Late 2022

2022 was the year of remembering how to draw...

It's time to get more ambitious. Let's color.

Unfortunately only on my phone? The process was a bit slow. There's an absence of edge control and a general lack of awareness what I'm doing.

← Skytober 2022 | Late 2022 | Early 2023 →

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A stack of cat-themed players, the top one is reaching for a butterfly

^{October 24th, 2022}

A series of doodles inspired by the new Days of Mischief cat ear hairstyle.

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pencil sketch of an old bearded spirit leaning down into the water

^{November 8th, 2022}

Sketches of some of the Elders.

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player in big yellow cape standing in front of a pink sunset in the snowy mountains

^{November 14th, 2022}

Endlessly pining for Big Yellow Cape.

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^{November 19th, 2022}

Some digital color over a pencil sketch from Skytober. One of the first things I showed to anyone except my sky buddy.

← The Sketch

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^{November 25th, 2022}

More rough color over Skytober drawings, in this case a sketch of the skykid trio turned into the something of the Vault OOB shortcut I was using in late 2022.

← Sketch repurposed from Skytober

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a player looks at the singer across dark water

a blue butterfly floats through a dark landscape

a child made of light clings to sunset-colored skirts of a taller person

three players hold hands in the middle of a celebration

^{December 12th, 2022}

Recording my impressions of the Aurora Concert, the finale of the Season of Aurora

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^{December 22nd?, 2022}

Jamming out as snow-kids.

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^{December 22nd?, 2022}

Long awaited, the pleaful parent travelled home. While 'Grandma' -- the guide of their season -- was taking up residence in the home space as well.

Pleaful's spirit is one of the absolutely worst to have to relive. We all need a nap after that.

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a spirit waves at a group of sky kids that are about to go sliding down to a ice rink

^{December 25th, 2022}

I was thinking a lot more about color at this time. And I wanted to approach a spirit as being transparent and wavering. Like jelly, arguably. I wasn't able to push the idea far enough at the time, but I think it led to a cute enough image anyway.

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^{December 28th, 2022}

The Aurora concert continued into January and I went back to watch it again -- but now with a floor seat. I could see Aurora's animations much better than up in the nosebleed section, and at times the floor beneath us flooded with water that reflected our light as players.

Also kind of interesting, the floor dropped out from under our section at the start of the grand finale song. It sent us all scrambling and sliding around on the ice -- and signaled to the audience up in the stands that they should get up and join in too.

I wish I had been able to work on this in some way other than on a small phone screen? But I still like it (writing this in 2025). I had a thought and I recorded it with the tools I had available.

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^{December 31st, 2022}

Happy New Years gift to Jesse, my Sky buddy.

Four Seasons together.
Abyss - Performance - Shattering - Aurora

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