Sickly Nays

I've been sick, so naturally, it's all that's been on my mind in terms of what to draw...

This sickness sure doesn't seem like it's ever gonna get better... I ended up losing my voice, so here's Jibu.

I've been feeling really sick, so here's a quick doodle of Pubby. 

Global Game Jam 2019

Over the weekend, my brother and I participated in the Global Game Jam! This was our 4th time creating a project for this and it was super fun.

Download the game here!

Here's the title screen for our project. Originally it was based on some old VHS tape covers.

The theme for the GGJ ended up being home, which is perfectly themed for The Nays! Our entire series is based around this concept of figuring out what home means to them, so it was perfect.

Almost too perfect. At first, we weren't sure what to do because we didn't know how to tell all of these ideas in such a short game. But we ended up making something we're both really proud of.

We went with a very simplistic pixel art style, which is something neither of us has really explored in-depth, so it was a really fun experiment. We got way more done than I was expecting, and I was impressed we actually managed to fit almost all of our ideas into this little game for the weekend.

I think this sums up our game best. This is my favorite background that my brother drew and it includes most of the character sprites that I created.

This is a screenshot of one of the mini-games I coded and created the interface for. It was based on one that I made back in VX Ace, but I hade to entirely recode it since there were updates and I wasn't entirely sure how I did it at first.

This is a scene from the opening of the game where they're gathered around Shelter 128 in Tag World.

This was an in-progress screenshot we took before the whole interface was fleshed out. This was one of the first mini-games I made.

And this is a sneak preview!

Overall it was a very successful Game Jam and I think it was probably our best! I wrote this post entirely after no sleep for 24 hours, so I'm trying to keep it fairly short.

Just go play the game for yourself and you'll get to experience everything we worked on!

Download the game here!

Character Interaction Sketches

Some sketches I've done of multiple characters!

Just a couple of BFFs hanging out.

Mikey is obsessed with Gojo and thinks they're best friends because they used to be neighbors, but Gojo is annoyed by him and does not think the same at all.

Digital Sketches

It's been over a month since I've drawn digitally.

I decided to do this quick doodle of Scott tonight. Also, recently Scott has been playing VA-11 HALL-A, so I referenced Jill for this pose and the background was kind of inspired by cyberpunk in a way.

Kai takes this photo of Mushy and says "We are heading to Frank Lady World on the Timeless Subway to find our friend Terra!"

First 2019 Sketches

This is my first post (besides the first drawing) that has drawings I've done this year!

This is my first time digitally drawing Fabiana! I drew her once in my sketchbook, but I tried to recreate that drawing digitally so I could practice drawing her and figure out a color scheme.

I decided to design some new clothes for what Trekkon could've been wearing when he first joined Death, but before he's officially initiated into the Death Association.

Marker Doodles

Before Inktober, I was testing out the markers I had to try and figure out what style I wanted to do for the month. So I made some doodles as practice.

Chozu's Like 30

I made this for my brother's 30th birthday, which was a few weeks ago.

We've both been playing VA11 HALL-A a lot recently, so I recreated some of the scenes from the Shard of the Orient Eventure in the style of VA11 HALL-A.

Chozu's Like 30 from Michelle Rakar on Vimeo.

Here's a gif of Moz in full quality.

And here's a still of Rosie.

Nays on the Twine: Moonwake Edition - Continued!

Almost a year ago, I worked on a story in Twine for a few days that involved tons of story choices, as well a bunch of story conditions and limitations to make it more fun to write. 

I decided to pick the story back up and finished Chapter 1! Here are the moments from the chapter that I'm planning to put at the top of each page.

I started writing Chapter 2 of my Twine story last night, and here are some of the moments from the beginning of the chapter! This one takes place during the Timer Eventure.

Choose Your Own Adventure Test

I was experimenting with some choose your own adventure stories, so I made these quick illustrations for a spur of the moment story.

First Drawing of 2019

It's time for the New Year's tradition of drawing Cipo! This is the 10th one I've done, so it's the 10 Year Anniversary of this tradition.

Since this year I'm planning to work on my interactive story some more, I thought it'd be fitting to draw a scene from one of our newest Eventures: Terra's Disappearance. He picked up this saying from Kolo who started saying goodnight to The Nays in this way for some reason. But this is also the first drawing I've ever done of a Linkship (and the interior, too!).

