I have no idea how I didn’t realize Pride was PRIDE MONTH - and instead thought it was some anime convention that you were attending. I thought maybe you were a vendor or something and just sitting there at this PrideCon drawing in the booth because you were bored. No shit this is the whole backstory I made for you in my head. I am so fucking dumb sometimes =P!

Holy shit!

Ahhh, my problematic boys up here. My problematic boys. I love this man’s wife’s problematic girls. I have a secret love of Happy Mania, even though it’s absolute trash. It’s a trash manga and I could not put enough of it into my eye holes for a while there. So for a smoosh - maybe you can do a FLCL coming up? Ehhhh? EH!?!?!?!

This is so nice! Is this pastels?

It’s good to know this thirty year old game will be ten in a couple of months. I love it, but I absolutely have never beat it because I cannot get past the fkin dummy! I have tried three times, three separate times. I gave up and just figure I can acknowledge a game is good, while being absolutely unable to beat it.

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I was recommended it by a friend because I liked (LOVE) Utena. I really think you should check it out. It might hit different if you’re a bit older, but it’s a relatively short series. You can skip around if you’d like as it’s sort of broken up into three parts like Utena [introduction to powers] [pieces moving in the background] [shit hits the fan]. I rewatched bits and pieces like that recently and I found it intriguing and made a note to go back and rewatch it all at some point. I haven’t watched any new anime in years (actually I watched Miki to Dali) but I still love the “olduns.”

I hope you really get a chance to sit down and watch it because it’s really quite cute and pretty much the only anime I have ever watched that gave me Utena feels =) Cheers, and keep drawing cause your artwork is really pretty!

No worries =)! Mine too. Have you seen Princess Tutu? It’s also quite good =)

Aww, looks like official art =)!

Also, love Utena. I’ve tried to geek out with folks over it, but have never found a person to do so with all my years. It’s got some cringey bits, but I think the cringe is just a part of the show in general. Heheheh, Utena. I <3 it! Good luck drawing for Prime, whatever that is =P!

Oh, I bet you that felt so pleasing to the hand. The texture of those cabinets, and then the smoothness of a chisel tip. Actually, I am not sure if you used a chisel tip or not, but it’s just what I am imagining. I think actually a fine tip would not feel as nice, but would be quite okay. Is the white a paint pen? Was probably fun either way.

Hey there! I got it working. We’re about to shovel a pound of food into our mouths and then go on an adventure! The missus felt awful after her errands yesterday, so we just kinda chilled out. I still like little adventures though, as I think they’re the spice of life. Picking a place on the map and going there, and then regretting picking a place on the map and just going there because you’re ill prepared for whatever is happening “there” =P! Hehehehe! I just love that mystique, even if I come out with scratches and said pound of food turned into a pound of sweat =P!

My partner is starting a business with a friend and it revolves around 3D Printing which they’re gaga for. I get the utility of it, and I love craftsmanship in all forms. I feel conflicted because I freakin’ HATE plastic. I mean, get it out of here! Just get it gone. I know there are some solutions one can do to alter their impact, but as usual the cheapest and most easily replicated solution seems to be the one on the table. I’m not one to squash hopes, dreams or anything like that. We don’t sit in opposite camps, but we do have different feelings towards certain things. I think if it’s something that interests her and she wants to pursue it, I can’t stop her. I don’t like the material though, as a whole. I wish we’d hurry up as a people and find better solutions for wide-spread management of materials.

Ah, yes! Me too! I will actually take some pictures every now and then for my own records. My camera isn’t good, but for the longest it was worse and I still look fondly back at those picture so I don’t really care. I figure as long as they invoke a memory, the rest is really irrelevant. I think you can see I’m no photographer =P! I often see people walking around with their lenses the size of my arm and I ask them about what they’ve shot that day or whatever. I am envious because it seems so lovely to be able to walk around and capture these little moments in nature that would otherwise go unnoticed (because they tend to be something human eyes can’t capture). My grandfather was a lovely photographer, he’d go to botanical gardens and capture these beautiful pictures. Sometimes I feel like I am doing his memory dirty by not picking up the torch, but to be honest two gals on a trail is already a target enough for bad actors. I wish I was joking, but it’s just the world we live in. I keep it light, but always bring little snacks and water for the both of us. Especially my gal, who gets cranky if she gets hungry =P!

It’s always important to remove meta-data because like I said up there, we just live in a different kind of world. Folks, whether for good or for evil, can be nosey nellies. I actually really loved the pictures, because they conveyed something very tangible. My instance is abstract, and it’s harder to grasp the overall concept. I thought, I could sketch it out for you, but figured it wasn’t really worth the venture, as ultimately the utility was the most important part of its existence.

