Frozen, whoop whoop! This could have been my modern take on it but I didn't. That's fine. Well it was time to draw them and I did say that I wanted to include these characters into this year's inktober so here they are, starting with what was supposed to be a stately and graceful Elsa on day 17. Then I drew Anna and Kristoff and I came up with something of a ditty as a backstory: "Anna wanted to go on an adventure. Kristoff said she couldn't walk through a mud puddle. Anna insisted and when she fell in it, guess who went to help her?" Now to explain to her sister. It was fun drawing them all muddy with messy hair and I really should draw more Kristanna, they're cute. Hansanna was cute too, but Kristanna is genuinely cute not staged. And then of course I had to draw Olaf and Sven. They're having fun with Olaf's own personal flurry, which he gets for being Elsa's privileged "firstborn". For everyone waiting, I finally drew Hans... digging a hole? I hope that isn't someone's early grave. Hans got more likes than Olaf and Sven somehow... maybe it's because I put more personality into today's drawing than yesterday. I admit the Olaf one is generic. I don't like how Elsa came out when I penned her because I messed up her face shape. Tomorrow is the start of another card with another theme and I actually start training at the register... I would have done that today if I had the right pants and shoes, which I got at Walmart a couple hours ago, a pain and I would have preferred going elsewhere but my mom went there because it's closer. Ugh. Well, hope you have a good weekend, I'll be seeing you next week. 

Inktober 2017 #4

      Hello! It's Monday and I just finished another inktober index card so here you go:

The theme is animals and I started this card off with a cave full of bats. My mom wet the corner of the card, thankfully it happened after I lined it and posted it on Instagram and Tumblr. This happened on Friday the 13th but this had nothing to do with Halloween, because I like bats year round. I find them cute and they remind me of mice that fly by the power of jazz hands so yeah. Could have been done better but whatever, I like the concept. I am proud of the orcas I drew even though they're mostly submerged. I have liked orcas since Free Willy (I'm that old) and I should draw them more often. I just finished reading through a book on whales and dolphins so that was part of the inspiration behind it. And then there's the snow leopard that was almost a black panther until the day of because I had just drawn black animals the day before... and snow leopards I find get ignored for lions and wolves. Ugh (that's for you, DeviantArt). What makes them more interesting is that they are so hard to find in the wild so we don't know much about them. And today I drew a tanuki aka raccoon dog. Don't google these if you are under the age of sixteen because they possess some strange abilities in Japanese mythology. I only left them with one mythological quality here: a fat tanuki is a good tanuki. 

Here's Aidan feeling bored and lighting a tiny flame in the dark as the power went out. I googled Ireland this morning to see how they were doing with Ophelia (tropical storm) and there were three deaths. One involved a chainsaw. Um, why a chainsaw in a storm? I'm just questioning that logic. Well, I hope this isn't another Houston or Puerto Rico (as if the other Caribbean islands and Bangladesh don't exist but that's Americans for you... The British raised such brats). 

I posted on my Tumblr that I am leaving my Society6 and Redbubble alone til October 31st to collect some data: whatever doesn't have a purchase or at least a like/favorite will get removed after that to make room for hopefully more art that better suits popular demand. I'll be getting my first paycheck before the end of this month so I can hopefully get back to digital art in November. I say hopefully because every time I check, the replacement pen is out of stock. It better be in stock when I get my money. I'm also thinking of making some of my popular inktober drawings and making them available on my stores, to add some interest. I may in the future remove fanart when I draw and further develop my own characters, but that will get announced if it does happen. I'll be starting a new card tomorrow and I think I just figured out how I'm going to finish this month so watch out for a new post on Friday, if I'm not too busy. 

