easynam

extreme style over substance manga basically lol. I think its a great introduction to shonen manga/anime (it was my first anime) and also a great way to learn all the things that suck about it lol

(many more things on top of this)

but it is also, cool, and has a lot of creative momn in bttles etc, and the characters are fun. and the 10th arrancar twist is so stupid i love it

it has a lot of terrible pacing. most of the fights are meaningless and against foes who were just invented on the spot to pad the story. arrancar arc is like 2-3x as long as it needs to be. injuries and losing powers and etc means nothing long term. theres like 2 arrancar with actual plot relevance

been reading bleach since i dropped the anime in the middle of hueco mundo when i was a teenager

im having a lot of fun talking about it with ppl! it sucks. but i like it anyway lol

i’ll take a look at this next time i want to do some 2d gamedev! (which could be any time inbetween the next 2 weeks and next 10 months,,)

(i think it’s less good for writing cutscenes etc but that’s why scripting languages exist)

..represent basic systems and game mechanics imo

honestly i think if the whole data oriented game engine thing keeps gaining momentum we might start seeing modern engines that work more like clickteam stuff again..

there’s a lot of things that can be fixed in the implementation but clickteam style event editing is one of the best ways to..

wc3 world editor hasn’t been surpassed yet

this all said,,, best thing i can do rn is prob go to a piano and transcribe stuff by ear

i think i prob just need some simple setup for quick composing music with a few instruments on a keyboard of on mobile.. i was prototyping an app for that but making software is the opposite of not tiring lol

so i think the ideal is a mix of transcription and composition. the big issue is transcribing is fairly high effort lol. and composing music in general for me needs a computer

i can pretty casually bash out simple vgm stuff these days but it will def tire me out if i try and do it consistently and output only means im not taking in new ideas to make music with? i guess

i feel like maybe id need to upfront get good enough at transcription i can casually listen to music and play it fairly easily

it prob does but idk how to consistently practice composing musicic in a way that lets me not have to put energy in rn……

4 anime girl pixel portraits (no specific characters)

doodling some pixel portraits

(the ref can be anime. the life drawing -> ??? -> cute anime girls pipeline doesn’t work that way go copy the stuff you want to draw)

(do use ref tho. do not not use ref. learning to draw things without ref is thinking)

turn off your brain thinking makes u tired and burn out you have to ration the think energy

ok i’ve relearned the most important art tip (thinking about how to draw something isn’t productive until you’ve already done a bunch of drawings of the thing you’re thinking about)

???? i hate bdsp now what did they do to rowan

the anti-stuff-happening-in-fiction is so ??? to me. tho i guess maybe it’s like……….. ppl who only read things with very specific tags (or tiktok trope things idk what they’re called) and they want to read stuff with an exact set of tags with nothing extra or whatever

chibi front

chibi side waow and chibi stand

chibi

chibi stand and chibi sit

step 1 of learning to draw good is drawing chibis this is professional advice (they’re not very consistent rn)

mmaybe i am young afterall

going on a training arc to learn how to make art that would have been popular on deviantart 17 years ago

conjoined anime girl head and anime girl shoulders

draw

ok ok i wasn’t counting pixel art as art i did actually do a bunch of tiles last year i admit it

think i’ve already drawn more this year than i did last year lol

(happy 2nd of new year

reminder that helck is good read helck