Week one I guess

And I'm at it again.

I don't intend on publishing this one, because I don't think I can write anything worthwhile. So let's get this over with.

Whirlwind explanation time. Last year's 100 days of pixel art: moderate success. I wanted to try something like that again, but limiting myself to pixel art felt like a waste. So now I do art, music, and maybe blog posts every Sunday. I don't know how I feel about blog posts yet. I got a ton of ideas, but fact is, blog posts are even worse when rushed than art is.

So what I'm trying to say is, either I make a solid blog post next week, or I drop the blogging part. I won't be breaking the streak either way since I'm gonna draw a random Pokémon. Easy.

Weekly Roundup

I guess weekly roundup is a feature that should be present in these blog posts. So here's what I did this week.

• Monday I drew a fun 100 days logo with a pencil and musical note. It's OK.
• Tuesday I dug up my old SMS cover of Robo's Theme and worked on it some, but didn't feel like finishing it on that day, so I drew a Gastrdon instead.
• Wednesday, I finished the cover! Robo's Theme. It's made in Mod2PSG2, a solid Sega Master System tracker. I got pretty creative with the instruments. I'm not very happy with the song though. First of all there are some volume balance issues, second the instrument choice for Channel 2 in the chorus was quite poor, and lastly, I copied the verse part from the piano sheet and only later realized the bass in there is different from the original's. Oh well, it's still fun to listen to, at least for me. And if that wasn't enough, I also drew Robo. It's obviously quite rushed, but I'm surprised how accurate he looks despite that!
• Thursday I started working on a cover of Volcano Valley Act 1, but it ended up being too tough for me. I did learn from it, though. I drew a Snover.
• Friday, I drew a Fletchling. This actually involved some very slight beak practice. For Reasons, you can expect to see me practicing birds more in the future.
• Saturday, I made a SMS cover of Balcony. I'm very happy with this one. It's a simple piece, sure, but I was actually torn between two ways of doing the bass. I also made a very rough sketch of a Balcony scene with Quote, but it just wasn't good enough for publishing.
• Sunday is today. Technically I shouldn't have to do anything today besides this blog post, but I have been drawing every single one of the last six days, and it would be a shame not to keep that up, eh? 100 days within 100 days, here I go.

I'm sorry this is terrible. Told ya I won't be publishing this. 2016-09-25