#personal challenge

[qyuobii]

Morning Dew (Extra below vvv )

After Aym and Baal's resurrection, they reverted back to their original ages before Shamura took them in. While they did keep their memories as Narinder's guards, these overwhelming changes caused them to be terrified of their new environment especially now that they feel even more defenseless as kids. Narinder completely left Yeshua's cult to "raise" them and found new purpose in life, with his old job as the cult's nursery attendant preparing him for this role. While he hasn't completely repaired his relationship with his siblings nor with Yeshua, he slowly learns to cherish the moment with people who is fine around his presence instead.

[afemalefailure]

They're waiting for Brian.

DAY 56 of drawing everyday until my art somewhat improves.

This is the first time I've properly drawn Tim so I get a pass </3

ITS THE FIRST OF DECEMBER!!! <3 AAAAAAAALLLLLL I WANT FOR CHRI-

[ak-illustrate]

The Amazing Digital Circus x Chimeran Legends - Circus Characters as Chimerans

Hope y'all don't mind me being a little cringe on main for a bit here, but I wanted to give myself a challenge and try and design what Amazing Digital Circus characters would look like as characters from my webcomic (Chimeran Legends). This was definitely a fun challenge for myself! My favorite design is probably Zooble's, and the most difficult to design was definitely Caine.

Putting design rambles under the cut! For some context, in the world of my comic, all the characters are a people known as "Chimerans" who have the appearance of various animals (or mashups of various animals), despite not actually being said animals. Because of that, I look to animals and mythology for design inspiration. Pomni is based off a peacock jumping spider, because the "arachnid" chimerans in the comic all have horns and usually have eye spot markings on their cheeks, so I thought that would be cute for her hat and blush. Ragatha is a ragdoll cat! Pretty straightforward. Jax I contemplated between being based on a regular rabbit, or the moth/butterfly folk in my comic called Papillonans. The Papillonans are kind of messed up rabbits, and Jax is a pretty messed up rabbit himself, so I went with that as the more fun option. He's based off a indian lily moth because (he eats clothes) they look like abstractions, and well.... Jax isn't doing too well in that regard is he? Zooble is the most Chimera-y chimeran here, being a mash up of a lot of stuff. I liked translating their head shape the most.

Gangle is loosely based off a ribbon snake, though I leaned way more into the illusion of mimicking her actual design.

Kinger is based off King Fishers. :> Because it's vaguely punny.

Caine's design draws from the "Combanians" from my webcomic, who primarily look like bees and ants. He's not based off any specific bee, I just thought making him a bee would have been what he would have wanted. :')

Ribbit is a frog...

Kaufmo was interesting. I almost went with a puffin but it looked wrong. So I tried a duck because ducks are also kinda funny. It ended up cute so I went with it.

Scratch is a dog........

Queenie also gets to be a Papillonan but she is a butterfly based one. I wanted to pick a gold color butterfly for reference since Kinger's butterfly was gold, and landed on fritillary butterflies. <3 They're really lovely and some of them do look like they glow. And that's it! Hope you enjoyed me being a little cringe on main. uwu;

[m0tiv8me]

Humble brag moment:

I did a really hard thing this past summer (for me)

I embarked on a 50 mile backpacking lakeshore hike along Lake Superior. Packed everything I needed into a 50lb pack. Food, cloths, tent, cook, sleep and survival gear…the bare essentials. Trekked about 8-10 miles each day, setup camp made dinner rested my achy feet and muscles and slept like a baby. Tore down camp and did it all over again.

After 6 days parts of me hurt I’ve never felt hurt before. I thought I prepped well enough but time and age inevitably wear on a person. I questioned if I could finish at times. It was harder than I anticipated and I honestly questioned what I had gotten myself into on day one. But by mid week I got into a groove and my body and spirit adapted and I kept on pushing. I hiked up and down rocky passes, through mud and sand, battled mosquitos and flies and even made it thru a little thunderstorm. Had a few crisp refreshing swims to get the sweat and gunk off and lots breathtaking views along rocky bluffs.

By the end I was ready to be finished but also quite proud of myself for completing the journey. I’ve done hard hikes before and many long days or weekend adventures but nothing ever like this. Probably one of the toughest adventures I’ve been on both physically and mentally. But I did it, and looking back it was totally worth it and not something I’ll ever forget.

Just a few pics from some of the amazing views I was treated to.

[aktualized]

Erm have this crap for day 1. Lol.

[200daysofwriting]

Day 54

I don’t know, guys, I just don’t want to write anything today. 

I’m not sure what I want. 

I have been thinking about changing the way I set up this writing challenge. I have liked writing something new every day, but I have been wanting to work on a continuing project for a while. Even with all the anxiety and the overwhelm, I think I am feeling ready to work on one of my books. 

That being said, I am not sure how I want this challenge to look if I transition into a single project. I wouldn’t want to share much of the piece because I do hope to traditionally publish one day. However, sharing what I am writing each day is integral to this challenge. Two of the ideas I have tossed around are sharing a small excerpt of what I wrote that day or just sharing a reflection. I think the second would be a bit harder and wouldn’t really be living up to the expectations I have for this challenge. But the first one seems like something people wouldn’t enjoy much. I am trying to remind myself that it is not about what people are reading, but my writer ego also won’t be quiet. 

[squeaknwthconcernburglar]

Change is coming.

Come on, Sam. You know what Bilbo use to say

- " It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step out on to the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."

I have a lot of changes to come as I move on to the next chapter in my life. I have know really garantee that all my plans will go smoothly and it more than likely won't. I'm taking a road trip 24hr drive to a new state that I have never been before. I won't have a job right away, I won't have a home. I'll be starting college and swicth to reserves with my base in a whole other 2 states over from where I plan to live. The pressure is intense to say the least. Not to mention a guy I was talking to wants to randomly reachout after I broke off things (because my values weren't being met- which maybe I should save that discussion for another post). I don't have anyone to contact there for support or emergency. I'm not good with cars and I don't know roads well and here I am! I would do better if I was going on foot to be real. Might take longer, but I like hikes and I jog a lot. There's so much paperwork and legal docs to keep in check with all this too.

I can say that I'll miss the comfortability that I have here, but staying where I am was never an option in the long all. I know I'm not happy or finding fullfillment in this place. I have to keep developing myself and my values. I'm starting to see what it is that " I " want for myself and I'm determined to move forward and see the person I'll become. As it is inevitable, it is time for the change in my life to come forth. Another unknown adventure ahead of me. With all the challenges to face for my character to show it's high quality.

I'll admit that I'm terrified. I even broke down with a painic attack last week. There's this voice inside me that thinks I don't have enough Took in me to conquer this. But there's no going back. I've set these plans in motion long before when I recongized in myself the urge for change. It's funny how all these threads in life tangle together at the most unexpected time. I can't shake all the preperiations needed and the panic of anticipating the journey. But I have to just keep moving. At the very list one step at a time. Maybe I can find there's more to this little hobbit mind than meets the eye.

POV: Me driving my car on the highway in new territory.🚗↓↓