pillowsledder

    Haven't written one of these in over 2 years. I'd say I'm sorry, but no one reads these (not blaming anyone). With an audience, I would have left a notice about my absence... Or would probably post more often. Alternate scenarios are fun, but back to reality. I've been on Discord a lot within some circles.

    2017 started promising. I had a retail job and that tested me for a little while - learning curves and being my first real job. It helped me understand more about my work ethics, but the outcome wasn't very surprising for me. I'm pretty ace when I'm being paid, have to do something, and it's not new to me. I still work there, but I made a decision very early this year that I'll quit. My experience there has been very positive. The people I worked with are great and I'm going to miss them. The job itself doesn't give a lot of incentive to go above and beyond by how the raise system works, though. I could be doing the same thing for more, too. Not like money matters to me, but time does... and survival, but you know; life.

    2018, I thought, was going to be a transitional phase for me. Not the case. Started off nostalgic for early 2017, and I had bought a great drawing tablet, table for my room that tended to my needs, and the computer was moved to my room. Then work hit me like a truck when I started working at my family-owned ice cream store. I also still worked at my retail job, but only on Fridays while I was there. Pretty hectic, but it got better as I went on. There was next to no time to think for me. Grabbed some bad YouTube watching habits, but I made a list of things I wanted done early that year and I got a few done. Still trying to shake my web browsing habits. Just a waste of time. Learned more about coding through an online course. Didn't pass it, but not because I wasn't on it. I really wanted that course to be a class so I could interact with people and a teacher more, but the option wasn't available. When I got stuck, I was stuck until I was shown how to fix my problem. Rarely could I solve something myself. Not doing another online course again. December was great to be with family. Best December ever.

    2019 is me being more cautious. 2018 was such a blur for me I had forgotten what I had learned from previous work experiences and that I should be moving up instead of plateauing in what I'm doing. My future's clear to me, but getting there isn't the easiest thing to do. I'm going to have to be seeking opportunities, not waiting for them to find a nobody like me. I've already started by doing some sprite edits for the intros of 2 separate Pokemon ROM hacks, Blazing Emerald and Emerald Genesis. Finished those last week. It's been a great morale boost for me. My art is there, but my methods aren't. I've been on and off that this year to fix my fundamental skills and learn how to use art programs. I need to do that more...

    As for my last post, I did stay true to it in some capacity, just not here. I'm not moving over to Twitter. DA has a lot of useful tools for organization that Twitter will never have. I could post everything I make to get more attention, but that'd be very messy. I'd say a large portion of what I make isn't anywhere for one to find. I should probably learn how to stream for the sort of things I do. Also, it seems people randomly like my stuff to pop up on my message feed here on DA. I do look at those people's work and what else they favorite. Found some very bizarre stuff. Needless to say a lot of attention I get on here is pretty null and void in terms of something I'd find "meaningful."

    Closing thoughts, there's a lot to talk about, naturally as I skipped 2 years of not writing, and I didn't write everything that I could have (surprising considering me). I've learned a lot and I feel that whatever happens is completely up to my competence. I really need to make a portfolio, though.

No promises, but maybe I could stop rivaling Valve time and actually do something.

As of this post I actually uploaded something I've been meaning to upload for some time now. Main reason I hadn't was because I lost my trusty ol' save drive, but I found it again!

I've said it many times before, but I'm still spriting. And to really show it, as of late last week I've been looking back at when I was still new at spriting. 2011, to be exact. I'm going to be remaking a lot of old Momentary sprites. It's really going to show how much more control and refined my skills have improved over the past five years. The sole reason why I chose Momentary was because I remember how fast I was at drawing the sprites back then and how much fun that it was. I'm keeping the sprites small and make them a tad more obvious where the influence is from even though I've been blatant about it in the past.

I've got a wide array of unique ideas I could do for art projects. I'm not sure when I'll get to them, but I'll get around to them at some point.

