The Half Enlightened One

Captain's log 09062023

While I haven't posted anything on patreon exactly, I hope you've been enjoying the content in discord... And I promise I'll catch up on patreon posts... Eventually.

Last month we had a small pool of choices, I decided then to make one of them, and I'd still like to sketch the others if I have time.

But this month we got a good haul! Here's the contestants for June!

"This month you should draw Link riding a Guardian." Alright, I doubt the TotK hype will die any time soon, and this seems like a fun challenge.

"Rumi from Blue Archive, since she's new" New and exciting, sure, she looks very cute, I can see the little bit of resemblance to Arraxis, but hm. Would need to be more floofy for that.

(Insert joke suggestion about Angelina from Arknights- which by the way, still very proud of the picture I did do for her, way back when.)

"In that case, Daiwa Scarlet from Uma Musume" Who apparently also looks like Arraxis- I see. Yes actually, though I bit less chill, haha.

"Svarog from HSR, cute Clara riding shoulder optional" Robit?! Robit! Cute robit.

Captain's log 04042023

Yeah, yeah, I'm late etc. I know I know-

But! Did you see me last month?! We did so goooood and so on scheduuuule!

Ahhem, anyway. Let's see what April holds for us, here's what yall suggested:

"I want to go back to HBSO Doodles" That is a fair one, HBSO has been dormant for too long.

"Outis Limbus Company whichever form you prefer" Would love to draw some more Limbus!

"Kamille Bidan because he's great" Hah, yes, and... Yes. I'm down to stick to older anime styled fanart too, and Ive drawn Kamiyu before, so I'm sure I can do it again

"thoughts about comfort characters [...] Ahri" While I have no idea what that means I can drawn a cute comforting Ahri, from League of Legends.

Trigun Tribute

We made iiiiit! In time, I can't believe it lol

I'm extremely proud of it. I think, although everyone is just floating in space, it turned out quite fun and alright to look at.

Thank you so much for watching the process streams of it, and watching me suffer, hehe.

This picture is not super quality for a print, but I hope it'll make a good wallpaper for yall anyway.

Ishmael - Limbus Company

I swear this has been done since before the release of the game.

And I appreciate yall for requesting it, I had a lot of fun and suffering through this massive floof.

I tried to keep the style of the game, but didn't stress too much about it. Mostly focusing on the values and giving the piece some depth rather than being to true to anatomy or, even the character's personality. I admit I didn't know much about her then.

I still don't.

Dang, this s series is hard to follow, lol.

Captain's log 07032023

I actually finished the patreon piece for last month before the end of the month- I just forgot to post it here... Whoops.

Thank you again for the support everyone. Seems this month will be a bit calmer, so I'll try to at least draw one robit to celebrate march. Immediate thoughts go to Phantom Brigade, I see a couple of frens playing that, it seems pretty new.

Here's the things yall suggested!

"Maybe some kooky "Comfort character" doodle of Sylvanas Windrunner" It could be interesting to come back to WoW characters tho I dunno much about Sylvanas, It'd be more of a generic piece

"Pecan from Animal Crossing New Horizons" That could be a fun style to explore haha, or maybe I'll change the style and make something exaggerated :0

"I’ll suggest Trigun to commemorate the recent watchalong." I like this idea. The watchalong was a success, and made me super happy, lets do it again sometime~

"Reisalin Stout from the upcoming Atelier Ryza 3" Ah yes, Ryza, it's funny to think her game got so popular. I wonder if people have played previous games of the series.

"Draw Half." Oh.

Captains log 13022023

This log is a bit late. Sorry, its been a crazy month-

I get the feeling I lost my queue for most things this month, and again, I'm sorry. Lets have a very short poll

Regardless, here's the options for this month!

Sunrider 4, that was coming out on the 10th

Limbus Company, also coming out this month

Like A Dragon Ishin (or Yakuza Ishin), getting a western release this month as well, which is very exciting!

Tohru and Kyo from fruits basket giving vday gifts cuz cuuute

"I support anything valentine related" guess we can have a generalistic Valentines option

Marsali birthday party :3 (on the 14th shieeeet Im so late, can we celebrate next weekend? lel)

Operation Grinch

Originally, I was going to make a poll in December and draw the winner, but since there was only 3 suggestions in December, I... kinda wanted to draw them all.

