brorekord.bsky.social
Professional Draw-person
28 He/Him
If you're under 18: L E A V E
Enjoyer of Pokemon, Animal Crossing and other vibeo bames
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Open to advice or suggestions if anyone has any, I just wanted to get this off my chest.
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Follow that up with wanting to draw a few more personal things as well as open my commissions and I think I’m just stressing myself out more than needed.
Not sure how to really proceed at this point but I also really don’t want to sit back and do nothing, I’ve been doing enough of that.
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It’s definitely a cool design for her but I’m a fan of simplistic anatomy that has less definition and detail.
Just a matter of preference~
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Haha, don’t expect it to be way better visually! Just maybe expect art to be a bit faster since this took me two days!😅
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Many thankies bud~💝
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So peak, it’s almost crystal!
(I wish I had a better pun)
But thank you very much buddy~💖
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Thank you kindly! I’m still a bit rusty but I’m glad you like it!
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Pretty bug~🖤❤️🖤
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Thank you bud~💝
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Big agree~
She deserves some nice “threads”~💕
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We must stay hopeful, we must.
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No cost too great.
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Need to get my passport ready and my holiday hours approved~
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It's not real until it's in my hands, I can only hope the "2025" release is true.
And thank you kindly buddy~💖
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Obligatory cursed-plush alt
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I’m going to get a decent sleep and try to do some smaller-scale drawings to kinda boost my confidence.
Despite being a nsfw artist, I’m not certain about doing nsfw right now? Maybe my mind will change in the morning but I’ll see.
Just wanted to post an update~
Thank you for being patient with me~💙
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And when she had found an old image of my shy guy outfit, her response was that "Your pose looked very familiar".
I never knew what to expect~
I miss you every day Susie.💙
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She took the picture of me I posted when my copy of Paper Mario: TTYD was delayed and put it into the whole Game Over sequence.
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You truly don’t have to push yourself but I appreciate it a lot and I’m sure she would love it~
And I’m very sorry to hear that you’ve lost a friend too. 🫂
May they both rest peacefully~
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Thank you~
Susie would always make such amazing works that would inspire me further. I hope I can one day be as excellent as she was~
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Thank you very much, bud.
It’s still not easy but I’m glad that I have so much to remember her by~
And she’ll always be in my heart~💙
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Even for one of the very first gifts I ever got from Susie of Vespa holding Vist, I made an attempt to recreate it using traditional art since I had felt so inspired by her.
and by this point she had very much mastered digital art so she went full circle~
Just stuff I wanted to share~
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She at one point design our human Animal Crossing villagers as animals, so that let me draw an extra cozy piece for her in return~
To which she responded by learning digital art to make the most coziest art~
(and an amiibo card too, which I've printed as a keepsake~)
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I'll stay on my hiatus a bit longer but I'm not going to sit around and do nothing.
Take care and let your loved ones know that you love them.
Goodbye Susie~💙
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By extension, I ask you not to use AI for this. Susie was willing to put in the time to learn new media. Say what you will about AI art but it lacks the intricacies of each medium that makes them diffferent. It's in those differences that creativity shines and that is art in its most earnest form.
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Susie was already very proficient at traditional art yet she learned to draw digitally, crafted clay models, practised painting, attempted animating and even made minecraft models. (I like to think she would have enjoyed the use of alliteration there.) So take the time to try something new.
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While I started a sketch of Vespa yesterday, I also plan to draw Vespa on the 16th of August every year as it was Susie's birthday. It would mean a lot to me if you too would draw Vespa for then, it doesn't have to be a massive detailed masterpiece, as long as you put your own creativity into it.
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Hive Queen Vespa was such an important character to her, she was delighted to see any new art of Vespa. She would search across so many art websites on a regular basis just in case anyone would post new art of an "underutilized and apprecieted" character.
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She was the reason I began learning spanish, the reason I tried traditional art again, she was creative and had such an incredible eye for detail, she was the most kind and giving person I have ever known.
I don't know how best to honour her but even in our last conversation, she joked about Vespa.
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We talked for almost 2 hours, she expressed her want for me to not give up, that there is so much more to the world and that even if there are difficulties and cruelties to face, there is still beauty too.
I truly wish I got to spend more time with her.
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While sending a supportive message, I was notified that the message had failed to send as Susie's account was only accepting messages from friends. I had been un-friended, leaving me disconnected from her. It wasn't for long but it had felt like ages. Only on the 29th were we reconnected.
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I had sent messages to Susie each week, hoping for a response but when one came on the 25th, it was a friend of hers reaching out through Susie's account. They confirmed my fears that her cancer had come out of remission and that her chances of survival were low. I still didn't know what to do.
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Having been so long into the relationship without really announcing it to anyone, I feared opening up about my worries for Susie's health would be met with skepticism. I still lacked a fair amount of information and had been dealing with my own work and money struggles to really know what to do.
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This hurt me to my core, I didn't want to give up on her after all she had done for me but I felt so helpless. I didn't know what I could do from so far away without any replies or information so all I could think to do was continue sending support and love.
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We spoke again further into february, getting further into some of her struggles and sharing a moment with each other on Valentine's day.
her next reply wasn't until March when she expressed that her life was spiralling and that I should "find someone else to replace [her]" as if to give up on her.
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From then her messages became very sparce, I didn't wish to overwhelm her with 10+ discord notifications at once but I also wished to speak with her again. I could only hope she would recover but I had an awful feeling that this sickness was the lung cancer she had briefly mentioned in the past.
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However several days later she had confessed that she was struggling with sickness, that she was unable to sleep and suffering coughing fits all while under mental strain. She didn't want me to worry initially so she had hidden the truth but had then felt guilty about hiding it.
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So it felt odd when towards the end of January that she had become slightly more distant. She had said she would be unreachable due to her volunteer work and while it is very much like her to do such volunteering, I didn't think it would mean she couldn't respond to any messages whatsoever.
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It wasn't exactly public, I was always just too shy to say something or make some kind of announcement. Besides I was more than content to just spend time with her, keeping it between us. When it came to supporting each other, we would talk through it, lending an ear whenever needed.
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Over the past 2 years Susie and I had become very close, messaging each other almost daily, sharing excitement about upcoming games, gifting art to one another and expressing our love for each other. I couldn't exactly pinpoint when but we had gone from friends to boyfriend and girlfriend.
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I had a chance to speak with her not long before her passing and while she seemed cheerful and loving just as always, I could tell she knew it might be her last conversation. As much as I didn't want it to be a "goodbye", I think it would have hurt far more if I didn't get such a chance to talk.
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I’d be more suspicious if they were asking for money or something but they weren’t.
The idea that I’m now just left in the dark just makes me worry but I’m trying my best to be optimistic.