Date Published: 01.31.2026
Mood: Not a Mood But I'm Just Mildly Inconvinienced by the Fact That I Need to Manually Set My Left-Handed Keybinds For Every PC Game I Play. Haven't GameDevs Figured this Kind of Stuff Out Already?
Listening To: Marvelous Things by Eisley
Watching: Defunctland
Playing: Heartopia
(Skip buttons if you don't want to read my tangent on the MOBA game that took over my life for 4 years)
Happy New Year everyone. I think the hours I spent on this game is quite humble, all things considered. Despite having 1,500 hours in Unite (Okay outright, I might have even more hours in total because I had an alt where I only played to get the masculine cosmetics for the game, and another alt where I exclusively played mimikyu/pikachu/raichu), I'm not a big MOBA fan to be honest. I've played league with friends back in like 2012 for a total of about 6 games. And that's the only other MOBA I've ever played. But here's the thing. I was very obsessed with Unite. I think I played almost every weekend. I followed a lot of the content creators, (Spragels, my goat,) and I even watched the tournaments live. The most cringe thing I have done though was fabricate OC builds written in the style of Pokemon Unite's abilities and movesets.
But, after almost 4 years of playing the game during every moment of my free time, I think I had my fun. But, I really can't disregard Pokemon Unite in this kind of way. I really, really really loved it! I loved the trainer designs, I loved that you can run around as Blastoise in a firefighter outfit. I LOVE ELDEGOSS. I had her on my 1st Sword and Shield playthrough but I had to box her because her movepool was so limited. Unite let me use a Pokemon's design I liked, and turned it into a Pokemon I loved! Maybe it wasn't original, maybe it wasn't popular, but it was something I enjoyed. I have a lot of passion for the game, and although I'm sad that I won't be playing it for the foreseeable future, I had a really good time.
Anyway, all this to say, after dropping Unite, I found myself with a massive amount of free time. And, I'm weirdly not accustomed to this. I crunched like hell at my old job, did a lot of unpaid overtime, but now I have a very regular work schedule. So, yeah. I've been drawing in my spare time.
Art requests / art trades done for the folks on gaia and toyhouse. I think it's fun drawing gift art for people. I didn't really want to limit myself to artfight, because honestly it's a beast of an event and I'm not sure if I'm capable of running that marathon again.
I like having request threads, but since I had two I discovered very quickly that I had bitten off more than I can chew. Even with a 2 slot limit per thread, I was taking a lot longer than I thought I would on each piece of art. I feel a little pressured to make really clean art when I draw for others, but I really should be mindful of my capabilities and workload.
Maybe in the future I'll look into staggering the opening and closing of these request threads so I won't be working on both at the same time. For now, I'm really happy to just work on my OCs.
My 10 year old Gaia Art Request Thread ✦ Toyhouse Request Thread
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Art request for Khloe from gaiaonline. I was actually planning on closing my request thread on gaia, to open another request thread but there's a few designs I want to draw...
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I traded art for a couple of adoptables with Haru.
My sister is really into adoptables and frequents the toyhouse forums. I have never really touched that part of the OC making community. I think it's a really cute concept. There's seriously a lot of amazing designs out there but I prefer simple shoujo-josei style OCs. I have about 5 of them now.
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Another art trade with Haru, since we traded 2 characters for 2 pieces of art.
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Art request for wildheart970's Mimikyu OC.
I have pika-family bias so if you really want request art done by me, you just need to associate your request with something pika related. But also, I have an Alola bias. But also, I love Lillie.
My OC art is very scatter-brained but I swear there's a process in the madness somewhere here. I've been working on upgrading everyone's character ref. Initially, I made the character refs very simple so that people on artfight wouldn't have difficulties drawing them. However! I omitted a lot of key details in their art like - eye shape, nose shape, hair split, etc. If you look at Ariol's character page, I drew his bangs 3 different ways 💀 I had a very... Homestuck-esque way of approaching character design, but as I'm actually beginning to board my comics, I realized that I need to refine everyone's character sheets.