EXPECT ART FROM FLIPNOTE STUDIO SOON.

Let's stay optimistic, everyone.

I actually should have posted this on October 31st, but it was late when I tried, so I just gave up, but here it is now. What am I talking about? Well, you see, I can't scan off images anymore because of my new computer. Nothing is wrong with the printer or the scanner attached to it, it's just that there is no longer an option to scan images on my computer when I go to the printer's settings in the control panel. This means I can't submit any art unless if it's digital, which is mostly sprite art... Oh, and there's no adapter for my drawing tablet, so I can no longer use that right now. And if I didn't mention it before, my computer eats my DS's SD card, so it's very hard to get it out once it's in there. *sigh*

Basically, I'm going to be off my account until I get this worked out. I don't think I can say anymore other than that I'm extremely anxious to show off what I made and am very disappointed in the purchasing of this computer. However, if anyone is reading this, please feel free to contact me in anyway you can. I have a Skype, Discord, and Steam accounts that use this same username and my username is one of a kind.

Anyway, I'll be checking in once a week to see if I've got any mail or whatever. Thanks, and I hope I can come back real soon.

A whole year's gone by since my last post. Didn't I say that I would try to upload something during 2015? Too late for that now. Ha. Well, actually, I've been using my Sta.sh quite a lot to show my friends exactly what I've been drawing and working on through Steam chat. Otherwise, my page has been utterly stagnant for a while now.

Well, to be fair, when I made an DA account I was kinda pressured to make one...

Rest assured, I've not stopped drawing, just stopped posting things to my main page. There's a lot of stuff on my DSi that I can transfer onto my computer and color them in Paint. Actually, I plan on submitting that stuff here at some point. But...

Okay, so I'm writing this entry on a new computer (Windows 10) my old one died (Windows 7). At first, this new computer felt like an upgrade, but as soon as I got all my files transferred to the new computer, a lot of weird bugs have plagued it. And that's been setting me back for a quarter of this year. I could go into detail of what exactly these bugs are, but I'm going to send this computer back to have it looked out hopefully by the end of this week. Afterwards, I hope to get back on track and pick up some steam.

I'll be finishing college by the end of this week, too!

Oh, and I'm also 21 now. Yay. Not like I feel any older, but maybe I will when I finally learn how to drive...

So, what have I been doing all this time? Not a lot. I've made some Mario Maker levels (hit me up if you want to know the codes) and have been trying to find more things to do outside as I'm usually indoors at all times. Otherwise, I've been staying up past midnight to draw as I've found I'm more creative in the night and very early mornings. I'm more focused on spriting and anatomy more than anything else. There's still a lot to learn, but I've been recently thinking of going back to making crude animations just to keep at it. It makes me wish I had more time to prepare for when Flipnote's site was being shut down. It killed my willingness to animate for a long time and I would have liked to save some of my old animations.

Here's to this year. May it be more exciting than the last.

Aw geez, it feels like I'm coming out of a grave writing this... Well, what have I been doing? College work, I guess... Not like I haven't had time to draw, but most it is a whole lot of unfinished sketches. Actually, from the last thing I posted to now, there's only one thing I find suitable to show off.

I have a drawing tablet!
(uninterested) YAAAAY! So, now I don't have to subject you to my white-background, hand-drawn, and possibly blurry images as much! But wait, there's more! This also means that I'll be featuring more images with color! (about freaking time!)

Am I any better at drawing? Yes!
Previously, and this may shock you, but I wasn't drawing a "base" before I drew a character. Now that I'm drawing a base first, things will look more proportional and poses will be more dynamic! Honestly, I wish knew this earlier...

Update schedule, do I have one?
Well, no... In fact I don't know the next time I'll be posting something new other than tonight. Let's just cross our fingers for something before summer. Maybe if you yell at me to finish some of my sketches and give it a background I'll have more stuff to submit.

See you people around. (I'm serious about yelling at me, though)