We've had a lifetime of bonding moments!

      Hello! Gonna post something I did a while back, here you go:

Inspiration struck me to do one of those "we look like a couple" memes with these characters I made to inhabit my fem!Lance AU in the future. I may have posted the girl before but I don't remember so meet Vanessa Kogane, Keith's daughter (obviously), and Narteer, Acxa's adopted son. They've known each other since infancy and are about the same age so they're really good friends. However, Narteer has developed a crush on Vanessa. She's a little unaware or most likely in denial so yeah, moments like this happen. The other urls belong to their friends who are also related to members of Voltron/the Voltron Coalition. I spent a lot of time working on the format of this fake Instagram post (let's pretend Instagram exists in their universe and is still around by their time) because the template I had was from 2015 and I wasn't too keen on the current ones so I fussed over getting the font and color of the tags as close to the real deal. It was a lot of work especially since FireAlpaca's text tool pales in comparison to the one in Photoshop but the difference is FireAlpaca is free and has a default brush that looks very nice so that's the program I stick to. 

I haven't been doing much digital doodling this past week because I've been more concerned with binging some anime I left hanging on Hulu that are supposed to expire next Wednesday. I caught up with what Hulu has of two of them (they both have twelve episodes supposedly) and am currently close to finishing season one of the last one left which happens to be derived from a manga I haven't read in years so I am loving it. Hopefully I'll get back to my doodles that I started once I finish with this. Till then, toodles.

Don't try this at home, it's bad for your liver

      Hello, guess who finally did their spring chibi for this year?

Me! I planned on getting this done in April but this spring has been complicated between quarantining from a pandemic, messing up my own equipment and then having to wait to get the replacement, and my own motivation swinging around wildly. During the time I couldn't do any digital drawings, I was taking advantage of Hulu and Netflix and just binge watching because I figured I had nothing better to do anyway with it not being safe to go out too much and putting my job search on pause. I'll put a list of what I've been watching down below but anyway, I think I started this doodle in late May but since I now record speedpaints from these chibi drawings I do, I didn't have much motivation to draw while "being watched" and risk my laptop messing up something in the process so I worked on other personal projects until this week that I decided I had to finish this before summer officially started (I live in Florida so it basically already is summer but I'm going by the calendar here). So here we have some more villains enjoying the spotlight of my seasonal chibi series in the form of Ramahari (redhead on the right) and Kanteor (on the left). Their names are made up from syllables I mashed together because they're aliens but they might coincide with real names. I found out last year that the name Janah does in fact exist so it's possible my other alien names exist too. So this is the most adult thing I have drawn in quite a while plus I'm posting this so um children, don't drink straight out of the sake bottle. In the timeline I have set up for these guys, this didn't happen in 2020 but they would totally go celebrate Hanami in the middle of a pandemic with no face mask in sight and laugh at everybody actually following the rules. They don't give a damn about anybody else. I forgot a detail that would help distinguish the bottom of Ramahari's foot and possibly made the kimono she's wearing too busy but whatever. 

Wanna know what I've been watching during this pandemic? Since March, I have binge-watched/finished: classic Powerpuff Girls, My Hero Academia, She-ra and the Princesses of Power, Avatar: The Last Airbender, currently finishing up season two of Haikyu!! I've also watched a few episodes of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Gilmore Girls, and rewatched random episodes of Voltron: Legendary Defender. As I keep joining fandoms, I wonder what the heck I was doing in 2016 when some of these shows were popular/getting started. I was likely just being obsessed with Disney and Tom Hiddleston to think of getting back into anime. Considering the Voltron fandom has been known to be toxic at times over a ship, probably a good thing I didn't join in 2016, especially since my dad cancelled his subscription in 2017 so I would have been getting spoilers (I already was back then but I wasn't in the fandom so I didn't care) and then I didn't have Hulu until 2018 so yeah.

Till next doodle (or sketch dump), toodles! 

WE'RE GONNA WIN IN THE END!

      Hello. Time to post doodles that it seems I have never posted on here before:

I realized in the middle of this that it would have been better to just make this two posts but too late. So She-ra ended last month and it had a great ending, Voltron wishes they had Noelle among its writers but it's too late. I am so glad I started this show just a couple hours after finishing my Voltron binge because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to enjoy the feeling of a show actually having a good ending along with the rest of the fandom. I always found Catra's design to be visually intriguing but I gotta say, season five Catra is my favorite Catra. I never hated her, I just would have never admitted to her being a favorite. She was an impressively well-written character before but once she got that redemption arc and haircut, I was sold. So much happened in this last season and I am so glad I got to see it. My favorites among the princesses and their allies are (in no specific order): Scorpia, Mermista, Sea Hawk, Bow. Yeah, it's a short list but my list of characters I don't like is even shorter: Horde Prime. You may notice that Shadow Weaver is not there with him. Well, let's just say that I appreciate her being a complex character that realized in the end that she had to pay for her actions and chose to sacrifice herself because she was part of the problem.

I still haven't finished my spring chibi and summer is fast approaching so I should get working on that BUT I feel like getting back into simming and I don't know why. Anyway, till next doodle or sketchdump, toodles. 

Summer Chibi Yuri

      Hello. This video has been sitting in my drafts for a long time so I'm posting it now.

I started editing this video in March but got hit by a bout of lack of motivation and couldn't figure out what to do for the music so I just stopped. It wasn't until last month when I finally got my replacement pen that I had the motivation to revisit this and finished it. So here is the speedpaint for that and I gotta work on editing five more speedpaints from this little series and finish the spring doodle that got delayed. Ack. Lately I feel more motivated to draw some OCs if they were in the Avatar universe so let's see. I also have a few doodles I haven't posted here but one thing at a time. Till next post/doodle, toodles.

They matter and they demand Justice and Respect

      Hello. I have a draft waiting to be posted and I keep forgetting but I made new art so I'll be posting in order of importance. 

I couldn't decide what to put on their shirts so they're just black but anyway, I've been working on this for the past week instead of my delayed spring doodle. The fact that these are currently my only black/black biracial characters but they are also the first among their peers (storyline) to receive a first name so hey, I gave them an identity besides "the black girl". Well, I can't stand to see injustice so the fact that there is a disproportionate amount of black deaths at the hands of cops plus the beating up of people at protests for these injustices but whites are allowed to shoot up black churches and get arrested peacefully or protest quarantine over *ugh* haircuts and TGIFridays... that ain't right. It already made no sense to me that anybody would fight a method to keep themselves, their families, and their communities healthy and safe for stuff you can do at home (you have scissors? You can cut your hair. You can google copycat recipes for a lot of fast food and chain restaurants, just learn how to cook damn it) but that they did it ARMED and the cops just? let them? But people peacefully protest against cops killing over race and they get beat up and tear gassed? Innocent people get shot up just for existing? Excuse me? 

Well, like I keep saying, I have stuff I have to post here so keep a lookout for that and I have projects I want to draw too so let's hope that this will be a productive summer because as much as counties and states and countries are opening up again, my county has a lot of cases so we're still in phase one... which is great because my area is popular for tourists and we don't need idiots spreading the plague to those of us stuck living here year round. Till next doodle, toodles. Just remember to respect black people, they helped build the damn Americas but don't get credit.