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Had a lot of fun studying this character illustration as part of a quest for the March Hotel daily art practice event.

Someone is running a really fun activity!! Come play! (I'll be throwing the guy above at it!)

The Problem at Room 2334b concept and art by user Variant in the march hotel discord!

March Hotel

March Hotel is a month-long event designed to keep you drawing every day. During your stay, you'll meet like-minded artists, complete quests

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wip weekend! thank you @seinotaph for the tag!

^pretty much mainly been working on finishing some explicit art to insert into new zine I'm prepping for Artist Alley Shop consignment! i have space in the NSFW section starting April so i have to make sure i have enough on offer haha

I havent drawn much of chance and oliver so its been nice seeing them exist!? mainly ive been enamored with how cute one flopped ear puppy ears is. It's so patheticcute which is perfect for chance's vibes.

^I've also been working on a photocard for the anirevo vancouver OC stamp rally im hosting! the theme's flower language, and i had this really fun idea for mine but uh. fuck . i've screwed up a bit and im really struggling committing to heavy painting so i might just have to start over to clear my brain cache....

^I mean to get back to working on the FBCI comic since it's been a backburner'd for a while. But an artist i know has these fun handcuff keychain clasps and instantly I needed to jot down these funny merch ideas I had HAHAHAH

Other than that, I've been futzing around a bit with synthesizer v again -- nothing in serious wip mode for the time being, but definitely something I'm on the lookseeing about. other things I mean to work on? Mission 1 for my rp group which ive been really sad about putting off, lately i've been feeling awful because of work and other random factors x_x ive been calling it "february psychosis" and I really hope to kick it come march...

anywho! I wanna know what everyone's up to :D @chiko-akihari @silver-queen @crow-n-prince @noeberri @arbitrarydelight @nhyhu and you the reader!!!!!

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Made a little affiliate button banner for our site!! buttom...

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Forcing more people to learn about the worst coworkers to friends yearning ever

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And so we return to the lily posting (speedpaint/yap under the cut)

This is kinda a redraw, kinda not. The first digital painting I’ve ever attempted is what I’ve come to call “ciellilies” for precisely the fact of having lilies and ciel in it LMAO. [...]

I remember it taking a loooooong time and spread out over many weeks with an agonizing number of references— I really slaved over that one LMAO. I had no idea what I was doing but I liked a lot how it turned out.

I’ve always admired artwork where the artist bothered to paint in the delicate little veins in flower petals, and to this day I still feel very nostalgic about ciellilies. Something about it feels classic and timeless, and deeply romantic. I’m not sure I could capture it again. And I don’t think I quite have with this “new” drawing / redrawing either.

Though I also think my mindset and approach for this one was very different, so I wouldn’t compare them! After tuning Say Love You, I actually was going to just reuse cielilies for the video when posting it, but I both felt that:

a) I already post ciellilies way too much (it’s attached to every synthv video I’ve put out) and

b) I was struck with this mental image of those early 2000s vocaloid/fandom MVs that were just 20-30 .pngs of a character the uploader found online smushed together panning-slideshow-style and put up for all to view.

Kinda nostalgic and kinda struck with a particular mental image, I immediately sat down and drew this in one go. It’s not as polished or as nice as the original ciel lilies, but it was fun mixing it up and just trying to do something from scratch, using a bunch of the same themes and motifs (curtain / veil, the white blouse shirt, filtered sunlight, and of course, lilies.)

One day, I hope I’ll also have 20-30 similar .pngs LOL

Song: 说爱你 - Say Love You (Cover of a cover LOL) Ciel Yuezheng (OC) - An Xiao (synthesizer v)

我的世界变得奇妙 My world’s turned so wondrous 更难以言喻 And even harder to put to words 还以为是从天 I’d thought it was 而降的梦境 A scene from a dream, that fell from the sky,

直到确定手的温度 Up until I knew the warmth from your hand 来自你心里 Came from within your heart 这一刻我终于 Finally, in this moment, 勇敢说爱你 I can courageously say ‘I love you’

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Where Winds Meet - Killerblade & Saying Goodbye to Ruby (from the august closed beta)

warning spoilers for the literal very first story quest HAHA

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tagged by @seinotaph ! I kinda feel bad because it keeps being no longer Wednesday, but it can be (T)hubris Thursday ig LMAOOOO

It was a long weekend earlier this week, so I ended up working on a number of things! By far what I'm most happy about is this detdr comic page.

I've also been working on a neocities site! It's still very barebones right now and nothing is clickable LOL but I was really happy to find I can do quite a bit of fun stuff on it. And thank fuck for that, because carrd never managed to click with me.

Baishuang Literary Studio - atelier of stories...

A collection of multimedia stories from the world of people. "Hey, Jiang Shuang! What are they writing today?" "In the mortal realm? Uh, let

I'm still debating if I want to put everything up as separate sites or one big one, I've never built out a website before so the logistics and backend side of it is something I'm still grasping straws at HAHA. This'll definitely be a Big Project :tm: that I think will definitely be several weeks in the making yet.

And finally, just last night I was putting together a cover for sth I'm supposed to have all compiled formatted by the end of the month (i have not started yet- coughs)

Watercolour art courtesy of namio, of course. I think the overall turned out great :>

that said, i have actually not been having a great day today :') I was out running errands that kept going wrong, and then fell for a phishing scam... but I do have these little guys to show. stay safe out there and I hope this can cheer you up, whoever and wherever you are!

Tagging @mmute-rp @ash-animates @crow-n-prince @spiritonadventure @chiko-akihari :> !!! and also you, dear reader!

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im going to tear up at how beautiful it is