Epic Shark Adventures And More, From A Time When I Tried To Fight Artblock By Making Silly Ms Paint Doodles

digital sketchdump

still can't draw so I'll continue posting old stuff!

this one's from 2023 and I made a short animation out of it, but I didn't like how it turned out

games imitate life

and I hate life

🏠 Stardew Valley farmhouse I built two years ago and finished this year

I got inspired by what Studson Studio does, because I'm something of a trash collector myself (I have a whole drawer full of stuff I'm hoping to use some day), but for a long time I couldn't get myself to actually make something out of it

I chose the farmhouse because it was an easy project to start with, but I must say that I really outdid myself and outrun my expectations I mean, it's wonky (especially the door, which I remade two times) but the painting was what surprised me I had no idea I could do anything like that and not only make it look good but also have fun

ingredients: - cardboard (house walls - hairdryer packaging; porch - cookies packaging; planks and roof tiles - coffee packaging) - craft foam (door and window frame, chimney bricks) - plastic from a box of pen cartriges (window glass) - sticks from the backyard (pile of wood) - toothpicks (porch railing) - airdry clay (pots) - paper (plants) lights up with a short, cheap LED string

raagh

back to April, when I drew lots of Jinxes in hope of learning something (it doesn't seem like it, but I learned a lot) this is an art collage of traditional sketches (my favorites being the grenade and sleeping Porofessor), two of which have been more or less painted over digitally (second pic is the comparison) there's also Jinx the cat cosplaying as Jinx, because I'm very funny

Craft update #1: the cardboard dragon

started: Aug 2023 status: abandoned

last year I had this wonderful idea to make a big articulated dragon thing (a childhood dream come true) ideally it would be made out of thin wood sheets (balsa wood?) and have bolts for joints - I guess the plan was to make a cardboard and toothpicks sketch and then a pattern to have it all laser cut (if you can even order smth like that), but I stopped at the (unfinished) sketch

it took days to cut out the segments (with the hind legs being remade entirely at some point) and I wasn't satisfied how the limbs connect to the torso (because I didn't plan it) - it would probably have to be remade/fixed a lot more, but I simply got (very) tired of it

now, the wings were supposed to be the really cool part, with hinges to allow them to move up and down, inner bones made of wire and some fabric for the membrane.. this never went anywhere and stayed as an idea in my head (one shitty cardboard wing sketch was made)

as of now, the dragon has been taped together to prevent everything falling apart, and is hanging from the ceiling to watch over when I sleep (first pic)