When you can't always find a costume that fits, sometimes you just have to improvise!

Also, not dead. (And also, BOO!)

Sorry for the sudden, long absence. Things kept coming up IRL that I had to prioritize, and it took a toll on the momentum I had in terms of art stuff. Before I knew it, I was starting to fall back into my usual bad habits of overthinking things for no real good reason and nothing to really show for it. Things seem to be looking up, though! Since a lot of what was eating away at my free time has been mostly resolved-- for now at least. Hopefully...

Thanks again for all the support, and I hope you all have a fun Halloween!

Drew something silly to celebrate a very special day!

Sorry it's been a minute since my last post. I got a little caught up with experimenting on my drawing process again and it kinda got me second-guessing a bunch of stuff. Dealing with having a little less free time at the moment is also not fun, but should be sorted out pretty soon.

As always, thanks again for all the patience and support! It really means a lot to me! 

Okay! Finally more or less done!

I'm probably going to make a few tiny little adjustments once I notice them and maybe write up a little more commentary about her and this project, but I just wanted to post this now before heading out to work again.

Thanks again for your patience!

*Edit 07/23/25
Corrected a few tiny things that I didn't notice at first. This should be more or less what the final result.

Probably mentioned this before with other comic projects, but I definitely feel I could've gotten this done a lot more smoothly if I took better time setting everything up in the initial planning/layout phase before trying to do the actual brunt of the work. So I'm gonna see if I can't update some of my notes with what I've learned to hopefully get a little bit better at this next time!

*Edit 07/25/25
Was working on another drawing when I realized that there were still a few more things I wanted to adjust on this one. So NOW this should be the last little update for this drawing. Sorry if these edits pop this post back up into your feed.

Update! So I was really hoping that I was going to be able to get this done back on Wednesday, but Animate was giving me a few issues and warnings about corrupted assets, so I had to do things a little weird to avoid the whole project file from going bad. Copying everything over to a new project file didn't help either. It kinda killed a good amount of momentum, but I should have the shading and a few more background details done pretty soon!

Also, I think the last panel is decently better than the last one. So I'm pretty happy I went back and redid it, even if the background wound up being lazily done.

(Typed this really fast before work, so apologies for any grammar errors or if it's hard to follow.)

So I've been try to improve on my productivity a little bit more recently by trying to give myself more of an actual deadline for projects again. So I started working on another random comic page since the one involving Jake and Jesse isn't quite working out like I had hoped. A big struggle I've been having is really nailing down each individual facial expression and pose for a comic that makes me feel confident in the end result. And since there's usually just so much more work involved, I usually wind up getting a bit overwhelmed and burning myself out a little in the process.

Nevertheless, I do want to persevere and finally make comics more of a main stay of my work! I just have to get out of my comfort zone it be willing to struggle with it for a bit until I can make a few more breakthroughs.

So with that, this is the latest comic I'm hoping to get done! There's a lot more work I aim to do, and a few more panels I'm probably going to add in to make this make a little more sense about what's going on. I feel that it's more implied that she was never wearing a skirt instead of the fact that the skirt that she was wearing actually just fell off, and was so light that she couldn't tell the difference.

I'm hoping to get more work done on it once I'm finally freed up from my job soon. So stay tuned to see if I can make this comic idea a little bit better!

Okay! Managed to get a drawing done for my "newest" character, Ashley Goodlittle!

Still not 100% sure how well the idea is going to be received overall, but it's nice knowing that I won't feel strangely obligated to justify why Brandy Harrington is in this oddly specific situation and being so far removed from anything related to the show she's from. Even if they do look fairly different when you consider what Brandy actually looked like from the show and the differences in art styles, I'm of course not going to deny that Ashley here is still a bit of a ripoff. Hopefully all this doesn't take too much away from what people enjoyed about the character.

In other ramblings. playing around with slightly more varied line widths seemed to help with making these a little more visually interesting. I feel that there's somewhat of an order of operations to it, with wider lines being used to prioritize the more essential features and the thinner lines being used to apply more detail where it's needed. I still need to practice with it a little more, but I think it'll be a lot to help make things look better while not having it take too much extra time.

Anyways, thanks once again for reading and all the support!