The end of MoChu 2026 with their mascot IV-Chan

Character illustrations of IV-Chan, the MoChu art challenge mascot character + the Ibuprofen dog and Aspirin cat

IVchan fanart finally done!!
Saying this early: hope to see you around at other servers or my tiny art server!

After MoChu, I don’t think I’ll do daily server challenges indefinitely as I’m struggling and not sure if I’m still burnt out from doing them 3 months in a row :<
I’m still holding on (if I can) to the end
Thank you for being inspiring 💖

Well it’s nearing the end of this daily month long art challenge! I finally managed to do this illustration at least!

I haven’t posted a blog post because I was too burnt out to do studies that are beyond survival daily sketches.

Also a lot of personal stressful stuff and work juggling happened and I didn’t have the spoons to write at my blog.

I have a lot of rough study sketches that need going over before I share them :’)

I don’t know if I should move on from them or just do it weekly/short sessions and make slow progress with it instead of going ham, losing interest and burning out like this. I should do it at my own slower pace and then I can stick to roughly every 1-3 weeks a blog post so I don’t get too mentally burnt out.

I would like to redirect my own learning focus without having to do dailies. I wish I had the creative and mental energy to learn and do art after work and switch gears like that on a daily basis. There’s times when I finally get the time, I end up sitting there and my tiredness catches up with me and I fall asleep when I want to do art 🙁 I spent all my willpower and energy to even do and learn art!! Also dailies aren’t helping with making sure I get enough sleep.

I did consider waking early to do art but I want to sleep in…I am a night owl who wakes up early only for work.

Also I have been prioritising exercise over art because I’m more conscious about not being too sedentary and not feel as stiff and achy. Plus I wanted to get exercise out of the way so I can do art as a reward later.

I feel like I don’t want to do daily art server challenges for a long time after doing it for 3 months in a row and it was a huge distraction from my indecisiveness with art. I didn’t really participate much with MoChu (plein airpril and March Hotel) activities either to keep it low with workload. I still need to revise their previous events too!

Plus I feel old and low energy around the really chatty, overwhelming channels. When I do actually text chat during slow periods, it was nice though.

Digressing – no thanks with doing more 1 month long challenges like Art Fight, Chroma Corp and whatnot!

I thought I would stop MoChu after a few weeks but I ended up hanging till the end because I have yet to finish the IV-Chan fanart and I can’t share that if I get kicked off the server ;P But illustrations need a huge chunk of time and a bunch of days for me to do them haha

Been in survival mode since the start of MoChu – maybe I shouldn’t have done it but I didn’t want to miss out on this first one! I feel like I end up doing these art server challenges so that a small handful of new peeps join and stay at my tiny server as one of the lifeboats :’)

I still need to do at least 1 more study ahhhh

It’s going to be over tomorrow and I have too much study ref too ahhhhh

I need to be more picky next year if I do art server challenges again…definitely NOT the plein airpril challenge! As you know I couldn’t stay interested on a daily basis with painting environments by day 20+ 🙁

Summer Games Fest 2026 / Nintendo Direct 2026

So I did post trailers at my discord server or you can seek trailers yourself 😛

There wasn’t much games for me that I would play. Am disappointed. Though I’m picky with games.

But there’s a lot I would watch someone else play but I won’t share this bigger list ;P

There was also some more games where it’s “oh genAI was used for creative things and/or reference…” :/

• am curious about the new Spyro game after many, many years
• The Ocarina of Time (remake?) I am not sure I have an opinion yet on the game when there’s no gameplay
  • not much is shown
  • also OoT is not my favourite anyway
  • it makes sense because of the Zelda movie happening next year
  • not sure if I have it in me to play OoT over again
    • when I played it the first time it felt like a slog at times
• am tempted and indecisive with Rhythm Heaven Groove
  • but I am not good at these games
  • I did play one of the games and I cannot unlock everything
  • am considering it though so I’ll sit on this awhile………
• am burnt out on Splatoon stuff so I’m not playing Splatoon Raiders
  • unless the reviews impress me
  • it’s really single player Salmon Run…
• PiKUNiKU2 looks charming!

Gosh a lot of games showcased become a blur during this time of year!

Most games are not for me but I’m happy for its fans!! Games are cool!

Personal update

• juggling with work and figuring out Blender again
  • just doing my best with what I have and what I can through my work
  • grateful for what I do have in the present
• Always reminds me of Super Mario Galaxy’s Rosalina saying “We’ll see….”
  • I’ve been quoting this randomly since that game came out haha
  • it’s interesting that later on I relearn this line from someone but it’s from a parable haha
    • great parable and reminder to not worry about things I have no control over
  • too much overthinking, anxiety about uncertainty doesn’t help in the long run ;P
  • just gotta appreciate the present
• keeping up with most 1 to 1 chats
  • we’re all juggling and managing day to day anxieties, concerns, uncertainties, stresses
  • sometimes people just don’t want to if they’re not taking much initiative and don’t sound keen? Oof :S
    • not sure if I should ask again – my gut says no 🙁
  • 1 to 1 chats are nice and it’s rare to have regular ones with people though
• redoing 2 very invasive forms 6 times over….
  • AUGH it was so time consuming, frustrating and took so much mental energy away!!
  • super stressful and rigid and unfair – ongoing
• when people take over (it happens) – I just don’t want to fight for it and I lose some interest
  • have to seek elsewhere to thrive or just support whatever ends up happening (it’s for the best)
  • it depends and it’s just hard to let go when you’re already attached :’)
• shall continue to be frugal and stingy because things are not ideal with my family, in the industry and the world
  • not looking forward to the bills/fees
  • and the increased x2 fee for keeping up this blog and website :’)
• family situation ongoing and being slow with its progress
  • grateful I’m not handling the brunt of this stress
• housework – gross cleaning and chipping away at someone’s horrible hoarding and trash
  • it never ends because it’s decades of things I am or am not aware about ahhhh
  • so I’ll keep mentioning it because it’s overwhelming…
• News about Atari buying the company that I work for (Hipster Whale) and article here
  • even if I do know stuff, I don’t think I can say much about things that are not already public
  • I will still share things (when/if they are public) that I helped and worked on at least?
  • also if any coworkers read this (hello? if you exist?) please message me if I am saying too much haha
  • again my thoughts do NOT represent the thoughts of my employers
• Watching someone play Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is charming, silly, exploratory and wonderful
  • am not done yet though because the person I watch didn’t go back to it wah
• I share more stuff and art resources at my tiny discord server ;P
  • I am surprised to see some new peeps joining from MoChu :0
  • whether people stay or not, I wish you all the best
  • I’ll just have to get over my ego and feelings when people decide to leave 😛

Okay I have more to do so I’ll stop proofreading too many times!

Thank you so much for reading!

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