When will this baby fever leave me? Wednesday

 

      Hello! I actually forgot to post on here last week so here's something I finished last week and then Friday I'll post the other, uh, piece (it became four pieces so I was hesitant to post it here). 

So I got this baby fever that won't leave me but because of the year we're in and the pandemic we're having, not like I'll be able to satisfy it because I'm still single (not surprised) and I have no money and it's too dangerous. So I have to content myself with doodling babies. Maybe you recognize this baby as having been in my old spring chibi/hanami doodles which means that yes, he is among my sprawling (and unfortunately increasing) list of OCs. The poor paper is beat up because I had been working on this for like a month and it appears that if I leave paper lying around, it's bound to get sat on or crushed by something else, smh. 

I've been feeling kinda down lately because of the above mentioned baby fever that I've had for months already and my current lack of funds. Yeah, I had that stimulus check from early on in the pandemic and it should have lasted me a little longer but I didn't expect to get Disney + in the summer and for my parents to borrow money from me to make a down payment on windows we still haven't received because of a bunch of things related to fixing up the house I'm stuck living in so my money has run out faster and I have an old car that needs fixing, a phone that I apparently have to replace soon thanks to our phone company, and I would love to get my own place so that I don't have to wait around to take a shower in my own house because someone is hogging up our one bathroom, have limitations put on my internet time and I don't have to hear my parents arguing or being annoying... but I don't want to be forced to search for a job and I know my best shot at getting a job is going to be in retail customer service but I've been there done that and don't want that anymore, hence why I quit my "good job" at Publix. But when I advertise my online shops or offer commissions, nobody takes me up on it so ahahaha I'm screwed.

Well anyway, till next doodle which should be coming up on Friday unless I get distracted, toodles.

Quarantine Parenting

 

      Hello! Two posts in one week! I'm obviously making up for not being very active this summer. I actually meant to make this post Wednesday but my internet has been giving me trouble since then so I had to postpone sharing this here:

Have I mentioned that I got into millionaire detective (fkbu) this month? Well I have and I have been enjoying this show. I would marry Daisuke Kambe in a heartbeat but I also love Haru Kato and made mention to my friend that I think he would make a good dad. She responded with "Haru would use his baby as a rag if he spilled anything" and this doodle idea came to me so I did this quickly. I was actually in a drawing mood at the beginning of the week and got three drawings done but I've only posted two of them because one of them is indulgent and I don't feel like sharing it with anybody so don't expect to see it. Well, hope you enjoy your weekend, stay safe, and till next doodle, toodles!

This summer has felt so alien...

 

      Hello! I finished my other project because I guess I'm in a doodling mood so here we go:

I did a summer chibi in summer, hip hip hooray! This character has existed as a concept for a long while but I created them back when boys were both minor characters and not usually drawn because 1. I wanted to focus on my female protagonist characters and 2. I couldn't really draw them for crap so there is one (1) drawing I did of what they were supposed to look like back then. Then I shelved the protagonist characters and didn't think I'd return to them so villain got shelved as well. After deciding to revisit these characters and rework them, I decided I should try my hand at their antagonist again, a mischievous alien boy. I happened to do this last October before season four of She-ra released and Double Trouble had been announced as being introduced in that season and non-binary to boot so ahaha, what was originally going to identify as a boy turned into me calling them they/them so accidental non-binary rep :) you can thank She-ra for that. I still call them he a lot still because I know the character a decent amount (still developing them and need to give them a name) but you know, respect pronouns, which I try but monkey brain has to go and mess that up sometimes. I really wonder how their skintone is showing up on your devices because I specifically chose one that can look human but it has enough green in it to give that alien feel. They look pretty greenish on my phone and I hate it that I never noticed until posting it here that one of their fingers wasn't colored in. My laptop kept restarting on me today so I just kinda finished it in a hurry because I wanted to move on. Till next doodle, stay safe and toodles!

Quarantine Mood

 

      Hello. I was gone for so long Blogger changed on me. For the record, I wasn't posting anything new anywhere for nearly a month so it's not really that I've forgotten about Blogger, I just haven't felt like creating anything that I want to share with the rest of the world (yet). Here's something I made rather quickly because I just happened to be in the right mood: 

This is based off a real life conversation between me and my friend as she was choosing what anime to watch. I was browsing Instagram when I read "I want to eat your pancreas..." and my friend happens to be vegan so confusion was a natural reaction to the thought of her craving my pancreas. Of course, I had to associate the desire to eat a human pancreas with Venom so ta-da, short little comic of one of my favorite chaotic duos that I have not drawn in a long time. It also has been a long time since I've drawn anything in my cartoon style. Like seriously, you can tell I am going through a strong anime phase but I don't mind. 2010 me would be proud of the amount of anime I have been watching this year 😂 Speaking of, I got into Millionaire Detective/Fugou Keiji this month and I did not expect the turn it's taken 👀. I also binge-watched Legend of Korra and I must say, it's not bad, people just like hating. My personal biggest complaint is how the romance was written at first but it's otherwise decent. I give it a 7/10. Well, I have something sitting in my drafts but I don't feel like dealing with it so it will just sit there for a little while longer. I have another project that I started the same day I started this so let's see when I finish it. Till next doodle, toodles.

Cuban Pete but it's Lance

      Hello! I spent way too long on a drawing but quarantine has given me crappy attention span, I want too many forms of entertainment, and my laptop doesn't like the Florida heat but here it is:

Lance! And he's dressed in Cuban swag, from the top of his Cuban style Fedora to the soles of his Cuban heels. Yes, I went there. Being Cuban American, it was all too easy to imagine him dressed in this classy outfit even though my dad doesn't have a guayabera or Cuban heels (he had Cuban heeled boots once but it resulted in him being out of work for months with a back injury because he decided to wear them on ice. I was little so I have no memory of it) but I do have that gold bracelet of his, it's just a little small on me now so I haven't worn it since I was a child. Anyway, I put so much work into this and I'm pretty happy with the result. I've been watching a lot of anime and I feel it's done me some good cuz look at that shading! I should really play around with that more, but I haven't been very motivated to draw "finished pieces" so bear with me. I am so glad that I drew something for Julance. Also, the fact that this is canon Lance 😂 (prior to season eight, that was a travesty) So I hope you guys are ok, remembering to wear your masks when you go out because you never know what you'll catch out there and sometimes, even if you go out for a walk in your neighborhood without a mask because you don't plan on interacting with people, some little kid also not wearing a mask may not know the concept of social distancing and cross right in front of your face as you stop breathing for her sake in case you somehow are an asymptomatic carrier. Well, I'm gonna get going but till next doodle, toodles!

Julance is here!

      Hello! First post of the month and I'm going to dump a few Voltron related doodles at you because I hadn't gotten around to posting them earlier:

And it's Julance, which I don't see myself doing much of but Lance deserves the love dammit so of course I am going to try and do something with him this month at least. Anyway, these are not Lance proper but my take on femLance but I had most of these lying around. The first one is actually a short comic I did last month where Keith's daughter Vanessa finds his blade and Lana, still feeling the need to be impulse control for the Koganes, tries to intercept. Then the next two are from earlier this year. I was imagining an older Lana and so I drew her in the outfit that was Lance's early design. That other drawing was more in the realm of funny domestic stuff but you're not allowed to see the rest of the doodle for now 🙈 not until I start dealing with this AU seriously, which probably won't be for a good while. I've actually been in the mood to focus on my OCs so yeah, let's see what happens this month. Till next doodle, toodles!

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.