DA FREAKING BLOG........

hiya!! welcome to my SILLY ZONE!!

here i basically plan on talking nonsense every little once in a while, but mostly i shall upload the occasional work in progress and devlog for my visual novel which you should totally go learn about!!
but basically this page will range from a somewhat earnest devlog to a place to ramble about shadow the hedgehog or miles edgeworth in a semi-public forum. and maybe sometimes maybe there will be an actual thought or two!! either way!!
see you soon for updates and such.... bye bye 4 now...

11/18/24

hey, it's been a while! but i'm back and i'm back with a vengeance. here's a little devlog of what i've been up to circus demons wise:

first order of business (to get back into things) was redrawing all of vera's sprites. i originally drew them almost exactly a year ago and didn't spend much time on them at the time, so when i did vera's little character sheet and did a good illustration of her i decided i wanted to redo her sprites to bring them more in line with the new design and give her a wider range of expression while i was at it. here's a little comparison of her neut/smile sprites, from march 2024 and march 2025 respectively:
once i finished that, i started on sprites for lythe and cameron. lythe's are done for now (though i'll likely add some more expressions and maybe another pose later) and cameron's are all sketched!

second order of business was some backgrounds. we're about halfway through chapter one (rebuilding) in the writing right now, so it's pretty important that the circus gets, ya know. rebuilt. i went over the old circus backgrounds and finally actually made their final, rebuilt and customized versions!! obviously i won't be showing them to you for spoiler reasons, but rest assured that i was actually pretty happy with the results, and i'm sure it'll be pretty satisfying to watch it all come together. now i just have to write it...

speaking of which!! the last order of business was solidifying some character backstories and writing-- again, this is some stuff i have to keep close to my chest for now, but i can tell you right now that i wrote a LOT about devon's backstory and had some reaaaaally exciting "ah HA" moments when it comes to tying together some themes and character narratives. i won't give you any details, but here's a sketch of an 18 year old devon as a little teaser for you:

so that's what's been up!! we're at about one year since i started coding my funny little circus idea in ren'py, and i couldn't be happier that i've been able to keep it going, even if my motivation slows sometimes. i'll be looking forward to updating you again sometime soon!

3/23/25

ooooo look a SPEEDPAINT!!! isn't that cool?
this miku design is from a little series i did like a year ago where i made some mikus based off of different vocaloid playlists i have, and this was the one for my sleepytime playlist :] it's definitely my favorite from that series and so i wanted to draw it again. super happy with how this painting ended up, i think the style really fits the misty cloud idea i had for the hair more than my original heavy lines and cell shading so. i just thought i'd let you guys see some process stuff!! i loooove this digital painting style it's so easy and fun and lovely and can end up looking so cozy and lovely :D

i've been drawing a lot of really cozy stuff recently. probably cause the holiday season's coming up and i'm really excited to head home and spend time with family, of course, but i'm just reaaaaally into drawing like people drinking hot chocolate under blankets and stuff lately. enrichment for me

11/23/24

i've been spending a lot of time animating little gifs lately...... obviously you can see the ones i did of my silly lil dolls on the circus page (which fun fact: the one of the clown was done MONTHS and MONTHS earlier when i first made my neocities account as a lil test and then the other two i just did like a few weeks ago when i finally really started working on gettin this whole thing set up!!) but i've never really been the animating type until recently.

i've been having a suuuuper fun time with it though. that shadow gif was genuinely sooooooo fun to make and only took me like an hour despite being fully colored and everything so. i'm working on animating a little thing with surge the tenrec right now to experiment with more serious, dynamic animation (see below...)

ermmmmmmm so basically it's pretty epic :] and i'm excited to do expressions and stuff for it yay! anyway. just a little animation update cause i've been doin fun stuff recently!!

11/19/24