MeltingHearts

10.2020 ☆彡

It’s finally October aaaaand what’s supposed to be the most productive month of the year for every artists! Since it’s Inktober. HOWEVER, we all know by now, that *THAT’S* canceled due to the creator being hella problematic by wanting to copyright the word ‘inktober’ amongst other things... SO!! I’m personally thinking of doing a fellow artist’s prompt, called crawltober but y’all see more of this over at insta pretty soon!

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Anyways!! Thank YOU for being her...

Printables! ♡

I should probably & eventually sit down and make irl stationary... keyword eventually! LOL! These are seriously so relaxing to make. Sooooo, In the meantime please enjoy these instead. Here’s a To-do list and sort of diary entry page.

Should I keep making them ink friendly, or should I start making colored ones? I didn’t know some of you were downloading and using them to write on your iPad! Hella convenient and clutter free, right?! Anyways! As always, they’re 8.5 x 11 (A4) ...

Surprise drop for patrons & timelapse!☆

Surprise, surprise! ☆

This is Tora, the Taiyaki loving tigress! Ready to have a sweet snack, whenever you’re free!

I’ve been secretly working on these facemasks for the past few months, and I’m super duper exited to finally be able to show them off!

I’m not entirely sure when I’ll actually list them to the public, maybe on Friday? Who knows... But know, that all of you active patrons can get them from ...

09.2020☆

Only 4 more months until 2020 is over! & even though it still feels like January, this club’s growth clearly shows otherwise. Sooooou seriously thank you for being here! Each and every one of you!!

We haven’t reached 50 Patrons, yeeeeet... but I’m making it my goals to reach it before the year ends! Oh, and I still made stickers for pinclub rewards AGAIN anyways. LOL. ITS STILL OUR FIRST GOAL THO !

If anyone has any suggestions for future Patreon content, pls let me kno...

★ Printables — purple & grid.

Splurged a lil’ and purchased a Hobonichi Techno. It’s only been a day, but wow... It has been life changing! The pages are just so smooth to write on, to the point that I’m seriously considering getting the blank (dateless?) one just for venting random thoughts in it. I’ll use it mostly for work, so highly doubting I’ll achieve insta worthy art spreads but I’ll still try, ANYWAYS!!

What does this have to do with anything? Well, I’m really into the way the pages are grid-l...

★ BNA ILU TIMELAPSE !

I didn’t speed this one up, hence why the timelapse seems a little longer.
Tbh sometimes It feels like you can’t really appreciate the process if it’s too fast, at least that’s how I feel... lol. Hope that’s okay! 

Also, who has watched BNA!? If you already have; Isn’t Michiru best girl, I just want to hug & make her happy forever!! 

• Sketchdump, literally.

I have a lot more but they’re all pinclub related & I really don’t want to spoil those. Some of these a future pin ideas, but y’all know me by now and know how I literally take forever to put out anything.

Should really finish some of these... lmao.

#bts

ps: I’m only missing a few of the August rewards to ship, just waiting on a batch mailers! Which should be here next week. Thank you for always being so patient with me!! ☆

08.2020 ♡

How on earth is it already August?! Seriously, thank you so much for being here with me!

I haven’t been posting lost of bts stuff because I’ve been mostly working on pinclub designs and y’all know how they were supposed to be secret right? We back with the secrecy, haha! Tho, I will for sure post a sketch dump later this week with all the unfinished doodles made in July.

Also, before I forget! Any suggestions for Halloween’s design!? Don’t be shy! All ideas are welcome...

Gambatte! ☆彡 (2018 vs 2020)

If you watch the process video ‘till the end you can fully see where I had a total breakdown. 🤡✨

This one was harder than I though because I really reeeeeally liked my previous way of shading! In that moment, of staring at it during the redraw, I seriously felt attacked by all those, ‘can’t settle on an art style’ meme and I don’t know why truly felt like the new version wasn’t really an improvement? This was truly an emotional rollercoaster.

SOoooOOOoo, a few po...

07.2020 ☆

Y’aaaaaall, this (mostly always!) catgirl cult is slowly growing!!! 🔥🔥🔥 *jkjk*

No but seriously! I’m so happy to see this club grow bit by bit each month! I’m seeing lots of recurring names, friends and lots of fresh new members and wow, thaaaank you so muchhhh!!

