Whenever I post some amount of words, I feel like I'm treating this topic/place a lot like a blog, but most of the time I feel like it's related so I sort of keep going with it. I don't know if it's because of posting here or not (or maybe it's because of the summer vibe), but whenever I stop posting here I'm mostly not drawing at all on the computer (which is why I don't really have drawing dumps when I stop updating). I believe this might be because this is the only place where I post what I draw. So the solution I came up with is to move to deviantart or tumblr (I'm leaning more towards DA over tumblr since I'm more familiar with it) to post some stuff that I don't really want to post here, there. That being said, I have no idea what the pros or cons of either one is, which is part of the reason why I haven't started on either (the other is that starting/moving is terrifying). Or this could all be an elaborate ploy that my brain thought up to convince myself that I'm not being lazy. That and I really do think summer is making me lazy.

Anyways, going back to what I feel I should and shouldn't post here (and probably in my pixel art topic too). What I "feel" like I should post here is stuff more specific to Nintendo and interactions I have with people I talk to here (which is also part of the reason why I haven't been drawing). So that means that I "feel" like I shouldn't post anything outside of that in my topics. And I know this all sort of sounds ridiculous, but it's just how I feel.

Going back to drawing, part of why I didn't feel like drawing is a multitude of reasons including the ones stated above. Apparently I have gotten to a point where I really don't want to draw smash characters, and I say smash characters because I don't really play a lot of Nintendo games (or games in general). It's either I got really bored of drawing them, I really hate how I draw them or the feel I get when I draw them, parts of them just don't register (like Peach and Rosalina's hair), or a combination.

Enough about feelings, I still have been drawing just not on the computer. I tried coloured pencils recently and am very sad because I made my drawing look very bad. I think this is because I can't tell values of colours so I can't get the right shade, but it'd also be coupled with bad technique. I learned that I'm very slow at drawing and am very bad at doing shading, which is sad because when I take forever to draw a single thing I feel very dead (which I'm still in the process of doing the colour pencil thing). On the computer, I switched from SAI back to Photoshop because I felt like it, I don't really know. I should really draw more on the computer (like gray scales and such) to practice and get used to the tools since I feel very lost. That and I really want to try colouring without the lineart in the end.

Also, my mom stole my wide straw which I really liked and I thought that was worth mentioning since this is practically a blog post.

I'm probably going with pokemon I like so I drew Reuniclus (I have a lot of trouble spelling/remembering that). The general idea was to make the green goey stuff into the rain coat/poncho and make the inside into a human. I made the clothes white to match how the inside was very white itself. I considered making the different coloured balls in the arm a pattern on the rain poncho, but I thought it wouldn't look too clean, so I ended up only keeping the red sphere and making her into a pokemon trainer. I made her into a kid to sort of mirror how it's like in a young state, but I probably could've/should've made her younger (and look happier). I got real lazy at the feet and raincoat (but I don't know how to raincoat).

updated sketch