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)

Uhh,,, sleeby

The winters on their planet are very dark and harsh, so the nmu hibernate through most of it.

An entire extended family will all pack into one room of one house for hibernation. Young children and their parents are kept closer to the center. The house is allowed to get cold since warm temperatures would prematurely end the hibernation.

When hibernating the their metabolic rate drops and their body temperature drops (but still stays well above freezing). They don't eat anything during this period.

If they're looking after a baby they will likely go through a partial hibernation. Both the parent and child will wake up every day. They're body temperature only lowers by a few degrees and they may eat a little bit in this time.

i'll introduce these other characters later

what the fuck is a fire emblem