Rainy Function

G'day, I'm Rainy Function. Welcome to my Junction.

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In case we get lost...

I'm trying to organize my stuff now. If you're looking for something specific on my blog, try one of these.

♥ Testimonies

♥ Fanart

♥ Original Characters

♥ Comics

♥ Rain World

♥ hfjONE

♥ Object characters

♥ Literature (It's done! All the tags are organized! Praise God!)

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RainyCycle (@[email protected])

1 Post, 0 Following, 0 Followers · The all-in-one stop for updates on "The Stranger" fic, gnRubyRain (my YT gaming channel), art projects, a

Created a Mastodon to tie together all my socials and provide updates when I'm in-between projects and posts. Feel free to check it out if you're ever wondering whether I'm still alive or not. Or to just see what I'm up to when I'm not posting here.

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Some awful character design wip. (believe it or not, these are all iterations of the same character)

Posting because this is a prime example of what I meant when I said "i essentially lack skill and my art style changes every 10 days". Except this was all within an hour or 2 or 3 or 4. The fourth image is why I don't post often and I don't let people look in my sketchbooks. The majority of what I draw looks like that. Meanwhile, peeking at the "doodles" in "sketchbooks" of my peers (and people way younger than me), they have a full fledged art style, confident lines, excellent portrayal of character, and they are able to do it all on command. I don't doubt I can get better... I just know I'll probably never have the talent to sit down and draw something good every time, the way other people do. Still trying to get past myself. In my weakness, He is strong.

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i hope i'm getting better at drawing people and developing a consistent style. i'd personally say this is the best frame of the animatic i'm working on. if you were to see the rest, you would agree with me, this one is an odd one out of the bunch. (because i essentially lack skill and my art style changes every 10 days anyways so i guess thats normal)

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Vynster's boogey kill from Souls Game episode 1. Drew this for my buddy Blue after she described the event, wherein she insisted on dying with a crafting table in her hands (originally I wanted to draw her cradling it in her arms but eh). Souls Game is part of the Minecraft Soul series, inspired by Grian's Life series. You can watch vynster's episode here.

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The inevitable downfall of Dirt Cheap.

Made this sketch a month ago based off a screenshot I took while watching Grian's Minecraft Evo. To be honest, I traced a lot of the background, but I really enjoyed experimenting with the variations in grayscale, as well as figuring out the perspective lines for the Dirt Cheap tower.

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I was introduced to Minecraft Evo and the Life seriess by some friends a while back. Inspired by animatics to try my hand at drawing the Grain. (to my friends this is old art; i wasn't confident enough to post it before, and even now i don't know why im posting it.)

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Rediscovered the tools I used for my Rain World comic and got a little carried away.

So happy to see this compared to my much older iterator art.

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Twas my bestie's b-day a little while ago and I made this comic for her. It's our Starbound duo, the Indiana bros!

SAIL mentions her actual age, but I agreed I wouldn't post it unless I covered it up.

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Art for Chapter 6 "Cycle 5" of The Stranger. You can read it here.

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A little Rain World comic I made about a year ago. It's based off a scene concept for The Stranger/Neo-Iterator AU. The AU itself technically hasn't gotten that far yet ^^; but you can read the latest chapters here.

Also my personal story behind the making of this comic.

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About a year ago, I started having issues with my hands...

I woke up one morning with an unusual ache in my hands. I found it suddenly hurt to write. It hurt to draw. It hurt to do normal daily things. I have theories, but to this day I still don't know for sure what started it.

At the time, I was in the middle of an art project that was very important to me. I felt that if I could finish it, I'd be one step closer to being the type of person I wanted to be. It wasn't so much about the content of the project as it was about finishing it. I want to be a finisher.

I thought the issue would go away if I took it easier on my hands for a short time. I stepped away from learning the guitar. I tried to limit the time I spent drawing (if you also love to draw, you can imagine how difficult this was for me). This not only slowed my progress, but it didn't seem to help.

I had begun to take breaks even from normal daily tasks, such as doing the dishes and taking out the trash, because of the strain on my hands. It would hurt just to brush my teeth (that was one thing I couldn't skip out on doing).

Everything I love to do, I do with my hands. It all came to a sudden stop. I thought this thing would only last a few weeks. It lasted me months. To this day I still find my hands aching from time to time. I don't get to walk the dog, or play the ukulele as freely as I used to. But thanks be to God, I'm not where I was.

Today, I'm back at drawing, no longer with the anxiety that I'll hurt my hands. I can scribble notes in my journal without pain. I can do chores and make dinner. I can even play Minecraft again 😂

The greatest battle for me wasn't so much the pain as it was the feeling of hopelessness, and helplessness. But God can meet us right where we are at. Like me, the apostle Paul also had a thorn in the flesh. Of this thorn, he said:

Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. -2nd Corinthians 12:8-10

This is my comfort. This is my hope. In my weakness, He is strong. Let the name of Jesus Christ be praised. Let His fame exceed all others. Praise be to God.

Oh and by the way, I did finish my art project! By God's grace, I was able to complete it within the first couple months that my hands were struggling. It may not seem like much, but for me it was a big deal.

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@flufftober Day 6. Prompt: "Mistaken Identity"

Posted late and mostly unfinished, though I did manage to get the character lineart and base colors in before throwing together a very badly done background. Characters are from a story I'm working on. This particular piece is based off some dialogue I was brainstorming the other day:

Fan: Hey Paint Can! Who’s this? Paint Can: She says her name is Kitey. Katie: >:( Katie. Paint Can: That’s what I said. Katie: No, you said “Kitey”. My name is Katie. Paint Can: Like, a nickname? Katie: Katie, as in, Katelyn. Fan: Isn’t Katelyn a human name? Katie: Uh, yeah. That’s because I’m human. Paint Can: … Oh. You’re one of those objects. Katie: What’s that supposed to mean? Paint Can: Crazy. Fan: -H-Hey Paint Can– Katie: You think I’m crazy? You think I’m clinically insane? Paint Can: Clinically, no. Comedically, yes. Fan: -C’mon Paint Can… Katie: And do you think I’m crazy too? Fan: ... No?? I mean yes. But being comedically crazy isn’t necessarily a bad thing!

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@flufftober Day 4: Market Day

(Another unfinished due to busy life)

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@flufftober Day 3: Favorite Scent

"May I ask one last favor of you, Princess?" "Anything, Jane!" "Always wear lavender in your hair."

I was busy this day and couldn't get past a first sketch, unfortunately. Anyhoo, this one was inspired by one of my favorite childhood TV shows, Jane and the Dragon.

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@flufftober Day 2! Prompt: "Left. Other left!" This prompt kind of mingled with some ideas I had for my fan-imagined ONE part 3. Charlotte is trying to give Subway Seat directions, I guess. I honestly had a lot of fun with this one.

(The initial sketch ^)

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My first post for @flufftober. I couldn't wrap my head around the first prompt, so I went with one of the alternates, "Rainy Day".

(The initial sketch ^)