picture diary #006

Hey hey hey! Blog time! To be honest I don't know if anyone really enjoys this as much as I do writing them but this is more like... something I enjoy looking at over time and letting you guys peek into my journal essentially. Hope that's ok.

Bonnie shed this week so she's extra bright <3

made some face masks for family!

Last month was a lot. I started working on my next comic pitch while finishing up the thumbs for my current deal I have. Unfortunately because of COVID19, this and that has changed for my finances so I'll be kinda messing around with ways to hustle on the side so I don't lose my mind. Anyways, cool stuff, I'm pitching 2 idea's for YA comics that I just spent a buttload of time on (one more than the other) so the fruits of those labours will come probably... not for a long time haha. We'll see! I also am working on 2 pitches for a webcomic, don't get excited, they'll be BL so I'm not planning on making it exclusive to Patreon. I might set up my Ko-fi or set up a separate tier on Patreon JUST for things related to that comic (early pages, BTS etc;). I've been toying with making a BL tier for a while, since I really don't want to have people who came here for lesbians have to see that and lose interest. I get it. If I was following someone to see the good sapphic content and they started uploading idk, straight romantic stuff I'd be like *yawning* kinda bored. I don't want that to happen LOL I know some of you are loyal and that's great I appreciate it, but Patreon isn't a hobby for me, it's how I make money enough to cover monthly bills and part of my rent so I gotta make you guys happy to an extent... but ofc not too crazy like I'm taking requests and stuff cuz I'm not like, a factory that can draw only for Patreon and hopefully make enough content to post elsewhere.

souffle omelette!

souffle pancakes! 

I also got the OK that I can post more of my concept/character/BTS of Lovely Recipe, my upcoming YA graphic novel ((((: I'll be posting it to twitter since I don't think it feels right to post it exclusively to Patreon, for contract reasons, so stay tuned for that in the future! It's hard though, since I have to make sure I don't post anything that gives away any story stuff or you know all that good stuff... I hope I can still show fun stuff tho ; o ;

I signed up for a course with Schoolism which is an online art course platform where you can pay monthly or yearly and watch online lectures from art professionals working in like, studios, successful freelance etc; I've actually taken courses from them before that I really enjoyed but I ended my subscription and ran out of time to take courses when I was using it so now that I have more time and I really want to stop feeling rusty and inadequate, thought it was a good idea! I'm taking Alex Woo's Gesture Drawing course to help me better with posing and expressive full body poses as well as simplifying the form better. I only watched the first lesson and he kinda reminded me of a bunch of things I totally forgot about haha. Here's hoping!

pre baked shokupan~

Lots of adventures in baking... I made japanese milk bread so I could make the strawberry fruit sandwiches... I ended up making a whipped cream cheese instead of straight up whipped cream since.. I love cream cheese hi. They turend out really good but I need a proper baking pan since I can't get the square shape without a pan with a lid. Hopefully the next time I make the bread It will be better!

finished shokupan~ 

I wanna thank baking, animal crossing and finally decorating/organizing my house as being distractions from the stress of this entire global situation. Actually no, Animal crossing get off that list because ever since I got terraforming I've just been making my island look worse and worse and none of the ugly villagers who are living there will leave cuz they think this island is ugly, so their ugly asses can stick around. UGH. I don't even have a membership to nintendo to invite people to my island which is totally fine my island is so UGLY. And not like, oh haha no we all think that U V U like i still haven't put paths up, I haven't been weeding so it's just. We're not gonna talk about it anymore.

ANYWAYS! Onto the recommendations!

Movies/Youtube

The Half of It- Netflix - Pretty cute movie! I think it was very good in the sense I wanted to know what would happen, I absolutely laughed and held my face multiple times, and it wasn't too high stakes that I was like feeling really crummy and gross. I'd recommend it!

Long Hair Pretty Nails- Youtube Channel I'm like... low key obsessed with. She just does her nails for like 20-30 minutes and it's so mesmerizing. I don't even do my nails like that, I haven't painted my nails in probably 3-4 months it feels like, but I love watching people do their nails it's so like relaxing to me? She's also just good mom energy she's so bubbly.

Music-

Blood Machines OST-- I'm a like, listen to the whole album kinda person then decide which songs I like, but Intro and Blood Machines Theme are my faves! By one of my alltime fave artists, Carpenter Brut, this OST is for a movie I believe that's already out? I low key haven't seen it cuz idk... it feels like something I'm gonna find boring, but I stan my boy Carpenter <3

Sorry I don't have as much to recommend this month since I was really busy with work stuff that didn't let me like... watch a lot of tv or listen to new music as much as I normally do.

Stay fresh and safe all!

~Mo