12:00 am Monday 1st November 2025
happy holidays!!! also another big update
hello again, another update on me life and stuff! it's christmas for me right now lol. i'm up early so I can get a bunch of stuff done, mostly with my art. my fam doesn't really do presents anymore because it's too expensive and shit. we're only having a christmas roast because I was the one paying for all the food (I don't have a huge amount of money, but I had a bit more than my mum did). so presents aren't really a thing for us anymore, but we still decorate, I still wear christmas earrings, and we still have a christmas roast lol. we have it with potatoes, carrots, onions and a little sweet potato and it's cooked in honey so it has a nice sweet taste that combines so nicely with the meat and vegetables. anyways i'm gonna stop drooling over food and i'm going to write about some new stuff going on!
so, first of all, i've gotten into a new game called Warframe! I've been having a lot of damn fun with it, and i've got two frames now! I started out with Volt because I like the lightning/electricity ability :3 I also chose to use a bow an arrow and a fast slicing sword as my main weapons, as well as a little pistol for when I need to shoot down stuff really fast. like those little drones that shoot at you and are super fucking annoying lmao. here's my Volt!

then i eventually acquired a few different blueprints for different frames, and rhino seemed to be the easiest to make, and was recommended to me (alongside a bunch of other frames) by a more experienced player as being a good second frame to chose, so I made a Rhino!!! And ohhh myyy goodddd he looks sooo fucking cool.

anyways yeah I'm enjoying warframe and totally want to draw my frames at some point xD but maybe later. for i have other things to do! namely, work on a big ass project for fun, but also to put in my portfolio!
yes, i finally bit the bullet and made a professional portfolio website for all of my best art. it's on neocities over here!!! i'm actually really proud of how it turned out because of the way that the gallery works!!! i got a working gallery that if you click on each individual image it zooms it in instead of taking you to an individual page. it's only got the most detailed art on there, but i wanna add more stuff, so i will probably be drawing more art specifically just for the portfolio, and it won't show up here on this personal website unless i like. really really want to show it off xD
last thing to mention before i log off to go draw is that i'm also working on a big project atm for myself (for fun, but also for the portfolio). it's gonna be an animatic thing, but it will take forever to make because 1. it will be almost 6 minutes long and 2. it will be illustrated like the images seen on my portfolio website- kind of in the style of the WoW Lords of War videos that Blizzard did for the diff orcish warlords in WoD. so um. who fucking knows how long THAT'S gonna take. but it'll be WoW related and it'll go along to a song, obviously. i'm storyboarding it atm because yeah, it's gonna require THAT amount of preparation and effort, just to get it all ready for the actual real sketches.
i will make a whole "how i made the animatic" thing on my portfolio website when it's eventually done, and the animatic will be posted on my youtube and stuff. but atm, i'm just slowly getting through the storyboarding process. i'm treating it less like a sprint and more like a marathon, just doing little bits at a time each day until i eventually get it done. i'm doing at least 1 storyboard page a day (6 small panels with very basic sketches in them, just to get the point across) until the storyboard is done. then, i'll move onto full-sized sketches with all the frames of the entire animatic. then, i'll put it all together in a mock-up/demo video with the sketches to ensure the whole thing works well together, adding and removing frames and scenes as i see fit until it's how i want it. then, after i'm sure it all works well, i'll start ACTUALLY illustrating the frames. like a crazy person. all in all, it will probably take well over a year to complete, so don't expect to see anything anyyyytime soon. but if i can get this bitch ass project done, it'll be a massive display of my skills as an artist and might actually land me a job or something. here's hoping all goes well!!!!

