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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On a technical level, I was aiming for something pretty cartoony without accidentally getting into "hideous freak of nature" territory. I think I did pretty okay for something I haven't been trying to work on much. And I had fun with it, which is also important.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sometimes I get a silly idea in my head and I just have to draw it. I'm... not entirely sure *why* I find the idea of Hibiki Takane wearing Jordans funny, but I do.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Another week of art that's mainly practice and wouldn't be interesting to sjare. And my fighting game controller still isn't finished. One day...

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Jun @tatamize-jun.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Might as well keep the ball rolling

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not much going on with in terms of art this week but practice that wasn't very interesting. And still no controller for fighting games, but I can't eally complain about custom work taking a long time.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not much from me in terms of drawing this week. I've had much less energy than normal lately, which might be due to some health stuff going on with me. Still, I intend to keep at it as much as I can. It just might need to be scaled back somewhat for a while.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I forgot to do a "week in review" post yesterday, so I'll do it today. I've mostly been working on collaborative projects with other people, and they aren't ready for primetime yet, so I can't show what I've done, but I have been drawing. Still no controller for fighting games, though.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This week wasn't exactly productive for drawing, but I've been continuing to work on drawing people. And I'm still waiting for my hitbox to get back from the shop, so I haven't been doing much with fighting games. It's a break I might have needed, though.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This week wasn't particularly productive for drawing aside from a couple of sketches to explore ideas for illustrations I want to do eventually, and on the fighting game front I had to lose access to my controller for a while for the sake of getting a custom case made. Hopefully things pick up soon.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The previous week wasn't very productive for me, and for reasons I don't want to get into, I don't think this upcoming week will be either. But once I'm able to do more, I have every intention of coming back strong.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This week in fighting games and drawing, I was mostly trying to find ways to make sure I remembered how to have fun with these things and not turn them into work. I don't think I 100% succeeded, but at least I learned more about how *not* to do it.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This week was productive for both drawing and SF6. Nothing very interesting, though, just grinding away ranked matches and figure drawing. Those are both gonna be a lot of work without spectacular results for quite a while, I'm pretty sure. But the work has to be done to get where I want to be.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I've been thinking about my motivation difficulties, and I've come to the conclusion that it might be from putting *everything* I do for my hobbies online. So to test that, for this week (and maybe the next) I'll be drawing and playing SF6 without posting about it except for a summary post Saturday.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was mostly drills and some unranked matches to make sure I don't get too rusty. I didn't play *that* well, but I did go even with someone in a set, which is better than I expected since the whole day I've felt like my brain's running at reduced capacity.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Motivation's been rough for me the last several days, but I want to consistently be doing *something*, so line control practice it is. It's something I always need to improve on anyway.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today's session of fighting games was playing some old games with a friend. I am... very rusty at playing games with bonkers mechanics and strict input detection, thanks to focusing on SF6 lately, which doesn't bode well for when I return to Plus R. Fingers crossed it isn't too rough.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

On a technical level, I think this is fine but not great. I was really just trying to have fun more than anything. And I did have fun, so mission accomplished. Also, something about the eyes makes me think "cheap Disney knock-off" and I don't know why. It's gonna bug me for a while, I'm sure.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think any artist who likes Sailor Moon ends up drawing their own take on the "Ami eating a burger" shot at least once. It's a fun visual.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today for drawing, I spent a while going through the notes I'd previously made about human proportions from books and from observations of drawings by artists I think have a good sense for it, along with double checking the measurements in my observations. I'm glad I did this now, I forgot so much.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was mostly drilling, but I did go online a little to see how I did in the real deal. I really need to get my stuff down enough I don't have to think about doing it and can focus on what my opponent does. That's gonna take a while, I'm sure.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was... sitting down to work out an order for learning all the things I've been researching. I haven't been as intentional with learning stuff as I'd like, but now I have so much info on what to do in so many situations I can plan out what to focus on and when.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This project gave me the opportunity to try out some new ideas for my workflow and drawing technique, and they worked out pretty well, IMO. Now that this is done, I think I'll be going back to drawing people for a while. Or maybe Splatoon characters, thanks to the new game reactivating my brainrot.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

On a technical level, I'm fairly satisfied with this picture. Though since male Sanics don't wear clothes, designing Kit wasn't very interesting for me and I didn't spend as much time on him as the others. But I did make progress in my understanding of how to do shading I like. That's something.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Coming at you in Sonic Heroes, it's Team Blaze! Blaze the Cat guards the mysterious Sol Emeralds. She's so upstanding, many people are confused why she keeps shady mercenaries Surge the Tenrec and Kit the Fennec around, especially Surge and Kit themselves. Is there something to them only Blaze sees?