And then I didn't. I'm sorry lol we ended up with this one and a very loose sketch for HBSO that I plan to finish in January...

But this picture was my attempt on Arraxis' suggestion "Santa's elves seizing the means of production from Santa", but bringing it in theme for us so we have characters from our community, Wiccy, Fab, Bear, Queen, Mindless, Clem, Kayo, Sinpai, me and others.

It was super fun to do, it has a lot of doodle energy since things aren't really planned or make sense in a 3D space, the colors are lazy, buuuut... It's a finished piece.

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, and if you have any suggestions for 2023, feel free to comment them here!

Here's the big timelapse! 

Zone tan and other Vtubers judging you

This is your reward for November. Hope you're proud.

Having taken a break in November and coming back to a massive group picture was quite an experience. I really like group pictures, though I wouldn't say I handle them the best.

It was very fun to look at all the Vtubers' different styles and replicate them while also trying not to stay too stuck in any of them.

I also like that the text is a bit ambiguous, just like a headline would be.

From front to back and left to right we have...

Zone tan, Millie, Saruei, Finana, Bao, Shylily, Risu, Marine, Melody and Nyanners.

Here's the big timelapse! 

Cute Girltober 2021 - 2022

In 2021 I tried to make a collection of Rance girls and ended up stopping halfway due to landing a part time job.

I stopped drawing them, but I always had the idea to go back and finish the challenge, and so I saw myself with time to do it this year, along with the meme silly challenge.

The blue Copandon sketch divides the two years, and I find it interesting to notice improvement within the 2021 year and how different it is to the 2022 pictures.

I've talked on stream before on how much of what's been improving in my style as far as I can tell is details, and better positioning and use of them, and I think that is very noticeable here. 

(Also the transition from Paint Tool SAI to Clip Studio, though I still liked how easy textures were to use in SAI. Maybe its a good thing I dont have them anymore, haha)

I'm still in love with all of these, lol. Very proud of this collection.

Jet Stream Sam Meme month

This took a bit to come out, huh. Sorry about that

Here's the only thing I know for real. :^) And all the pictures I made for these meme shenanigans in October 2022.

Thank you so much for allowing me to do this and supporting me regardless, it means a lot!

Feel free to use these anywhere, if you so wish to.

Captains log 07112022 -

I havent even started writing this and I already feel bad for not posting the memegear pictures on patreon lol, thank you everyone for enabling the madness that it was and enjoying my silly content every October.

This month, Im taking it easy and enjoying myself, and the whole shenanigans happening in my planet, but yall have suggested quite a few funny things so... Good luck. Here's the options!

"Need President Lula doing a magical girl transformation to defeat the monster of the week" At first I was like hmmm should I really put him in a magical girl dress, but then I was like, yes. 100% lol Why wouldnt I. 

"Goku Lula channeling the Spirit Bomb also acceptable" This is an equally funny and easier thing to do lel

"It's No Nut November, so how about Zone-Tan or any other Lewd Vtubers shaming the participants?" I actually heard of zonetan on stream right before this suggestion was made, but I admit I didnt even know about their existence. I'm okay with drawing cute VTubers being mean

"Miko from No Game No Life because I just finished that and I'm a massive Kitsune Siiiiiimp!" Okay, Sinpai~

"Pokémon shenanigans?" I could see myself making a picture about pokemans, always willing to try their proportions and stuff

"Sinpai celebrating Nonstop Nut November... By eating a packet of peanuts" Yes.

Kittens and Puppers and their cute lil Tank - Timelapse

Okay, listen, the quality is kinda awful, I dunno how to operate youtube, so please forgive me.

But I hope regardless you can look at it and laugh at all the nonsense this picture went through.

If you have any questions about my process feel free to ask me too!

Kittens and Puppers and their cute lil Tank

I did it! I... submitted a picture. Finally... Its been 84 years...

Thank you for believing in me. I'm actually quite proud of this one! I'll also send yall a timelapse too. It is... Unedited. And has no music in it. I'm very sorry :^) I never promised quality videos.

But I hope you enjoy this picture. I really like Fuga's art style, and although not my usual rendering, I feel very comfortable to experiment on it, at least on these set characters.

I'm sure the fact I can just copy shapes and pick colors helps a lot, haha.

