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Beelzebumon Warm-up Drawing

Oh man! Been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Busy with things, but I want to start adding to it again. Especially with the whole social media implosion over the past year!

The last time I wrote a blog post was in December of 2022, but for some reason, the WordPress scheduler didn’t work. I made it live it just now, which is the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet post with some of my thoughts. I actually still have not completed that game! Not for lack of wanting to – I haven’t found the proper time for it yet. Other things have been taken priority in the meantime, but I would like to go back to it sometime and play more of it! Always my dilemma with time-consuming games.

Anyway, I did this warm-up drawing of Beelzebumon this morning I wanted to share. I’ve been practicing with sketching more, and would like to finish this one sometime.

Floragato Painting + Pokemon Scarlet & Violet Thoughts

Floragato

Finished a painting of Floragato around the time I started playing Pokemon Scarlet, which launched last month on November! I was hesitant to play this entry in the franchise at first. The pre-launch info & screens were not the most appealing to me as we approached the launch date, especially after how much I enjoyed Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Then upon launch, I saw the plentiful accounts and growing backlash toward the performance issues the games were having. I planned to wait and see when Nintendo would patch the performance issues.

I was still curious about the games, though, especially as the backlash grew. I started watching a few commentary videos on YouTube, and stumbled across one that was less one-sidedly negative than many of the videos on there at the time. This video emphasized how the gameplay itself was quite revitalizing for the Pokemon main series franchise, while not downplaying the serious and unacceptable performance issues. The commentator guessed that the developers for this game were likely overworked, and this was probably why there were so many technical issues in this iteration. He emphasized how the underlying gameplay seemed very thoughtful in terms of mechanics – the game design itself being solid, and introducing many new concepts that the mainline Pokemon franchise has needed for years.

I’m glad I stumbled across his video, because his commentary was what swayed my opinion on waiting for a performance patch. I decided to purchase Scarlet the same day! I am so glad I did, because it didn’t take me a long time playing to realize that, yes, this is the best mainline Pokemon game since probably the Black & White generation of games.

i’ll link the video below & continue this post under the cut due to length!

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Cozy Chronos: Fall Coziness

Cozy Chronos: Fall Coziness

This was a painting I did after seeing November’s Ko-fi theme, “Fall Coziness.” I saw it on the last day of the month, but I loved the theme so much that it inspired me to try and draw something before the close of the month. I managed to start and finish this painting of Chronos cozying up to a warm mug of hot chocolate, and to my surprise it was one of the winners of the theme challenge! It was very fun seeing everyone’s submissions, and makes me want to participate again!

Early Access: AliciaWhimsi Commission Process

Early Access Post! If you’re viewing this, it’s either because you’re a patron with early access, or because the post is now public.

The finished painting.

Blog post for the process behind a commission for @ AliciaWhimsi on Twitter!

Initial Sketches.

Initial Sketches

Several rough sketches to give the client a variety of ideas to choose & iterate upon.

Second round of sketches.

Second round of Sketches

Revising the sketches according to client feedback.

In-progress crop of Whimsicott.

In-Progress Crop

Painting Whimsicott before painting the Halloween-themed witch outfit!

The finished painting once more.

The final painting

And here is the final painting once again!

Kobold Commission Process

Kobold Commission for a private client.

Blog post for a kobold commission I wanted to post the process of!

Continue to the full post to see the initial thumbnail ideas & work-in-progress variations.

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