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Man, February went by blazing fast. Hardly felt like I had enough time for anything. Was barely able to squeeze-out that last drawing! Though, in this chaos I did make a few new discoveries with my art, and lots of progress on my new setup.

But first, on with the update!

~~Artist of the Month~~

@creepincrawl

What can I say, I love my Y2K art. I already follow a few of these kinds of artists, but CreepinCrawl was like love at first sight. The colours are perfect, the style is on point, and the characters are cute as heck. Definitely one of those artists I need to study more. Check-em out!

~~Old Art Showcase~~

Since I made a rayman themed drawing, I might as well throw in the first Rayman drawing I made on paper way back in 2021 (along with a few other drawings I made)

[Can't believe it's been this long since I did a proper Rayman drawing]

~~>Last Month

The weather has been a little screwy last month, still is from the looks of things. Almost started looking like spring in the middle of February until later that month where more snow just got piled-on out of nowhere

At least Holrad melted out of that big snow pile.

Good thing Rathrie is always there to take care of her idiot brother.

Apart from that, my new setup has been going great! Just need to fix a few little potential snags and I'll be finally able to transfer this setup to my current rig

[Just thought I'd show-off the Rayman wallpaper I made being used as a wallpaper :3]

[Also yes, this is running off of my old ass Core2Duo machine, and it runs quite well too!]

Art wise, since I created the little vector tool, I've been putting it through its paces big time. I'm basically turning Krita into my Inkscape bitch at this point. The only thing I use Krita for nowadays (apart from doodling) is sketch, lineart, make colour masks, and export everything to my vector tool so I can then use Inkscape for everything else. It's crazy!

~~>Next Month's Plans

This year is a lot rougher than I had planned art wise. I had plans to practice animations and play around with 3D some more, but no Glaxnimate just had to ruin everything and make me build my own tools instead. All because no one seems to know how to create a vector animation program that's as solid as Inkscape (which was made for graphic design)

But enough of my vector related rants, let's talk about what I'll do this month...

...which unfortunately, is more of the same as last month, maybe even less since things are looking a whole lot busier this month. More focus on the drawing part, less on the technical part.

It's not exactly what I wanted to do this month. Kinda want to focus more on the technical side just to improve my workflow for making drawings, but I can't control that, and rushing-out the tech stuff is too risky.

In the end I'm still doing things I like. I just feel like I'm a kid who got his new toy taken away for the month.

That's all for this update. Not the longest update, but then again, everything I type is too long for zoomers nowadays (and I'm technically one of them), so what am I saying.

See you next post!