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Been a sec, but I have been working on some stuff since developing the site to where it is presently, and I thought I should update y'all!

So, what has this art that I've been working on since the site's creation?

Drawing! Specifically, drawing furries!

As said before, despite how the site and I presently present myself on the web, I don't appear to be a furry to most. But! This will soon be changing, as I have begun work on a collaborative barter with a friend of mine. In exchange for helping with building their neocities site, I will be provided art of my fursona!!

This has put me into both a web design and just general design mood, and I have been wanting to work on building my own skills in the medium again. I had been spending a decent amount of time before this recently working on my music, continuing my slow, and rather arduous, trek through learning to play guitar (getting the chords down, but it is SO hard to remember things)! But with this recent shift in my art fixation again, I have been hard at work!

I have only been working on 3/4 perspective for the most part, but this is the type of perspective and pose that has proven difficult for me to understand in the past. Especially when it comes to characters with non-human anatomy. Heck, I can barely, if not at all, get the human anatomy one down! HOWEVER, I have been working on my improvements at a slow and (hopefully) steady pace. I have been following this video by user CacuuArt and doing a system of pattern learning.

The system, that I found from this video by internet user brokendraw,

helped detail a set way of patterned learning that involves watching someone who is skilled in the type of art or specific kind of artistic block you are experiencing, and then afterwards, following along and doing it yourself. Then after watching, and following along, the next step is to attempt to do it on your own without the input of the original guide. From there, it's doing that system fairly regularly and not sticking to any one specific thing for too long, and it can help with improving art significantly. I can say FOR SURE, that this method helped improve where I'm at presently. I would show you what I was doing furry-wise before this video, but my iPad is currently dead and I can't charge it, so you will have to take my word for now. When it gets back up and running, I will edit this blog post to include it. But be warned, it is AWFUL. And that is why I am so confident in this type of method for not only drawing, but also music, writing, really any creative pursuit.

It's made me feel not as bad for when I hit a wall or feel as if I'm stagnating. I was super stuck at the time I found that video and it has only galvanized by want to learn more. If I had the money, I would be purchasing some of the nice furry anatomy books I have been recommended due to furry Youtube, but alas, 30 dollars is too much when I'm about to spend 40-50 dollars on watching the Minecraft movie TWICE (two separate sets of friends have invited me, and I am SO down to watching this nightmare in 3D). Soon hopefully! But until then, yeah that's what I've got on my drawing escapades. I'll probably upload these pics to the art section, even though they're not super refined or rendered pieces, just because I have been neglecting adding my actual art to the art page aside from my analog stuff. I also have music I have been needed to upload soooo yeah. Peace for now!