Anyway, I ran for the first time in 2 months today and it was GREAT even if my body will probably not like me tomorrow morning at work. It’s fine, it was very much worth it to get back into the woods.

Gonna go shower now, bc I’m ✨gross✨ (but it was fun!)

(The reasons for which are largely BECAUSE of the move, which has put me in a much more safe place, and also my social media restructuring thing, which has helped me form a better relationship with time and technology.)

(But those are other topics.)

I’ve gone through my collections of old digital art multiple times recently and it just makes me miss when I LOVED the craft, yk? Getting my degree made me burn out a bit, and then retail fried me, and then I got a new job, and then I moved, and ONLY NOW am I starting to reconnect with myself.

should I be cleaning things up more, being more intentional with my work so I can add more things to my portfolio that AREN’T a year+ old?

yeah.

do I care right now? no, I’m gonna make fun shit with cool lighting because it makes me heart happy.

idk there’s not really a point to me saying any of this other than “look, I know I can do better, but I haven’t had the energy to TRY until very recently and honestly I’m just having fun feeling creative again, so I’m putting that feeling before intention and just having fun making shit”

that’s all

or this! this was more of a focus on the pose and Nathan himself, since I haven’t done anything real with him since I finished UNREALITY last year

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And part of it’s just me being lazy and like, not having a clear goal in mind with some of the work I’ve been doing lately.

like the Ciar post from last night; that was just an excuse to color him and actually visually represent him in ANY WAY after not drawing him for months

like, this was the last thing I actually pour effort into determining how to compose it bsky.app/profile/arti...

I was deliberately experimenting with a different style of coloring and effects, too.

Anyway, I’m still glad to have drawn him. It’s been a few days since I sat down and did anything, besides! I’ll take what I can create right now! :)

I know not super happy with this because Ciar looks super washed out. I think I needed to go back in with a darker skin tone for him somewhere in the editing and lighting process…

but it’s fine for now, I can always go back in later if I want.

As said in the alt text: this sketch is set in the 2030s E-10 when Ev and Fin briefly team up with Lycanthra to root out some mindbreakers in the Iron Archipelagos.