Captains log 10092022: Half Tries Again

Sooo... yall are giving me another chance, and I dont wanna mess it up.

I've been getting some things together and improving myself very slowly, so hopefully I can have a better attitude about this whole thing and actually give you guys some cute stuff to look at.

Thank you for everyone that's hanged on, people that had to take a break and came back, and people that had to take a break, again, all the support adds up, and I've only gotten anything today because of you guys.

And now to our options:

"Cute girls doing cute things, like tax fraud and overthrowing governments" I imagine for this one I'd need some suggestions of fanart OR draw... myself? lol and maybe some other cute vtuber girls being chaotic

"Blue Archive" I'm not super familiar with this, though it looks like a game with good designs, as these kinds of games seem to be. I'd be happy to explore some of them

"Fuga: Melodies of Steel" I've experimented with Fuga rendering style once and I'd be 10000% willing to do it again and again and again and again

"Sunrider series" Is apparently a sci-fi game series and is supposed to help me warm up for HBSO designs!

"Draw me like your French girl" - Queen, 2022. Yes. All of my yes.

"Rico buy a box of knives and gunpla" I'm also okay with this

"Stargate" I guess I can explore this cuz of aesthetic, but I'll def need some halp if we're gonna make a composition out of it

September Poll Theme

Happy birthmonth, everyone! We've been together for quite a while now! 4 years I think... Dayum! 

Thank you so much for the crazy support. I've only gotten anywhere cuz of you guys ;u; honestly.

Okay, onto the contestant themes! I'll also bring floofy month back from next month.

There's also... Spess ship design, and I'd think of both stream universe and HBSO in that case. Would be a bunch of sketchies probly.

HBSO Males. Yea need to get to those. sorry~

Lobotomy Corp. Oh, I have such a good idea for this. Like a gif of the sephira headbanging to the second trumpet~

Everyone's OC cosplaying as sailor moon. Oh hell ye. You can pick your favorite if you want, we can have duplicates of the colors~ I'd specially love to draw some guys in skirts lol.

If you guys have any suggestions for drawtober let me know! Next month is art every day and I need direction. Leaning towards fanart tho. Just to get that extra attention. But lemme know how yall feel!

July Theme Poll

Or is it theme pooooool :0 hurr

Again, this was posted like, yesterday, I dunno why you're only seeing it now. Patreon is totally being weird, I swear, it's not like I could have forgotten to post even tho I was reminded 5 times.

We didnt get too many suggestions this month, so I'm bringing some back from June, please pick what you want to see this month! No fanart either, so the options are pretty self explanatory.

HBSO Sketches for June

I posted this early in the month- I totally did! You must have missed it if you're just seeing this now.... Right?

We did some new exploration on HBSO and I think I'm about done faffing about with the space suits, they are what they are. I still need to figure out a cute uniform for everyone, but that's also almost done.

So this month we get a sketch of all the girls in the crew in their spess soots, and we'll get the same format for guys and the NBs in the crew- I'll also use these to draw their uniforms once the time comes.

I also did some thinking, and I got most of the story I wanna tell figured out... Only to realize I barely have any direction or final lesson to teach lol I just want to make something that looks kinda cool.

Thank you so much for the support! At the very least we get some laughs out of the whole HBSO idea and its really nice to see you guys invested in it. Please look forward to more content like this :0

June Theme Choice

Sooo... Half did it again.

I was gonna claim May for myself again, but no result April was all my fault. I apologize. I did work on some HBSO sketchies, I plan on releasing them soon. 

I've been not home for 5 months, but I'll be going home later this month- and hopefully less lazy than ever. Uh, aside having to get things working there again. After the 21st, if I survive the trip, expect some art streams and a bit more activity from me.

Meanwhile, here's the options of what we'll be working in June! I'm surprised there's no reference to any existing series this month. Lets go, donut June :0

HBSO (our half baked space odyssey... Again!)

OCs going on bushwalks! (To force me draw some Bob Ross environment background lol)

Chibi foods doing chibi food things, yum!

Designing a line of fluffy mechs, god help me

Fluffy month in general~

April Theme Choice

Im a bit late on posting this, but I'm really curious to know what would you guys like to see this month.

We have a returning theme, which is HBSO, our half baked space odyssey in which I explore spess themes and designs for our patron based comic thing.

