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First of all, Art Year in Review 2020!

Yir 2020

I'm admittedly surprised I had enough more or less full pieces to make this with considering what kind of year it's been. I don't think I need to get into the whole Apocademic things since you'd have to be living under a rock to not know about that one. The only thing I'll say about it is, man I envy you people who got to go in quarantine for a few weeks/months. I just ended up working even more because I guess pizza is an essential service.


Fitting in drawing time this year between work and decompressing from it was a little tough, especially in July when we went down to the bare minimal amount of staff needed to function. It kind of sucks being what some people consider a good worker (it really depends on who you ask, some employers have considered me absolutely horrible since I can't stay in one place long) since you often end up picking up slack without intending to. Then when the slackers suddenly have to do something, they quit. As for art though, it's definitely become a "small chunks, small chunks!" thing, especially with the animation I started way back in January and admittedly, still haven't finished. Life's exhausting!


There's been ups, such as the fact I actually achieved a life long dream of owning a Volkswagen Beetle, and downs, such as my depression still hanging around like a rancid fart. I don't expect things to just suddenly change at the snap of a finger just because it's the New Year changing over, but sometimes you need that day to hold onto as a milestone, you know?


Congratulations everyone, we survived the one of the bumpiest orbits around the sun, 2020!

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I can't believe it's that time of year again already, god damn...


Anyway, wishlist time. I've got a few preferences as anyone does... I don't really have scenario ideas though. I'm happy with just about anything.


For solo characters, I've got quite a few characters I really like! Mostly Classic but I've been dipping my toes into Battle Network as well.

- Elec Man

- Quick Man

- Terra

- Sunstar

- Mercury

- Neptune

- Centaur Man

- Snake Man

- Plant Man

- Fuse Man

- Blast Man

- Plantman.EXE

- Elecman.EXE


If you're into drawing ships, I have a few of those that I like too

- Quick/Elec

- Terra/Sunstar

- Plant/Centaur

- Fuse/Blast

- Star/Jewel


I also have OCs and love it when they get some love too (mostly because I hardly give them any... lol)

Dream Man
Goatwoman 14062020
Mirrorman Goatwoman 14062019
Thunder Man -- Kepler
Synth Woman -- Retros
Ramoon 2012020
Mirror Man [ Quick Ref ]
Thunder Man [ QUICK REF ]
Dream Man [ QUICK REF ]
Sound Woman [ Quick ref ]

*Ra Moon is technically a reinterpretation of an existing character, but I've included him here because I've taken him in such a drastic direction from the source material.


That's about it!

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It's not even that I haven't been drawing, I most certainly have! Anyone who follows me on Twitter or Tumblr, or has the misfortune of sharing a Discord with me would know that's certainly not the case. My issue is that it's mostly been loose sketches and small doodles and DeviantArt has a bit more of a lengthy upload process than those other platforms so I tend to just skip it for the smaller stuff.


Things are going alright. I'm still learning how to live with depression and what other issues apparently seem to be ailing me. I may not respond to all your comments but I do promise you, I read all of them! The fact anyone took the time out of their day to write me a few letters of encouragement and/or praise really means a lot to me! I'm just... really flakey and get distracted so I don't reply right away and then it's just awkward to reply days, weeks, if not months later down the road.


I hope you've all been doing well and that the holidays treated you good. Stay frosty!

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(For the annual Megaman-Secret-santa event..)

I guess it's that time of year again. Hopefully dA doesn't eat my comment like it did last year but either way, here goes!

My favourite version of Mega Man is Classic, though I'm also really fond of Fully Charged and Battle Network!

From Classic, my favourites are Elec Man, Quick Man, Terra, Sunstar, Mercury, Centaur Man, Fuse Man, Blast Man, Snake Man, Star Man, Plant Man, Pump Man, and Proto Man just to name a few.

I have a few ships too, those being QuickElec, TerraSunstar, PlantCentaur, and FuseBlast. For shippy stuff I'm more partial to silly fluff more than anything though.

In Fully Charged, my favourites are Elec Man, Blasto Woman, and Fire Man. I also appreciate Wave Man!

For Battle Network, PlantMan.exe, Elecman.exe, and Quickman.exe are a few I really like (I'm not very far in it)



I also have OCs!

Dream Man

Dream Man

Sound Woman

There's an echo

Thunder Man/Kepler

Thunder Man -- Kepler

Mirror Man

Mirror Full

Goat Woman

Mirrorman Goatwoman 14062019

Synth Woman

Retros
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Yo Wassup?

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Meant to write a new journal for the new year but I kinda slacked off for a good part of January there. Most of you probably noticed seeing as I haven't really updated on here in a few hot minutes. If you follow my Twitter or Tumblr, I tend to post my sketches on there more frequently. It's funny because I made a folder for skitchy sketchy work on here, I just rarely ever use it. Probably because a lot of my sketchwork is done with pencil/pen and paper and the dA mobile app is kind of annoying to submit on.
That being said, I think I just needed something of a rest seeing as I did Quick Month and a few odds and sods after that. As well as that, I decided to pick up some old 3D projects, so hopefully I can do something with those soon. Rigging is not my forte, but it's a necessary evil in getting into 3D animation seeing as nobody ever seems to rig their models for animation. >:( It's gonna take me awhile since I mostly focused on animation in school and barely passed Rigging as it was. I'm not so great at the technical sides of things like this, but I'm trying my best! If you're interested in seeing that sort of thing, I'd suggest peeking at my Twitter every now and then. I tend to post gifcam images on there when I actually have things working.
2019 is a new year, that's how I've been looking at it. Who I was in 2018 and all the past years... well, those are past me. I've decided to leave the baggage of those years in them and I'm really going to try my hardest to be The Better Letter W for 2019 and beyond! I will say that the therapy I started last April has helped immensely, even if it didn't always seem like it. I managed to get a therapist that clicked with me. One that helped me not just see through my darkness, but how to actually navigate through it to a better place. This doesn't mean I'm completely free from bad days or bad thoughts, but it does mean I know how to better deal with them! If you're struggling... please, find help! Even if you can't make the appointment yourself, usually it just takes one to get the ball rolling. My mother made my first one and paid for it and I handled all of them after that. I was tired of being tired and sad, I just didn't know where to start in getting out of there. I didn't have to do this alone, and neither do you.
Anyway. I'm really, really hoping I can push myself into working on animation again. 2D, 3D, I love them both! I have a bit of a stumble with brushing off my small ideas as "not good enough" and I'm hoping I can wrangle that into submission. Small stuff is where everybody starts, Dubs!! Do the small dumb things!!
I am 100% accepting of anyone willing to be a hype squad for me! Some of you have me on Discord and I appreciate all of you, even if we don't talk a lot! Maybe I should start trying to do streams and/or speedpaints again... probably the latter because my timezone and hours of availability don't really play nice with that sort of thing. Also more prints.
AH... So many things I want to do! Well, better update my to do list to sort these things out!




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