Inktober 2017 #3

      Hello. I return on a Friday with more Inktober:

The theme with this card was X-Men and Friends... and Enemies. I have not drawn them in a long time so this month was a good excuse to do that. I started it off with Siryn letting out a sonic screech at the sight of a rat. That is technically animal abuse because rats and mice have sensitive hearing. That sucks for the rat. I wanted to draw Banshee in there too being done with his daughter, but no, maybe nobody would have recognized him or gotten the point. Then I almost drew just Colossus on day 10 but I thought better and instead drew a sentinel that has caught the attention of Logan and Colossus as they were walking along. Big boy C says "oh Bolshevik" but Logan has a more colorful vernacular and went for a simpler phrase that I leave to your imagination. And I drew Quicksilver apparently out for a jog because high speed comes naturally to him. This was my first time drawing him full body and I had to google him for that. I for one like both cinematic versions of him and refuse to believe that he is no longer related to Magneto in the comics. That and Hydra Cap. Tsk tsk Marvel. And I finished off with diamond form Emma Frost in the middle of shattering. This was fun to draw as I've only drawn Emma once up to her chest and Elsa cosplaying as her, and the detail was all in the cracks forming allover her and not in her costume... because she's naked. Why bother dressing up when your whole body is a crystal that glosses over the natural details of your body? I don't remember what is it that kills her in this form but Emma had an unlucky day and ran into it. I started another card today and I should be posting it here on Monday. I have to figure out days 17-20 and 25-31, I want to include Frozen/Modern Frozen and the Avengers but I don't when... I couldn't help myself and I drew modern!Hans for a bonus today. I didn't expect Emma Frost, today's inktober and modern!Hans below to get about 9 or 10 likes, but they did. I also didn't expect them to finally pick up the tree branches that I put out on the curb after the hurricane, but they did. It's been my lucky day... except for the fact that I found out Origin's sale on Sims 4 expansion packs ends Tuesday and I probably won't have money by then. Guess I'll wait for Black Friday.

I got hired at Publix and I start orientation tomorrow. This will affect the amount of time I have for drawing but I'll finally have money for art supplies and hopefully get a replacement tablet pen soon... and Sims DLC that I want, like Cats & Dogs coming out next month and Get to Work and City Living, that I've wanted to get for the longest time. Hope you have a good weekend. 

Inktober 2017 #2

      Hello! It's Friday and last night I finished another Inktober index card so here it is: 

I had to think for this theme because it was almost Frozen but too many of the prompts remind me of Frozen (how dare I be so obsessed) so I didn't want to torture you and myself and leave out some of the themes I came up with for this year so after a good long time thinking (interrupted by life, of course), the theme for this card happens to be my manga OCs. Yay, OC love. Oh, they're not manga you say? So last year's inktober was done completely in my cartoon style and throwing in chibis into the mix early on in the month was going to be weird, so as much as I almost drew chibis and thought of it, I asked my sister if I should draw them in manga or cartoon and she said cartoon. Made plenty of sense so cartoon versions of my characters it is. After deciding on theme and style, a couple of these prompts became easier to plan out. The first drawing has a story to it: my Super Teens (Tamiko, Aidan, Ariana, and Wilhelm) went on a trip and the first three lost their luggage, you know, the timeless tale of your luggage not coming back to you on that airport conveyor belt. That has never happened to me because I've only ever traveled on land by bus or car and ferry, it's expensive for a family of five constantly paying something to fly. Anyway, Wilhelm is just a big sweetheart and lent out his clothes to his friends so they could sleep dressed (and probably buy some stuff for them in the morning)... no one fills out his clothes the way that Wilhelm does, though. That made me think of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Second was easy: baby Midori with Mike at an exhibit looking at a katana, as they live in Japan and Midori grows up to have swordsmanship as a hobby. Third one was a hard one because it occurred to me that I don't really have shy OCs (which is weird because I'm a shy introvert with possible social anxiety, but I remembered that Mike became shy as a child because he'd get picked on so he developed something of an inferiority complex... so he's blushing really hard as he talks his crush, who looks familiar. Fourth one took me a long time because I took a nap in the afternoon yesterday, I had to finally figure out Asian man eyes for cartoon Ryo, and what was I going to draw in that crooked painting? Obviously I figured that out and it is a crack painting that I said on Instagram and Tumblr if anyone could tell what the subject was, I would give them a larger copy of it... Eventually. I do want to draw a larger version of it but it would probably be best if I made it a digital painting to ensure quality and make it the way I think suits it best. Does anyone reading here dare to take a guess? 

