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At school today, another girl was handing out a bunch of pins around our class, and I picked out these ones!



I really like the little girl pin, I think I may draw her, and the apple pin. I might incorporate the apple into an outfit someday… I think it would be cute.

Also, I found out you can connect a mouse to an android tablet via an adapter, and wouldn’t you know it during school my good friend gave me one as a late christmas present! When she was asking me and my other friends what we wanted, I asked for a switch to hdmi chord adapter. I asked for this because I got a capture card last christmas, but I couldn’t use it because I didn’t have a switch doc and that was the only system I really wanted to use it for. I should have just asked for a lightning chord to hdmi chord since that's basically what I was asking for, but it ended up working out. Well the adapter isn’t just hdmi, but also usb and another lightning port, so I can hook a mouse usb into it and then plug it into my drawing tablet. I know it might sound weird to hook a mouse up to a tablet, but it makes using Clip Studio SOOO MUCH easier, as I’m pretty sure it’s a direct PC port, so the buttons are super tiny and hard to click on with a finger or stylus sometimes.

On a completely different topic than the last two, I’ve been feeling really sleepy today and I don’t know why. I got enough sleep last night, I mean I did wake up at 1:00 am but I went back to sleep pretty early. I’m hoping that it's just me messing up my sleep schedule over Christmas break. It's pretty sucky, because I’ve been slacking on this writing assignment for my multimedia + design class, and I can barely pay attention during the 2 hour period (trade school) so I say to myself that I’ll get to it when I get home, but I do get home and then I’m too tired to do it! (>﹏<)

This blogpost was kind of boring, so here's a WIP for the people who actually care enough to read this.

I almost missed the first high school day back from Christmas break today. I thought it started back a couple of days later, the only reason I learned that it was today in the first place was due to getting a discord notification complaining about having to get up for school right before I was about to go to sleep (at the reasonable time of 5:00 am of course). Luckily, due to the fact I take college credit classes, I get to go into school later so I had time to shower and stuff like that. I even picked out a cute outfit for today, as shown below.

(Though the neck of the turtle neck I wore kept sticking back up and it looked awful when it did. Also a car pulled in while I was taking the photo)

School was alright, it was kinda boring because I didn’t have to do much in my classes today, I wrote down some stuff about a comic idea I have. I'm really tired right now, but I'm trying to stay up until 8 so I get my sleep schedule back on track.

I feel so awful right now. I’m hungry because I just woke up, but it turns out the kitchen sink is clogged so I can’t even make myself a quesada or something. I don’t really want to talk to my friends right now so I’m kinda bored. I could play Roblox or watch a tv show but I even feel too tired to do that. At least my tablet pen started working normally again, it's just unfortunate because I don’t really want to draw anything right now.

I’m close to just going back to bed, even though I don’t want to do that either. I usually feel awful waking up from a nap, and oftentimes it makes my head hurt. Not only that, school is starting back up in a couple of days, and I don’t really want to fuck up my sleep schedule too bad. Though, I’m already sleeping through 10:00 am alarms and waking up around 1-2 pm, so I dunno how to fuck it up any worse.

I’m so peeved right now. I got this drawing tablet for Christmas, which I should have done more research on because the tablet, which is a PicassoTab X, is just a slightly different Android tablet. But it started fine. I downloaded Clip Studio Paint (which I couldn’t even get the newest version, because it uses an older Android model) and I’ve been having a swell time on that, but then today the pen started acting all weird and is now really hard to use. It takes like multiple times to get it to actually draw on the screen. I think you may have to hold it at a certain angle? It’s really frustrating. I already had a really bad day today due to other stuff, and I sleep half the day because of it, and the moment I decide to actually do something and draw, this happens! I just feel really crummy now :(

I've been wanting to change the background of the site, as just the plain color is kinda boring. It was a while until I found a site with some good backgrounds, but then I found this background archive. Thinking about changing all the backgrounds to all the pages seems kind of daunting though.

This is kind of late I know, but I spent the night at a friend’s house on new years day so I didn’t really have time to update this then, though I could have just done it before I went to their house. I didn’t have a good countdown to New Years due to stuff, but that's in the past.

On New Year's Eve 2021, I drew this image (which you can click on to get a better look at, if you really want to) to celebrate the New Year of 2022. I had just gotten my Ipad for Christmas, the same one I used until Christmas of this year, and I was still trying out Procreate, so it was a quick little thing to celebrate for the few followers I had on Instagram.

This was made on New Year’s Eve 2024. I guess I had remembered about the artwork I did for the occasion two years prior and really liked the color palette. I didn’t try much on this one either as it was done pretty last minute I think. Also, in it you can see an earlier version of Skrump. I think I still thought I was trans around this point, so that's why Skrump doesn’t have eyelashes, and she still had her flame point marking on her face. This one is more personal, as I wrote down my new years resolutions for 2025 (which as I said before, you can click on it to be able to actually read it). Rereading it kinda bums me out, as most of the resolutions I had I didn’t get to, even though I still have them, such as wanting to make comics and youtube videos and getting my license and job. But at least I can be happy about the fact that I did end up trying to do more visually interesting pieces that aren’t just “characters standing there” than in 2024. My New Year’s resolutions have been pretty much the same every year, but I do at least this year I get a better understanding of perspective and form.

For 2025’s New Year’s Eve, I wasn’t feeling that peachy about the New Year due to things in my family, so I wanted to draw something more melancholic. I also wanted to try to make the piece fully rendered using only the color palette from the original image. It was kind of hard, as a lot of the color values were similar, but when I ignore that I really like the end product. It feels very iridescent.

Anyways, I just think its interesting how these pictures shows how I have changed, even if there is a 2 year gap in them. I plan on trying to do one every New Year, though I almost didn't do one this year. I hope anybody who takes the time to read this blog, along with other people such as friends, whether in real life or digital, and family has a great 2026!

I Suck At Writing Casually
12/28/2025

This first blog post is what it says on the tin. I always get worked up with writing in journals or diaries or things like blogs. I think it was due to a mix of reading too many books in a genre I can only describe as “diary children's books”, think your Diary Of A Wimpy Kids (this series I tricked the adults in my life into thinking I was smart as I read a lot of them quickly), your Dork Diaries (this one just to just constantly pissed me off, as it was a bit for the main girl to stand up for herself by saying something, and then say, usually on the next page, “but I only said that in my head!”) and my favorite of the genre Dear Dumb Diary (I remember being so surprised that the author wasn’t a woman, as I found the stories in these books much more relatable than the ones in Dork Diaries, whose author was a woman. The art style of Dear Dumb Diaries was a large inspiration to my art style today as well.) There's probably more that I have read that I just can’t remember, but these types of books probably tricked my brain into thinking everything I write has to be on par with a professionally written and published book. I think watching youtube at such a young age has caused this as well.

So often I intend to write a short thing, but then I go on these long side tangents (see me talking about books I used to read as a child in the last paragraph), and it feels like I have to word things in the longest way possible, least I sound stupid or heaven forbid confuse someone.

I’m hoping that writing more often, such as journaling and writing scripts for youtube, along with writing blog posts like these, would help sharpen my literary skills some. Though I forget that blogs can be just small snippets sometimes. Maybe starting small would help though.