Springing into Summer (plus some dinos)

      Hello. So I'm back with some cute looking doodles that I wanna share with you:

I came up with the concept for this one two years ago (you can see the original in this post) and since I've been redrawing my seasonal chibis, I redrew this one too. Besides the style obviously changing, I decided to change the boy's outfit to a jinbei. I thought the weird kimono with pants thing was weird so I decided to look up male kimonos and I discovered the jinbei, which are basically pajamas but they are becoming increasingly popular to wear to summer events so, as much as this is supposed to be picturing Hanami/spring, it's getting hot where I live so summer crept into this version a little bit. I made sure to leave his sleeves and pants longer so that it didn't look too much like summer. I also thought of adding a pattern to his clothes and I thought "dinosaurs" so I made a couple of these silhouetted cartoon dinosaurs but only managed to get the sauropod in there:

They're both green because that was the accent color in his outfit but I might do more colors/dinos to add some diversity later. I'll probably draw some more Spider-verse stuff or maybe New Girl related stuff soon (I have a couple of Spider-verse drafts already) but I don't know how soon I'll finish anything so till next doodle, toodles.

Is Your Beach Body Ready?

      Hello. Are you ready to be amazed? Well, are you? I don't think you are but I'm gonna post it anyway because I have to post it, I barely did any art for April. Prepare to be amazed:

Yeah, I made two versions because I got tired once I did my traditional black lineart but the plan was always to do a version with recolored lineart so I eventually spent more time on it. I say eventually because I got into New Girl. I recommend it to my fellow adults who barely feel like adults. Anyway, it has come to my attention that I have improved in my abilities, that includes capturing anatomy correctly, so I had to redraw this masterpiece from four years ago (yes, it has been that long... I hate time). Now he doesn't have pointy pecs anymore and he actually looks he's sitting/reclining in that lousily designed lounge chair. Maybe in another four years I'll redraw a better, more accurate wooden lounge chair. It was nice revisiting a fun drawing concept and improving upon it. I just suck at staying focused on a drawing when it requires lots of attention to detail. I love details, don't get me wrong, but I'm almost considering making my (hopefully) future comics in chibi form to avoid growing tired of every panel. Also, I'd have to draw backgrounds 😬😭 We'll see how that works out. Maybe I can draw the backgrounds as separate images and just copy them whenever I need them. I'll deal with that dilemma later. Expect to see either a cartoon or chibi drawing next because I need a break from the detail-driven art style that is manga. Till next doodle, toodles.

May the Fourth be with you... At the beach

      Hello. So I had hoped to finish some more stuff in April but I also warned that I had a busy month ahead of me so not like I didn't say anything. I'm not totally done with what I'm working on but I have something for today so let's get crackin'. 

I have less than a half hour left of Star Wars day and I spent it grabbing a Spider-Man comic on free comic book day (my local comic book store ran out of the free Star Wars comic when I showed up), wearing a Jurassic Park t-shirt at the beach, and doodling the women that drive the story throughout the saga interacting with water. It's just been nerd day for me. May the force be with you tonight .