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Duskbirds Practice Animation

I was randomly reminded of my Duskbirds animation, which made me realize, I think I never posted it here? Well, here it is!

i believe this was drawn a few days after the initial Trahearne animation practice attempt. Around last August. One of the first animated practices from last year, which lead to the later Trahearne & Malyck animations (with hopefully more to come!).

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Duskbirds #25: "Short-form Content"

I was editing a longer art process video and had it nearly finished, but knew it would take me probably about a week more to check everything over and refine before posting.

I haven't been a fan of the current push for short-form content, but because I had this footage 99% completed, I thought why not try out turning it into a short preview clip. This way I can show something in the meantime, while I finished the full video (and in case it ended up taking me longer to finish, which it has!).

(Edit: I finally figured out how to add a read more break, yay! I think they changed this from old Tumblr, because I could have sworn I've used this in older posts. I thought they removed it when they added this new editor, and have been wishing it was still here. Well, apparently it is, I just had to manually search how to do it. Incidentally, is this editor really buggy for anyone else. It doesn't let me undo or redo anything anymore. Okay, I think the read more feature might be dangerous for me, I'll stop rambling in this edit now, I'm sorry.)

While editing the preview clip, I was surprised by how unexpectedly fun editing a shorter version was. I've only edited longer clips before this. While I do enjoy editing, they are sort of involved for me (in terms of time/required focus). Working on a shorter preview version took a lot of the pressure off, and made it into a surprisingly light and fun experience.

I've made a few of these previews/shorter clips as an experiment recently, and while they are fun to make, I was also was rather amused by the real-time metrics YouTube provides.

I'm also not sure how interesting this might be because the comic style is fairly simple, but I couldn't resist doing a bit of editing for fun - and compiled the footage for this page into a simple process video here: View process video on YouTube

It is not a "how-to" video, though - if anything, it's more a chronicle of practices to avoid, as I was particularly inefficient with how I drew this page, haha. (If it isn't obvious, I mainly draw Duskbirds as stress-relief/low-stakes drawing for myself.)

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Paintober Days 7-9 “Respite,” “Spiral,” and “Tiny Duskbirds”

A few Paintober paintings from this week!

Today’s painting on Twitter! 

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🌱WEBSITE: LizLiu.com 🌱 Sketchblog 🌱 Twitter

🌱LINKS: LizLiu.com/links

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“Belonging” Sketch comic

This comic is influenced by a few conversations I’ve observed over the years. Primarily having to do with expressions of loneliness, and feelings of alienation in our current social media age.

-- I’ve been experimenting with a few of these “sketch comics” from time to time! I set up a small website to have an easier time viewing them  - visit Duskbirds.com for more!

(And also because I kinda miss making hobbyist websites that are mainly to have fun tinkering with.)

-- For more comics: Official Site: Duskbirds.com Twitter @ Duskbirds

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🌱WEBSITE: LizLiu.com 🌱 Sketchblog 🌱 Twitter

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Duskbirds #31 | “Stardust” Originally Published: Tuesday July 30th, 2024

Idle thought from the other day I managed to pen down.

The alternative title I was playing with was "Starcatcher," which is fitting for Elsium. Let me know if you like one over the other!

Full info/thoughts for this page here.

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Duskbirds #30 | “Click-through Rate” Originally Finished: Sunday May 20th, 2024

Currently enjoying listening to the audiobook for Outrage Machine by Tobias Rose-Stockwell, where this passage struck out at me.

Full info on the official page for this comic here.

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Duskbirds #29 | “Mattress” Originally Published: Monday October 16th, 2023

It seems we need to acquire a mattress topper at some point!

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Duskbirds #28 | “Angel Island Dracaena” Originally Published: Thursday September 7th, 2023

I went on a hike to Angel Island recently. It was the first time I’ve been there. You take a ferry to the island, which makes it feel like a special little trip.

We took our time during the hike, which turned out to be very fun, because I didn’t know there would be additional sites to see other than general wilderness. There were plenty of those, as well, to be sure – such as this giant version of what, to me, resembled a huge specimen of the “Dracaena” plant we have in our kitchen!

I had no prior knowledge of this plant before, and because we had just started Pikmin 4 around this time, I could not help relating to the starting parts of the game. When your little alien astronaut friend exclaims, “The plants on this planet are huge!” While you, as the player, cannot help thinking how silly these aliens are – how they are unaware by how they are the tiny ones!

More rambling about the hike and plants in the full Duskbirds.com post! https://duskbirds.com/2023/09/12/angel-island-dracaena/

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