General Felix

Basically how I've been internalizing it lol

Seventy Bucks is a Hundred Bucks

A screenshot of a tweet that says: Your art will betray you. It will look better in your head than on paper. It will make you feel untalented some days. Love it anyway. Because one day, it will also surprise you, fulfill you, and remind you why you started.

Throwback to something worth repeating.

Monster Hunter: Wilds
The $70 price tag with an awful lot of technical issues really soured me on that game.

The way this guy says "Chibi Anime" has completely destroyed my vocabulary.

daily process

this is an approximation but if anyone has the original or know who made it i'd be happy to have it

Please stay alive
Just being alive means you're pretty much a success

生きていてくださいっ
生きてるだけでおおむね成功ですっ
失敗なんてないんですっ
無理せずありのままでいてくださいっ
だからこれからもちぃたん☆と皆さんはおおむね成功ですっ☆

♩テレビやSNSは〔夢は叶う、諦めないで、前を向こう〕ばかり。
本当は毎日不安だし辛いことばかりなんだ。
辛い時は辛いって言っていいよ、逃げてもいいよ。
キミの声は聞こえているから。
生きてることだけでおおむね成功だから♩

Kinda, but honestly it's mostly just the mental hurdles. It's that constant hemming and hawing of "It's been so long, how could I possibly get back into it."

But once I make myself sit down and play the damn thing, I get back into the swing of things surprisingly quick.

"Flirt Back Goddamnit": Frieren edition

i'm sure i locked it... right?

feeling real grateful for having the cognitive ability to consciously arrange colors and lines to represent objects and/or ideas rn

May I also add this one from Velocipastor:

iconic xbox live avatar featuring guy wearing grey beanie and red shirt blowing a bubble reimagined as axl low from guilty gear strive

master study
feel free to use as pfp

For people playing Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance on the NSO
If you have certain characters next to each other, they get a stat boost or negation!!

Ike and Mist = +10 Crit on Ike
Ike and Soren = Full Critical Negation on Soren.

It shows Ike is protecting them!!!!

Sadly Evergreen.

How to use your imagination When your party stays at the Inn overnight, what do they eat? If you ever catch yourself wondering that, then you know you've formed an attachment to your characters. With Etrian Odyssey's characters, you only give them a name and a portrait, so no matter how you think of the character, it's technically just your imagination. But even in that case, without your imagination, the character is nothing. For example, a landsknecht who uses an axe might eat his meat with his bare hands and no utensils, but one who wields a sword might prefer a knife and fork at dinner. You might think differently, but... If you can imagine small details like that, you might find that you enjoy this kind of RPG even more. The essence is an RPG is using numbers to make calculated decisions, but if you invest those "numbers" with your own feelings, you can spice up the game a little. Think about this: In your party of five, three characters are dead. Two of them are alive, but they only have a couple of HP left, and no TP. They're certain to die in their next turn, giving you a game over. Number-wise, those characters are useless, but how do you imagine they feel about that? What kind of people are those 2 characters who are about to die? Try to imagine things like that in the brief time before your game ends. Are they a landsknecht and a ronin, who'll die facing the enemy and laughing? Is it a protector, ordering the weak medic to run with his last breath? The game over screen looks the same every time, but in your imagination, it could play out very differently. The game itself isn't that big of a thing; what you imagine for yourself is much more fun. We hope that the player uses this game as a tool, to create dramatic and fun situations in your own minds.

I think a lot about this bit by Kazuya Niinou about how an RPG can be one thing on your screen and another thing in your brain

A color pencil drawing of Paper Mario

Opened up a new sketchbook and pencil set today. Lets get things started with a Mario.

A piece of paper with multiple pencil-drawn character doodles on it. In the top left corner is a Pichu posed as the tbh creature. In the top right corner is the main character of Thank Goodness You're Here! (his body may be a little too big). Towards the bottom left corner is a Final Fantasy black mage. In the bottom right is a Bakemon and a Boo from Mario facing each other. And around the center of the page is Chiikawa & Big Challenges.

Decided to end the year by filling up the rest of this page with some more lil guys.

One of my favorite things about Fire Emblem 9/10 (Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn)'s character design is that the games are obviously medieval, but there's modern cuts and silhouettes in the clothing.

Teenager me: everyone in charge is so stupid

Young adult me: politics corporations and science are incredibly complex topics that require thorough research and discussion and we shouldnt jump to conclusions

Me now: everyone in charge is so stupid

I learnt how to draw when I was 30 through free ressources and tips online. Back then I had no skill, no money, I was suicidal and my health issues prevented me from even leaving my fucking bed.
What's preventing you from creating is your own greed, pride and laziness.

30 vs 36 :

I can't stop thinking about E33 having a sub 10m budget. What is everybody else in the industry doing

This is gunna sound so stupid but does anyone else's drawing process involve long periods of just staring at it and not drawing

a two panels comic strip by Spindle of a random pink-haired character (persona i guess? not me but also represents me, self-insert? idk what it's called) with two hair buns wearing a black hoodie, sitting in front of a desk that has a "Wacum" tablet on it. Behind the character is a faded screenshot of an empty canvas on Clip Studio Paint. The first panel the character is saying "Time to draw!" at 11:00AM The second panel, same as the first only night time, and a circle is drawn on the canvas. 10:00AM on the clock

motivation left me on read 😔

I can recognize Ottilie since she always wears green but I didn't realize how important the shape details were until you mentioned it. That is some really nice attention to detail.

She looks really good with that braided bun.

Okay bear with me. My amazing friend Robyn (@haykebyr.bsky.social) did this amazing image based on my stupid ass joke. It's Miss Piggy photoshopped into some Sister of Battle armour, with the white bob haircut and a fleur de lys tattoo on her cheek and everything. Except she's got pink satin gloves on. The caption is "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future there is Only Moi" because that's the whole joke. Thank you.

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