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from #grafitartchallenge ref

Figure drawing of a lady posed to her right with a gun being wary
and another with flowers being sad
and another angle from behind

I won a ref pack with this from Grafit Studio too!! 😀

It didn’t do well on bluesky so I removed the post there ;P

🦇🦹🏾‍♀️💅🏾 TrueRefDT009

Figure drawing of a lady with long black plastic claws crouched over a tall platform on her toes, looking down on you menacingly and ready to launch for an attack.

In contrast to the previous study, this one reached more people than normal! WHOA :0

On making youtube videos (original message:)

I do have the 3D low poly video in the backlog to do eventually! I didn’t forget!
I just don’t want to force/rush it. As mentioned at my blog a while ago, I did make the model but texturing is what I’m avoiding right now :’D

Question is – I’m not sure if I should keep doing timelapse videos anymore.
I’m not trying to be entertaining and click baity. And I’m not trying to be a tutorial channel as I’m just sharing my progress.

Then again I already share my progress through my art and blog posts too so I’m not sure if it’s worth my time making videos and spreading myself thin for youtube (which is getting worse in terms of reach in recent years like with a lot of social media plus my channel is not growing much at all.)

With my channel as it is now, I need to change things up but I don’t have the capacity, energy nor interest to invest time and effort for youtube.
I’m not an entertainer nor an educator channel.

Youtube is less of a priority. All the same I’m torn as I am still attached to my small 15 year old channel 🙁

Gah reminding myself that I’m not making videos unless I really want to and if there’s a special event/project. So videos will be more rare next year!

Heads up – instead I’ll just post colourful studies and art here again and hang out at my tiny discord server ;P

Decided to save time on editing timelapse videos so I have more time to make art and blog about it ;P

I’ll still have the occasional timelapse videos – or maybe I should do a yearly compilation timelapse video instead?

An overview of the past year’s studies? Hm…it won’t work if I don’t have an educational/commentary part to it and I don’t want to script that…! And reading subtitles for the whole long compilation video is too much.

I just want to focus on things I do enjoy more so I’ll have to be picky with what I’m bothered making small videos for.

Decided to not do it for the Goth Girl as I don’t have the time for it!

At the moment I don’t want to make as much videos next year aside from the low poly one that I promised. And that one would require a bunch of editing…I’ll slowly get around to it. I’m just slowly figuring it out and procrastinating – sometimes with blender tutorials ;P

Goth Girl (plus pickups & custom environment props) for the Crossy Halloween update 2025 [trailer & short]

Goth Girl with a huge red fringe streak, silver crescent earring sits and leans upon a stack of thick spell books and table. She is in the company of a raven/crow, black rat, 2 lit candles and a flying bat. She’s carrying a guitar and a rose in her hair behind her ear. She might be in an underground dungeon with a wall of uneven bricks behind her.

Happy Spooky times!

🐈‍⬛💀📕🦇🐍🎸🕯️☔🌹🐀

Ah in terms of the update itself – much huge appreciation and thanks to the team’s hard work:

• for this Goth Girl update (engineering, marketing, production, QA and artists, etc),
• for making sure the lighting kept her visible (didn’t think I could change the existing lighting and lighting is set differently for different modes? whoops),
• for enabling/allowing me to cram all these goth girl props and pickups into the game
• the art team for making the spooky feature art and marketing animations (see the trailer)
• it got tight with time due to lots of things being juggled and people getting sick/unwell/more so we got there!! :’D

Anyhoo for this update, I researched a bunch and I –

• made this Goth Girl character for the Crossy Road Halloween update,
• made/crammed a lot of pickup/props and idle animation
  • (snake, spellbook/poetry book, black cat, umbrella, bats, black rat, raven, skull, guitar)
• made custom environment pieces (gravestones, roses, dead trees, etc)
• sidenote – I wasn’t feeling well from getting covid in the middle of making Goth Girl’s animation and I had to take some leave then
• helped expand the existing feature art 2D concept from the art lead when I was still recovering from covid

In terms of this fanart, I did draw them but removed the black cat and snake and skipped the umbrella and human skull as it was too much clutter! I was hesitant (because disclaimer, I am not paid to do this) but I felt compelled to do this fanart because I like this character 😀

I fleshed out her eyes, earring and clothing in this fanart! I was pushing through some strong gloomy, mixed, conflicted feelings at the time of on/off making it so I just did what I could manage :’)

Leonie personal update

• Final Fantasy Tactics Ivalice Chronicles is an amazing, peak game and story!! Wow
• slowly playing through Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2, early case 3
• posting/sharing a tad more at my little discord server to feel less isolated ;P
• distracted by manga/manhua…
• burnout and feeling isolated/demoralised sucks…it’s hard and frustrating when you experience it and others are experiencing it
• I’m so used to outcasting myself that I think that not belonging and being out of the loop is normal
• I’m not as productive as I would have like as it was a lot of reflection, procrastination, re-evaluating and trying to manage my anxieties/concerns and trying to turn it into action and/or communicate about it…

Going to continue juggling!! I hope to get some things done!!

There’s also some house chores that is daunting because it’s more involved and time consuming. One day…

There’s always more to do as you tackle with priorities…

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