Common Ground

      Hello. It has been a week since I posted on here, but I do have a doodle that I did today so here goes:

Look at that. They found something in common... either that or is the prequel to my Hans doodle from last May. I have had this idea for the longest but now it's winter (for pretty much everyone else in the northern hemisphere) so it was a good time to draw it. This was my first time drawing Marshmallow and, looking back at the doodle I mentioned earlier, I saw some mistakes so i may go back and fix them. I know that Hans would actually be smaller next to Marshmallow but my cartoons have the head-to-body ratio of a stylized chibi and Hans already looks pretty tiny next to him so imagine if I had kept the proportions correct 😆. I still have other ideas that I want to draw and I have less than a week left in this year. 😨 I hate how fast time flies. I might come back on Friday with something but I've been spending a lot of time fawning over Hans here, playing my Sims (one of them is Hans) and my dad lately has decided to complain about how much we spend on the computer and he always now asks do you even have a life? No, obviously, and you don't have much of one either. But if I say that, he's gonna go off on how he works so hard and I don't to hear his stupid humble bragging any longer. Why did Hans nearly kill a queen? Because he didn't get much attention and was going to get him some one way or another. I'm on the computer all the time because I'm stuck here so I may as well entertain myself with something. Ok, that was a bit of a rant there but I may or may not come back with a doodle on Friday because of impending circumstance. 

Terribly Awesome Tuesday

      Finally, after a month of work and frustration, I am proud to present this masterpiece right here: 

That's right. I drew both Hans and Loki. In my semi-realistic stylization. I hit so many bumps along the way (and there's some stuff here that is actually not finished) but here it is. My favorite bad guys. Loki's eyebrows and shading gave me hell, but he doesn't look half-bad. 

So, there's a bit of a story to this. I have been wanting for maybe a year to draw these two like this but obviously i didn't get around to it until now. And months ago, I started to suspect that I may have depression (I was doing research for a character and some of the symptoms rang true for me). So, after feeling absolutely horrible about the "victor" of the U.S. elections and having a brief moment of wanting to kill myself because of it, I realized that I am. Depressed, that is. And these two right here are the characters I obsess over more, not just because they're good looking or delightfully devious, but because they both acted out for the simple fact that they felt that absolutely nobody cared about them. I have felt plenty of times that nobody cares about me so, as much as I do love the heroes in both stories, I can relate better to these two younger princes who grew up in somebody else's shadow. That makes this drawing very important and close to me so the constant bumps in the road most definitely affected me more than they should have but I am a very emotional creature and for about a couple of years my emotions are pretty much out of my control so I can't really help it. 

This is a really big drawing compared to the usual small doodles I do but there was no way this could be small, not with two characters who demand attention (whether they get it or not is a different story). This was a huge challenge to me and my sanity (whatever is left of it) but I am glad to finally say you know what i'm finished. Now I can hopefully move on to some other doodle ideas and this has been a warning to expect more Hans/Frozen related drawings again as I slipped back into that fandom. I was never fully out of it, I just wasn't as into it as some other fandoms that got obsessed with this year. It was a tiny bit freaky realizing the similarities between these two and besides that, both their actors have naturally curly hair 😄😍😚 Well, see you next time I come up with a doodle. 

Happy Humpday

      So I'm back! I have not finished that big personal project because I decided I want to do another one before this month ends tonight. Ok, so here it is: 

Yay! It's these guys again! Since this year I felt the need to revive them, I may as well do more stuff with them. I worked on this all day long today and my hand actually started hurting when I got to the shading so this isn't perfect but it is satisfying to get this done before December. My God, December!!! This year has been crazy and it's almost finished. Time flies too fast. Why did I want to do this before December you ask? Because let's just say November is a significant month for them. So is December but for a different reason and I plan on providing a doodle for that later. So, Friday will probably be when I finish the other drawing I've been teasing you with so look out for that. For now, I'm going to unwind and play these guys as Sims for a bit.

Mystery Doodle Monday

      Hello. So I posted on here last week a whole rant on how I was working hard on a personal drawing which was quite a project for a week and I ended up losing all my progress. Well, I've been working on it all last week, even drawing on Saturday which I haven't done in a while and I am proud to say that I have made a lot of progress on this redo. In fact, I'm farther along with it so here's a couple of sneak peeks:

The one on top is the teaser picture from Instagram which was also posted on Tumblr but here it is today and the bottom is definitely from just a few moments ago. All that's left to do is finish the lineart, color it in and I'll probably throw in shading to make it as professional as possible but that could always be done later. I have a couple other ideas at the moment and I want to get those done too, with one pertaining to my actual characters. I got the Sims 4 last Thursday because I was upset (partly over my not selling anything) and my mom didn't like it that I was upset and next thing I know, I come out of my room for a moment and she got my dad to buy the game for me for the Black Friday price of $10. So I've been playing my sims quite regularly since then, not to my mom's liking, but I'm currently having an issue with not being able to open the gallery now which is annoying. I'm going to try again when I absolutely know that nobody else in my house is on the internet because with four people in the house, it's annoying to find everybody is on and there is a device in our household that is a wifi hog so that could be a factor. That's not counting when my dad's home. Well, I hope to be finished with at least this tomorrow so be on the lookout for that. 

