[MUSICKS] Creatures Lurking

I think I'm on a roll. Here's a sequel to the last song!

Song Title:

Creatures Lurking

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[MUSICKS] Life in the Dungeon

I have created. MUSICKS. Please listen!

Song Title:

Life in the Dungeon

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[UPDATE] Absence

I haven't been able to post to this blog too often, but it's not going to ever die! I swear! I've been a lot more active on Twitter lately due to me being in a very social mood~ I love you guys, sorry for not posting here in 3 days.

[UPDATE] Minecraft Island Opado

To those who donated and boosted the fundraiser yesterday, thank you very much.

My friend is safe right now. I will post updates on the situation occasionally.

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I've been playing Minecraft again lately. A solo world this time, full of islands!

My life has been made tough because I chose to live on a tiny taiga island. The animals are really noisy and peek into my window sometimes. It's annoying, but strangely cute. I'm constantly low on resources because I don't take mining trips. I'm considering finding someone to join me on this adventure, but right now, I want to be alone on this island.

If you'd like to try out this mod-pack, here's a link to a download! It's fabric 1.19.2, and if you want, you can add me on Essentials. My username is "Soth"

[FUNDRAISER] Friend Homeless

This is a very important post

My friend is homeless right now and could use a donation to help them afford food, bills, and other necessities.

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If you cannot donate, please spread around the following Twitter post:

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[ART] gay

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🩸 Blood Box Gays 🩸

These are enemies from an old project of mine. Crazy there on the left is totally gay for this plant barista.

[PLANS] My plans for this blog

You may have noticed that I mark my posts with many different tags, such as [ART] and [MEDIA]. Well I have plans for more tags coming soon!~ Here are some I want to try out:

[FEATURED]

Where I show off underappreciated artists to you, letting you check out what they do and show you all the places where you can see their art.

[RANT]

I just rant about things I love (or hate)

[BABE]

I post a character I like, with or without context.

[CHARACTER DESIGN]

Yeah, I rant about character design philosophy a lot; it's gotta go somewhere.

[ART] Paper Reddy

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📝 Reddy ala Paper Mario 📝

This was my second attempt at a Paper Mario style. Each part of Reddy here is separated, which means this can potentially be animated just like in the games... of course, I won't, because that's a lot of work, and I want to do it on a better model.

I also would like to learn how to make a rig for these too. Hopefully I'll learn soon!~

[GIF] Mnmnmnmn

[ART COMP] RubyInteraction

"Cool it!"

(They are gay)

(That sausage belongs to Aika)

[ART] Farlanders

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🧀 A Farlander Glow-Up! 🧀

These are my Farlander characters, Aika, Soth, and Cher. They're in the same world as the mushroom dwarves.

I'm always left unsatisfied with these guys' designs, even now. Aika specifically is tough to get right because I want people to take a good look at them and think: "that's a big dork."

I feel like Soth is the one I'm the most satisfied with; they have no mouth due to their quiet nature, but short temper. (I also like their big stompers)

Cher is also close to being satisfactory, but I gotta make them fruitier for sure.

I've been thinking of renaming their world from RubyDungeon to RubyLands. What do you guys think?

[ART] Mushroom people redesign

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🍄 A Mushroom Glow-Up! 🍄

These are my mushroom dwarf characters, named Morel, Ergot, and Fudge. They're a cute bunch of mushrooms who survive out in the wild.

They got a glow-up since the last time I drew them. The designs are pretty much perfected now, at least in my eyes. I just need to get the colors down.

Also, if you're wondering what they specifically smell like:

Morel smells like sweat and moss; Fudge smells like a bake sale ❤

[ART] Ghost?

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👻 It's Ghost! 👻

It's Brennan's character... (I'm actually not sure if they have an official name)

It's my first time messing with gradients. I'm trying to go for the Paper Mario style~!

I'm sure I'll improve it later on.

[POKEY] Pokey

Pokey

[MEDIA] TTYD

Sorry for the lack of posts!

    I've been busy playing Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It's my first time playing through, and it's fun, despite me knowing most of the story beats already. I made it all the way to Chapter 5 before stopping, and I will continue my playthrough tomorrow. I will talk about my thoughts on the game so far (Spoiler-Free!!):

    All the character designs in this game are either creative twists on existing Mario enemies or new designs that fit into the world. The art style of this game is like a comic book, and it's just lovely. The animations are inspiring me for sure~

    The battle system and balancing are very well-thought-out aspects of this game, and it's fun finding out how to do all the actions. Also, I'm not an expert, but the Quake Hammer Badge is extremely useful for battles. Also, you should never underestimate your partner!

    My ONLY gripe with this game is the backtracking... It's not that bad... there's just a LOT of it. If you play this game, expect a lot of it, but otherwise, it's very fun and I definitely get why it's a lot of peoples' favorite in the series. Personally, Super Paper Mario is still my favorite for its story and music, but who knows, that might change by the time I finish this game~

[UPDATE] Comment Andy

Feel free to leave comments on my posts!

