Old Forgotten Posts of 7 Years: Part 4

This is the final post of catching up on old forgotten blog posts! These are mostly from 2020, but there is one from later that I'm sneaking in here. I'm writing this in 2025, but posting as if it was posted in 2020.

Various Drawings for CUPdates (February 16, 2024)

Some of these at the end are art and things I meant to post a couple of years ago. I wrote PS Chat Eventure and was reading more Eventures. After re-reading You-Know-Who's Reign Eventure, I drew The Gek with his tentacles being web-like.

I also drew more NADs like Gina.

Also Yoshima.

And Filemon!

I drew a few Digital Sketchbook drawings. December was pretty minimal though.

Jinny and I decided to make a Guess Who game with our characters, so we made a template and printed out the prototype to test!

I also continued the Mr Marcus World Event. These were photos with Nays drawn in them (Doge and Larry).

And lastly, (not pictured), I did a test in Smack Studio. I started with using the Allen Walker sprite from JUS, and then was planning to do some with my own drawings. I didn't get that far on this, but hoping to come back to it!

Nay Attacks: Part 1 (February 19, 2020)

I've been working on how The Nays use their Marks to fight, and I think I'm finally getting somewhere. 

Here's a drawing I did of Rammako using his with a sword attack! He mostly uses this for defense, but also occasionally to attack when he needs to.

Pigger uses a whip mixed with claw weapon where he can control its direction and speed. I got the inspiration for this panel from Renji’s attack in Bleach.

Pubby has the ability to disappear for a few seconds to use this time for sneaking around and evading enemies. I was inspired by the after image strike attack from Dragon Ball/Z.

Jibu can bring cards to life and use them as a barrier or means of attacking with his Mark's abilities. I was inspired by Yugi-Oh for this drawing.

Scott uses destructive powers of blowing up and attacking with his blood. I referenced Sasuke from Naruto for this drawing.

Larry can make his Mark glow and shoot up a beam of light, which serves as an S.O.S. in times of need. I tried to take some inspiration from Sakura in Naruto and Orihime in Bleach.

Gair can use earth powers to build walls or break the ground in order to protect himself or fight against his enemies. For inspiration on this one, I looked at Gaara (Naruto), Todoroki (My Hero Academia), and Ed (Fullmetal Alchemist) for different ways that elemental walls are portrayed.

Zandra uses her legs to maneuver around quickly and can use them to float around like a feather. I was inspired by Lenalee from D.Gray-man for this drawing.

Recent Sketchbook Doodles (February 19, 2020)

I haven't been keeping up on scanning in my sketchbook drawings as regularly, but here are a few I've done over the past few months!

Paper People Nay Event (February 19, 2020)

 This was a Nay event I did awhile ago where I drew a bunch of paper people and made scenes out of them.

Nay Moments (February 13, 2020)

I've been watching My Hero Academia lately and it's kind of reminding me of The Nays in a way, at least in terms of character interactions and moments. So it inspired me to draw some moments from the Battle Vs. Ginko Eventure!

First NADs of 2020 (January 25, 2020)

Here are the first Nay-A-Day drawings that I did in 2020.

Requiem is a disheveled young man who isn't really much of a leader. He sticks with his tight-knit group of Hannah and Xitrev and barely strays to meet and make friends with outsiders. He's usually a better listener and follower, which is why he works well as a bartender. Though he's usually rather serious, he does have moments where he'll throw bananas at his customers if they're causing him trouble. Requiem meets an unfortunate end after his battle with Zumoi, in an attempt to get revenge for his friend Xitrev.

Pixel Art (February 5, 2020)

My friends were talking about old animated forum avatars, so I made one of Pubby.

OC Art Trades (January 21, 2020)

It's been almost 2 years since I did my last art trade, but this year I think I'm gonna try to do more of these because they're always a lot of fun. 

This is one that I did for someone over on deviantART.

Fanart (January 16, 2020)

Can't wait to play DBZ Kakarot tonight! I've clocked at least 80 hours on Xenoverse 2, so I think it's time to move onto the next DBZ game.

Old Forgotten Posts of 7 Years: Part 3

Here's part 3 of my old blog posts from 2019-2020. I'm posting these in 2025, but scheduling them to show up back when they were actually made.

Doodles from Work (February 10, 2020)

Here are some drawings I did for fun at work!

I kinda want to start spending more time on single drawings. This one took me a lot longer than my regular sketches and I used a much more painted technique, but it was a lot of fun and I'd like to do more of these!

This was a fun drawing I did of Warbler!

We drew penguins at work, because why not?

 

Evo is a character I've been using in some of my projects at work, so I kinda was thinking of redesigning or coming up with a more final design for future assets.

Concepting and Experimenting (February 5, 2020)

These were some fun little experiments I did recently.

I tried out a different coloring experiment during my lunch break today. Color is something I've always felt like I needed to work on, so more experimenting to come!

I made some concepts for what Pidgebeetle's training uniform for The Nays might look like. I wanted to make it more bird-like, and redid his symbol.

More Music Mania! (January 25, 2020)

I was kinda stressed one day so I did some Music Mania doodles and it helped!

Spy Snugs (January 15, 2020)

This was a Nay Event I did about a year or so ago. It had to do with browsing Twitch and drawing over screenshots/guessing what the other person chose. You can read the full rules here.

Here was the digital drawing of Persona Q.

And then these were the traditional portions.

January Music Mania Sketches (January 11, 2020)

Here are a few recent Music Mania sketches that I did during in January!

Wow this was a productive Music Mania! I came up with a bunch of new ideas to fix up the Land of the Clouds Eventure AND I finally came up with an idea on how to use this character that I designed almost a year ago.

I did this one during my lunch break.

Warbler Vs. Melinda Storyboards (January 7, 2020)

So right now at work, I'm writing a 2D Animation course, which means I get to create lots of art! These are some storyboard sketches I did for some of the content I'm working on.

First Drawing of 2020 (January 2, 2020)

It's the first drawing of 2020 and the first drawing of this decade! And to keep up my tradition that was started at the end of 2 decades back, it features Cipo.

This past year I played a bunch of games, including Trails of Cold Steel. Cipo picked up the line they use in battle of "It's my turn!" and often says that whenever Nays are playing games so that they'll stop playing or move on. Though he never actually takes his turn, he still has enjoyed saying it for fun.

Check out the links in this image description to see the previous years!

And here's the process gif!

Fanart Doodles (September 25, 2019)

I beat Trails of Cold Steel last night, so I decided to doodle Rean during my lunch break today! The ending was really good and I'm already waiting for the second one to come in the mail so I can continue the story.

FF8 Composition Studies (September 3, 2019)

With FFVIII Remastered coming out today, I decided to do some composition studies based on some of the camera angles in Dollet's maps during my lunch break.