September 2025 Blog

Tuesday, 9/09/25 | Mood: Still too hot outside :(

I just discovered what a helper morning stimulants are. My boss bought some "neuro" gums for the store, and apparently it has two cups of coffee worth of caffine in it. Well, being the dunce I am, I took one of those gums and had a black coffee right after. By noon, my hands were jittering uncontrollably. I am new to caffine! I never take it. Never drank coffee. But now I think I'm starting to enjoy it. Add it on my pile of addictions, I guess.

It helped a lot today. My work is "putting the rocket" on me, so to speak. It's a pro wrestling term, it means they're investing a lot into pushing me to the higher ups, so I can be promoted. With that comes more expectations, more responsibility. And they are not shy about piling them on now, even though I'm still getting paid a part time wage. It's alright, it'll pay off soon. Besides, it's not like I have a lot of options in this job market. If I don't get this full time promotion, I'm honestly screwed when my student loans kick in.

Fall's on its way though, which is nice. I always love q4 of the year. Cool weather, based holidays, and the aesthetic is on point. Excellent...

Wednesday, 9/03/25 | Mood: Excited for Autumn

Another month down! Still working on that pixel art. It looks really bad. I know how to do texturing, but lighting and dynamic angles completely elude me. I will probably try to do some art study pieces so I can get better at depicting different angles than just straight-on.

All of this yap is probably very boring, so here is a WIP...

Pretty rough so far. I just can't seem to get a convincing roof shape, not sure how I can fix that. Maybe I should use a reference. It was very difficult to force myself to make this, and not roll with the mistakes and make some avant garde nonsense piece to hide my lack of skill. Over and over again, I had to tell myself that I had to "let it be bad", otherwise I will never improve in my craft. Hopefully that is a good mindset to adopt at my current stage. More progress to come.

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