I never really developed much of a habit of doodling which I think is something of a shame. I worked on sketchbooks when I was in school obviously, but I mostly did materials tests and little studies instead of any actually playful doodling. (I managed living alone in college but I wasn’t exactly excelling back then. My health was arguably the worst it ever got, I’m not entirely sure why, and so I did a lot of Rationing of energy back then. ‘I can’t have fun doodling bc I need to save my energy for my Final piece’ kind of thing — I didn’t even really like thumbnailing lol)
Now, of course, I kind of lament this a little. I really like working with Augustus and the Changeling but sometimes I get a little preemptively exhausted or kind of struggle with the executive disfunction of “It’ll take so much work/energy to get another full piece done”, so I want to be able to just doodle and goof around and let things just be kind of playful and ‘see what happens’ about it, but I don’t really have the background for it so I feel very fumbling in the dark about it.
But I think that it’s not exactly like there’s a time limit on learning new things. I used to doodle a lot (so so much) when I was in elementary school because I was incredibly into warrior cats and so I would design OC cats and draw the actual characters and make little comics and fanfic snippets and share them with my friends who also hissed and barked at other kids, and it was fun. And I forgot it a little bit at some point but I don’t think that means it’s too late to never get to do it again.
Admittedly I probably won’t be putting a lot of these doodles into the Gallery maybe. Despite the fact that this is all for fun and I don’t make money off of art anymore and all there’s still a college part of my brain that says “only the best stuff goes in the portfolio”, but I think that this Blog page might double as a kind of sketchbook/notepad thing of sharing little snippets and ideas and sketches as I play around more, because I think that’s fun. :3c and so why not?
Also just as an update I’m also working on making art dolls of Augustus and the Changeling!! I don’t have WIP photos at the moment but I do have the armature skeletons done and have started working on Augustus’s face sculpt. It’s been incredibly difficult trying to find a style to pull this off in, but the good thing about sculpey is that it doesn’t dry until you bake it, so I can take my time with it. I’ll try to remember to post photos of how it’s going soon! (Im incredibly excited to start working on the hair and clothes — I Really like working on small little fiber things !!!
I'm not usually much of a blog person, but I have enough thoughts on this little series of mine that I thought it might actually warrant one for once. These pages are still largely under construction: I have thoughts about what I'm doing, but still need to actually settle down and iron out some of the wrinkles (Currently dwelling on: Color choices, the background, the navigation of the Writing page, etc). I have a lot of things I want to create for this series, but I keep getting a little ahead of myself because my brain has been moving faster than the rest of me can work LOL, I keep thinking I have more done than I do in reality. That's life sometimes. Today I'm planning on focusing on adding some more images to the main index page; I want to fill the sidebar with things, but haven't necessarily decided what yet, and am currently working on a kind of intro illustration for the splash page :3c. Come to think of it, I'll probably also use this blog page to post WIPs... I'll need to get better about image compression if that's the case -- my site is currently hovering just below the 50% storage filled mark as it stands. I'm planning to delete some bulk here and there, or I was before I got distracted away from site organization to revamping this page in particular, but it's still a good habit to try to get into probably.