Today, Something New Happened.

Today, I did something I've never done before.

Today, I bought a pokemon game.

I've never played pokemon before, nor do I know anything about pokemon, but as with all things I have even the faintest interest in years too late... Things had gotten so far beyond me I couldn't hope to keep up.

Well today, I walked down to the mall with my friends, and I considered picking up a copy. I'm pretty sure I just wanted the little pokewalker; and I figured if I didn't like the game, I'd sell it back.

Well, it's actually pretty fun. It's like classic RPG's that I'm used to and it's flat and 2d and adorable and it's fun.

I think I like pokemon.

Especially when it requires me to go for walks to earn points to fight pokemon on my little pokeball shaped electronic device.

It's fun.

Way to hop the bandwagon years and years after it's pinnacle...

To the right, a drawing I made of Suka. It's a redraw of an image from a few years ago (pre-Sheridan) that I don't have a copy of, but it's in my head. Originally, when Suka existed as two separate characters in two separate stories; After her family was brutally murdered (Yeah, I dropped this and took the lesser of the two evils) she was found and raised by a traveling merchant that she called her "Sapapa" which translated to "Second Father," When she goes missing, and she's found again, all banged up and looking absolutely horrible... The first thing she does is apologize, which breaks her step-dad's heart.

I also partially drew this because it's so much fun that I can tease one of my friends with my characters miserable fates. She gets very sad and undignified, and it's hilarious.

Suka's a little bit older in this picture, I'm debating even going as far as saying she's twenty. Like I pointed out, she's pretty banged up, but she's also not hiding herself under layers and layers of clothing or bandaging. Why? Honestly, because I wanted an excuse to draw her without hiding every aspect of her; so I made it part of my story.

Ouch, hot tea, hot tea. Buuurn.

Ah, working on maquettes today, and I'm super super excited about this sculpture project. It's going to be Alan and Suka; I was talking about a few posts ago how I wanted to try and get a proper drawing showing how my two characters interact with each other, and it's hard because I just can't get the feeling right.

Weeeell, today, with our little miniature maquettes, I think I got the kind of feeling I want. They're super simple, super abstract shapes right now, but....


If you can even tell what's going on, haha- they're going to look good when I'm finished; I think. I'm hoping not to make anything too massive, but this maquette at least shouldn't shatter or break off in chunks as easily as my poor Baeddan maquette did.

But yeah, I wanted to work in basic, simple forms to try and make something that felt incredibly personal, like Rodin's Cathedral Clasping Hands, or Devotion, with closeness, and something you'd stop to look at and think... "Wow, someone really captured that moment!"

Of course, my final isn't going to have any of that 'wow' factor, because I want it to LOOK like two cartoon characters sculpted out of clay; I don't want it to look like my aim was realism, because it's not. I just want the feeling to be there. The entire time I'm going to be keeping Bernini in mind, because everything he made (out of marble, no less!) was believable. I won't be able to do any of his crazy folds, or his incredible mastery of skin... But I'm going to try my best.

And just a fun little thing to end off the post and stop me from needing to switch positions of both pictures I've already uploaded:

Something sweet and adorable my friend Chelsea drew for me when I was teasing her about my characters.

D'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, it's so adorableeeee.

It's also the first fan art I've gotten of Suka that isn't RP or Fanexpo related. AND, the first one ever of Alan!

Doesn't that make me happy?

Yes, it very much does.

Aaaaw....

Annie

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