Almost all of my Patreon funds go towards production, shipping & little extras. So believe me when I say that, all of these designs are made posible thanks to all of you!

I know, we ...

Printables — don’t forget! ☆

Last time I promised I’d actually make ink friendly stationery. I was so exited with the previous ones, that I didn’t really realize how much colored ink they actually used until I printed them myself! So here, redemption! Haha, black and white goodies that shouldn’t kill your printer, I hope... lol. ♥︎

They’re 8.5 x 11, so you can just right click and print/save them hopefully with no trouble at all!

They’re really fun and easy to make, the hardest part tbh is alig...

Doing my best! for August PurrrClub?♡

Baby's first poll making, hahaha... anyways!
Basically, I just wanted to know how many of you actually wanted the 'Doing my best' design for August. I'd be literally the previous post! I've been getting super good feedback so far, buuuuuuut I just really want to make sure! ♡  ♡  ♡ 

btw, no one can see your votes! so don't worry! be honeeeest ahahha

2020 vs 2018 !! ☆ vol2

Here’s another savage glow up!! (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

This was actually the third pin design I ever produced two years ago! Like daaaaaamnnnnn. Her name’s Namidako, the friend that’s always rooting for you to succeed, no matter how hard things get! I even made a mini postcard/print to go with preorders. ( I should had also recreated the postcard... actually. I’ll do that soon!! ) Anywaysssss.

Back then I was such a noob when it came to pin making. I believed in the �...

— ‘Give me your heart!’ + spoilers??

One thing I’ve been actively trying to incorporate here, are pin process posts! However, it’s been a bit of a fail? Since I use a program called ‘Graphics’ for the iPad to vector pins, and that doesn’t have screenrecording either, LMAO.

THANKFULLY, Past me remembered this! & actually completed this design on Pro- and well you can totally see pseudo spoilers of pin ideas I’ve had at the beginning of this Clip. I humbly ask that you accept this gift, since it’s the only ...

2020 VS 2018 ! ♡

2020 vs. 2018 // ✨✨✨

Can we seriously appreciate this glow up? Because damnnnn...

Remembering how proud I legit felt of the previous one, that I even made small prints, gives me all the feels! (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`) However, even though I laugh so hard at myself now, I really don’t feel any type of shame showing it off, because I really did give it my all while working on this forever ago!

It’s really hard for me to stop, breathe, and appreciate th...

06.2020 ♡

If you’re still here, thank you so much for supporting me!

& if you’re new, RUN AWAY WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

I MEAN, UHH, STAY PLS. I NEED TO FEED MY CATS. LMAO. ♥︎

I know I ramble a lot and am never quite sure on what type of content to share here.

So I guess the best way to describe this IS actually as a Pin Club\diary of a pseudo cat? sort of bts progress report...

Or something like that, but in all seriousness,

thank you to ever...

— 05.31, Timelapses ☆

Been secretly working on these pieces for the longest for a thing I really want to make before the year ends. ( Is this manifesting? Who knows! lol ) Anyways, making these really take up all my energy since they have so much backstory to them. For the most part it’s really difficult for me to open up with what’s actually going on in my head since usually whoever’s curious enough to ask, lose interest not even half way through the story or were just in it for the tea. Even if I’ll neve...

— DTIYS Timelapse ☆

Decided to participate in this DTIYS simply because I adore my friend’s Holobat OC Andromeda. So here’s the full timelapse video of that adventure, lmao! They’re a cute lil bat and omg I just want to squish forever!! It was harder than I initially though just because of the colors & Holo has a very distinct style that I was trying to do justice, I seriously tried my best here! ♥�...

— shutdown, process ilu . // morestuffdump.

Does anyone remember this? I posted a few bits here and there when I originally started back in February... RIP, It has literally taken me forever and you can totally tell/see in the vid all the billion changes it went through buuuuuuut hey, it’s finally finished! AND I’M SO GLAD I DIDNT GIVE UP ON IT, like all the other billion stuff I never finish. But hey this is progress.... right? 😅💛

Also, since I didn’t really wanna make this such a short post, I decided to ...

May Highlights — ★

Inspired by Oh Carool’s Monthly Highlights on her Patreon Posts, I decided to do one too! Even though May isn’t over, I decided to finish this since I don’t think I’ll do anything different. Also, this was the perfect excuse to try the new brushes my dear friend Ally was so kind to give me! Thank...