I started another inktober card today so that should get posted Friday and I should have news about if I get hired. Ttfn. 

Inktober 2017 #1

     Hello. You've probably been waiting for some doodles since last week. Well, I joined Inktober again this year (I'm not sure if I should capitalize it or not, so expect that I to constantly change size) and today I finished my first index card! 

Some of the themes have changed and this card's theme is Disney music. I was originally going to have regular music as a theme but it turned Disney because the very first prompt was swift and using Taylor Swift would have been too obvious 😅. At least I'm not making this a month of Frozen/Modern Frozen because you would probably get tired of that fast (I think it's cool how other artists can have this whole theme for the entire month but I don't know if I could keep my sanity doing that, much less yours). So I'm going off of this prompt this year like I did last year but the prompts usually change yearly and different artists follow different prompts or make their own, or you could be totally not mainstream and not go by a prompt, personal preference. 

Let me explain the drawings before this becomes a completely different topic: Mulan opened my inktober by considering becoming as swift as the coursing river (be a man). Usually people don't worry about a background during inktober which is fine by me but I'm making these backgrounds this year and even I'm wondering why because Instagram's square cropping thing isn't kind to my rectangular piece of paper that ends up getting detailed and you know I don't normally do backgrounds. To show it's a river, I added fish, not blobs like my sister thought initially. To show Mulan is still in the army getting trained, a mass of other soldiers plus two guys that get to stand out and actually be characters. I might name them Bob and Steve. I drew Mulan with the cartoon eyes I use to imply exotic and/or femininity minus the eyelashes because Disney Mulan's face is drawn more feminine when she is herself but becomes more masculine looking when she is Ping. I did imply a more feminine body shape, though. I still haven't drawn an Asian man in my cartoon style to see what eye style would work so Bob and Steve got slit eyes. Maybe there's a lot of dust getting in their eyes. As much as I don't care much for her movie, I drew Moana for day 2 being divided between her expected role in life and what she wants to do. Naturally, I had to draw the ocean (her namesake. Her dad wasn't thinking that through, was he?) and a coconut tree (consider the coconut... NO. I don't like coconut 😠 I just like the song and call it the coconut conspiracy) but we've also got sand as implied by her footprints and the very faint dots, and she is carrying the chieftain's headdress, all the while looking at the sea and thinking "what's wrong with me?" I've asked that question too, but let's not get into that right now. Day 3 is a princess loved by many (I'd say all but I cannot speak for everyone) and I like this princess too. I don't obsess over her like I do over Hans or like how other people do but I like her and I am glad that she got her own TV series, like I don't see much room for a sequel but you can stuff so many adventures into a TV show. I think they gave her a redesign, though, to make her look more like Anna and Elsa, which I don't like because they are separate stories and I did not see same face syndrome in those three in particular, and she grew her hair back? That's only because everyone loves the long hair aesthetic. What about Rapunzel having adventures with short hair? What about Flynn telling the story of how he became a dad? Never mind, I'll do it myself. Anyway, here Rapunzel is falling into poison ivy all the while (I like that, don't I?) thinking she should have listened to her "mother". Poor Punzie. Day 4 is something of an abomination as Sebastian looks like a thumb with a face sticking out of a crab shell. Point is, he's supposed to be convincing Ariel that life is better underwater but instead he convinced a group of humans that made it their dream to be a mermaid. I'll admit I spent a portion of my childhood pretending to be a mermaid and being fascinated with them until my teens, but I got over it for the most part. I will tell you that I may or may not have created a type of creature based off of them but I'm just going to leave it at that for now. 

I didn't know earlier what I was going to draw tomorrow but now I have an idea so you should be seeing that next week. I don't promise any other doodles because yesterday I had my first ever interview and today I had a drug test. I don't take drugs so I will be very surprised if I don't pass with flying colors. It's for Publix so let's see how this goes. It will mean less doodling time (aw shucks) but I will have money for producing future doodles, digital and traditional, so that's a good thing. I sent a direct message to Wacom through Instagram over the weekend asking if they refurbished their pens because I personally think it would be a waste to throw out the old one but I got no response. I need to back up my phone better because I was backing up to a 16 GB flash drive but my phone can hold about 30 GB and most of the usb is videos now... and I'm not finished! Well, I scanned this card because I've been going crazy backing up my Instagram pictures to declutter my phone of them... and I deleted the cropped versions of these drawings. Oops. I brought up contrast by a lot when I scanned this, so you can see it pretty clearly at the size I'm portraying it but it made it look pixel-ly. *Sigh* I'll lower it for next scan. Well, if I come back with a doodle on Friday, yay. If I don't, see you next week. 