[DOODLES] Aika Redesign

Today I brainstormed ways to make drawing Aika easier.

It did not go too well at first, but eventually I landed on a design I was happy with~!

Ta-da~!! It's Aika, based on early designs. Featuring the classic angular head, which gives the illusion of 3D. I also decided to redesign their legs because I found them very hard to draw, so I gave them a sort of "elephant stump" foot, because they deserve tha big stompers. Later on, I may even make them lankier, but this is good for now. Aika has officially returned to pure dork mode.

[MEDIA] Lupin III

I saw a post on Twitter about the movie "Lupin III: The First," and my ADHD kicked in and decided to watch it. VERY good movie, the animation was phenomenal, as advertised. I recommend watching it yourself.

[ART] Cher Doodles

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⛏️ Cher Doodles (feat. Cher, the Miner) ⛏️

Cher is mute, but very literate. They work as a miner and occasionally dabble into gem and magicks research.

[UPDATE] Minecraft!

 Me and my friend played a lot of Minecraft, here's some images!

Our house

Dining area and kitchen

[Closer look]

Inside the kitchen

JIMA the Monk and TORO's Death Shrine

Inside our house

Shrine

[ART] Gay Mushrooms

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🤍 Ergot and Morel are holding stumps 🤍

Ergot lazes around all day and is very oblivious, while Morel does all the hard work. Morel hates them for that, but they can't deny that Ergot has a cute personality.

[DIARY] New Website Layout

The layout of the blog has changed; It's inspired by the colors of the Game Boy.

I'd like to thank my friend PNG103 for creating the blog's new look, please check them out!

[5:00 AM]

Today started off terribly because of a few social situations I had to get through. These have been putting me through a lot of stress and I'm not exactly sure how to unwind. I think I'll play Team Fortress to get my mind off of things, as everyone's kind of asleep right now.

[5:15 AM]

Team Fortress is full of bots. Nevermind.

[5:30 AM]

I have resorted to playing Minecraft with 3 different tabs playing rain sounds in the background. Let me tell you about my journey so far:

I spawned on top of one of these roofed forest trees and explored around a bit. The first thing I did was kill a pig, then I started chopping down wood. I'm playing a slightly modded version of the game, so there are things that are in here that are not in the vanilla game. Like this mushroom that does nothing:

Really, it does nothing. I thought at least it would be like a brown mushroom, but it's not, unfortunately. It's its own thang, and I kind of respect that. Oh, to be a mushroom doing its own thang, that's the life. You don't have to worry about players picking you up and using you in a stew. You can just chill on a tree and be happy.

[6:00 AM]

I've gone through my first night in the game now, and picked a loved space to put my base~!

This whole area is where my base will be. A friendly little aquifer with plenty of space to relax and be comfy-cozy.

Also, I didn't realize this until later, but I set up my spot right next to a Pillager Outpost. Whoopsies.

[7:00 AM]

I feel a little better now. I know everything will turn out all right in the end. My headaches are soothed now. Minecraft was a big help... I see the appeal now. It's a "relaxation" game, where you relax and build and pretend you're out in the wild, creating your own life. I love it. I want to play on this world with my friend later. I think after I update this post for this time, I'm going to eat my first meal of the day. An empty stomach is not good for the brain.

Here's basically what I've been doing. I was pre-occupied from chatting with friends, so I was not able to get much done. I'm building a wall around the hole I live in so monsters won't fall down on top of me! As exciting as that would be, I don't think my heart could handle that right now >u<

I do have a furniture mod installed, although I'm unsure how to craft these blocks. I'll have to download the Just Enough Items mod to see them. I can finally make this little hole in the wall my home.

[12:00 PM]

I played some Minecraft with my friend!

We made a house, but he urged me not to screenshot it because it wasn't finished, so I guess I'll do that later. In this time, I got a lot of mining done. I found 3 diamonds!!

[3:00 PM]

I showed a bunch of people this blog and some compared it to a diary. It's not EXACTLY a diary, since I will be talking about other things. I just wanted to talk about my day today. It was very weird and emotional. Not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm very tired.

[10:00 PM]

I took a long nap, and then my little brother showed me that he got his teacher homebrew our Wii for us. It wasn't completely working, but a lot of GameCube titles were working! I finally played Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the first time, which is the first game I remember watching. It was lovely, and I want to play it more later if I can.

[UPDATE] My New Blog

Hello~! I'm Reddy Sothopery and I'm escaping from Twitter because it's been extremely negative lately, and I don't need that in life TBH. I'll mostly talk about games here and post new artworks here as well (which will be mirrored on my Newgrounds.)

The blog is a work-in-progress right now, but soon enough I'll have a functioning website dedicated for it~!

Be sure to check in every once in a while and leave a comment if you want to!

Here's concept art for what my blog might look like: