Alright, my Pico Day drawing is done and now I'm just chilling for a while to get my energy back.

So. Here's what happened during my absence:

The Pico Day drawing is done, but the animation I made is still unfinished. What I'll do is I'll cut it short and polish that instead (going from a full fight scene to just a simple looping animation). It won't be released on Pico Day (that's why I made the drawing instead), but it will be a nice little something once it is. Might give a sneak peak of it on Pico Day.

Been busy helping my parents lately, by helping them with electronics and giving them suggestion on certain things, and unpacking old boxes. What's cool is while unpacking these boxes I've found a box full of computer parts that I forgot I had, and I found a graphics card that was perfect for my old XP Machine.

The card on the left was the old card I used (Radeon X300SE), and the card on the right is the "new" card (Radeon X1300). It's a big upgrade for this machine even though these are a drop in the bucket compared to the newest graphics cards.

It's weird how this 2 decade old machine I used while growing-up is still being used to this day! Granted it's not used for much, just some light browsing, playing music, watching a few videos, and sometimes playing a few games...Kinda want to test how good it is while making a drawing just for the hell of it.

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Now that that's done and over with, what's next for little 'ol me?

I want to say things will be going back to normal, but right now I'm not quite sure anymore because there's a couple things that could make it difficult, for now this is what I have in mind:

Firstly, I want to get down and dirty with Linux again. I've got this "new" laptop that I want to install it on, and the setup I have on this old XP machine works really well and it's super fast too, so I'll tinker with it, fill-out those config files, make nice shortcuts for it, and even make a custom desktop theme as a nice cherry on top. And what's cool about it is that once I'm done with it on my XP machine, I can easily transfer all those settings to the laptop and have it work seamlessly. God I love Linux (and BSD).

Next, I want to make that Klonoa fan-art before the release of the new Klonoa remakes, I've had this idea in the back burner for way too long and I want to get it out there.

Then, I want to take the time to redesign some old OC's I've created, not so much with the Rabbit OCs, but all the other needs a little facelift especially the humanoid ones. I've learned a lot since I last drew them (sometimes in the weirdest places), and some of these characters are kinda cringy to look at now.

Finally, I'd like to dive a bit more into animation by doing short animation loops to practice myself. Though, I don't know if I'll continue using Pencil2D, or switch to OpenToonz instead. I mean, I like using Pencil2D even though it's crap compared to the rest, but it's the good kind of crap. Like it's crappy, but not crappy enough that I can't do shit. Finding workarounds is half the fun in this program, heck I'm even hacking the save files in order to access features that are too buggy to use inside Pencil2D. It's fun for all the wrong reasons, and it doesn't help that the Pencil2D devs are also fuelling me by telling me to not use certain unstable features in the program.

Commissions? It could happen. Not now but maybe sometime soon. Who knows.

That's all for now. Hope to see you on Pico Day.