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[onyichii]

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

I really haven’t drawn a comic with them in 3 years! I can’t wait to get back to drawing comics seriously again!

I drew her in these dresses from [company redacted]. I saw them and thought they'd look good in a drawing than!

[onyichii]

Wakfu s3 and s4 art books kind of suck (in terms of character art)

I’m going to say it…

I don’t think I’ll like the Season 5 Wakfu art book 💀

💖The season 1 was the best (if you own the whole collection. I own five volumes. I want vol 3 and vol 8).✨

😔 We never got a season 2 art book. 😭 No OVA art book/zine. 🫤 The Season 3 art book was fine. 😐 The Season 4 art book was not valuable to me…honestly maybe season 3 and 4 art books are about the same 🤷‍♀️ HOWEVER, the season 4 art book has adult Yugo (so that's a plus!)lol

For context - I could have bought the season 3 art book. I held it in my hands. But when I looked at it, flipped through it…I didn’t find anything of value to me inside of it.

What is valuable to me? Character art.

They LACK concept art and sketches. They only have art from the show. Okay, the season 3 art book has SOME oncept art for the NEW characters, but I want to see the concept art for EVERYONE. I want to see the sketches! I wanted to see if they played with Amalia’s look in season 3 before deciding to for that final look. I love her OVA look more and thought that’d be her season 3 look.

Art books are supposed to inspire and inform.

As an illustrator, I didn’t get much inspiration from the season 3-4 art books for Wakfu. They’re good references for drawing the characters if you lack a computer, phone, tablet, library, and WiFi—but that’s about it.

A part of me wonders if they make these books because it's a decent cash grab. 👀🤷‍♀️

I also wonder if…

they don’t have much to show (I doubt).

whoever puts these together just don’t gather good content for it.

the curator is just bad at putting together art books. Porbably having no frame of reference of TV art books currently out. If this is true they should not be putting an art book together.

Additionally…The designs since season 3 have been lackluster. 😬

Dull. Uninspired. The characters are not giving the ✨..the pizzazz that the season 1 characters gave. Even Amalia season 3 kinda feels like a downgrade. It's a cute outfit that has meaning (the orange leaf) but, I feel it could have been better.

Also that pants comment in the season 3 art book felt like bullshit.

I LOVED that she was feminine. There is nothing wrong with being feminine. You can be feminine and still wear pants and shorts. It kind of feels narrowminded, but maybe I'm misreading (probably not though). I'd rather them just say that it's cheaper/easier to animate pants and leave it there.

The only good thing about the season 4 art book is adult Yugo references. Am I wrong? 🤔 However, I feel like they could have pushed his design more as well.

As a matter of fact, my guess is that they pick the dull character designs because it’s easier (and more importantly cheaper) to animate simple designs than complex ones.

A simple design can still be appealing though - Echo, Amalia (s3), Toxine, etc.

Among my TV art book collection wakfu season 3 & 4 books are my least favorite. Books I have barely opened since getting.

Side note: The Dofus film art book is nice too.

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💬 3  🔁 6  ❤️ 23 · It kind of sucks shutting down my own dreams, but at my big age it's hard to dream with reality harshly side eyeing me wit

So much regret.

I've been thinking about this for a while. I look at the clock and feel the time slipping between my fingers. Seconds turn to hours, hours to days, days to years. I felt like if I wasn't spending that time being productive, then I was WASTING IT.

I didn't allow myself to have a that young adult life experience in my twenties. I didn't date because I told myself, I'm too behind and needed to catch up or have something to be "worthy" whatever the fuck that meant. I didn't have a job I liked back then (i still have that job btw). I simply wasn't happy and believed getting a GOOD JOB would make me happy. Why? because I'd finally have money and then feel worthy. Weird right?

Point is...I didn't really live because I felt like my work life defined me. I put it on the highest of pedestals. I was using my time mentally beating myself up than using that time to live a life full of rich experiences and having fun.

I know that now. I can get money back, clothes back, and etc. But I will never get that time back. I don't do the things I did before. I am a little more relaxed. I still waste time, but now I waste it scrolling and that is another issue I will address privately! lol

Don't get me wrong, I have changed much...very little. I don't have a strong will and change is not easy. I'm don't feel like I'm using my time "live life," like I want to (there are nuances there too). But I am trying. I'm trying to 180 my life. Making friends (which is hard as an adult 😭;especially when you live outside the city and in the suburbs), going out more—to the theater/theatre, restaurants/food trucks (now that gas is $4/gal that's gonna have to reduce/stop) . Honestly, maybe it's time to move to a city like NY/Paris/Toronto/etc with good public transportation, so that I can live the life I want...IDK. We'll see.

Until that day comes (if it does), know that I am trying little by little to enjoy the time I have and just chill

(update 3/25: now that my brain is chill)

[onyichii]

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I’ve been thinking about my nonexistent love life. I don’t put myself out there (I’m not in the apps) but I never get approached by a person who seems decent (except once in France). For some reason, I have bums who hit on me. And it makes me wonder if I’m desirable, if I’m well kempt, and worst of all if I’m enough.

