Art/Gaming Pastebin Monday 12/6

Hey, hi, hello! I haven't done a pastebin monday thing in years. I wanted to talk about some of my random thoughts and plans for the near future (mostly for art, but some gaming too) so I'm bringing this back. I kind of miss when everyone used to post pastebin mondays every week. Bring Back Pastebin Mondays!

To make things easier to read, I'm writing this out FAQ style (even though some aren't frequently asked questions lol):

Art Stuff

Q: Why do you talk about art stuff so much now?
A: After years of telling myself, "It's too late to learn how to draw." and "I don't know if I'll enjoy it that much", I bought a drawing tablet and gave it a shot. The more I sat down learning and drawing, the more invested I got into it. I'm super happy I got into drawing because it's really fun and feels really satisfying being able to create something of my own instead of using someone else's artwork. I generally don't talk about all of my hobbies and interests online that much, but art is something I like to talk about with everyone. Sorry if my tweets about art progress/drawings bother you!

Q: What's your goal with drawing?
A: Have fun. My secondary goal is to get good enough at drawing some underappreciated anime/video game characters to inspire other artists to try drawing them too!

Q: When will you take commissions?
Short answer: Probably never.
Long answer: Few people have actually asked me this before. I've thought about it and I always came to the conclusion that I wouldn't even consider doing commissions until I had a couple years of experience and developed my own style. So far I've only been drawing for 3-4 months and I'm constantly trying to learn a billion different things and I don't think I'll really find *my* style for a while. I'm also not even sure if I ever want to take commissions.

Q: Why don't you want to take commissions?
A: I pretty much only see myself doing art stuff as a hobby. Basically, I love learning new things about drawing and I love improving; very fun for me. But there's also a lot of stress that accompanies the hobby. I don't need another large layer of stress of satisfying anyone who would commission something from me, especially with how often I randomly get very busy IRL so I wouldn't be able to consistently work on that kind of stuff.

Q: Will you ever draw emotes?
A: Maybe, but it's a low priority for me. I'm mostly interested in doing full character drawings like I've been doing so far.

Q: Will you ever draw stuff for other people?
A: Yes!! I've asked people in my discord server for random anime characters for me to doodle and those were fun to draw (I tweeted some of them couple months ago). As I get better I'll probably randomly ask people more if there's someone they want to see drawn. Unlikely that I'd commit to a full colored drawing, but if I think they would look good then I'll color them.

Q: Will you ever draw realistic art styles?
A: No. I'm only interested in anime styles. I don't want to draw any real people either.

Speedrunning

Q: Are you still speedrunning?
A: Not really. This year I did 2 different speedruns (Minish Cap and Link's Awakening DX) for 1 day each, which has made this year the least active speed year for me since I started in 2013 lol.

Q: When are you going to speedrun again?
A: No idea. The desire hasn't been there for a while now and I don't even know if I would come back to an old game or run something new. I imagine I'll probably do a couple speedruns in 2022, but no promises.

Casual Gaming

Q: What's your casual gaming look like?
A: I've only beaten 4 games for the first time this year so far lmfao. I got so uninterested with video games this year. I want to play more stuff, but it's getting hard to balance around IRL and art stuff. Whenever I have free time, 9 times out of 10 I'll choose to work on my art. I'll try to get more casual playthroughs going next year...

Other
Not much else to say. IRL has been busy so that's been slowing down all my hobbies, but nothing really to complain about there.



Thank you if you read/skimmed through this pastebin.