Hella Helsa Humpday + funny story

      Hello. For the first time in forever, I am starting a blog post here from my computer. I plugged in my phone because that's where the picture for my most recent drawing is and it has come to my attention that I really need to backup my phone because I'm running out of space on it. 😩😠😒 Well, Friday while on Tumblr, I saw someone reblogged a drawing of mine (a modern!Hans one) and i was checking out their blog because I do that, and I came across this:

I cropped it down so I could use that picture as a drawing reference for this: 

I started drawing it Friday and left finishing it for Monday morning. Well, I woke up late on Monday but I still worked on it, and maybe you can't tell but his foot gave me a heck of a hard time, and I post it on Instagram and Tumblr. The Tumblr user in the image above thanked me for the drawing and um, later on this happened on Instagram: 

I don't know if you have to select the picture to see it bigger but if you're familiar with the Frozen on Broadway project that was announced over two years ago and have been keeping up with it (it will start showing on Broadway next February), then you know that those are the Instagrams of Broadway Hans (John Riddle. I don't know why I want to change it to Riddles) and Broadway Elsa (Caissie Levy. I don't know how to pronounce her name 😞). I didn't expect them to notice right away. In fact, I didn't think they'd notice. So I didn't expect this and it's like so awkward because 1. it's not like I'm really excited for the Broadway take on Frozen, it's interesting and I probably find it more interesting after finding out that Hans gets his own recurring song and he sings something of a duet with Elsa, 2. I'm not following them on Instagram. The only celebrity I'm following right now is Tom Hiddleston and he's been pretty quiet as I listen to Taylor Swift repeatedly (I did spend pretty much a year not listening to her music after they broke up and when I start listening to her again, BAM! Awesome new single) so the fact that they noticed someone who hasn't decided if they like them enough to follow them is wow. I didn't technically draw THEM, just the characters they're playing in the pose they struck up in an Instagram picture... Can't you tell I'm not used to this? Monday night I thought of posting the picture here but I didn't feel like it, I had plans of waking up early yesterday (that didn't happen) and I have more or less been following a schedule of leaving the internet and social media alone on Tuesdays and Thursdays to keep my sanity and give myself small breaks so I don't feel pressured, but posting it now means I have a story so procrastinating worked out pretty well. 

I have plans on being busy during October. I am planning on joining Inktober this year with my index cards and ballpoint pen because the one that hasn't changed in a year is I'm broke, but I like the challenge. I'm stuck on some of my themes because I wrote down a few that I'd like to implement but I only when I'm going to implement two of them. I'm the idiot that decided I wanted to throw in both Frozen and my OCs in the same art challenge, ugh. I have an event this coming Sunday so I'll likely do the Inktober for that day at night. It is hard to be an artist when you're broke to a degree, but I started doing this for fun so as much as it's frustrating that I'm limited in what I can do artistically, I'm not stressing it too much right now because it's not my dreams to be a professional and work at Disney are getting crushed. I'd like to be able to make a living off of my art, but I already decided that working at Disney is probably not for me. I think I'll doodle something this Thursday just to get some more doodles done before the month ends and I become very busy. Bye for now.

Fantastically Diverse Friday

      Hello. It is friday, and the first day of fall... And I've got fresh doodles for you, isn't it a great day?