Monday's got me like sandwiches or aliens? (bonus rant included)

      Hello. I know I did not post all last week but I was busy working on something. Something big. Something that, after I had put so much hard work into and ran into a bump in the road earlier on, ended up ruined. And I have nothing to show for it except this: 

Yeah. The only thing I was left with was a corrupted psd file and a goof. So I was working on this personal project to help deal with my depression and when I was getting closer to having a masterpiece, my sister jiggled my flashdrive out of place with her butt and after I jiggled it back in, I decided to save my progress and call it a day and my computer decides "lol no, I'm going to crash." I was so upset that I wanted to hide in my bed, cover my head and stop existing. I tried a program that is supposed to recover that sort of data; I had to purchase the full program in order to get rid of some residual "noise" (money that I do not have so no, I didn't buy it). End result?: the same empty layers from before. A website where you loaded your file and it was supposed to fix it for you there; wouldn't finish loading my file. End result?: nothing, nada, zip. Downloaded a hex editor and tried to follow some instructions I came across; I didn't understand those instructions very well and I'm not a coder. End result?: I can't open what I was left with. So I'm going to have to start all over again if I really want that drawing. I want to get started on that tonight, but I also want to move my computer into my room because ever since I got it, it's base of operations has been in my sisters' room. That was fine before when I was sleeping there but I got my room back last year after my mom and I cleared it out of some of the stuff that was in there, so naturally it now bothers me to go into my sister's room to be on my computer sometimes. Especially since one of my sisters happens to be a huge Disney fanatic and feels the need to watch Disney movies that we've already seen really loudly behind you and treat it like she's watching Dora because she feels the need to talk back to it and narrate and sing along. And she happens to have a window AC in her room and turns it on starting in the afternoon. I get cold when she does that. I get so cold that I wear a jacket. And I find I have a little bit of a harder time drawing with said jacket on. Then there's my other sister who can be distracting when she's awake, what with her constantly being on her phone and who has the bad habit of perching close to my computer. This wasn't the first time that she budged my flashdrive so that my computer stopped reading it until I budged it back. This was the first time it actually affected my computer and what I was doing. So, even though I barely have furniture and lack a desk, I concocted a plan to move my computer to my room to avoid my sisters' annoyances. I'll likely still have the second one come seeking my companionship and annoy me, but where I plan on placing my computer doesn't give her room to accidentally budge my flashdrive ever again. I hope. 

Well, before I restarted my entire project, I wanted to finally work on a joke I had thought of a long time ago (maybe last year or even the year before that, but probably last year). Only thing is, I came up with a variant for it: 

The joke was originally a play on the ALIENS meme because this picture of Santino Fontana looks like he was miming it, but over the weekend I ended up seeing this picture again and you know what? It also looks like he was picturing a nice big sandwich. And when you've played a character who was engaged to a sandwich loving princess, guess what happens? Bored fans come and decide to insert the word SANDWICHES in between your hands. I'm actually leaning more towards the sandwich one mostly because it fits better between his hands. I've taken to Instagram and Tumblr for opinions on this. So far it's ALIENS: 1 and SANDWICHES: 1. That was on Instagram because last I checked Tumblr, I had only one note and it was my sister. If you want to cast a vote go ahead. You can do it either through Tumblr (I'm michdoodles there) or through Instagram (michdoodlesart) or even leave a comment here. And if you want, you could check out my Redbubble shop, also michdoodles. If you happen to purchase anything from there, that will make me quite happy because then I could start saving up for a few things that I want, including a desk of my own😊. And if you don't, that's fine. I've lived this long without anybody buying anything from me. Hope to be back soon. 

Dumpday (sorry for the title)

      Hello. Somehow the vulture wearing the fur of his last victim won, which means I am forced to look at that squinty-eyed creepy face for four years (barring any "accidents" or impeachment) and his stiff rejected Barbie doll wife. Yay. The slumbering emo in me was awakened this morning as I made my sister play a couple of Hamilton songs, American Idiot and The Black Parade... with our front door open. I also heard some Twenty One Pilots and Panic! at the Disco (with the door closed). Because that's how I feel today. Anyway, yes, I have revived from my week long slumber in the doodle world and I have finished figuring out how to detail blond hair in a painterly style so I'm going to give you the sneak peek at what I'm working on at this very moment: 

MY computer didn't want to load this picture on here or on Tumblr for some odd reason and I am currently pissed because of that. Had to do this on the other computer as mine was being a jerk. The year started out pretty ok but the year took a sharp turn and now the year hasn't even finished and I will say that yes, this year SUCKED. You know it's bad when you're wondering if you'll ever make it to the age of 30 and be mildly happy for longer than a week at most. I wish I could have posted on maybe a happier occasion or just in a better mood but thus is the state of the world. I really am not seeing much of a future at this present moment and I don't really know what to do. I don't know anymore, let's see if I come back here. 

Inktober set #8

      Hello. I am back to post the remaining inktober doodles from last month (my god, it's official). So here they are:

These three doodles are a continuation of the Sims theme I had for the previous index card because like I said there, I just decided to finish off the month with that. The first doodle is not of my Sims but rather of my reaction to Sim Sandra giving birth to twin boys. I can't say for sure if they are identical especially since I don't have the base game still and I didn't take a screenshot of Maro's face sadly but I can say that both are blond and blue eyed. The second doodle is based off of how one fine Sim morning, my kids woke up really early and Haru's washing his dish broke the sink. And the refrigerator had rotten food inside. Not to mention that their computer was on the fritz as well. The third doodle is Eliza Pancakes because, as much as she is a stalker, she took care of Haru one moment when he was a baby when Sandra suddenly turned stupid and didn't want to do it. She was friends with three of my five Sims when I left off in the trial so yeah, I doodled her. Well, I completed my first inktober. I am going to take it easy for a bit, I may doodle later on this week but until then I am signing off.