This was a random little gift drawing for EngineTrap on Twitter, featuring her OC, Syl!

Got to experiment with a few things here! Like uh, not using binary brushes for once! And shading blankets! And shading things that aren't blankets!

I got nothing done today BUT I did get my dot fumo photographed so it's something!!! Small victories!!

because what else do you do at half past midnight other than revive your old drawing skills for a self portrait?

jokes aside, folks. i've been crying tears of euphoria here for half an hour now. this is me. this is an amazing summary of some of the parts that i feel make me me. i haven't done any proper figure/person-shaped drawing the last years (i was mostly on that activity around 2016-2017, last somewhat labeled was around mid-late 2020), almost no drawing at all the last couple, and that not only was i able to convey myself so accurately onto the page, but with a sketch i finished in only 30-ish minutes too?? i'm at a loss for (further) words. this is me.

(apologies for the slightly poor picture quality, i don't have the best of photo lighting here and for some reason 2h pencils, which are my preferred sketching pencils, have this tendency of not always being the easiest to photograph. the ears are in 2b because i realized that otherwise they'd be too hard to see among the hair. and yes there are some details that i'd change, but it's the middle of the night and i'm still tearing up from the raw euphoria, so not now)