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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 9h

Because I glazed "SHSL" in Danganronpa I have to balance it out by glazing something in an official translation that made me laugh. IDK what it is about this Witch Hat Atelier panel but "in the sticks" made me laugh. Hoity-toity witch complaining about witches in the boonies. #HKreads

A fancy witch mutters "Unbelievable..." before complaining, "Don't they teach you *anything* out there in the sticks?"

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 07/10/2026

I got a new mic and I'm a little "new toy new toy" about it. Good to unearth my audio editing skills from the like... UTAU 2010s. #HKbytes

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 03/10/2026

Last night's creative project, a notebinder for comic thumbnails? I'm particular enough that I want the exact ratios, but if I do thumbnails digitally I get too hi-fi and perfectionist. #HKcrafts #ComicDev

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 30/09/2026

My only desire for the Promptober Madness is to reduce the number of drowned Sonics on my art tracker. Not... *none* but less.

Hika's art tracker. They started off a little rough, with lots of missed art days, signified by Sonic the Hedgehog drowning in the Chao garden, but they had a good month of art, represented by thumbnails of said art works.

The current day that has yet to receive art, is represented by Snap from Chalk Zone telling Rudy he has to draw something.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 29/09/2026

I am glad I asked about alternative pen grips I now have three(…?) I think I'll be rotating between depending on how still I want to lock my fingers in place. And two that I am just… captivated by akshdfa

Hika's collection of alternative ways to hide a writing utensil.

They're now up to five, sorted by how much range of motion your fingers maintain, from a scale of 3, to 0

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 28/09/2026

2 Dead Sonics on the art tracker last week but these things happen. I think as long as it's not two of them in a row? #HK_ArtTracker ← *if* you wanna mute. If.

Hika's Obsidian Art Tracker. Last week they carried two drawings along over multiple days, but missed the 22nd and 24th of September

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 28/09/2026

I am now collecting weird-but-useful writing utensil grips. Feel free to share your own, lol

Hika has 3 cards of writing utensil grips, demonstrating each one.

So far, there's utensil "Knuckle Sandwich: between middle and ring finger", "The Takeuchi: between thumb base and curled index finger", and the standard tripod grip: between thumb and splayed index, resting on splayed middle finger.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 28/09/2026

This 2021 art I did came up on my wallpaper shuffle. I still find it charming, despite the skill-increase that has happened since. 📈 #SailorMoon #FanArt #HKthrwbk

Redraw of the 2003 Sailor Moon Vol 1 Cover

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 27/09/2026

Yapping about a pen grip I've seen people use. Listen on if you want to hear me do my verbal equivalent of a keysmash towards the end. #HK_YapCast

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 27/09/2026

I want an award for trying REALLY hard to understand hair looser than like… 3B. ※ 4C m'self #HKsnaps / #Art / #Sketchbook / #HKTMK_OC

Drawing of a pretty guy with wild curly hair turning his head over his right shoulder to look at you. He seems to be mid-sentence talking about something.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 21/09/2026

"What is that?" Comic thumbnail paper for those refillable A5 notebooks. Yurrrr

The full set of thumbnail sheets (1-up, 2-up [spread], and 8-up [4-speads]) in A5 and half-letter sizes

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 21/09/2026

I keep using my graphic design powers for evil*. (※ Read: profitless fun.)

An a5 sheet for a refillable loose-leaf notebook.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 20/09/2026

Week 38 - 100% Completion I win 100 Internet Points™ to Me

A full week of daily art displayed as thumbnails in Obsidian. Hika blurred some of the days because they do not think they're up to sharable visual standard.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 20/09/2026

Drawings to stab yourself* over. (※ Accidentally.) #HKsnaps #Art / #Sketchbook / #HKTMK_OC (I guess?? I'm a little tired of some of my tagging, here. Might work to make my website an even better backlog space.)

Ink & wash sketchbook drawing of an angry Lux Pink swiping at a scrape.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 12/09/2026

Added another thumbnail for "there's still time to draw go draw bozo"

In Hika's daily sketch tracker, a drawing of Popuko pointing a gun is displayed when the day has not concluded, but there is no daily sketch data present.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 12/09/2026

Algorithm: Repeat after me. Me: Uhuh. Algo: Use social media as a social accountability log for a daily sketch practice. Me: Use Obsidian bases as a hermit accountability log for a ??? sketch practice.

Obsidian bases thumbnails of… mostly art.
A picture of Sonic drowning in water means I didn't draw that day. A picture of Jack Frost means I drew but I did't upload it.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 08/09/2026

After tracing rulers linked to the 3D camera, and zooming the 3D camera with the camera in/out icon, you get a 3D layer that's believably at the same angle as what you already have!

Hika perspective-matched a female figure to the screenshot of Lorelli's scene. The perspective angle matches, though the figure might be a bit big/small, which can be solved by zooming in/out at a locked angle.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 08/09/2026

I have a desktop wallpaper shuffle folder full of art and wallpapers I like, both mine and others' AND SOMETIMES I get jumpscared by old art of mine I still really like and it puts a big smile on my face. 🥹 This one was a banger. I may stumble and stutter now but this one ruled.

Hika's 3 monitors. On the upper right one is their drawing of their OC Lux Viridian they did once upon a time.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 08/09/2026

Lowkey I am not a fan of the CSP persp-ruler grids (the blue, green, and reddish vectorish ones) for square units. (They never feel perfectly square to me) BUT WHAT DOES WORK is throwing a square plane primitive into your scene, putting it on the floor, and asking for more subdivisions on it.

