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Sigh. Before I get into past challenge/fanfiction related pieces, I want to get this year's general art haul out of the way... There's not much, really, I feel like I've only recently been trying to draw again. I think I feel bad for never posting outside of challenges and I'm somewhat nostalgic for making "sharable" art again, lol.

I did a couple finished comics strips, so I'll share those together ->
The first features Mikey Way and Bert McCracken based on this video of Amy Winehouse.


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I made this before both of the challenge works I posted here previously. Lots of things were done differently, namely I did all of the colors on the same layer.... took a criminal amount of time considering how simplistic I wanted it to look, let me tell you. a word of advice for digital art if you didn't know: layers are your best friend! Otherwise, the line art is actually just a scan of my original pencil sketch with some minor clean-up-- with many of the digital pieces I've done so far, I just used a pencil drawn thumbnail as a guide for line art, however I definitely prefer how this looks to that. Although, I did have some issues finding a brush to color with that wouldn't look out of place with it. I'm not a fan of the one I chose and have since found a better one, but this looks fine for what it is.
Also can I just say, the weirdest things are a hit on tumblr. This did a modest 200-300 likes on instagram I think, but it literally breached 1k notes on the latter for SOME godforsaken reason. That's not something that happens to me on there too often! I'm flattered I guess, but also at a loss as to why such a scraggly piece caught so much attention. Beggars can't be chooser though, I suppose.

Then, just recently I did this Danger Days comic, which is based on this post by @/incorrectkilljoyquotes via tumblr (took some liberties). Fun fact, VERY rarely is any comic I make 100% my idea.


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Now THIS. This is as good as my digital art gets as of right now. I'm very happy with the look and style of this. I found a paper texture I really like, and a brush that goes well with the line art (cleaned up pencil sketch like the other comic).
However, this did basically the opposite of the other work-- it did very poorly on tumblr but great on instagram. I must say, this feels like less of a win. Everyone on tumblr is so picky, it's an honor when something does well there; however, I'm very out of touch with instagram nowadays, so the success there feels somewhat impersonal... I guess it's all impersonal, to be fair. But tumblr is my preferred poison, so it was a bummer to see this flop there, especially since I'm so happy with how it came out... I get it though. This flavor of humor has become obsolete there. Which, to be fair, the comic has been in the making for quite some time and had lost it's funniness to me a long time ago--though since I started it, I felt obligated to go through with making it a finished product. Oh well. At least Instagram thought it was funny, lol.

Anyway, that's all I have for today. I do have something in the works at the moment that I'm kind of excited for, though it's not my usual thing at all. I've noticed I've drawn very little of current mcr, despite having so much new content to draw from nearly every night. I guess I'm stuck in my ways from when they weren't a band, always pulling things from the past. So I'm trying to break out of that a tad with this new piece. That's all I'll say on it at the moment.
Whelp. Until next time ✌

Hello, it's been quite some time since my last entry!
A few things have changed since then, namely I've started journaling pretty frequently, so posting stuff about my personal life here has lost it's flavor (not that I posted exactly often anyway, lol). So to the few of you that may see this, don't expect to see that sort of thing from me anymore. However, I will say in reference to my past complaints that I did get to do some skating this past summer :)

Anyway, regarding bandom, I would love to go into unnecessary detail on my endeavors there!

Bandom Big Bang~
This past BBB season was kind of a weird one-- I wasn't particularly happy with some of the changes and decisions made by the new mods... a lot of unnecessary discourse came of it and it felt very gatekeeping in a lot of ways. Despite this, I didn't have the heart to opt out, since so many beloved writers were participating and there was a strong promise of great new content to come out of it.
I ended up choosing a story called Noise and Absolution by mausoleumheart, a used centric  fic set in the killjoys verse, which follows Quinn Allman's journey as an ex bli employee navigating life in the zones and figuring out where he belongs. Includes lots of action, twists and turns, and some bandom cameos (including the elusive fab four briefly). Though Quinn happens to be shipped with Bert Mccracken, the focus was on other issues mostly, leaving this feeling a bit tacked on... however, Hayley WIlliams has a fairly big part in the plot, and I really enjoyed her dynamic with Quinn, as random as that pair may sound.
I would be giving some things away if I explained exactly what's going on in the scene I decided to illustrate, however it's definitely a highlight of that relationship and is one of my favorite parts of the whole work.



I have gone digital for the last couple big pieces... this was something I was very against doing for a while, but then I tried it and am a bit hooked. I still do very much prefer traditional, but. well, I did this on my phone with a very nice free little app called ibispaint, and it's all very convenient! With my current sluggish artistry state, this is not exactly doing me much good, but it's appealing. Sigh. Anyway, I'm fairly happy with how it came out, regardless, though I do wish I would have used a more paper-like texture, rather than the slightly tacky canvas look I went with.
But yeah. This is embedded in the chapter the scene appears in, and I implore you to read it! it's a roller coaster, very eventful.
One thing about the current mods is that they dropped the ball a bit on the advertising part of reveals-- not that they haven't made posts for any of the fics at all, but it's been extremely few and far apart so far, and Noise and Absolution has yet to have it's time in the lime light, so. please do check it out, it hasn't gotten much attention yet.

Alright, that's my plug for today. I may or may not do a couple others this week, we'll see.

 Oh boy, and I thought ao3 was intimidating. Welp, here is my attemp at posting an image on here, lol. I'm somewhat familiar with the process, but it's looking pretty funky as a wip...
Anyway, hi. I draw bandom dudes sometimes. This ones from a few years ago for bandom holidays-- not really made for anything in particular, just a little something based on a front bottoms song.