If There's One Thing I'd Like To Add To My Artistic Repertoire, It's 3D Modelling. So Over The Past Week,

If there's one thing I'd like to add to my artistic repertoire, it's 3D modelling. So over the past week, I decided to work away with completing a full 3D model in Blender—and my choice for modelling was the wrench Ica wields (Partly to make it easier to draw it at various angles in later art). For a first go at modelling from start to finish, I'd say it turned out pretty well, and Ica thinks so too! The main thing I'd say I learned from this is to trust the scale—I resized the guide image I made to 3 times its size when modelling, and when putting it into Clip Studio Modeler I had to shrink it down a lot to be of a more reasonable size. But hey, now I know for next time!

And as for fun, I looked to see how it looked with a subdiv modifier, and it looked kind of amusing—though he was a lot less appreciative of this version. I've made a timelapse of the model being made, though it's not been edited down yet. But for the moment I can offer up Ica's reaction shots, separate from the renders!

(For those curious, the gradient on Ica's censor bleep goes from #667563 to #6B213F. As for why I made it those colors... Try messing around with them, in that order.)

Congrats to this squishy little guy, for finally getting its game after over a decade!

Happy Year of the Dragon! To celebrate, I redesigned one of my dragon characters to fit better into Cole's world. The little bugs he hangs around with, though, those can stay just the way they were. He'll probably grow bigger the next time I use him—he is supposed to be a dragon, after all, even if he's an insect-looking one.

Behold, the majesty of clay!

The original was made during a visit to my counselor, I did the best I could with the available clay colors. There's a sort of charm to the mittens on the ends of floppy wires, isn't there? Maybe one day there'll be a Ghostie plush that looks like this...

Happy Valentine's Day! I knew I wanted to do something to celebrate it, and I also wanted to add onto one of my characters' worlds at the same time, so here's another look at Ica—alongside his girlfriend, Lia! Her design's not 100% finalized, of course, but this is the general look I want to go with for her; Green to contrast Ica's blue, rounder body shape, and spring-loaded hinge legs as opposed to tube legs, to help with gaining ground quick when exploring. As for why there aren't springs there, well I forgor let's say she removes them from time to time, to keep them from getting worn out too quickly. At least when they do wear out, she knows who to trust to accompany her through the wastes in search of replacements...

Yesterday, a friend shared this tweet to our Discord server, and inspiration struck. Do not let this fish cook. (Still probably safer than Chien-Pao's ice cream parlor, though...)