Here's a process gif of it:

Finished Nay Sketches

Some Summer 2018 sketches that I put a bit more time into!

A scene from the PSChat Eventure after Trekkon experiences the loss of someone very dear to him.

If Zandra needed to be undercover, she might look something like this.

Old Forgotten Posts of 7 Years: Part 1

So I was looking through my Blogger drafts and realized there were a lot of blog posts I started, but never actually published. This goes as far back as February 2018! So I decided to shed light on some of those old drafts that never got published so I could clean out my drafts. Be ready for some old content that could be up to 7 years old! I'm breaking this out into a few posts so it can be by year essentially.

I made this post live in 2025, but I set its publish date back in 2019 for authenticity. 

More Character Interactions! (January 8, 2019)

I've been enjoying drawing multiple characters interacting recently.

So this was what happened with Lonny and Topaz while they were playing video games in Shelter 128.

Nay Collabs (January 7, 2019)

I did a few collabs with my brother, where we drew our characters wearing clothes fitting for the background environments.

The first finished one was in a snowy environment!

Various Sketchbook Doodles (October 13, 2018)

Sketchbook drawings that I never uploaded here!

Inspirational Music Mania Drawings (September 14, 2018)

It's been awhile since I've just sat and listened to music for a long time while sketching.

One of the best ways to motivate me is to listen to inspirational music while sketching my characters.

So I blasted some of my favorite songs and just sketched my characters for an hour.

Pokemon Drawings (September 13, 2018)

I was gone for a few months, and when I come back, my parents are able to name off a bunch of the Pokemon that they know from Pokemon Go. 

So I sketched the next one in my on-going draw every Pokemon project!

Here's a quick Togepi drawing!

Lists, lists, lists! (September 11, 2018)

I LOVE making lists of games I've played and ranking them in excel, but I decided to create a more visual version of one of those that I could share. This was really fun, so I'd love to do more of these in the future (and add to it whenever I play new games).

These are all of the games that I've played from 2016!

Comic (June 5, 2018)

Here's another comic page! I drew that first panel awhile ago back when I was still doing strips instead of pages, but I went ahead and drew the whole page now. Last time I worked on the comic, I also roughed out the whole first chapter, so it was much easier to draw this page with a layout already in place. And Zandra and JrTr have finally been officially introduced as of this page!

Art Trades (May 3, 2018)

Recent art trades I've done with other people!

It's been 3 years since I did an art trade, so I decided to change that and participate in one over on deviantART! This is DoodlerBee's OC, Raven. You can read up more on their character here.

Nays Clothes Chambers (April 9, 2018)

This was a fun project that was based on an old one. We would pair The Nays up randomly and they had to draw themselves wearing the clothes of another Nay. I also used a brush that had more of a traditional feel to it, since we used to always do this original project on paper.

This was round 1 of the first four!

Yu Yugi Chan King Z - Continued! (March 11, 2018)

Recently I decided to continue the Revival of Yu Yugi Chan King Z project, so I did some more drawings!

So this was part of the Revival of Yu Yugi Chan King Z project that we started with The Nays a few months back. For this activity, Rabiah had to join an IRC server and ask for a request/pose that Satsuto would be in (since he was the character assigned from Scott). Shout out to the people of #BDI*OOC on DarkMyst for coming up with this idea to have him washing dishes with an apron on over his ninja gear! This was a fun little activity and went a lot more smoothly than I was expecting!

Pixel Art (February 7, 2018)

I decided to do some quick little pixel art drawings of my characters since I've been working in GameMaker recently.

A run cycle of Piko.

 

Conclusion

And that's it for now! I have even more old posts to show, so that'll be for next time. I hope you enjoyed seeing these lost posts that never became public until now. Stay tuned for the next post!

Digicember: Ridley & King K. Rool

Getting towards the end of the Digicember drawings!

Digicember Day 29: Rabiah & Summer as Ridley

Digicember Day 30: Tomocumber & Meushi as King K. Rool

Digicember: Snake & Sheik

More Digicember drawings!

Digicember Day 27: Araylee & Chozu as Snake

Digicember Day 28: Satsuto & Urom as Sheik

Digicember: Villager & Joker

These ones go together since until Joker's officially in the game, Ted plays as Villager. Willus will take his place as the S Nay Villager representative once Joker's released, though!

Digicember Day 26: Spicco & Ted as Joker

Digicember Day 25: Jennie & Willus as Villager