I can stoop down to reach you.

art blog of a casual asshole. lots of stuff is reblogged and queued from my main blog,

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havent been consistently drawing much, but im trying to utilize my current blorbo into getting back into it more often. also been using a lot of reference photos because im bad at coming up with poses for anything that's more on the sketchy side. couldn't re-find the ref photos for #4, my bad.

reference photos: 1, 3, 5, 6, 7

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Some “Garden of Light”-themed art I did for a fandom exchange this year.

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hi, have you heard of a fun lil game called mystic messenger.....it's got....polyamory (if u squint)

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Some old OC stuff.

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a talking cat?!?

(this is a very stupid joke about characters sharing a voice actor and some superficial qualities)

(also i cannot draw anything resembling a normal cat so im very very sorry, samantha)

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I drew a silly comic for #FinishInfinityTrain

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I haven’t posted art in ❓❓❓ however long, I’m so sorry? and these are all so messy?

anyway uhhhh I’m VERY into professor layton again but even though I’m playing mystery journey right now, 80% of what I draw is just older flora. (note: comic flora looks so different because I drew her first without thinking through my headcanons lol.)

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Hi, I haven't posted in 500 years but this is the first thing I drew in 2017 because my wife asked me to.

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Sorry for not posting in forever! I’ve done...a bit of art, but not much. And most of it goes to my twitter haha. I drew some Homuras late last night though.

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old things

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todomatsu likely helped him put together that outfit.

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some thoughts and junk abt “bike ride” before i go to bed.

Keep reading

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If anyone has any criticisms or critiques of my comic, feel free to drop an ask or fanmail in my inbox! (anon should be on too if you feel more comfy doing it that way.) I don’t plan on publishing or responding to them (unless it’s a question or I feel there’s been a bad misinterpretation of my intentions), I’d just like to hear all kinds of thoughts and opinions and feelings.

I worked very hard on “Bike Ride” and deeply appreciate any sort of honesty about my work.

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(I imagine full view will give a better look at my pages but they are also pretty big images jsyk)

Hey!!!! I’m typing with punctuation and capitalization which means this is a more serious post than usual. Anyway, I’m back from Japan and I took a manga class where, surprise, I made manga! Though not really, it still reads left to right like Western comics (an artistic decision at the time when only one other person planned to do theirs that way, so that when the class anthology was published they wouldn’t be the only comic that read that way), and it’s technically in English.

I’m beginning to ramble so mainly I wanna say is, I’m actually incredibly embarrassed by this comic. There’s quite a few weird mistakes and sloppiness and just all around bad/amateur-ish creative decisions put into this story. However, I got it done! This is my first creative project like this and completing it was very satisfying. It was also very worthwhile to make a comic traditionally with pen nibs, ink, and screentone (all of which are incredibly difficult to work with, especially the last item). Thus, I do still feel kind of proud in posting it, even if it is a mess. I still hope it’s enjoyable though?

I also want to list my main inspirations for this comic. The idea of this story was mainly a mashup of things and aesthetics I was/am currently into:

Princess Mononoke

Yowamushi Pedal

Hunter x Hunter

pa-luis’s art (especially pieces like this)

Anyway, if you read this comic and especially read this far into my commentary, thank you so much!

Also, I wanna link an early illustration I did of my MC (she has no name, though i do consider a full character). Sort of a much more indulgent, but ultimately not practical to replicate prototype of what I wanted to convey.

(And to those who have seen/are getting the printed version, this version looks somewhat different due to my own cropping and editing decisions.)

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The copied and printed version of this illustration from a few months ago.

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this week's ep was really bad tbh....so i sketched some junk in class to idk, soothe the pain.....

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it’s sloppy but i like this drawing