I know I’m good enough, but damn is it hard to keep this mindset. I won't join the apps but I will try to open myself up a little more. Maybe make the first move…but that is hard and has its own problems…

… but that will be for another comic.

Happy Valentines Day! Love yourself!

[onyichii]

I originally drew a significantly inferior version of this comic in 2024. I didn't like how I ended it back then. I think this ending better encompasses my overall thought without me bluntly "telling" like I did in the 2024 version.

I'm comfortable. So much so that I've become stagnant for a long time. In December it will be 10 years since I graduated from college. My life is fine (I have a roof over my head and a job) but it's lacking....I don't feel like I'm thriving. It's more like I'm surviving.

Like grass under a deck, I've taken shelter in darkness, shielding myself from experiences with promises of potential pain. On the other side, I watch others stand in the light, get beaten by the rain and yet are okay; even try again another day. Trying in romance, making new friendships, seeking job opportunities, etc - I feel like I haven't really been trying to go beyond my comfort zone of living. I'm alive (gratefully) but I've confined myself and am unable to grow beyond my small pot. I think I know I need something different...in my life. I need to shake it up.

People who uproot their lives by moving to a new city, state, or country to start over—I give them props. It takes a lot of guts; bravery is something I lack when it comes to BIG financial decisions. But I'm learning from the thousands who have done it with faith that everything will work out. And I'm gaining the bravery to try something even if it's small to grow a little more.

[onyichii]

Mushroom Amalia I finally finished!!! I really like how this turned out!

Since this took a LONG TIME. Let me show you how we got here.

V1 - This was the first version. I HATED how I colored this. I wasn't feeling the spores. And most of all I didn't like the shape of the line art. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.

V1.5 - I took version 1 and removed the red blending in the skin. And I removed the depth in the hair. It's not bad, but I wasn't satisfied with it either.

V2 - I decided to completely redo the picture.

Redrew the line art

Repositioned her hair

Reduced the spores

Added more Tofu

This time I attempted to go for a painting style. I failed. I like how I tackled the shadows more in this. I do not like how I did the hair in this one. It's just poorly shaped to me.

So I took a little from all of these to get the final version I created.

I will actually make a video about this. It's 4am and I'm tired and can't think straight to elaborate more here. I hope you like this pic as much as I do.

[onyichii]

----Updated 3/25 with new detailed commentary----

It’s hard to dream when reality is strangling you—telling you to focus on your job that pays bills.

I am an artist. An artist that likes visual storytelling. For a long time I used to think up stories that I believed had the potential to become shows or movies, once I began working in animation.

I used to dream big but now I find myself scoffing at my fantasies. I don’t think things work out for me. I mean I couldn’t even get a job in animation. And ever since I marked my attempt at a career in animation a failure, I found it hard to dream again. I didn’t want to pursue anything I could possibly fail at.

I look at others working on their passion projects or working on their projects passionately, pursuing dreams similar to mine. They’re definitely working hard bts and I’m scrolling through social media looking their success.

A part of me wants to think I can do it too. However, because my mentality needs proof, and my heart is still broken from animation—i focus on that failure. Thus, I found it extremely hard lock-in on a new dream and focus on a new project.

I’m envious of people who have so much faith in their stories, dreams, and their skills that they quit their jobs (pre-2026) to pursue it.

Either way, this is something I’m working on. I want to have a little more faith in myself. Stop focusing on the failures of the past and stop imagining failure for the future. But instead, imagine success.

HELL—Also being okay with failure, learning from it, and most importantly not letting it kick me down. I guess it hasn’t—I’m still drawing and thinking up stories. I love thinking up stories.

I hope to get that fire blazing someday. I kind of feel it flickering.

Did I get my thoughts out clearly? Does this make any sense? Sometimes I feel like my thoughts are all over. Have you felt this? #journalcomic#diarycomic#comicstrip#webcomic#comics

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It kind of sucks shutting down my own dreams, but at my big age it's hard to dream with reality harshly side eyeing me with bills in hand. I do hope for the best.

I want to pursue my dreams and I do for a bit but then I think I get scared. Scared of the failure I have once experienced. I don't want to feel that again, but I know it's part of life.

ALSO... I'd like to add...

✨ Analytics is not a reflection of the quality/goodness of your work. It's a reflection of marketing. I know this now. I didn't consider this years ago.

[onyichii]

References for art

Ever since I began using references for nearly all my drawings. I began noticing the photo references in other people’s art.

I used to think artists had such an amazing visual library to make their works. But no, most artists draw from reference regularly.

I used to stress over pulling ideas from my brain, man! 🤦‍♀️

✌️🩷 But I don’t anymore! Because now I think I know how to reference!

——-Example

If I had seen this 6 years ago. I would have never known it was a reference from a photo. I would have thought the artist was a genius to create such an interesting composition!

I thank the LORDT for this epiphany!