Someone suggested... Saberface month. ... I'm not a big Fate fan, but I suppose I'll put it in here.

We have a suggestion for Ogre Battle Series, I'm not familiar with, but am curious!

We also have options like... "Draw more Half". Haha, Yall are very sweet. I'm happy to expand on it a lil, specially with the come back to twitch, I'll need a new profile picture and all that. But I can also do it on my own time. I'm happy to work on something for yall specifically too, instead of using it as an excuse to do my own stuffs.

RWBY!

And then we have Anime Warship Captains. This is fun, since I've done something similar in May/2018. So, if this isn't picked, it'll probably go over to next month as well.

Thank yall for suggesting! Tell me what you'd like to see art most of.

March of Robots 2021

Not a filled March of Robots as I wanted, but at least we get two cuties really well done, Cybuster and Valsione- who even got a version coloured by my stream chat, and it looks pretty okay, haha.

Thank you so much for the unending support all year round all these years, guys. It really adds up.

Chrono Trigger February

I had planned to give you guys some more content, as I love this game. But hey, life gets in the way... So I made an extra detailed Robo- with a few tweaks cuz I thought it'd look cool! And some cute girls. 

I'm posting this a bit late, but I hope you enjoy it~ If you want anything trimmed wallpaper sized... I'm totes a professional at that, so just let me know.

For March, I'll be drawing some robots to make use of the March of Robots tag. Please look forward to it!

February Theme choice

Hello, my precious frens :0

Here's our february theme choice as promised~ This is what you all suggested, plus a suggestion of my own. And the things that don't win might move on to the next poll until I notice there's not much public for it between yall.

I'll draw characters from the series chose or use the theme as a guide to draw some studies. It all depends on what yall want to see.

* Reminder that HBSO is our half baked space odyssey, made with characters yall helped to create. 

Arknights January

Oh, hi, I exist.

Happy 2021, everyone! Thank you for hanging around me for so long. I really can't express how much I'm thankful - regardless of my activity in the page or anything directed at you specifically, yall have been helping me expecting nothing in return and that's crazy kind. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'm a tiny bit more active on discord, as you know. In fact, I promised people there a vote for this month since I was hoping to become more active on patreon from now on. But even that vote I couldn't keep, and since it was so late in the month I took one of yall's suggestions and made some pretty pictures themed after Arknights. I know literally nothing about the game, so I hope it's nothing toooo out of character.

I hope this makes up for at least a little teeny bit. Let's actually hold the vote this first week of February! If you have any suggestions of a theme (we're trying to not do single characters anymore, give me a game, series or general holiday theme), please let me know in the comments, or on discord in our designated channel~ or privately! That's fine too.

June Chibis

Since I didn't run a poll this month, thought I'd make a smol thing with the requested girls. There was a forth one, Usada Pekora, the VTuber, and she's almost done, I'll edit the post as soon as she's ready.

Right now please enjoy Michiru, Selkie and Y'shtola~

May Gear 2020

BREAKING NEWS! Professional artist forgets to post again!

This is all I did in May for my personal Guilty Gear challange and posted on Twitter... Plus an actual colours Dizzy under yall's request.

This was super fun, thank you for giving me this opportunity~

If you're curious the most twitter famous of them is I-no, followed by Jack'O and Justice. Then Venom, if I recall correctly.

March of Robots 2020

This started out as a joke, then an exercise on robot parts, then an exercise in creativity and then an exercise in traditional rendering.

.. Was a busy month! And I'm somewhat proud of the results. Some more than the others.

I def wanna keep doing these in march, its a good excuse to practice, just let my brain go wild and draw something marginally cool looking. I mentioned to some people I felt like a kid drawing again, and it was a good experience to take a moment everyday and do whatever I want- and be happy regardless of the mistakes in the process.

That's about all there is to this month.

The world is kinda burning atm and here I am, drawing robots. 

I started this year actually hoping it'd be a good one. And well... It kinda sucks. But on a personal level, it hasnt been that bad. At the end of the day, this is all I can do, invest in myself and my skills so I can do things better.

I hope you're all staying safe, please look forward to the next artsies!

2020 Valentines

Yeah, yeah, I've been missing... I'm sorry. Discord tends to be way easier access to me, so I've been semi active there.