— DTIYS Timelapse! ☆

Been working on this ilu for a while now, you can probably tell with the mega jump change in the process above. LMAO! I still have a love hate relationship with Procreate, buuuuut I guess that as long as I keep this messy sketchy style for a bit, it’s not so bad? It’s just so hard to adjust when all my favorite brushes & screentones are in ClipStudio...

Will I ever not complain about this? Probably not but oh well, at least I’m self aware. MAKE SCREEN RECORDING POSI...

— Full time lapse vids

...of ilus I’ve been working on Procreate. ♥︎ ( & no, it’s still not my favorite, but it records. LOL)

// Embracing the messy sketchy ness, if that even makes sense? I usually tend to clean whatever I do times a hundred, ( & probably still will for future ilus.) but lately I’ve been focusing on color & expressions a lot more and less rendering. I hope it shows!

Anyways it’s time for everyone to get up & stretch, DO EEET NAOOOOO! Mwah~ ☆<...

Printables —Today’s List! ♥︎

I hope everyone’s feeling good today!

Lately I’ve been playing around with stationary ideas, since I really want to make more ‘useful/practical’ merch in the future.

I’m working on more monochrome designs, since I know these might not be so efficient when it comes to saving ink & printing from home? But I still wanted to share them just in case anyone wanted to use them, even if digitally! In case you do want to print them out, they’re all 8.5x11. Just right click...

05.2020 ♡

Daaaarlings, here’s the list of all the hella amazing Patrons for the month of May! I’m still in denial that some of you are still here, like seriously THANK YOU SO MUCH!! ♥︎♥︎♥︎

Decided to add a little time lapse video for the proces of this illu. I hope y’all like it. Is it fast enough, or should I make it go slower? I never know what’s a right speed for time lapses. Anyways!! Be safe, drink all the water and try not to stare at your phone!! ♥︎

— Purrrclub SecretShop ☆

Daaaaarlings, after much work it’s official!! From May 1st onwards, I’ll have a secret shop available for active Patrons! ♥︎

So, what does this mean? On May 2nd, I’ll message all active Patreon’s the password for the secret shop. ( https://meltinghearts.net/-purrrclub-secret-shop- )

This will last for the duration of the month and will change w...

— process, sort of. ☆

I’ve been wanting to post more process/progress posts, but... it’s just so hard since Clip Studio doesnt have screen recordings integrated. However, whenever I do remember I try to take screenshots! Halfway, Ufff...

So, I already posted the finished ones on Instagram... BUT HEY, y’all can just exclusively laugh at these BEHIND THE SCENES SCETCHY MESSY CHAOOOOOS that I usually start out with. ( I DOESNT help either that I’ve developed a bad habit of doing everything in one lay...

04.2020

Thank you. For still being here, the support and patience! ☆

I seriously don’t wanna keep sounding like a broken record, but I hope y’all know how much I love and appreciate this. Specially during a crisis like this.

Please, stay safe! Let me know what you’re doing during this quarantine in the comments! For me, animal crossing has consumed me. It’s bad. LIKE, IM LOSING TOUCH WITH REALITY. IVE BEEN GOING TO BED AT 5 AM CATCHING TARANTULAS, SCREAMS. ANYWAYS...... baiii...

PurrrClub Update!! ♡

Daaaaarlings, I have amaaaaaazing news! February and March pins were just shipped to me! ☆ My manufacturer just sent me an email with the tracking number. They should be here in 3 - 5 days & I’ll make sure to QC and pack them that same day. Shipping them the next.

I’m SO HAPPY. Y’all can’t imagine the low key stress I had from being behind. Also, to everyone supporting me here; thank you sooooooo much for being super understandable. Seriously. No...

• February Sketch Dump —

I have more but they’re all pin designs and forever don’t wanna spoil.

The last row was an idea for a tote bag... but I ended up scraping it because meh, that’s when the AB started to hit.

I’ve also been sketching traditionally a lot lately, but I’ll make another post for those later! Much love ~

032220 — Slice of life .

So sorry for being a little inactive here. To be hella honest, I’ve been having the worst art block ever. It was bad. I’ve never been so stumped in my life. Like, I’ve obviously experienced periods like this, where you’re just sitting there staring at the blank canvas out of ideas? However, this one made me feel like I’d forgotten how to draw, anything! Felt so useless and scared because I’m a very ‘assignment’ oriented person and I just wasn’t fulfilling any items on the li...