Catpone Cerberus

Different approach to drawing attempt 2

Having lineart makes coloring easier, and is in general easier to me. It also helps me to eliminate the perfectionist in me that is what has caused me to kinda burn out from drawing. It does of course mean that the quality is also generally worse, and with making things like the cape without any references, it looks kinda weird.

But ultimately this is a test to refine my drawing progress to be more enjoyable to me, so the end result is more secondary.

In the same way, this character, like the previous one, is bit less serious. 
We were messing with this thing called AI Dungeon, AI based thing from a time when AI was still quite new, before chatgtb or open AI, that is basically an AI DM. I played a character "Bold the kobold" who's whole point was that he didn't speak English, and was just a silly little guy. Long, nonsensical story short, he ended up fusing with a magical staff, and I kinda liked the physical description the AI gave for him after the fusion, so I made a character based on it, with my own twist of course.

And honestly, I like him, I may one day remake him as something bit more high effort. 

It's been around 30°C for about a month now in Finland, it's just awful. 
Our buildings are not build for this kind of heat, I've been barely able to sleep due to how hot my apartment is, and that's with my movable AC on full blast as much as possible, probably multiplying my coming electricity bill. The worst part is, this being a brick building, even if the weather cooled down, the inside won't cool down until maybe at winter.

I'm going to turn into old man shouting at clouds soon if this job gig lasts too much longer. My coworker there is 18 year old guy and he does. not. stop. complaining. I don't think I have heard a single word from him that hasn't been either a complain about something or asking "why" in the way you ask when you want someone to justify something. 

He doesn't really do that much work, spending lot of the time in Tiktok or whatever (the man does not put his phone down for longer than some minutes at a time); which I don't care about, because I'm not paid enough to care, and manage better alone anyway. But for love of everything holy and unholy, could at least shut up and let me work. 

Attempt one in different approach in drawing.
I'll be writing a story and such for the character eventually, but bit of context for this specific kobold.
He's a bad science joke I came up with year ago.
There's something called Cobalt-60, a radioactive material that is blu-ish in color. So we have a blue kobold that harms anything biological he touches bare-scaled. His name was originally gonna be a pun on number 60, but instead his name is just "Rad".

He wears gloves and...socks? to protect others from himself.

I have had bit of a lack of mood when it has come to drawing lately, so I have decided to take bit different approach as I have identified the specific part of the process that always seems to suck the enjoyment. So I'm currently working on a piece that will be only line art.

This made me realize that in the ten or so years I've been drawing actively, I've made a circle of sorts.

As I was first exploring my own style, I first eliminated line art from my drawings entirely, going directly from sketch to full color, as I didn't care for that part, and now, years later, I'm experimenting with style that is only line art.

It's been a while, but new drawing.
 

Redraw of one my OCs, Ruby, not fully happy with it, but it was about time.

Woo, new computer. now I just need to install everything and log in to so many things

I love when games have features that really don't need to be there but are because fun. 
I couldn't find a gif, but in Ultrakill, one of the variants of revolver has a secondary fire that makes you spin the gun, and this spin, has lift. You won't really see this in regular gameplay, like ever, but if you get enough "dual-wield" pickups (each give one extra gun) with cheats, spinning your gun(s) makes you fly.  

This was coded in, there is no reason for such feature to exist, but it does, and I love that. 

It's funny how universe tends to push things forward. I have been planning on upgrading my PC this year, partly due to the whole Win10 losing support thing; the original plan was to look at in the summer-autumn time frame, however, my hard drive is once again breathing its last breaths, and I wouldn't be surprised if dies soon, so I've taken that as a sign from the universe, so I'll be heading to the computer place to get some kind of plan going, and will see the exact date after, Easter is annoyingly next week, so that does slow the plan down a bit, since no doubt that shop will be closed for entire Easter. 

I was just informed that Miuku, our oldest cat has passed. 

20 years ago, my parents found a lone, malnourished kitten surviving in the yard of my father's childhood home; she was old enough to eat solid food, so they gave her tuna. Later, as a family, we went there, trapped her with Tuna, and took her home. She was scared and very hostile, a wild cat, in every way. I was 6 years old. 

