I'm 9 Prompts Behind 👍🏻 But I Did Today's One Anyway

on how I went to the hairdresser's and some mr rat appreciation, but it's him appreciating you

hey, I may be a few days behind (on Arctober), but I've finally finished my chomper grenade for the Jinx prompt (well, at least as much as I'm willing to, because there are a few details missing and the bottom part is not painted)

it's entirely out of paper, work in progress pics below edit: here's a post explaining how I made it

love the firts paintjob (I forgot I could mix colours instead of only using black and white 👍🏻)

anyways, it's not as small as it seems to be in the pic where I hold it - it's about 12 cm tall

it's rather cute and was fun to make (not so much to paint), would recommend

back with a new craft I tried

Craft update #1: the cardboard dragon

started: Aug 2023 status: abandoned

last year I had this wonderful idea to make a big articulated dragon thing (a childhood dream come true) ideally it would be made out of thin wood sheets (balsa wood?) and have bolts for joints - I guess the plan was to make a cardboard and toothpicks sketch and then a pattern to have it all laser cut (if you can even order smth like that), but I stopped at the (unfinished) sketch

it took days to cut out the segments (with the hind legs being remade entirely at some point) and I wasn't satisfied how the limbs connect to the torso (because I didn't plan it) - it would probably have to be remade/fixed a lot more, but I simply got (very) tired of it

now, the wings were supposed to be the really cool part, with hinges to allow them to move up and down, inner bones made of wire and some fabric for the membrane.. this never went anywhere and stayed as an idea in my head (one shitty cardboard wing sketch was made)

as of now, the dragon has been taped together to prevent everything falling apart, and is hanging from the ceiling to watch over when I sleep (first pic)

don't think I can keep up anymore, but here's the rest of the stuff I drew for Arctober before I focusted on finishing the grenade

for the "magic" prompt I tried to recreate a page from Jayce's notebook (and failed at illegible writing)

drawing finally felt fun and not like a torture! I even introduced some colour and you won't believe it, but I actually like one or two pieces presented here

for a very long time I was not used to drawing more than once a month (at best), so this is a journey I'm proud of - a "physical" proof it is worth pushing yourself through painfully scribbling some shitty drawings to actually get better and discover you're not as stupid as you thought

epic shark adventures and more, from a time when I tried to fight artblock by making silly ms paint doodles (more to come)

old stuff I didn't like (May 2024)

you know what? fuck it, I'm going to post everything I did for Arctober in slightly less horrible quality (may edit later), no matter how bad it is

it's just too special for me (this show and the challenge and new season coming up) so I'm putting all of my insecurities aside to show the unfinished, poorly drawn stuff that I'm ashamed of; join me on the painful journey of getting back to drawing (haven't done anything like this in pencil in two years or so, I'm basically missing all the basics)

above Rio it says 'poor cat' and the stuff I covered on the legacy page are some notes I've taken on what was hard for me when I drew it and what to improve ..oh, and on the very bottom on the 2nd Piltover page it says 'you fuckers will never leave Piltover', just don't mind it it's a Polish joke thing

I decided to conveniently combine these into one post (sculpting my favorite vrchat avatar)