CUPdate 44: Small Update

I have a pretty small update for this week. May has been super busy in my personal and work life, so I haven't really had time to draw.

For this month's digital sketchbook, I was just playing around with some color palettes and styles for Sagun to figure out the design. I decided to go with the one that's larger on the left.

It was my friend Laura's birthday, so I drew her characters Banana and Belle!

I also went to a baseball game, so I did some quick gesture drawings.

And that's it! I have a pretty busy summer up ahead, so I'm not really expecting any big updates until the fall.

CUPdate 13: Catching Up

So it's been a while since I had anything relating to my game Compass Nays, so I've kind of decided to take a break from it until the new year. I've realized that I'm experiencing burnout, so I think in this situation, it's best to take a step back and try to change my focus so I can try and get back into things.

For this CUPdate, I mostly decided to refocus and figure out what all I want to accomplish before the end of the year. I started out by making a bunch of checklists on Notion. Some of these are mini-art projects I can do and others are as simple as starting to buy Christmas gifts for loved ones. I just really need to reorganize my life since I realize I've been in a bit of a slump the past few months due to what I think must be burnout. I had been accomplishing a lot for my game, but stress from work/life has mostly been taking a lot of energy and I think that's why I've been struggling to get back into working on my own personal art projects as much.

During the last presentation, I talked about my process on Frank Hawk from my devlog post here. I've also been making a point to post this game on other platforms (Game Jolt, RPGMaker.net, and simmer.io) since it's my first real finished personal Unity project.

I also finished Inktober! This year it didn't re-energize me as much as it usually does, unfortunately, but I did get all 31 days done. You can check out all of the individual posts on my Instagram.

Then I decided to go back to working on one of my YouTube projects, which is a 30-minute video about my art journey and how I got to where I am today. I recorded the footage for this back in March, but haven't gotten around to editing it until now. Some of the things I mention are about 2021 being the current year, so my plan is to finish this by the end of this year. I've been making great progress on editing it, and only have about 5 minutes left to finish up, so once I can grab some footage from my parents' house, I'll be able to finish it up and post it for the next CUPdate!

And after talking with some friends, I got inspired to go back and work on the trading cards for our card game we were gonna make a while back. We decided to finally make a more accurate template to get the prototypes into, so I went through and imported placeholder art for all of my cards with the information. So far I have 4 cards that are completely finished with the final art (which are the ones above), but the icons and formatting are subject to change for the actual final prints. I'm hoping this can be something I'll come back to, since making the art for these was really fun!

I printed out all of the cards last night, but I still need to work on the sizes, because some of the text came out a bit blurry in the prints. I might try to reprint them sometime soon, but for now I can at least start to try playing the game and see how balanced it is, with characters from different decks. 

There are a few other projects I'm working on that I can't post here yet, but once I'm able to, I'll add them to one of my future CUPdate posts. Until then, I'm slowly making smaller checklists to complete so I can be ready to finish a few mini-projects up before the end of the year.

Inktober 2019 Results

I finished up Inktober and used the official prompts this year.

Here's all of them together!

And then below are all of them individually:

Sketchbook Planners

These are just a bunch of sketchbook doodles I've done in the past few months.

Some quick inking tests when I was doing inktober.

I was helping my brother figure out the proportions for his Indivisible fanart, so I did this sketch.

A quick draft of my first inktober, but I didn't like how it was turning out, so I redid it.

Return of Gesture Drawing

It feels like it's been forever since I've sat down and done gesture drawings from a website. I used to do it a lot before I was busy with work, but lately, it's been hard to find time to do any. But I finally found a bit of time to do a few, so of course, I'm very rusty!