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Now we've got the whole team together, so it's just the lighting and fancy particle effects left to do. It's strange being so close to finishing this project. I wonder what I'll do next.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

More of this picture. Hands are hard and I can only work on them for so long before I drive myself up a wall. At least now they're mostly done... I hope.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was more research. Out of nowhere I came to the conclusion I should work on a better plan for oki, so I spent a while looking into it. It turns out I've been doing way less than I could be, and that's been giving people more chances to beat me. Good thing I checked.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Surge time! So far, this one seems to be coming along more quickly than the other two. The power of being a character I very much enjoy drawing, maybe. Though maybe I shouldn't say that before both hands are finished, hands always find a way to give me trouble.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was... mixed. I don't feel like I played especially well, but I ended up making it to Silver rank by the end (and chose to stop playing for now since I was starting to feel rank anxiety). I guess it's true that having decently consistent anti-airs can take you far.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Two down, one to go. And then it'll be time for the shading and fancy effects and so on. I'm always surprised by how much those things matter to the look and feel of the final picture.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was short, but I did play some actual matches. I definitely need to work on being able to do stuff without having needing time to remember what to do. I think that'll come from playing a lot. At least I'll get used to the bad feeling of seeing my rank number go down

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was really just me trying to work out a more detailed plan for neutral. It's hard for me to tell what's actually a good idea and what's just something Guilty Gear would let me get away with doing, so I'm still not sure I have something I can try in real matches.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

More of this particular project. I think I'm satisfied with the lineart for Kit now, and honestly he's a character I've never liked much so I kind of just want to be done with him anyway.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Back at it with Team Blaze again. This time it's the Flying-type member. I think? I never played Sonic Heroes, but I'm sure Blaze is Power and Surge is Speed, so... Out of character, the lineart for Kit isn't close to finished yet, but I had to stop for the day before I hurt myself, so here's a WIP

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was mostly drilling, but I did go online to play some real (unranked) matches. I definitely need more practice actually implementing my gameplan, especially the first stage of getting the resources to delete people's life bars. Time to start grinding ranked, I guess

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today I wanted to try something new for the process of adding in base colors. I don't get Krita's "colorize mask" feature, but making a copy of the lineart to use for flood fills seems to work. I'll probably do lineart and base colors for all three members of Team Blaze before the lighting/shading.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was pretty much just drilling. I'm *very* bad at doing anti-airs or counter-DI on reaction, and if I can't fix that I'm gonna have a bad time.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was mostly drilling a couple BNBs and practicing them against CPU opponents so more of my brainpower in real matches can go to things that aren't asking myself what to do. Boring work, but at least I got to catch up a little on my list of music to check out.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Since I spent so much time drawing hesterday, today I had to give my hand a break and did some research on how to improve my drawing technique and fighting game play. With how many notes I took, I have to count this towards my ongoing goal to work on both more days than not. It sure felt like work.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Continuing on from the last drawing I showed, now it's time to polish the initial sketches of Team Blaze into proper lineart. First up, the leader of the bunch, you know her well. I spent pretty much the whole day just on Blaze because I got perfectionist over pretty much everything. RIP my hand.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Street Fighter used up all my brainpower today, so just line control practice on the drawing front this time. Next time, though, some proper drawing.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter was mostly me trying to put into practice the things my research suggested I should be doing when it isn't my turn, which turned out to be too many to focus on during actual matches. I'll have to get them all down one by one, but I'm not sure how to pick the order.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Today's session of Street Fighter featured a lot of poor execution from me, but at least now I have a better idea of what to work on. I need a more concrete plan for playing on defense and/or in neutral, and I need to work on doing anti-airs and counter DI on reaction.

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Small Nerd @small-nerd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My friend @tatamize-jun.bsky.social is working on alternate history timeline, and part of it is a version of Sonic Heroes that debuts Blaze, Surge, and Kit as their own team of three. I wanted to think up what they might look like in this world and got these designs. I might polish these up later.

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