☆ Nexus ☆

Hi! I'm Nexus, your friendly neighbourhood Changeling. ☆ 23 ☆ UK ☆ Artist ☆ He/They

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Oh yeah I have a cat now!

Little bit of a life update-- despite not technically having the money to support another living being I found this lil psycho last September the day before my birthday. He was 10 weeks old and crawling with fleas and was worm ridden-- and after finding and speaking to the owner I found that they were looking to give him away for free as they couldn't afford to get him vaccinated so I took him home. (He is well fed and looked after and I'm still just about able to afford to eat the equivalent of about 1 meal a day so it's all good) He's a handful but I love my lil demonic pompom of a son.

His name is Beans :)

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I'm alive (*)

Okay so it's been a hot minute cuz I'm going through a shit ton of health stuff rn (and have been for the past year or so) but since Pokopia came out I've done nothing but play it so I decided to force myself to draw something and uhhhhhhhhhh

I ditto'd Luckless

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Set your heart ablaze

Been a hot minute since I worked on anything besides concept art and comic draft sketches but I just watched season 2 of Demon Slayer and I felt obligated to draw this man

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My bois ❤

I have been doing nothing but playing monster hunter and drawing comic panels so instead of some beautifully shaded masterpieces, you can have a sneak peak at what these two bois look like in the actual comic

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Happy fuckin birthday to me

(Having a terrible time rn)

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Broken Oracles Character Sheets!

(These will be updated and added to a few times as the story progresses)

Lux

Hiro

Yuki

There are more refs I need to work on but these are obviously the most important

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After months of PC troubles...

I found the problem.

Here is a picture of my heat sync.

Would anyone like to tell me what the problem is here?

(Note: this was pre-built when I got it)

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So... I may have had a lil bit of a crisis today...

I've wanted to teach myself how to animate ever since I was a kid, and since I'm unable to work because of serious physical and psycological health issues, I thought now was gonna be the perfect time.

It took me almost a month to write the script for my first animated youtube video and create the storyboard for the animation as well as the thumbnail, and it took me two days of recording and mixing the audio before I was ready to animate in Krita-- cuz that was my only option.

I spent several hours being confused and frustrated with the buttons before I finally made progress and made maybe around 30 seconds of (sketchy) animation...

Then it crashed.

And again.

It kept crashing every time I tried to draw a single line.

Upset by the fact that hours of hard work were for nothing, I tried to get adobe animate, which was unsuccessful thanks to their software being impossible to even download now.

So my only option that won't crash is clip studio paint ex.

I have pro-- which means I can only create 1 second long animations.

To upgrade, it's like £150. WAY too much for me to be able to afford within at least the next year.

Luckily, my birthday is in like 2 weeks, but I have very little faith that my family will even get me anything this year, let alone send me money so I can chase a dream.

So I have a Ko-Fi goal, and there's no pressure to help, but regardless of whether or not I get phenomenally lucky enough to recieve the money for it for my birthday, anyone who decides to donate will be credited in every video I make for AT LEAST the remainder of 2024 because I can't imagine me being able to afford this without help for the forseeable future.

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○.°•> P O P <•°.○

My original plan for today was to record the audio for my first shot at animating a video, but I got distracted and made this instead

Time well spent.

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I'm cooking...

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A Glimpse Into the Past

Once again, I've spent several days (almost a week) on a drawing for a SINGLE COMIC PANEL. Super proud of it though

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Nexus drawing actual Pokémon for a Pokémon comic? Thought you'd never see the day, huh?

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Decided to try something completely new and focus on a scene rather than a character-- I think this turned out pretty well for my first proper try at it in a HOT minute

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Redrew an old(ish) drawing of my main three bois, now with their new Galar (SwSh) designs and I'm super happy with how it turned out! First thing I've fully coloured and shaded in a hot minute so I was pleasantly surprised it didn't end up looking like complete garbage

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Gene Warmup Doodle

Over the past few days (weeks) while I've been super sick I've just been going through old art I drew for my comic and I found a bunch of the art that me and @oceandiagonale did of each other's OCs-- including this one thats set at the end of the "Lux Was Hurt By Poison!" post (this one) that I don't remember posting:

I really wanted to redraw the comics with the trios new designs but just settled on a warmup sketch of gene.

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The True Trauma Trio™

(Ft. Another new art style)

I put it upon myself to create a new colouring style because it turns out the one that I was using to colour the pages of my comic was driving me insane.

There's bit of a mini update about the comic under the cut

There probably won't be any updates for the comic for a while still, but that's just because I have something planned to make it so there's a little less time between updates in the future.

I will orobably also be redrawing the first few pages because I'm not entirely happy with how the turned out-- though the dialogue and "plot structure" would be essentially the same

The majority of the new pages will either be shaded very simply like this:

OR they won't be shaded at all like this:

It'll probably depend on how much attention I want to draw to each individual panel.

Another reason why I'm taking forever to get the comic to a standard where I'm happy to post it is because I'm really struggling with the layout and making it easier to read on small screens.

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My Bois ✨

Not been posting because I've been working on my comic to get my mind off of life but I had time to do some cool stylised doodles of the trauma trio