We were supposed to only keep her until she could be given to a home, but her stay became permanent. Slowly but surely, she learned to trust us, I was the first one she fell asleep on the lap of. She had many children until spayed, spreading joy to homes they were given to, Including Mäykky, who we kept, and passed away couple years ago. My current cat is a grandchild of Miuku, and a beacon of light in this dark world. 

To say she had an impact on my life, is an understatement, I am 26 years old, and for 20 years from that, most of my life, Miuku was there. A family member, the igniter of my love and care for cats, a source of happiness, she has molded me as a person, and future without her will be that little bit tougher. 

She was a tough lady, an outside cat most of her life, she was never sick, never injured; she single-handedly kept our neighborhood free of mice, and guarded her territory from wild-cats with iron-paw. Even in her last years, while age did take its toll, taking her hearing and energy, she was proud and dignified. But as tough she was, she too had her limit, and she had to be taken to a vet for the final nap to save her from pain. The vet apparently said that she was the oldest cat that they ever had done it to, which in my opinion is a testament to her resilience.

Born to the wild, you were faced with the worst the world had to offer. That determination never left you, you were a tough and dangerous, yet under the shell hardened by hardship, was a loving, friendly creature, that could bring light in the darkest of times. We grew up together, and while we may have not seen each other as often later in life, I never forgot you. 

Rest in peace little one, you for sure have deserved it, we will miss you, and we will never forget you.

I'm alive, barely. 

Man, 3 12 hour days is inhumane, and I get to do it again next week. It isn't actually as bad as the days are going, but after I got home after today's 4 hour day,  I don't think I've felt this awful since that one 27 hour streak in the army, and that was almost 7 years ago. 

Hi.  ≽^•⩊•^≼

Welcome to the forums new person. Your friend request was so powerful that when I accepted it, I got an error page  
     

Hi there.
So, I requested from you instead of doing an art trade, because I wasn't sure if I would be able to hold my side on such a trade...well, I ended up drawing your character anyway 

I hope it's even remotely accurate, as getting the right colors from fully shaded/rendered drawing is difficult (I used the picture you put in the Art trade post as the reference) 

It's interesting how different kinds of difficulty in games has a different type of feeling. I've been playing the Wolfenstein series (the modern ones) and any time i'm "stuck" in a level, I start quickly getting frustrated and annoyed at the game, meanwhile, in Ultrakill, I was stuck in one boss for half an hour and it took couple of restarts 

but every time I felt just more motivated to try again, in fact, I even laughed few times because it was more funny than annoying. 

I can't really put my finger on it why exactly that is, but it's very notable. 

Ultrakill update for those who care and/or know, I finally got past Gabriel, it took...few tries 

Turns out the power of an angel isn't quite a match to an underbarrel chainsaw.  whoo, I was worried that the game had been over-hyped for me, but I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun in a singleplayer game; and I don't generally even like hard games, just for example, I can't stand souls-likes, in fact, I don't really like arcade shooters either, Doom and Wolfenstein are meh at best to me. Yet somehow this hard arcade shooter is just what I needed in my life 

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For those who only care about cats, have a low-poly cat

I bought Ultrakill few days ago, I now finally played it, it kinda hard  It has been a while since I last played a game that needed actual practice  For those who know anything about it, it took me 2.5 h to reach Gabriel, who then proceeded to absolutely smite me. I had to stop for today, my brain can't handle anymore  
 

I sometimes worry what happens to me as an artist if/when these forums cease to be or I lose access for some reason. The forums and a single discord server are the only places where I post my art and writing, and I have nobody in my offline life to share them with.

Now, it's not about being seen, after all, I get on average one person even acknowledging my stuff, I think in the last years the highest has been like 5 different individuals  It's not about that, even if I admit that sometimes I wish there was somebody actually interested enough to ask me about my OCs  Rather, it's the act of posting, I like the feeling of sharing my stuff, even if nobody actually sees it, and I feel that without it I wouldn't be as motivated to finish stuff.

The problem comes in here, internet sucks, and I'm not talking about trolls or bullies or whatever, I'm way too used to those to care, but rather, the internet art-community just sucks. I personally don't worry about the over-reaction to AI, which has made people senselessly accuse artists of using AI, because my art isn't good enough for such, but the art community in general is so...unbearably arrogant/condescending, policing other people's art, and it's especially bad nowadays with politics coating everything. There doesn't seem to exist a space where people just do things because they enjoy doing it. 

