Small Nerd

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... kinda bad, honestly. My head wasn't in it, so I decided to cut things short before I started feeling *really* bad.

Work on this picture continues. I turned off the background layer for now because I didn't work on it much at all this time and needed to see what I was doing with Surge and Kit clearly. Getting the pupils in her eyes to look at the same object was a real headache, but at least it's done now.

Thank you.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was fun. I'm pretty tired today, so I went in with no goal but to hit buttons and have fun, and I still played surprisingly well. I even won a set and got a perfect as part of it. Hopefully that's a sign I've improved.

Continuing from yesterday, we have our two podcasters looking more defined. Kit's hands gave me so much trouble. Ultimately I decided to coward out because interlaced fingers just weren't working out.

I wonder what Surge is telling Kit about. Probably something worrying, judging by his expression.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was short but fun. I wasn't super on the ball, but I was enjoying things, and that's the important bit.

Continuing on from yesterday, I've spent some time getting our two actual characters looking a bit better. Surge's hair continues to be my nemesis. I'll have to go over it again in the future, and I'll have to actually make the hands work then too. But this time still had progress made, at least.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... short. My heart wasn't quite in it, so I decided to stop early. I didn't want to accidentally set myself up to start hating the game.

I had quite a bit of fun coming up with decorations for the work space. All of it is stuff Surge wanted because Kit can't say no to her, and it leans toward older stuff because I could see her getting into Ye Olden Times as a coping mechanism for her lack of a past.

New longer-term drawing. This time it's Surge and Kit being podcasters, because the idea popped into my head and I thought it was funny. What's their podcast about? I have no clue, but I assume their dynamic is like Castle Superbeast, with Surge as Pat and Kit as Woolie.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was short but fun. I won a set against Eddie/Zato for the first time. Jam's victory line against him is really funny to me for some reason.

I'm a little surprised how much getting a character's hairstyle to look right can depend on little relationships I don't consciously notice, but now that I have this experience, hopefully it'll help me in the future.

More work on the head, this time with hair. You can now also see that this head turnaround is of a specific character. It's Akko from Little Witch Academia, an anime I have a certain fondness for. I read that she was supposedly meant as a metaphor for beginner artists and thought it was appropriate.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was fun. I didn't play as well as I would've liked, but I did have fun, which I'm happy about.

I was going to do some drawing today, but I draw digitally and my computer runs on Linux, so first I had to spend a long time today fixing this month's weird random problems. So now I don't have it in me to draw anything more complicated than this picture of me threatening my computer.

Today'ssession of Guilty Gear was fun. I felt like I played decently well, and I even won a set. It was a mirror match too, which I feel like counts extra since the other person will be aware of the shenanigans I can try to pull.

Today I decided to grind out eyes until I could produce something I liked the look of. Much like with fighting games, trying, sleeping, and trying again can help quite a bit, but doing it in the lab is pretty different from doing it for real. Still, I'm happy with the progress I've made today.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... fine. I wasn't playing as well as I'd like, but I kept a better handle on my frustration than I would've expected, which is something.

I spent a while today doing more style study on eyes specifically, and here's the results. I think it's an improvement, but I still have a long way to go. Regardless, I'm getting kinda sick of working on this, so I'll keep pressing forward for now.

OK so I fucked something up in the conversion, and was finally able to fix it on my end. Here's it is in its 4:3 glory.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was me remembering that I wanted to check out Xrd more, so I spent a while in training mode to get a feel for some of the basic Dizzy stuff. It's quite tricky to do, but, y'know, new character and all.

Having studied a style, I try to do it myself. Eyes, it turns out, are hard to draw. I think the big thing is that I got the shape wrong, but I can't tell how to, well, *not* do that. Hopefully I can figure things out soon so I can stop making this... uncanny valley stuff.

Today's sesaion of Guilty Gear was... mixed. It didn't start off well, but I was able to pull myself together in the last set I played and end on a good note. Maybe my brain needed time to warm up? A good thing to know, though I wish it wasn't the case.

A 3/4 view is hard, who would've guessed. I really want to get to the figure part of things, and that impatience probably isn't helping me with faces, even though a poorly drawn face can ruin a whole picture. At least the other two views are okay. We take those.

We continue turning heads around. I also did some style study work as part of that, but I was studying the style of a Bluesky artist I like (goes by dopelenny) and I don't think I should post a picture of that. It seems wrong to sort of repost the work of someone who's not really a public figure.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was fun. My computer had some A/V problem that made things sound bad, but maybe it helped me lock in somehow, since I ended up playing pretty well. Or it was just good luck that I got opponents I could see through quickly. Whatever it was, hopefully I'm making progress

...previous drawings. The shoes are probably a bit too small, but the hands, torso, and legs feel much closer to what I want. It's nice to see myself making progress. I'll admit, my work on the fundamentals has been getting to me a bit with how much there is to learn. This was a nice change of pace.

In hindsight, I really should've turned the foot supporting Surge's weight more towards the camera, and her hair is *still* giving me trouble after all this time. The thing I was really going for was for the proportions to feel properly "Sonic character," and I think this is a lot closer than my...

Today I got some advice from a more experienced Sonic fan artist on how to get Sonic characters to feel "Sonic-y," for lack of a better term. It turns out my understanding of proportions was incomplete, so I tried putting the new info into practice, and I think it went well for a first try.

Today's session of Guilty Gear was... mixed. I'm not sure if my internet was bad or I had bad luck with who was online, just that *someone* had a bad connection. But I did notice that I was able to notice things giving me trouble and adjusting my approach during matches, and that's progress.