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before i say anything else, here's my word of advice/plea: take the chance to back up your precious files today, asap...u never know when tragedy will strike....i lost approximately 3.5 first draft chapters for my mad max fic, a good chunk of journal entries, and a 22-page ongoing comic i'd been drawing in the past 2 months when my laptop (And harddrive) broke down :(

so while i mourn that lost progress on my mad max fic mostly, i've been drawing instead. behold my images:

this piece has 2 fully rendered panels. the top one features a long table down an equally long dining hall lined with empty chairs, viewed from the head seat. the dining hall opens up on the left to clouds over an orange sunset. coming out of the table are dozens of hands holding up a massive framed mirror, with someone with several arms crawling out of it and brandishing a kitchen knife threateningly. in front of that, at the head seat of the table, sit an inverse plate like a bowl set upside down with a single lollipop balanced on top, a bottle of wine, and two glass cups with wine in them. one cup is broken halfway up, while the other has a small hole towards the bottom, wine drizzling out of it and spilling on the floor. the bottom panel shows a small cartoon girl sitting at the head seat, wearing a red dress and holding a plush dog for comfort.

this one is titled "KILL YOUR INNER CHILD", and it took me A While to finish. i think with this one tho, i've come a lot closer to mastering the blender reference-to-painting/drawing workflow :) it was a ton of fun to set up and a ton of fun to draw, too! i'm extremely happy with how it turned out, and it was pretty cathartic to make at the time. i think this is my best background/shading work i've ever done in my whole life lol

a reference image of an anthro lion fursona. she's a maned lioness with mane that starts under her chin and wraps around the back, leaving her head bald. her eyes are pink with spirals; another reference shows her with big sunglasses. the line of darker fur going up her tail/spine and down her arms also covers a large portion of her upper left back, covered partially by mane. she wears two necklaces, one a bone carving and the other an oblong crystal. to the right of the reference, she wears a red suit with a black button-up and a pink tie, with her sunglasses on. her name is labelled den (she/her), with text beside her reading: 'likes: suits, fish, tide pools + the beach, women, writing, puzzle games, anything horror. dislikes: wearing fem clothes, beans, crowded stores, unleashed dogs/outdoor cats, messy paws. clothes are always masc. 90% business casual (button-ups and slacks). necklaces are always worn, maybe not always visible. always wears sunglasses.'

you might imagine it was time to draw something nicer for myself after my last piece, cathartic though it may have been, so i tweaked my fursona design to look a bit more like me. i really liked the full mane and everything i had going for the last design, but she just felt like a neat character i was drawing, not a representation of Me. i'm really happy with the changes i made! the only change i'm still rotating is adding big saber-shaped canines.....just for fun......

a colorless doodle of a fat anthro lion wearing a polo and slacks, sitting at a computer desk and manspreading just a bit, turned towards the viewer with a haggard look on her face. a calendar with a ringed planet behind her reads the year '6003'. a fake tweet above the drawing reads 'ophelia rowan: friday. the caged animal yearns to break free.'

to those who've never seen this oc of mine before, she always looked like this. to those who have seen this oc of mine before, she always looked like this. JUST KIDDING....i am thinking about making endemic ego death all about lions though. not exactly a Lion Society, but a Society of Lions, or maybe something a little bit in between. this is a change i'm thinking about making for a number of reasons, one of which is Just Because. another of which Should allow me to make the setting and tone a Little bit more adventure time-esque in its own ways, which is something i've been trying to achieve for a good while now without much luck. yet another one which is funny to mention in contrast to that is how if they're furries, i feel a little bit more freedom in the types of horror i'd like to explore, so it can be Scarier.

a collection of figure drawings, some more refined than others.

i liked my ophelia doodle Conceptually, but it turned out pretty stiff imo. i've been relying a lot on 3d models for my drawings for a bit now, and it's gotten me pretty far + i don't exactly intend to stop entirely, but i've been pretty dissatisfied with certain things about my art for a bit now, so i guess i figure it's finally time to go back to the fundamentals. as a perfectionist, i kind of couldn't stand figure drawing for the longest time and would give up during 30sec-1min warmups a lot. i stuck with it this time though, and i'm really glad i did! i kept the awkward, panic-fueled 30sec-1min gestures because i like the contrast against the detailed 5-10min ones lol. i think my fave is the one on the bottom sitting on the stool & holding out a book.

more figure drawings!! this was 2 different 30min sessions in one day. i can already feel myself becoming stronger....my fave out of this one is the one sitting and holding a phone. (same model as my last fave, too, i just really like drawing that model i guess lol)

my fursona again, wearing a blue patterned button-up, a denim jacket, and jeans, with a little carabiner holding several keychains, car keys, a swiss army knife, and a little round plush penguin wearing a hat and a bag.

i think my figure drawing sessions have really paid off already :) i'm super super happy with this one! i got a compliment on my outfit yesterday, so i thought that deserved drawing my fursona in it. drawing the different overlapping patterns on the shirt took foreeever though x_x

mood: educate yourself at DYKES.EDU
listening to: ptolemaea (ethel cain)
reading: wicked (gregory maguire)
watching: utena (again)
playing: picross
eating: breakfast burrito
drinking: sweet tea

2:42pm 3/24/2025

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