I decided we should do valentines to start this year big! And then bad things happened this month. I couldn't deliver all I wanted- but I hope to bring the page back up.

This is just the beginning~

Inktober 2019 comments [5/5]

Almost done now. Sorry bout the spam!

Dark was a real general word and I was planning to do a demon form of Half, but realized it wasn't interesting, it was like a heartless, just a slanky pointy dark figure (with a crazy hair behind it). So I got some ideas and drew Gundam Master doing the darkness finger! And I liked the purple hand- the other not so much lol but for something done in a single day, I think it's alright. Here you see that coloring again. Looks off in places cuz I didn't take nearly as much time to do it this time.

Coat wasn't... Appealing. I didn't know what to do and since its the end of the month I went for something real simple. Regardless of how uncultured I am, Sam & Max always come back to my thoughts in these art challenges, so I went for the comic's look on them, and called it a day. Turned out cuter than I expected, tbh.

I had such a good idea for Ride but I didn't have the time to draw all of them so I picked the two cutest mounts from DQXI and went for it. The doodle form with color made it pretty charming but it got zero attention on twitter which was kinda disappointing... I was really fishing for that attention haha.

At Injured I had many ideas but no drive to do any of them. The Baiken trying to tie her hair was the most fun I could think of and I ended up losing dinner time while working on her, so aside nobody giving her attention regardless of it being Guilty Gear related, regardless of it having boobs, I had my fun and I am pretty proud of it.

Then there was Catch which again, I didn't wanna do pokemans so I did something similar :^) Since Bear shown me Rance during October I thought it'd be a good time to actually draw Rance now that I knew how his games work. Theres a capture mechanic for some monster girls in game, and thats what I tried to picture here lol It turned out flat, but also funny looking so I'm okay with that.

And finally- the last day... Ripe. I almost forgot to draw that one and rushed in the 2~3 hours I had left after school and before bed. This is also my brother's suggestion, tho he said 'an odin sphere character eating a naple' and I was like eeeeeeeh so I drew my favorite sheep tree instead. And Mercedes, cuz I guess she was easier to put floating around.

And that was inktober 2019! Thankyall for supporting me through it. I realize I still have to draw that nobel gundam so I promise after this weekend I'll do my best to finish it.

... She says and then disappears forever again~

Inktober 2019 comments [4/5]

I swear these posts are the most I'll write my whole life.

During October Bear started streeman another SRW OGs game that really interested me because it has characters from a game I knew when I was a kid. I decided to draw him a brb picture for this game, and since I saw someone say Suzuka controlled her robit like puppets I... Thought this was a good idea for prompt of the day, Tread, as well.

I must have misread tho, cuz I don't think she uses treads to control it at all.. Realizing that mid picture I put on some magic and called it a day. No turning back now! Then Bear justified her in the prompt. "Tread on me, Suzuka-sama" and yknow, I can't complain. This picture algo got quite a few reblogs, making me real happy.

The next prompt was real straigth forward. Treasure isn't complicated, and my first thought was... to draw some precious friend :^)

I thought it wouldn't be nice to make the others feel left out tho, so I went with my second thought, mimics! And DQ has a great selection of creative mimics. Besides DQ is fun to draw so of course I went with it. I also decided to bring back the friends thing and tweeted people to tag their precious friends. Unfortunately nobody really did that, but I was satisfied with the picture anyway.

For Ghost I didn't have any exciting ideas, so someone suggested Auron which I thought was a great idea to train old man faces :^) haha, sorry Auron. So instead of training I covered his whole face with his clothes!

I did color this picture but... I didn't like how flat it looked. So I brought the saturation all down and post as black and white. Luckily for me, whoever design Auron picked a design with good enough contrast to make this picture 3000 times more interesting this way lol. Looking back on it, I don't like it a lot, and I don't hate it. I guess I should have drawn a Sohee instead...

My brother's birthday is on the 23rd so I decided to let him pick who I was going to draw for Ancient. And his head went to Yu Gi Oh for ancient egypt. Now I ALMOST doodled some memes to go with that, cuz of the abridged series that me an bro used to watch, but the style took me too long to get right to meme afterwards. This is Ishizu Ishtar. 