Hika shows a Clip Studio Paint planar primitive on the 3D ground, with the subdivisions cranked up to 13 in both the X and Y directions, using the advanced tool settings window.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 05/09/2026

When I say Kawo you say Shin— Kawo!! (Shin!) Kawo!!! (Shin!!) #HKsnaps

Evangelion Mini Memory Kaworu and Shinji mini figure

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 04/09/2026

I'unno if I should embrace the comfort zone my sketchbook has become rn or try to force myself towards making Real Art with Actual Effort in Clip Studio Paint™ again. #sketchbook #HKTMK_OC

A sketchbook spread open by a book clip.

There are inconsequential thumbnails, doodles, and musings within.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 03/09/2026

Made a Traveler's Journal insert holder for my #Hobonichi bc I'm very weird and a little bored (and also unable to afford a leather-elastic journal). #HKcrafts #HKsnaps

The adapter closed in my Hobonichi, showing the elastic tied through the holes.

Top view of the adapter's elastic holding saddle-stitched booklets in place.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 27/08/2026

Thanks for making me realize things about myself you… you… YOU!! /doesn't finish, can't come up with anything non-spoilery #HKsnaps #TADC

The "You Go Girl" Jax jumper and a Maid Jax pin

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 27/08/2026

Birthmonth Preorder finally came home but I… I was not expecting Labubus (& clones) TO BE THIS… LARGE…??? I got my favorite one though yay #TADC #HKsnaps

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 26/08/2026

Something about Midori MD paper in my hobonichi, and Uniball JetStream ink, causes this ink migration that I... hate. So... JetStreams are banished until I switch papers or I can figure it out. (Slight #AskingTheRoom: Why is my ballpoint pen doing this: it doesn't ghost, but it seeps after time)

A page with fountain pen on the front and ballpoint in the back. The ballpoint didn't show through in the beginning, but is now seeping through in weird amorphous areas.

Another page with fountain pen on the front and ballpoint in the back. The ballpoint didn't show through in the beginning, but is now seeping through in weird amorphous areas.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 25/08/2026

I have a wrist pain tracker in my Obsidian with "1" being like, sensations and the unmarked "4" being OW!!! YEOWWW!!! And I… heh. I find that such a funnily "me" thing to create. Things have been good lately for not wrist stretching like I should. (Everyone gently stretch your wrists, please.)

Hika's wrist pain tracker in obsidian. Earlier in the month they were experiencing some pain, but they're doing better now.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 24/08/2026

It fits right next to my "You Upload, You Lose"-sketchbook in my hobonichi.

Hika shows the comic thumbnail notebook in their hobonichi a6,

held open by a two arm book clip.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 24/08/2026

Prototype complete! Manga paper markings are light when I forget to use 1200dpi mode on my printer, so I made them darker in the master file. *I* can see 'em tho so I will use up this notebook. Waste-not-want-not. #HKsnaps ... #HKcrafts ...?

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 23/08/2026

My bookbinding kit arrives today… Here is the first project…? 🤔 Just a tiny A6.

Hika is making a comic thumbnail pocket sketchbook. The dividing lines are like that of manga paper. On the other side is graph paper for dialog.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 20/08/2026

#Bakatako: "Draw your OC and their inspiration!! >w<" Me: "Ehehehe TRAUMA!! …no? Not— Ah, well, I can't pin down his pop culture inspo anyway." #Art #Doodle

Silhouettes of Hevel and a Younger Hika, back to back like x-rays, the pairs brains both visible. Hevel's is labeled with shame, while the younger Hika's is labeled with sin.

Hevel is told, "Shame… you are to live out the rest of your blasphemous life in exile."

Hika listens to part of a sermon that begins with, "If any of you are suffering under the weight of unnatural sin…"

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 15/08/2026

Turning on "show slider" for the bigger brush sizes I don't need to be "bookmarked" like that.

Context menu for the brush size palette. "Show Slider" is now checked.

The CSP Brush Size palette with the slider now included.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 15/08/2026

I just realized you can add and delete size presets to the brush size palette in CSP… BRB deleting most of them and just keeping the ones I use a ton #ClipStudioPaint

Clip Studio Paint's brush size palette with a brush size chip right clicked.
The context menu options are "add current size to preset" and "delete preset"

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 15/08/2026

Oh yeah, speaking of which, finally unboxed these. My guilty pleasure is buying books on making books. #HKsnaps

The Proofreader's Guide to Comic Book Style by Madeleine Vasaly, and 100 FAQ on Making Comics by Shelly and Philip Bond.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 15/08/2026

I'm always swapping out my little shelf display things based on what I'm currently struggling with. #HKsnaps

Hika's bookshelf.
A book on drawing casual fashion, and a book on monochrome illustration techniques, are both on display.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 09/08/2026

Get creative!! Anyway if you'd like me to share my "card with a drawing space on it" template, and/or blog more about this, tell me verbally or else I will think I'm just doing weird and unnecessary nonsense by flashcarding myself over these things.

Hika has a flashcard for where to place the bump of the cheek on feminine characters in their style. They did a scribbly sketch demonstrating they have retained that knowledge.

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 09/08/2026

Cards for how I want my rendering to look I'd make basic back-is-a-photo cards. Like this is something where I'd just make the card front like "tsuyabeta" or something and then make the back just THIS.jpg

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK (Prof. Development Arc + Quiet ComicDev) @hikatamika.com · 09/08/2026

I'd also make cards for remembering the steps of multi-step processes, though I'd just make those basic fact cards except for draw-area cards. Cards for like, just general "tricks" I'd also make basic front/back cards.

A basic fact flashcard.

Front: The key to drawing hair strands is…
Back: Flow, Skull roundness

A basic fact flashcard

Front: When drawing hair, where can you can let hair fall (abandon skull roundness)?
Back: At the Brow line / Ear Tips

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