I grew up with little guidance, as to be honest with you black schools are fucking horrible. I mean they tried their best but the budgets were just not there. There were a lot of kids to classrooms, and a lot of classrooms split into two in order to sustain them. I often think of how dirty America plays with their educational system. I am so bizarrely thankful that I have always loved books. If I didn’t have libraries to go to (school x local) I think I would have been absolutely screwed. Finding my way to forums, and founding one when I was younger really helped too. My father had a computer, and when he slept I could sneak out and do whatever I wanted. Which was apparently to geek out with a bunch of Europeans. Which I kind of feel like a return to form here, because in general it seems that Europeans are far more worried about the ethics of technology than Americans. Le sigh~

I have a health issue that can seize up my hands some times, which actually is why I need that control. I have lost a bit of my faculties in general, and it makes me sad. My sibby has is too, and we’re both artist and it’s affected us both in profound ways. I’m doing okay right now, as I’m taking some fun-timey experimental medication for it. The window for it is only up to two years though, and to be absolutely honest I am terrified of what’s going to happen when I can’t take it anymore. Just because in a way losing your ability to control your hands really dampens even the simplest of things. I have a great partner, but I want to be able to do what I want, when I want it. That’s the thing that frustrates me the most.

Eeak, she’s calling me I’ve got to go! But I was gunna say - I learned the destruction of my precious things from a gal I had a crush on in high-school and the damn thing never left my brain. She was Mexican-American (she became a famous singer, down there - get out!) and she would burn every damn thing she didn’t want anymore that was personal. Basically she romanticized it, and I romanticized her so in my brain it feels right to let go of things in some grand and destructive gesture.

Okay, gtg! Be well and talk soon hopefully! Thank you for everything by the by. I read along, agreed, hummed, made footnotes and the works! Just gotta run!

p.s. - People so often dyed their black hair that I actually didn’t know it faded the way it does =P! CHEERS!!

p.p.s. - Got on the forum =)

No worries, fellow friendo! Keep making good stuffs like this =)

Nah, the shading in this isn’t a mess. I FUCKING love your shading, and I swear to god if you talk shit about it again I will come to your house and braid your hair. Don’t got hair? You’re gunna get a braided wig. It’s on! Anyways, I totally am a “do I stop now, or do I keep going at this until it’s pure black because I can’t stop inking all this shit” kind of person. I get it! I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again - if you can capture the essence of whatever you’re drawing you got it. and clearly - you got it. So you done good! Don’t be mean to yourself! I just figured I would say the thing about the ear because it might help in the future. What are you gunna do? Get in a time machine and fix it? Nah. Just a little thing to tuck away for the future =)!

I love this! Idk if that’s you, or if its like someone’s sassy aunt but I feel this vibe so hard! Only thing I have to say is the hatching on the ear is kind of hard core. I mean, the ear could be in complete shadow but typically ears tend to have spaces of highlights kind of on the upper rim and the outer area. I am not sure if you catch me, I don’t know anatomy like that so this is how I have to describe it. I also think it’s brave as hell you did this whole thing with dip pen because my ass would have fifty splotches everywhere by the time I was done with something like this =)!

Cheers!

I don’t know why but it’s bugged out when I try to edit this post. Maybe it’s too long? Idk. But I am reporting back and I got it to work! Success!

I’ve never had that problem myself either. I took a break there for quite some time with my gaming but I did grow up with it, and I have returned to it. I can’t think of a time when I have played a game - even a story based one, and liked it and haven’t returned to it at least once more. I think I’ve noticed though, I am kind of a gaming minority. I think the funniest thing I can say about games is that back when I played with a big rowdy group of guys a game would last however long it lasted because the guys would fight and swap for whoever was controlling the character and we’d play that shit into the ground regardless of how long a game was. The last system I had was a PS2, so idk but I knew a lot of complaints started coming out PS3 era. Snap even was a game that we played like crazy. I had a friend who had a N64, and Pokemon was so hot! And we’d all just sit there and see if we could do “perfect” runs even though it was pretty much the same game over and over again.

Speaking of trends, I mean I guess these things have always existed but I think the PS3 began the genre my girlfriend lovingly describes as “penis games” which have hyper-masculine protagonist smashing the shit out of everything with dynamic lighting. I don’t mean to offend anyone with this, but the trend is still here (I am just guessing it’s Unreal graphics). I know it existed before the PS3, but it really took off then and was part of what actually turned me off of gaming as a whole.

Thank god! I know a lot of gamers still hug their consoles, but I haven’t had one since ninety dickety two, and I figured at least I could watch the pretty game if I couldn’t play it. Because I am not about to grab a console for one game =P!

Thank you by the by! It was super sweet to pass this along =)

***Oooo, looks like Nausicaa-ZoE!

It’s quite funny that Strange Scaffolding seems to embrace uncertainty with er…uncertainty. As in, they keep things explicitly contract based in order to keep people from expending too much time and energy into a singular project. I’ve always thought of contract work as something rockier due to taxes, benefits, etc. I think though, they’re just ahead of the curb and if they’re successful enough more power to them. Clearly something is a bit amiss though, if the head of the place can’t afford a ticket to GDC. I do like however, that they showed up to socialize regardless. Which is pretty much the main reason to show up to one of these anyways.

I also remember when people would constantly say that games were too short. I didn’t play them at the time, but there was a period when everyone was complaining about waiting for a long time for games - paying a lot for a game, and then finishing it in 5-7 hours and never playing it again.