So... I drew a boy (who's parents I've drawn here before. He's a fan character) and his eventual wife. I doodled the two of them Tuesday night partly because I thought of having this character end up with a chunky girl considering I tend to keep my female characters slim and if I say anything about the men, that would be an incriminating spoiler so I won't. They received quite a bit of love from Instagram (I'm not very popular anywhere so 10 likes is love) but not from Tumblr. Is it because they're a straight couple and I started it off with Dis TRUE LOVE ❤? On Wednesday I doodled Rictor because Mexico experienced a deadly earthquake on Tuesday and on that day specifically, I was going 'Richter, what'd you do?' (cue Look What You Made Me Do) but he would have felt horrible about it so there he is saying ¡AY MI MADRE! in anguish. Ah, I remembered a word I barely use at the right time 😃 Underneath anxious little Julio Richter is Aidan's mom as a teen getting pissed that she couldn't swim in the community pool because it's no longer summer 😒 I actually don't technically have this problem seeing as how I live in Florida and it's pretty much eternal summer (Elsa is so appealing from here) but I also don't have a pool and most people we know that have access to one don't invite us so yeah, whatever. I only have one bathing suit anyway and don't feel very comfortable in anything revealing, especially with my thigh area (stomach can be easily covered, thighs are another problem), so I mind mostly when it's really hot and good pool weather. I didn't draw the fence there straight so I have this joke that some hooligans messed it up. Ok then, I hope you guys have a good weekend, including Mexico and Puerto Rico since they've been having it bad lately. No good weekend for people playing with explosives, though, no good 😣

Manic Monday (I've used this as a title before but i can't think of anything else right now)

      Hello. I was hoping to doodle something for last Friday but I didn't. I heard there was an update in the Sims 4 that added CAS items and things in build and buy mode so I played that for a little. Not as any of my Sims though, because I started a whole new save folder where I do rotational play as the townies so I was trying to get the Calientes in relationships. Nina was on a date with a guy who didn't want her flirting with him even though he invited her. I've been doodling since yesterday so let's go:

So the top one is that I wanted to design a curvy Brazilian girl who may someday ride her giant wolf thing into the Amazon. She'd be residing in the same universe as those aliens I started introducing in like 2015. You can check out my blog in that timeframe. Yeah, her wolf thing is actually alien in origin and can shapeshift/sizeshift to look like a tiny little Pomeranian. Probably would make more sense if it could become a husky but I wanted something tiny. The second drawing is from last night and today, Anna Farris and Allison Janney from last night's Emmys. Their little skit last night reminded me of certain characters and I actually had planned two versions of this but I'll leave that for when I go back to digital, which will hopefully be sometime soon, you know, before the end of the year. And third drawing is also from today because I lost power again. Yay. I had my computer on, I googled reference for the Emmys drawing (which is missing hands), I planned on finally editing some more speedpaint videos for YouTube, but nope. Waiting for the power to come back (we're making due with our generator again) was boring so I doodled a fan character that was only drawn twice in that Disney wannabe style and it sucked. She needs some love because I have been drawing her parents lately (I think you can guess who). I'll give you a guess anyway: She looks a lot like her dad but there's some influence from her mom too. Let's see what doodles I'll come up with later and if I can load my videos to YouTube. I have two parts of a speedpaint there already, plus three episodes from when I was making Sims videos. My channel name is not michdoodles, because it was before I came up with the moniker and started using it everywhere and blogging my doodles/art, it's actually michisayskonichiwa. I think I'll change the name to better match my other online presences. I'm also thinking I could reedit the videos I have there, although windows movie maker stopped working with my Sims videos after a crash. Yes, I use windows movie maker to edit my videos. I'm broke, I can't afford any other editing software. My sister has discovered and has been watching these artist youtubers and I want to try my hand at more traditional art, which would require getting a sketchbook, pencils, erasers, other art supplies... Last year, I applied for work at Publix. This year, I applied for Target and a week before the worry of preparing for Irma, I also applied for Walmart because a friend heard there were openings at her job. Target said no, I haven't heard from WalMart and it may be because of Irma. I've thought of starting traditional commissions or a patreon but I don't want to say I'm doing it and then nothing. If I were to open a patreon, I would have a $10 goal for a new sketchbook and pencils, a $30 goal for a new tablet pen, and a $100 goal to get a portable external hard drive to store my digital art and possibly start my comic ideas. I don't know if I'll do that but I have thought that out. Traditional commissions would be harder because that requires physical paper, me drawing as good as I can leaving barely any eraser marks and that would take a while. I don't know right now, I just wanna stop being broke and get back to digital and progress in my art, you know? Eh, just wait and see later this week.