I've considered spreading my wings and posting in some other place, but I just don't know if I have the energy to deal with the toxicity of the general internet 

As I found myself doom-scrolling instead of going to bed like I should, I was once again reminded of this masterpiece 

Even after all these years, it is one of the few things that manages to make me emotional every time I return to it, be it for different reasons nowadays. It has been long enough, that my connection to MLP characters has faded, but this video is the ultimate show of this community's passion, and has lot of memories attached to it for me. 

This year is the 10th year since I found the silly horse show, I am 26, that is a huge portion of my life, and the show, the fandom and these forums have undeniably been a notable influence on me as a person, they restarted my dead passion for art and they are one of the main reasons why and how I learned English, and without these things I would no doubt be a different, lot more miserable person.

And I am not planning to go anywhere, as far as it is in my control that is, we live in complicated times, darkness is spreading on this little dirt ball of ours, so now if ever, it is important to sit down and enjoy the beauty we do have, for sparks of light are always more visible in darkness. 

Wait what, how long has these been things? , I just saw them in a threat for the first time, nopony told me we have next-gen emojis  


Also, I just realized how much was affected by what book I happened to read first, Ruby, one of my older and one of my favorite OCs, was originally inspired by the Talon-saga book series, and several OCs have been created through the lore I've thought up for Ruby. But now that I've read bit of Wings of Fire, I realized just how different lot of my OCs, if not most of them, would be, if I first found that series instead. It will most likely inspire lot of my future dragon and kobold OCs.

Honestly, the only thing I don't like about WoF dragons, is the designs/art style, I don't know why, but I just don't care for it.  

Couple of years or so ago I bought the book-series Wings of Fire, I read the first book in two pieces relatively quickly, but then for some reason I just never got to reading the second book, even thought I enjoyed the first book and very much wanted to read the rest...until now, day before yesterday, I decided "You know what, Youtube is bad today, so I'll start reading it now..." 

I read the whole book, in one go  and it has been floating in my mind since then. I need to get to reading the third book soon...

And that's officially the first time I have been target of an attempted scam The classic Discord commission scam. I felt the conversation felt bit..bot-like, as they ignored a response and only had generic answers, and the "logged-off" the instant I said no. Too bad for them, I'm poor and draw my own stuff  

I think I'm getting sick, I got full night sleep to the point that I couldn't sleep any more, yet I have been tired for the entire day. In fact, now that I think about it, I have been feeling bit weary lately. That's partly why I haven't really been here, not that many would notice my absence, not like I do much besides responding to RPs and now and then posting drawings and such, those have been on ice lately too, just too tired to get anything done.  

I have been considering to try and get bit more active here again, replying to status updates and threads and stuff. 

You ever procrastinate so hard you become productive? I do. I have been procrastinating with the backstory for Ember and Cinder, and a new drawing, for a while now, just not feeling up to it, so instead I made entirely new character again  

https://mlpforums.com/blogs/entry/27237-vrok/

I'm not superstitious, but it has to be a sign of something that 2 minutes into the new year, a daycare (the only daycare of the affected area) burned down  On more positive note, last day the last year, I got a phone call about a longer work gig that just happens to be a walking distance from my home; that starts tomorrow, the first work-day of the year.

And since timezones are a thing, for information sake, the year changed 11 hours ago for me. 

Merry Christmas for the rest of you, here in Finland we celebrate 24th instead of 25th, so I already had my fill yesterday. I don't know it for 100% confirmed truth why we do celebrate it 24th and not 25th, but I remember hearing or reading somewhere that it's basically because we Finns are stubborn.

Basically, back in the day, before Christianity forced itself upon our people, we had our own winter celebration in the 24th, Christianity didn't like this, painted it as Satanic and so on, as they do, but we kept celebrating it, even those who were turned christian did, so after a while, the church just gave up and moved Christmas on the day instead to replace it rather than trying to keep entirely killing it. 

It also turns out that one traditional Christmas movie has been taken off air now,  so rest in peace Joulupukki ja noitarumpu (Santa Claus and the witch-drum), traumatizing children since 1996