TrixyNetex

Oh hi there everyone, it's been a bit.
Thought I'd take a moment, to step away from my Nanowrimo work, and have a quick look back at one of my other favourite month based challenges: inktober.

So as you probably already know, I did inktober this year.
I used the official prompts and here's what I drew  

       
       
       

This was my 4th inktober and I figured I'd take a sec to talk about what I did and what I might do next year.
So first off, yeah, I didn't manage to get all 31 pieces done. Again...
Am I bummed out about this? Kinda, but I think I know why this time.
But let's start with an over view. 
So for this inktober I used an A6 sketch book and decided to use Providence as my main subject throughout each piece.
Why? 
Well A6 is small enough that I figured it would decrease how long I'd need to spend on each piece (it didn't) and reduce the amount of ink I'd need (it did),
and I wanted to use Providence because, 1. he's cool, 2. his outfit is like all black and I thought that would make some neat contrast, and 3. I wanted to have a more consistent theme with this years pieces.
 
So how'd I do?
Well since my goal was to not only draw all 31 pieces, but to make them have some decent narrative storytelling going on, I'd say not too bad. 
Overall I'm happy with the pieces I put out and honestly in the end that's all that should matter.

But! What did I learn this time?
Well for starters I learnt that just because you use a small sketchbook doesn't mean that your pieces are necessarily going to be done any quicker.
There's a fair amount of detail in these, not mention all the thumb-nailing and time spent trying to come up with a good idea/composition. 
And I was also reminded how damn important having an actual schedule is.
I did learn that I really enjoyed having a central character to work with in each piece, though having a proper turn around chart would've been smart.

So here's my general advice to future me and anyone else that's interested.
1) Pick a theme/story/character that you want to use throughout the challenge
2) Each of these pieces took me an average of two to three hours. So once you've done the first 3 or so, work out how long each piece is taking you and make sure you plan and give yourself that much time, but also...
3) Spend some time in September and plan out your pieces, even get all the thumb nailing done. The biggest time sink is the prep stage. Once it's getting ink on paper, you're golden, but until then it's stress galore.
And finally, probably the biggest thing I learnt this year about how I do inktober happened after I started Nanowrimo.
Inktober is an all or nothing challenge. You either get a drawing done or you don't. It's also about not breaking the chain, that daily streak of getting art finished. Once you fall behind it's a compound effect. Time today needs to go to yesterday's piece and soon you find that tomorrow you're finishing today's and so on.
It's not that you can't make up days, but each year, after I missed a day, I could kinda feel how badly it'd screwed me up.

So here's the brief plan for next year to avoid that.
As soon as the prompts are up, I'm going to plan my pieces. All of them! When I had a plan things went way smoother. 
I'm going to have at minimum thumbnails done. 
I'm going to set aside enough time each day to sit down and do my art.
And finally, if I miss a day, I'm not going to force myself to go back and finish it before starting the next piece. If I have time I'll go back, but otherwise, it's more about keeping that momentum going.

So yeah, I hope you enjoyed this quick look back
and I look forward to sharing more art soon

Hey guys, it's been awhile.
Just thought I'd do a quick update since I last posted in like June or something...
_{How the time files!}

Anyway, wanted to let you all know that I'm going to be doing inktober. The official prompt list is out and it's got me excited! Still figuring out how I wanna approach this year's challenge, but the aim is to beat last year's effort. (Which was 18/31, double the previous year )
You'll hopefully see a few ink drawings up before inktober starts, a bit of a warm up if you will. 

I'm also going to try and post more pixel art, as I know some of you have been missing that
And hopefully there will be some more chibi art in there too. 

Looking forward to sharing new art with you guys

So quick update. Basically for those of you that have been around for a while you might have noticed that I didn't really finish inktober and then kinda disappeared for a bit
Well in all honesty I kinda burnt myself out with inktober as it happened the same time exams were on. And then I kinda got busy with life and yeah...
I've still been drawing, but most of it isn't really post worthy stuff. Mostly sketches and that sorta thing. I like posting finished pieces as I feel they look better when viewed on DA

Anyway here's the main point. I'm gonna try to start uploading more regularly again. I'm gonna take it slow too as I often get a bit too ambitious too quickly and, like what happened with inktober, burn myself out.
So I'm not gonna do that. Instead I'm going to aim to upload at least one thing each week and then see from there. 

Thank you guys for sticking with me through this 


_{And for those that got to this point. Turns out the kiriban was past at some point, but no one claimed it. So if anyone has a drawing idea they'd like me to do, comment below and I'll see what I can do}

Hi guys, 
how are you all?

I'll keep this nice and short, but I figured I ought to post something since it's been so long.

So I've been pretty quite the last few months, mainly due to uni. The good news is that I've found a renewed passion for making art, the bad news was I couldn't find the time to do many proper finished pieces. Let alone do a lot of pixel art, or even just post things frequently. 

But uni is almost over, so I thought I'd let you guys know that I'll be coming back in full swing
I'm going to be partaking in Inktober and I want to do another Halloween chibi series.
Plus I want to try my hand at drawing comics

Anyway that's it from me for now.
I'm gonna try and post a few things over the next few days to get back into the swing of it.

Have a good one,
see you soon

Hey guys, 

How are you all?
I see there are some new faces round here too

Anyway, I'll cut to it. 
I've kinda been on an unintentional hiatus
Completely unplanned and I'm not exactly happy about it per say, but yeah, it happened.

So what have I been up to?
Well essentially the uni semester started going into overdrive near the end of May, and then I was working on cosplay stuff for comic con and a bunch of other projects, then I got a new job, and yeah.
Simply put, I lost track of time and could really fit in a session to just sit and draw for long enough to make a complete piece. In a similar vein, I found it hard to just sit at my computer and look at Deviantart properly (which has left me with so many notifications)

So am I back now?
Yes
...
Kinda

I still really love drawing and all that, I'm just having a crisis as to what to do here...
Recently I clocked up six years on DA, and while I can firmly say I feel confident that I've grown as an artist in that time, I'm just sorta lost right now as to what to do next. 
So I'm still gonna do art. I'm just gonna be a bit all over the place until I work out a rhythm again

Also if you made it this far, thank you very much
I'd like to ask you a question now: what would you like to see? 
Oh and thoughts on sketch dumps? Cause I've done a lot of sketches recently...

Anyway guys,
cheers