4 Years

My girlfriend and I have now officially been together for four years, and to commemorate that, I decided to create some art of us with our gators. 🙂

I wanted to go for a Charles Schulz-eque look this time. It's easy to do it with humans, but when it comes to these gators, it's a different story. Also, those colors are a bit messy... 😅 Still, I'm satisfied.

Here's to more years of me and my girlfriend together. 🥂 Truly lucky and grateful that the two of us are still going strong. 😄

2020 New Year's Postcard

🎆 Happy New Year to everyone! 🎆

Unlike previous years where I just posted something pretty half-assed for New Year's, I decided to draw something half-assed in digital this time! It's been a while since I've done anything digital, and I figured this was the best time to try my hand at it again and remember just how enjoyable it was. Certainly a welcome change from all the inks I've always been doing!

I actually wanted to add all the OCs I've featured over the past year. However, it turned out to be too time-consuming, so I settled for me, the lady, and the Gator Buddies cast so far (minus Nightlight). The others will have chances to make appearances in other posts later.

This year I want to really make more digital art than just inks. Ink art is great but now I wanna try other things, more digital things, more virtual and colorful art. I also wanna try pixel art too, after a friend of mine gifted me Aseprite on Steam. Some pixelated gators sound like good ideas, and it'd be cool to see some of my OCs as pixel sprites too!

I feel like 2020's gonna be a good year for me, work-wise and art-wise. I hope to be able to share more of my ideas here on my blog too, and invest more time for art in general. For all y'all who've stayed with me even until now, I'm really, really grateful for your support. Thank you to all of you, and I hope your 2020 will turn out just as bright as mine seems to be.

Cheers to the new year ahead of us! 🍻

Noozle Bunny

When the lady tries to nuzzle noozle over Skype, she reminds me of a rabbit. And it's the cutest thing ever.

For My One and Only - 2019

In commemoration of my girlfriend's birthday, I went and made... A bit more realistic ink of her instead of the usual cartoony style I tend to draw her as. Had to rush this at the last minute since I got home late, but I'm really happy I managed to pull it off. I'll repost a cleaner version of this later when the ink dries and after I erase the lead off.

Happy birthday, Emo. 🎂 I can't do much given the nature of our relationship at the moment, but this ought to suffice for our current lack of physical contact.

I hope you have a great one today. I love you, always. ❤

IDGAF

I was once told that my spirit animal was a boar. Mirroring their nature to charge ahead of themselves and trample anything that comes in their way, boars are said to represent people who set their sights on goals and stop at nothing to achieve them, regardless of whatever happens to try to hold them down. They are also said to represent people who tackle situations head-on, knowing that this is the only way one can solve their problems (sauce here).

I will say that I don't know if I agree with this. But I will say I certainly don't like leaving anything unfinished. I've also reached a point in my life where, after the hardships I experienced years ago, I can no longer bring myself to give a crap about anything anymore when it comes to achieving my goals. If it means improvement and progress, I'm gonna say what needs to be said even if I'm treading on someone's precious little feelings. I do admit at times this kind of thought process causes me to be a bit reckless at times, but oddly enough I don't really feel that regretful at all. In fact, I feel very relieved.

The Second Time

I was musing to my girlfriend about what I ought to draw next. She said a few days ago that she wanted me to draw us again. I had plans to do so anyway; I just couldn't figure out what kind of scene would be good to draw. Eventually, I settled for drawing us hanging out together when I took her to Tokyo Disneyland last April.

I was messing around with my gray and gold pens, but the gray one kinda ruined the picture for me somewhat when I was working on her sleeves... My girlfriend says she loves it though. 😅

Nubby Buddy

My girlfriend was here for the week in Tokyo. Sometime during the week I bought her a small, plush keychain Lapras from the Tokyo Station Pokémon Center. She loved it and called it Nubby; she loved to nuzzle (it's a couple thing, heh) and would say "nub-nub-nub" whenever she nuzzled it.

Today was the day she had to return to Canada. Before we left the sharehouse, she asked me to doodle into her notebook and I did just that.

Now excuse me while I drown myself in overwhelmingly self-crushing loneliness at the thought of once again being miles apart from my significant other.

#EmotionalZipper

My lack of content is so depressing. So here's a quick doodle of me (I actually like how I did my alt hairdo this time) and my girlfriend, Emotionalstone <3

I'm also not used to this kind of cartoony art style. I often end up reverting to my old one (attempts at proportions, anatomy, etc.) really quickly.