Here's my most famous inktober picture of the month- the word was Dizzy so of course I'd draw her! Now at this point I'm realizing the poses for most of my interesting pictures this month are actually the same. So I just threw ideas around until I made this real cute face and gave her killing hips.

I'm not dumb, Dizzy hasn't been announced for GG 2020 yet, so to tag it accordingly I needed Ky to be there :^) I also thought it'd be cute but it turned lewd real quick, I'm not sure how that happened. Anyway, even making Dizzy's design simpler, people seemed to love it, and it got over 170 retweets, making me super glad. Technically, I think I could have done it better, but I can't change it now can I.

After the Dizzy blast there was Tasty and I wasn't about to draw someone nomming on a deeeeeeeck tho that's totally like me to do, you know it. ... Anyway- I had to improvise. I was real tired so the simpler solution I found was to draw palico cook frens from Monster Hunter, but I didn't really want to draw food so this happened I guess. It's cute but like Auron, the colored version was really flat looking and I used the black and whitify trick again and disliked it a bit less.

Inktober 2019 comments [3/5]

There's more-

This block has a bunch of weirdos, starting by Pyramid Head because when I saw Ash, I didn't think pokeman, I thought Silent Hill. And... That's about all there is to it. That series scares me, so while I know theres different designs for this beastie, I didn't know which one to go with, cuz I dunno where each design appears. I guess its nice to draw a scary boy every once in a while- even if it doesnt turn out scary at all...

And somehow Ash wasn't my most nonsense picture, it was this one, cuz the prompt is Overgrown. And I thought- hey I could do TTGL movie version, throwing galaxies at people! But someone pointed out that the ttgl isn't overgrown, it's as big as it should be... So I was like aw.

Now that I think about it, I can't tell for sure if this character also falls into that category lol but what's done is done. I guess it took me so long to figure out what to draw that I ended up picking the cute girl cuz it was easier to deal with. This is Kingprotea from Fate. She big. Thats all I care about.

WHAT A THRILL~ Legend prompt is Big Boss- but not only Big Boss, it's Big Boss in the field where you fight The Boss, so you get to remember two legends in one pic. No further mystery there.

Yes, I copy pasted a lot of flowers :)

I don't remember exactly how I reached the conclusion I could draw Inosuke, aside the fact that he does fit the Wild prompt. All I know is that I'm really glad I did, I think this is one of the best pictures I did this month. I've seen real little of Kimetsu no Yaiba, and while I don't like the way the anime delivers it, I can't deny its a fun animu. This is the most fun character tho~ So I'm glad I got this excuse to draw him. Besides, he's real cute. ... Handsome? Cute. ... Yea, cute.

Then if Overgrown wasn't enough, there was Ornament in the list and I was also at a complete loss. I got many ideas from some people, but none really made me real happy and I ended up settling to draw... Jam, of all things!

Just a few days before, Teresa had come to my DMs asking if he could use my previous Jam picture as his twitter header. Of course, I said, and since I was drawing Jam anyway, I decided to color her after his, again. This picture got a lot of attention regardless of the low effort, making me confused, but also happy. I realized Guilty Gear pictures might be worth investing on.

And that's funny cuz... A couple of years back, I was planning this patreon page and I had to narrow a theme so people would recognize me as an artist they could fit into a category. And I planned to do GG art... I never got to do it- But I planned to. This might be a sign guys, maybe I should invest my time in GG and in robots.

To complete the hell block, Misfit was a word, and I was, for once, not lost! I knew I wanted to draw Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, though I didn't know how. Cuz he already has sprites in all omnious poses... So I grabbed another character, which happened to be Saphine. And since my brain was already gone by this time of the month, thats what came out of it. It's really dorky and rushed looking, because it is all that... I'm not proud of it, but I don't regret it one bit.

Last on this block was another Fate character cuz I couldn't fit anything else into Sling... And because I couldn't do the actual Bible version of David :^) cuz, yknow if I wasn't a christian it'd be fine but since I am I can't force my religion into anyone~~ Lel, just kidding, I just didn't want to do a kid's book version of david, so I did the Fate version. And it was chibi cuz this guy is real femme and he wouldn't work otherwise.

Now, I joke, but I do like his design. The details people picked for his clothes are really fitting somehow. Kudos, fate team. I don't like you, but that doesn't stop yall from doing a good job.