I've been meaning to for a while, and I think I've finally freed up my schedule enough haha.

Check out the sheet here for more info!

(I did like my old sheet, but this is a lot easier for me to edit on the fly.)

It just occurred to me that I never posted about it here. On June 15, I released an album, Time and Tide! The tracks were made over the span of a year and a half, and all plays/purchases mean the world to me.

As is my style, a lot of it is upbeat, and much of it has a pop or cinematic flair. It's mostly synth orchestrals (like imo the best track), orchestrals and synth track, and it's all quite upbeat, although there's a few "emotional" ones (such as this). If that sounds like your cup of tea, feel free to check it out!

OH PS. there's an illustration for each track, go to each track's page to see it! And if you buy it you get to see my commentary + five bonus tracks too.

In other news, 3/5 of my assessments are over, none of the jobs I applied to picked me up, and I'll have time for commissions again soon! That's mostly good news, I'm glad I'll get to be here more often. See you soon!

Oof, my schedule got clogged up over the past month (surprise, master's degrees are hard work), and I haven't been able to interact here much. My apologies to people who were gonna commission me, people having trouble on threads I run, those who wanted to communicate with me more etc.

The good news is, I just made an AR Unity game, and I couldn't be prouder of myself.

My pile of notifications ever grows, and I don't know if I'll ever get to look at all the forum responses that have been posted on the threads I follow :( but I do like to pop in here every now and then to take a break from my life in general, which is something I appreciate.

I'm probably gonna be here more starting next month—maybe. I hope. That's if I don't land this job I'm getting interviewed for soon. So I suppose if I'm too busy to be here again, that'd be because I got the job, which would be a good thing. See you soon!

Themes

Anything that fits into either Revolving Door or Nocturna universes is appreciated. For the vaguer boards with no attire references, feel free to make something up or ask for more details.

• Nocturna: Any character related to death mythology, demonology, ritual magic, astronomy, divination and superstition
  • I'm not particular about appearance since this is a very broad prompt, refer to general appearance preferences for more
  • One pointer: if the character is based on a real mythological figure/demon, do incorporate features that they are described to have (e.g. horns, wings, animal features) in the design
  • Prefer characters with a clear theme or gimmick
  • Particularly looking for demons, occultists and diviners
• Wonderland: Clockworkpunk fantasy, Elizabethan, Baroque, playing card motifs (only one suit on any given character)
  • Nobles, courtiers and scientists make up most of the major characters from this world, but working class people are also good
  • Most of them have the ability to transform into an animal or an object
• World War 2: Realistic, particularly interested in characters in the military (combatants, strategists, codebreakers, engineers)
• Great Race: Solarpunk, Steampunk, Victorian, possibly someone involved in business, merchantry and/or travel
• 20 Minutes in the Future / Havaiki: Slightly futuristic, still recognisable as our world
  • 20 Minutes world: Preferably a character who lives in San Francisco or Hong Kong, but any major science/tech centre is good
  • Havaiki: I prefer a character with a non-European background
  • Centred on ordinary settings: schools, cafes, hospitals, malls, neighbourhoods, and the people who frequent these places
  • I prefer practical and realistic designs for these

If not for one of my projects, I like

• Historical characters
• -punk genre (Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Clockworkpunk, Solarpunk) characters
• Nobility, wealthy characters, individuals involved in politics
• Travellers, pilots of aircraft, vessels and vehicles, workers of delivery jobs
• Characters associated with death and the occult
• Characters with occupations involving combat

I will probably end up trying to fit them into one of my projects in the end, though.

Appearance

I like:

• Belts and straps
• Metal pieces, buckles, studs, buttons, badges, medals
• Billowy parts: Coats, cloaks, capes, dresses, long hair
• Boots
• Long socks
• Military attire, both ceremonial and combat, regardless of era
• Ornamentation that holds symbolic significance
• Attire that makes sense and can be made IRL, practical and befitting of the character
• Clear theming: a specific interest, a mascot animal, power that makes use of specific kinds of objects/concepts etc.

I would prefer them not to have:

• Physically impossible features if the character is a physical being
• Neon colours, except for highlights

General notes

• Realism is not as important for Nocturna and Wonderland characters
• No gender preferences
• Only if you have the time: I appreciate when a character is well-researched
• I'd rather they not be sexualised

A few people have mentioned that they like the way my profiles are organised (which is very nice of you guys btw, I did code them all from scratch). So I threw together template versions for my user profile, character profiles and commission sheet and shared them on the HTML/CSS forums.

You can get them here!

Have you ever wanted a 24-hour feed of just me talking about the story that's my life's work, which I can't shut up about?

No?

Well c l i c k   h e r e   a n y w a y

Everyone's welcome to follow just to find out what I'm up to! Or you can follow my regular twitter if you like. I have a no-spoiler policy on the RD account--we'll see how much I have to say as time goes on :p

there you have it, the outcome of 39 days of drawing. Here's the thumbnails of my latter 80 attacks   was a great Art Fight, it felt really good to make so much art, even while studying full-time concurrently. See you next year!

(First 50)

Wooooooo, I've met my secondary goal!

My second Art Fight has been hella fun so far, and so many people have drawn such cool stuff for me; I feel blessed

I did my best to make each attack special in some way (and to put lots of effort into every single one, of course), so you can imagine it's been a lot of work! I probably can't keep this up for the rest of the month, especially since I promised I'd open my commissions this month. I'm still drawing revenges for attacks though!

 In commemoration of this, here's a wall of thumbnails for all 50 attacks. You can see the full images and links to the characters + their owners on my Art Fight profile!

I start classes the same day ArtFight starts lmao

you can find me at http://artfight.net/~circlejourney where hopefully I'll have the time to attack you!

Aside from character sorting (which I was really invested in getting implemented), I'm excited for literature submissions! I like that it gives me an easy way to notify my readers + put content warnings on the chapters.

Now that it's a thing, I'm thinking of posting the chapters from my ongoing project, Revolving Door, here. If you aren't familiar, it's a big big story spanning several worlds, where every chapter is in a different style and genre and focuses on a different character (at least in the first volume).

That said, there's a couple of problems: first, because of the nature of the story, it has a flexible/branching reading order and I'm always changing the chapter order, so I might run into problems if Toyhouse doesn't allow for the same. Second, I'm not so fond of the visual appearance of literature pages, especially the fonts, the line spacing, and the persistent sidebar. I hear there's CSS support though? I'll have to mess around with that when I'm ready to post.

For now my plan is to stick a link to my website in the description of each one, and make a note about the issues above. I guess you'll be seeing those sometime soon—after I'm done with the upcoming installment, which goes live on June 12.