Buuuuut, I'm a little tired of focusing on the main cast. I've actually drawn Bryce, Lyka's, Psyche's, Aurita's and Alma Flora's ref sheets 2-3 times already. Here's their 2018 character sheets:
I really, really, really don't want to do this dance a 4th time.
Isolated Aster here.
I made a new character template back in December for my own personal use. It's funny, really. I make templates all the time at work but it only occured to me in recent time to start making templates for OC stuff. Yeah, I feel a little silly lol. Here I was, manually making a new freaking page layout every time when I could have just made the one template. Clip studio paint's template creation process is really weird though.
For the new character sheet template, I included a palette section, a notes section and a details section. I also kept it barebones, because ultimately these aren't for posting on social media or anything. They're just for my personal use, lol. I've posted Aster's ref around though because she's cute.
I wanted to finish this character ref before the end of the month, but I get terribly distracted. I wanted to do art trades, I wanted to do art requests. I wanted to storyboard comics, I wanted to work on key art. I have a lot of things I want to do but not enough time.
I'm really happy that I managed to get half of this done though. I'll try to finish the other half, and get started on other character sheets.
Aster is very much inspired by my brief time playing Selfy Collection (Note: Link leads to a review of the game. I'm not linking the game's store page because it crashes very frequently! It also runs considerably worse on the Switch 2 somehow?) my time palette hunting on gaiaonline, and infinity nikki.
(Note on Gaia: I'm not the best person to explain this, because I only skimmed around the community forums a little bit. Not sure if I'm using the correct terminology either but I feel like this is a phenomenon I absolutely must explain.
There is a current gaiaonline meta where people will spend a lot of time and resources collecting every item in a certain color palette. I think it's a really clever system for a dress up game! If you want all of your clothes to match, all you need to do is find the item in the community marketplace with the palette of your choosing. Some people are absolute die-hards for their favorite color scheme. Like, yeah! Me too! My personal favorites are the tinsel color palette and the beloved color palette. Purple, or even burple. My favorite colors.
However palette hunting is somewhat of an incredibly expensive and time-consuming hobby depending on what item you're looking for.)
Very loose art done of Aster.
I like jumping from project to project, so it makes for a really confusing comic-making process. However, I'm finally attempting to make one in earnest. There are three here I work on in rotation. I'm not sure which will be done first, or if they'll be done at all. At least they exist.
I really want to put in the same energy for everyone's character sheets like I did for Aster. But some characters don't really need it, or I just... Don't feel like polishing them when something like this is adequate enough for me to use. At least it exists!
I'm really contemplating on how I'm going to tell their story. On one hand, I would very much like to depict their childhoods. On the other hand, I've read manwhas where the story is 50 - 80 chapters in and we're still in the middle of the childhood arc?!
Some people on toyhouse give adoptables away for free, so I managed to snag this character design a while back. I thought the character was cute.
This character design was also very cute. I was reminded of early 2010's art. It made me think of high school and my candy-obsessed shoujo manga reading older sister.
I made this version of my icon before deciding that an early sketch was a lot cuter. I wouldn't really call this a sona? More of like... A vibe I'm trying to encapsulate for 2026.
Yeah, he's a character who desperately needs an update to his character sheet. I honestly don't know why his hair looks different in every art I make of him.
She's one of the easier characters for me to draw, but also one of the harder ones for me to write.
I have a few modern day OCs that I'd really like to make comics for.
Also, apologies for the layout. These are sorted by image size, not really by relevancy to each other. Ariol's initial design had a coral reef horn pretruding from his head. Really wish I could have kept that aspect of his character design.
I wanted to take a break after working on all the request / trade art so I drew Ray.
These were the earlier sketches of my icon. Initially I wanted to do a auto-biographical comic but I don't like talking about myself to that kind of extent. I mostly wanted to make a comic that complaining about my old corporate job, but I feel like it wouldn't be fun for me to make. I think I need more time away from thinking about my old job before I'm ready to even talk about it with others, haa.
A few years ago I tried to write a comic script featuring Sena during Nanawrimo. I didn't really like what I made in the end, it was about 30k of script down the drain. Not everything went to waste though. I had a few scenes were these two interacted and honestly it was some of my favorite parts. Maybe it's because they both have similar gimmicky character tropes?
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