Day 16A: 🧠 Figure drawing study & then from memory

Intense!! Witness my mistakes…

Also keen for the Nintendo direct!!
Will be sleep deprived tomorrow though :’D

Lady in mid pose, trying to stand by up where one knee is on the ground and the other leg has her foot grounded. And 2nd sketch study where I don’t remember exactly how her pose was but ah well…

Day 16B: Figure study & doing my own take 💗

I need to still do more kimo studies/learning/shenanigans I didn’t get to do during the time :’D
I hope to do pleinapril next year and prepare for it better :<

Day 17: figure and muscle drawover

Figure study of man lifting his whole body with his arms/hands where his legs are in a pose in the left direction. Also attempt at muscle drawover and failing :’D

Day 18: Combining these rough figure studies I did when I wasn’t fully functional :’D

Two dynamic figure study poses in a menancing, power stance.

Yes it went down from 32 to 31 days because there wasn’t another extra daily to do after all :0

I feel like as I go along the challenge was more about surviving long enough to hang around other online artists doing the same and sharing art progress :’D <3

It definitely does become an exhausting chore for some days and there were many times where I was just too brain fatigued to do anything art related after work, life stresses and going outside. Towards the end of Kimo I was pushing through and wanting to rest.

Day 20: figure study and then giving him clothes 🧣👖👞

I was struggling, trying to stay awake to finish this one

Man taking strides down the stairs holding a spear + body breakdowns + portrait attempt + clothed him with warm clothes (shirt, boots, jeans, scarves, cardigan, beanie) from another reference.

Day 19: Sword training and 3 expressions 😒😰😠

I ran out of time gahh

Heads from imagination and figure studies

Shirtless man in a ponytail holding two fancy swords in each hand and sitting on some rocks in the riverbank. Also 3 expression portraits of him from imagination.

Leonie Rambles on the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct

I’m not mindblown but keen for the following:

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land DLC
  • it’s been 3 years whoaaa
• Kirby AirRiders led by Sakurai
  • I’m not even good at the original game
• Mario Kart World looks great, especially with the wide range of silly character choices
• maybe Donkey Kong Bananza as I haven’t played a DK game before – it seems neat!!
  • I’m not a fan of his new look from the Mario movie as I can’t un-remember Seth Rogan :S
• Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment – I’d watch someone play instead
  • I’m so burnt out from the BOTW/TOTK games, no thanks
  • I played Age of Calamity and (spoilers) bummed that it wasn’t even canon – a timeline that was happy

Australia have long had the extra expensive GST cost on top of things so I forget that America has it cheaper until now :’)

And the prices are expensive/oof so I’ll just have to share the console. Can’t afford my own console!

Other personal rambles

• I’m autistic so stumbling upon and seeing Kdrama clips of a fantasy, handsome man who would love you as you are with longing, caring, affectionate, smitten, kind, protective eyes even though you don’t do eye contact too much makes me both hopeful, bittersweet, sad, lonely and skeptical that I’ll ever experience that connection/relationship in my life :’)
  • I know they’re doing a new season but I haven’t even watched the show
  • I’m scared of ruminating too much on fictional, pretty, wholesome people so I don’t want to actually watch it…? :<
  • how the actress portrays her autistic role with the avoidance of eye contact, how she speaks awkwardly and having certain routines/rituals/movements to manage and regulate herself – I relate to very much :’D
    • this is just based on the clips I’ve seen, I don’t know how she is in the actual show
• How to Swear in Chinese | April Fools’ Essay
  • aw yeah learning contextually more about the curse words being used by family/movies
• Towards the end of yesterday I got knocked out from getting both flu shot and the covid booster at once
  • I didn’t have the energy or consciousness to prepare to go to bed – I was not able to stay aware/awake
  • I had to lie down a while to regain energy and consciousness again wow
  • now I’m just achy
• currently stressed with
  • juggling mass housework, cleaning, organising, trash that will never end,
  • new life routine and changes again now that interruptions are slowly over…?
  • trying to figure out what original projects I would want to do
    • but I don’t have that passion as it feels like I’m expected to do original projects
    • I feel like I have to hyperfocus on something until I care about it too much :’D
  • trying to do what I can with work before the easter break eep
  • also ongoing: trying to manage my insecurities and being a fraud with work :’D
  • lots of learning to juggle but I’m not rushing myself eep
• still slowly doing post kimo studies first before I put it together as a mega Kimo timelapse video!
  • but I couldn’t do much this week because I was just generally exhausted and too sleepy to focus on much study
• considering doing weekly posts like this that collect my studies together if I can keep it going
  • also keeping it to weekdays (keeping it flexible from 1 to 6 times a week)
  • and take a break from posting during the weekend ;P
• next week, I plan to write up and repurpose what I wrote to someone
  • they were asking for career advice (not that I have great general advice)
  • will keep them anonymous for privacy
• I hear people are just quitting social media altogether
  • all I could do and post and only check my some of my Cara and discord feeds (which is a lot) ;P
  • I don’t bother with bluesky feeds – can’t keep up for the sake of my mental health
• only 0 to a few people read my blog posts wah
  • is there a cheaper way to maintain my blog…do I even keep writing too much at my blog and just focus on art?
  • I always wonder if I have to just focus on videos but it’s just a bit more time consuming :/

Anyhoo take care! I’ll keep juggling things and posting studies at Cara and Bluesky!

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