I Finally Made A Motion Graphics Version Of My Thing. It’s Alive! It’s Also Terribly Compressed,

This is only a 4-6 hour rough draft, and I wanna give this guy a lot more polish later... but I decided to start grinding through drawing this character design for a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure fan character that I’ve been playing as in a Jojo tabletop RPG @plaguenurse set up. (Also, @arzeron also has a character.)

I figured that I should get to it because 1) I’m kinda sad about Chester Bennington’s passing, especially when I went out of my way to name this guy’s stand “New Divide”, and 2) on the roll20 site, I’m kinda disappointed with my laziness when I look at a pair of scissors and a picture of Richard Hendricks from Silicon Valley for the stand and the user, respectively. (Btw, I named the user Jonah Joplin, for additional Scott Joplin/Janis Joplin references. Also, he is an ambiguous Jojo. Maybe he’s a Joestar, maybe he’s not. We just don’t know.)

I decided to draw some very tiny, low res Stardust Crusaders for the 50 followers Twitch stream today! Also, it turned out to be a good endurance test—I haven’t sustained 7 hours of solid drawing in a while.

(Fun Note; Avdol actually turned out to be my favorite one to draw. I also wonder if Araki wanted to kill him off because he’s so detailed...but that’s actually what I enjoyed about Avdol’s design when I actually got into drawing him.)

I asked my partner about how he’d feel about drawings, and he basically mentioned that he would feel so bad if it took me longer than 30 minutes to do something like a stick figure...

...I told him that I could do a lot more than a stick figure with 30 minutes, give or take, and I decided to challenge myself to draw something in a 30-minute time frame right in front of him.

I ended up drawing a character of mine that I haven’t touched in a few years, because why the hell not...and he was quite baffled by my ability to sit down and churn this out, and was expecting something more like my weird 5-minute Milhouse doodle I did a while back.

Granted, this isn’t polished, but...yeah. It’s a pretty rewarding speedpaint.

I used up some spare chalk and charcoal for the sidewalk in front of my apartment's staircase. . . . . . #halloween #happyhalloween #skull #chalk #charcoal #chalkart #sidewalkart #halloweendecor #halloweendecoration (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4S-g0ODKKC/?igshid=ahmomsuyaw3g

I decided to finish (mostly) an old Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer doodle I had in the depths of my computer a long time ago—but with it being explicit that Rudolph just has issues with allergies and sinusitis. His nose glows because he’s miserable. (I mean, why else would his nose glow red?)

Any way, happy holidays. :D

I’ve been to a lot of places. :’D

…I just got a glitchy version of the taxes design a few minutes after I posted it.

I have no idea how that happened, but here.

This should be the absolute last thing I should probably have finished for today...because ain’t poster design fun?

(Also, I used a mock-up from over here, for full disclosure.)

Upon realizing that I’m less than a year (hopefully...) from graduating with two degrees, as well as noting that there’s only a six month grace period between graduation and loan repayment—and therefore, only six months to find a full-time job, hopefully in one’s field...

...I recalled how my high school graduation went, and how I didn’t cry the expected tears of joy, but tears of agony, because life wasn’t going to get any better (and unfortunately, it kind of went as expected.)

I honestly don’t fathom that undergraduate graduation is going to be much better, so I ended up making an illustration about the stress before, and the future stress that looms overhead...and how no ceremony can make either of those things go away.

@freackthejester I’m sure he’d appreciate it, although I might want to do that sparingly.

My hand slipped.

In all sincerity though, I’ve been trying to work on a website logo for the web design class I’m in, and decided to experiment with the geometric box I made, and this particular chromaa palette.

Dubtronic is one of my guilty pleasure typefaces, and it seems to have this odd geometric 80s thing going on. Also, from what I can recall from when I was younger and very nosy, my mom’s college textbooks tended to have a lot of geometric design on the covers, and she went during the late 80s/early 90s. So, after a few minutes of mulling over it, this came out.

Anyway, enjoy my late night rage experiment.