feeling clueless

 i really should get myself back to blogging. how the hell do i blog.

at first i just wanted this to be a repository/gallery for my drawings but i don't know. what do i do. 

checked out a new music artist

(not exactly new since the artist was mainly active in the 80s-90s)

recently discovered toshinobu kubota and his funky, jazzy music. definitely a new addition to my playlist!i'm not a music nerd so i'm not gonna pay attention to the feels/compositional details. 

the first time i came across his name was through a profile sheet of one of my favorite characters: jotaro kujo from jojo's bizarre adventure. his official profile states that kubota is his favorite artist. i didn't bother to look him up at first, and just got my knowledge through tumblr posts and tags discussing the character. "jazzy love songs?" okay. a screenshot of his wikipedia info? okay. 

what finally caught my attention, though, was a tiktok video about jotaro's canonical music preference. and soon after i went digging. my first listen was kubota's debut album, "shake it paradise" (through the tiktok). as i listened i thought, "his english is really good" and nothing else. still a pretty solid album imo

from youtube recommendations i try his other albums/songs, but some of them didn't really do it for me. "such a funky thang"? "hit by a time shower"? "cymbals"? ehhh...  i don't know. maybe i should give them another listen someday. i personally love "kitakaze to taiyo" from "groovin'" and "a night in afro blue" from "bumpin' voyage" but i've yet to listen to the rest of both albums. 

while i am not sure if i'll listen to more of his stuff, especially newer ones, i'm glad i've discovered them. thank you jotaro kujo and hirohiko araki.

jotaro got "marked"

 

someone was being pretty rough on him last night.

anyway, first post in a while. 

update!

pretty much alive, but i don't really know what to post here....

ive been drawing requests for mermay, that is, the "mermaid month" art theme thing. merfolks aren't what i usually draw, but it's a nice opportunity to learn to draw bodies of water and thinking about stories/scenarios for drawings.

by the way: somehow i've always had one or more users who like merfolk stuff in my ranks (read: viewer/follower base). i wonder if it's just a coincidence?

for some reason my blog has been receiving mysterious views from unknown sources for a while. i guess turning off the pageview counter was a good choice after all. some say it's a referrer spam, and i think i will go with that (though there are no referring URLs in the stats)

avdol and advil

 

from the POV of a person who left their meds in avdol's fortune-telling shop... for whatever reason.

this drawing was based around one single pun lol

btw i've been having a hard time getting his hair to look right and i don't know why

anubis and medjed

 

 

two egyptian gods residing in the underworld. here they're both dressed in traditional egyptian men's clothing.

medjed himself actually looks like a bedsheet ghost with legs poking out, two eyes and no mouth, so i tried to make him look more human without compromising his silhouette. 

for some reason i wanted to try drawing without lineart in a while. i guess it looked pretty good

jotaro with a cassette tape

jojo of the eighties and an iconic item from his era.

stardust crusaders awakened me to the charm of late showa era items (although showa nostalgia is mostly about 1950s to 1970s), so thanks for that, araki-sensei