Wonderful Wednesday (wow)

      I HAVE POWER AND INTERNET AGAIN!!! The poor people that restored it, though... There was some drama up the block with some stupid neighbors. Anyway, I have a couple more doodles today (boredom) so let's go!

The formatting will be fixed eventually when I get on my computer but, ay, they're both Hans related. Well, the top one is I thought a little more on that whole OC-Frozen crossover (I drew Aidan replacing Elsa a month or two ago) yesterday so I doodled a tiny, wonky Tamiko replacing Hans. You may be thinking it's completely genderbent... I'm keeping that to myself for now. And I had to draw modern!Hans and I thought I'd draw him eating some wienerbrød (I love how easy my phone makes it to type that 💖) and thinking of a sale. Redbubble will have a sale tomorrow and Society6 might have another sale this Sunday like they did when I had a hurricane knocking over trees and my electricity, but hey, I like a good sale. It'd be better if I had money, but I like deals. If you're interested, I'm michdoodles on both sites. I don't remember if I mentioned it here yesterday, but I'm considering doing either traditional commissions or opening a Patreon (or both), but I do have my qualms about it. In the case of Patreon, it's as simple as another account and password to keep track of and if it will even receive traffic. In the case of traditional commissions, it's the supplies and shipping that worries me. Oh, I don't like how his face turned out but whatever. Let's see if I come back Friday with more doodles 😊

Hurricane Irma knocked down a tree and my internet but I'm a-ok

      Posting from my phone, don't mind the wonky format. Good news and bad news: The good news is I'm alive and there wasn't much damage. The bad news is that my power went out and the backup battery for our wifi doesn't work, which is absolutely wonderful for someone who normally spends a lot of time on the internet for entertainment purposes. I don't like the boredom but I can keep my mind busy anyway. It's my sister who ruins everything with her complaining. Well, I've got doodles from before and after the storm so here goes:

These are the doodles I managed to produce last week right before the storm. I spent most of last week prepping for the storm and not much of it on my computer or the internet. But my mom had us watching the news and Irma's path (this has been the year of my mom watching tv and trying to get everybody else to do it with her. I'm tired of tv. I accidentally watch it if I'm sitting in the living room, probably eating dinner) and the Caribbean was horribly battered by her wrath, including the island that Alexander Hamilton called home before he came to the states ("colonies") and became a founding father, so there's a cartoon rendition of a young Alexander Hamilton during that great hurricane of 1772. And Irma was the size of France (10 Delawares according to Stephen Colbert, Texas according to my local news), so I thought of Lafayette.

And right after the storm passed, I drew a little doodle to show I was ok. I decided to doodle a tree that fell in my front yard onto my fence. Before we lost power, our security cameras were still working and I saw that the tree had fallen. We opened our front door to take a better look and that turned into our tv when the power went. I don't recommend it but our front door faces north and the wind was blowing from the southeast. We also had a couple of shutters on the front door, not that that would have helped if the wind decided to change direction and throw something at us. We were scared of our palm tree going down but I saw evidence yesterday of our mango tree nearly going. That survived thankfully. That tree that fell was only ours because it grew in our property but not because we actually planted it there, and my mom wanted it cut down. It did mess up our fence but my dad fixed it yesterday. And an incident with our generator meant no power at all in the house today while my dad was at work so I doodled Tamiko with a slight redesign because there was nothing better to do. Posting on Instagram and Tumblr was frustrating. I could finally get it to post on instagram once I climbed a tree in our front yard. I had to wait over an hour for my dad to come back because Tumblr wasn't cooperating. Well, hopefully I will get power back soon and I'll have more doodles by Friday. I spent some time scouring the radio for music and my god, music sucks lately. The best music I've heard this year so far is Sia, Adele, Chained to the Rhythm, Shape of You, and Look What You Made Me Do. Out of the new stuff, that's all I care for. Ok, well, ttfn.