was trying out a new means of sketching and i came up with a somewhat solid base for me to trace over when i add important stuff like the character i'm trying to draw in question and the details

i think i should focus more on my anatomy

..but i didn't know what to draw so i ended up drawing yugi because i've been consuming some yugioh content recently

(this is normal yugi, not dark/yami yugi since he gets more attention)

(i'll draw the chain around the millenium puzzle when i add the lineart, don't @ me)

more specifically i've been watching season 0, both the manga and the anime

it's kinda weird since duel monsters is an after-thought in those adaptations and focuses more on games. not video games or board games, but like these batshit insane ones (then again, yu-gi-oh does mean something along the lines of "game king"). not to mention that the series is darker than the anime most people are familiar with (the one with exclusively duel monsters and not the other games) since dangerous and life-threatening situations happen to yugi and his buttbutties in almost every chapter (e.g being held in gunpoint, fighting serial killers being forced to play games with death as a penalty for losing like being electrocuted on an electric chair)

take this one for example:

a game where you can only move one of your ten fingers. yami tricks a guy (he's a criminal don't worry) into lighting himself on fire

...i'm sorry, is he really the hero??

oh yeah, and anzu/téa gets sexualized semi-frequently (which is kinda weird because she's like 15 or 16), here's a panel where there's a baby (he belongs to tristian/honda's sister) trying to rape her

i shouldn't be suprised though since japan has a thing for underage girls

there's a frame where you can see up meiru/mayl's skirt in an episode of rockman exe (it was snipped in the english dub (megaman nt warrior) THANK FUCK), and there are several instances of goku and bulma being buttass naked with little no censorship in dragon ball (not z, just dragon ball), and chi-chi's entire getup when she was a kid speaks for itself (is this why liking anime was taboo back in the day?)

still... what the hell am i getting myself into

this version of yu-gi-oh isn't bad, it's just.. madddd weird

i'm still gonna read and watch the anime cause it's actually really interesting once you look past all the typical japan tomfuckery

i might even get into the actual card game (like, the video games, not the actual thing. im not wasting money on card games, especially because i have nobody to play with, i don't have friends outside of internet mutuals 💀💀)

not too long after finally managing to homebrew my 3ds (see: https://tengukuru.newgrounds.com/news/post/1468461) i ran into a few issues right off the bat:

1. idk the password to the nintendo network account as it was made by what i'm assuming was my parents (who else?). this is a minor issue but it's a bit of a shame because i wanted to try out pretendo
2. FTP and FTPD. nuff said
3. storage and memory space. for some reason all of the homebrew tutorials neglect to mention the file size of the microsd/normal sd card and how you can't download every game you want. the one my 3ds came with has a 3gb limit, which is a shame because it can't fit all of the games i want (i was only able to download a link between worlds and super mystery dungeon)

i ordered 2tb microsd cards (one for my 3ds, obviously, and one for my phone. my switch can have my phone's 128gb microsd card) and a stylus (i have a stylus but it was made for the dsi so it doesn't fit into the slot) from walmart

the cards should arrive by the 18th, while the stylus should come by the 25th, so i have to wait a bit

so i'm trying to find something to do while i wait, preferably something productive

...like getting started on that damn comic already

i haven't gotten to it yet because there's a LOT of shit i need to do

write the script so i know what i'm doing (i have it visualized in my head but i might need to make a note to make necessary improvements), draw fight scenes (i haven't done that yet), and make panels (i haven't done that either)

worst of all, i want there to be robots and mechs and shit. more specifically like the ones down below because i like most of the designs:

https://www.deviantart.com/tyrranux/art/Classic-Robot-Masters-1-362196552

https://www.deviantart.com/tyrranux/art/Classic-Robot-Masters-2-365137119

https://www.deviantart.com/tyrranux/art/Classic-Robot-Masters-3-365792512

they look cool but i imagine they're an ass to draw

and i don't wanna just wing it because i need the first chapter of said comic to be really good (or at the very least decent) so people actually want to see more of it

and yeah i have looked at tutorials (i've made a few posts on my experiences with them, actually).. but they all suck and don't help me in the slightest

i don't see an easy way to do this, i guess i really will have to wing it

whoops

anyways i was gonna draw something for this date but then i thought "nah that would take too long and it wouldn't be at least marginally funny if i posted something related to 9/11 on 9/12"

and idk how to draw planes, interior and exterior

so you get this instead

exactly what it says on the tin

im gonna be participating in this robot day collab because

1. there's a small chance i'll get money for it (and i need some because i've got $25.51 left in cash and 4.70 left on my cashapp account (which is a damn shame because im trying to get some new 3ds xl accessories, namely a bigger micro sd card). basically im broke)
2. participating in a collab is EXACTLY what i need for my account to get more attention

would draw vaccine metalgreymon because he's kinda like a robot (last time i checked he's a cyborg-type digimon) but i'm no good with drawing monsters so i'll just draw mega man x instead

because i've procrastinated on it for a while now and i've got nothing better to do right now

i mean i could be folding my clothes

but i'll do that later

i got banned from two digimon servers because people saw my strawpage and got salty at the fact that i don't like trans and gay people

I will not and will never contribute to your lgbtq+ safe space circlejerk hugbox filled with little snowflakes who need to be shielded from the real world and need to be told exactly what they want to hear at all times to have the slightest chance of them not killing themselves 😤

i'd love to talk about who this character is and what i plan to do with him in the comic but i'd prefer to leave that for the description in the finished drawing

alright i've got no ideas on what i should draw right now (apart from sonic LITERALLY opening his heart) so i'm working on a design draft right now for a character in that comic i mention in some of my posts

here's what i have so far

yeah i know it looks stupid but this is just the sketch

i'll work on the details later

ever since my old account got banned about 7 months ago (see: https://tengukuru.newgrounds.com/news/post/1423417), combined with the fact that this is the SECOND time i've lost a discord account (the first time around i lost it because i was asked to verify my age to look at an 18+ channel and i was underage at the time; around 12 years old), the fact that i lost all of my data from bots (I HAD AN ARCEUS (POKEMON JESUS) ON POKETWO GODDAMN IT), all my dms with friends, and just basically have to start all over from scratch has left me on the fence about creating another account

i don't wanna get too attached again and then get banned/disabled/my account stolen like last time/hacked and have to start all over again, that's like your level in an mmorpg game getting reset without your consent and you have to do all that grinding all over again

i do not want to go through the trouble of getting back my mutuals and my emojis again

..but then again... i don't really have anybody to talk to, let alone friends

LIKE I'M NOT DEPRESSED OR ANYTHING (I'D HATE TO COME OFF AS DESPERATE BECAUSE THEN I'D HAVE PEOPLE BECOMING FRIENDS WITH ME OUT OF PITY AND I DON'T WANT THAT)

i'm just

..bored. like i've got so much free time on my hands i end up not knowing what to do with it half the time (apart from drawing and slaving away watching niche anime via totally legal streaming websites 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️)(if you don't want me to pirate shit then don't lock shit behind a paywall and more importantly DON'T GIVE ME THE OPTION NOT TO PAY)

so i might make another account

but seeing as to how easy it is to lose your account on discord, i'm not sure

i would have a poll on my twitter account but like.. i don't have a good following, that'd be like talking to a brick wall

so idk