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So, I am working on a short 80s commercial thing to promote my indie comic, SaGia. Here's a still frame from it as a teaser:  Looking at 80s Japanese advertisements gave me the inspiration to work on this project. I started animating yesterday and it took me 3 hours to complete the first animation (as seen above), and about 5-6 hours to animate my second one. I tested it out by throwing said animations in a software called ntsc-rs ( the same software I used when I shared one of my animations of Jikiru and Lain back in February ), and was blown away by the results.  For the music... so I'm afraid to say this, but I may have to go with the A-eye route *shudder* because I don't know how to make or compose music. I did generate a song yesterday using some random website and told it to make me an 1980s J-Pop upbeat instrumental - don't worry I didn't make an account, used Audacity to make it sound like it came out of a VHS (after learning from a YouTube tutorial) and thr...

Sharing two versions of this drawing! I'm happy with how he came out! Date started and completed: 3/7/26 Total time: 1 hour https://wimbearn.neocities.org  |  linktr.ee/wimbearn Donations and commissions:  https://ko-fi.com/wimbearn

Today, I want to show off a very obscure board game based on Dragon Ball Z. It’s so obscure that it has never been documented much online in full… until now. Now, this game has been talked about previously via a forum board from 2017 , a Reddit post from 2019 , and a short TikTok video from 2023 showing off the game from user andrew_hedgehog that I randomly stumbled across on Google doing deep research for the game. The game is called Dragon Ball Z: Battle Strategy - Frieza Saga Edition and it was released by MGA Entertainment in the year 2000. The game requires 3 C batteries to play. This game plays exactly like electronic Battleship, but there is one mode that I really like: Super Saiyan. I’ll get to that later. Before I get to how to play, let’s look at what the game comes with if you purchased it completed: 10 figures, 10 bases for the figures, the game, instructions, and red pegs that represent a hit and yellow pegs that represent a miss.   For the Saiyan Force… yes, that’s w...

My friend said that the new Pokémon Gecqua reminded her of one of those Littlest Pet Shop toys, and after she told me that, I couldn't unsee it and I had to draw this. Gecqua is the only decent starter I liked that was shown in the Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves trailer, the other two starters, not so much. I feel as if the designs are getting worse and it makes me concerned about the box art legendaries. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with collecting Littlest Pet Shops. Really loved them as a kid. I do miss that big collection I had and the old commercials. Date started and completed: 2/27/26 Total time: 50 minutes-1 hour https://wimbearn.neocities.org  |  linktr.ee/wimbearn Donations and commissions:  https://ko-fi.com/wimbearn

  New Angry Bird just dropped. (for those unaware, Pokémon announced new games and I don't know how to feel about the starter designs except the water type :/) Date started and completed: 2/27/26 Total time: About 30 minutes or close to an hour. https://wimbearn.neocities.org  |  linktr.ee/wimbearn Donations and commissions:  https://ko-fi.com/wimbearn

I didn’t really bother waking up early for the Pokémon Presents thing as I fell off playing the games after Scarlet and Violet, but uh, new mainline games! However… I don’t know how to feel about the starter designs except the water type. Browt looks like an angry bird and I still can’t unsee it after saying it. Pombon… is adorable but just… eh, I don’t know… looks like a generic dog. Also while typing this, my friend said that Gecqua looks like a Littlest Pet Shop toy and now I can’t unsee that either. I feel as if the designs are getting worse and I’m worried about the legendaries. On the positives, the game looks beautiful and the trailer showed off one of my favorite Pokémon, Tropius!

These past couple of days have... been crazy for me. I haven't been feeling great. Not sick, just not feeling motivated to do anything at all. I also had more restless nights. I was going to start chapter 16 of SaGia on Monday or Tuesday, but never started on it. I'm still away from social media and will be quiet on this blog. My contact page keeps getting visits (22 page views as of this post), but no one reaches out to me. I don't understand. Same with my Linktree... people view my Linktree page but don't click on anything. I tried everything I could promoting my Ko-fi shop too. I know social media isn't a reliable place, but I try to promote it every now and then whenever I feel like it. As I said in my previous post, this economy sucks and people are holding back from spending. Wednesday and Friday, I had to talk to my dad about my feelings. I also found myself back to my impulse buying issue and told him about that too. For personal reasons, I don...

I had such a terrible last week. Although there were some positives such as being interviewed last Monday about my comic and it being shared on Wednesday, there were some negatives as well such as said interview not getting enough reach, even after sharing some of the clips from the interview on my socials, my vent about the mobile game Dragon Ball Legends going way downhill with the addition of the Legend rarity , and Popeye's messing up my order by giving me a regular chicken sandwich instead of a spicy one. As mentioned in my previous post, I was laying in bed, crying badly. I haven't been feelin' motivated at all to draw any new fanart, nor work on SaGia. I didn't really draw anything on Valentine's Day. One day, I got bored and made this new SaGia art of the main four (Haido, Lain, Lass, Rena) in the same cel-shaded 90s anime art style similar to my current banner and profile pic that's on my Bluesky, Facebook page, etc: I really liked how the new drawing ...

Originally, I was going to make this post private to my subscribers on my WordPress, but decided to make it public. Be prepared as this is a long one. If you don't want to read this post, that's fine. Not a lot of people really interact with my posts here or that they care about me sharing my art. Let's talk about a mobile game that I've been playing since 2021... 5 years. And it's my first gacha game and only gacha that I currently play: Dragon Ball Legends. More like, "Greedy Ball Legend(ary maintenance)". I wish I never hopped on. I fell in the gacha trap. For those who don't know what a gacha game is, look it up or click this link . It's basically virtual gambling with getting fictional characters and you don't know if you will get that rare, stronger unit or not. (man, I miss that title screen.) This game... has left a bad sour taste in my mouth since last year with so many changes the app has made. The UI update took me a lot of getting ...