Hello again!

It's been a pretty quiet month last month, and it wasn't because I overslept, I just underestimated how long it takes to actually construct something in 3D.

What am I working on?

Throughout the entirety of July I've been hard at work making a 3D model of that house I showed last time.

This entire kitchen (plus a little around the kitchen) was what I was able to get done in a month...needless to say I had to change-up the drawing a little because it was originally going to show the living room as well, and I was already burnt-out doing just the kitchen.

[Fun fact: all the texture used in this were mathematically generated by Blender. I didn't need to import a single image]

The good news is that I have the drawing sketched-out to an extent, so it should be smooth sailing from here.

...I just need to plan-out how to layer everything since I'm using two programs to make this, but that shouldn't be too tough to do...I hope

I've also tested something in Inkscape that allows me to essentially get an airbrush look just by telling Inkscape to blur shapes in a particular way. I really wanted to show it off this month, but it'll have to wait a bit (I'm thinking late Septembre). Depending on how things go, I might just end-up switching most of my workflow to Inkscape, and only use Krita for sketching, lineart, and making patterns that would normally be hard to do in Inkscape.

The Toronto Meetup

If you didn't know, I was in the NG Toronto meetup! It was my first time ever attending one, and it was also the first time I ever drove to Toronto all by myself, and I gotta say...what the hell is up with Toronto's signs! The whole thing was like navigating a labyrinth of signs that tell you what you can and can't do, but they never tell you enough info so you're constantly left confused.

Apart from the sign fiasco, I had an amazing time in the Newgrounds meetup! Met so many awesome people, got a few stickers, got a bunch of streetpasses, played some Mario Kart DS in the theater, laughed a ton watching a bunch of Newgrounds videos, had a dozen people draw in my little sketchbook I brought over, and I even met THE Tom Fulp!

Don't have too many pics of the event since I don't instinctively take-out my camera like most people (and all of them were kinda bad because they were all taken inside a dark theater), so here's some of the drawings people left in my sketchbook to make-up for that.

Unfortunately it's not all of them, and my little sketchbook was a tiny bit too small so most people drew on different pages instead which kinda makes it hard to share with photographs, but it something I'll cherish, and I'll bring back in the next meetup whenever that happens.

Plans for this month

Not much planned this time, I'm more so playing catch-up with last month because of how long it took me to make that 3D kitchen. I've got the birthday drawing I need to get done, and the vector drawing. In my downtime I do plan on writing-down all my water studies I did and put them somewhere (still not sure where...I'll probably make another thread just for that at worst).

I do have these little animation exercises I want to make (just simple head rotation exercises for each of my OCs), but I don't know if it'll release this month.

Another thing I want to do is a compilation vid of this little animation

The sketch collab peeps probably know about this but I actually posted the WIP of my animation every single day until the final sketch was done (you know...for funsies!). It was planned to be part of the 2021 Sketch Collab credits, but everyone working on it forgot to put it in, so I'm gonna do it instead. Though, depending on how things go I might start working on that later this month or sometime next month.

That's all the news I've got for now, see all of you next month!

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