Absolutely! It's super cute and shapey, but still immediately recognizable as yours

I could stare at this forever, there's so much to like about it! The gold ink highlights, the little details around the eyes, the composition, the fine linework on her fins...

Gorgeous work

Fair. Heck, now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I've heard ミーガン in the wild years ago. I'm only a novice JP speaker at best, the movie title was just one of those things that stood out as a potential multilingual pun.

This is just speculation, but "Miigan" sounds like a localization trick to maintain the pun. M3gan → M三gan → Mミgan. I feel like Japanese localizers do this sort of thing a lot, and always find it clever.

Realistically, the goal is more to menace your opponent and put them on the defensive than actually expect to end a fight, but it was still a key feature of the style!

I briefly did iaido, and we did have this concept! Though I never learned if it had a name. Most blocks and parries we learned, done right, should have ended with your sword pointed at the enemy or in an ideal position to transition into an otherwise-somewhat-risky overhead strike.

Thank you! I love seeing your vignettes of Alti and her party. Always a treat

Most are pretty harmless, though, and tell sites that you actually read their newsletter, that you bought something from a sale banner, that sort of thing. Actual user tracking is done with cookies, but that's a whole other thread.

Which is not to say you can't or shouldn't remove source ids from urls, but it's important to know that all params aren't tracking. Some can be, some are other arbitrary data, and some are an important part of the URL you want. Look for "si," "src," or even just "s" in the key for source ids...

In the top example you gave, it would just tell the site you got there from an email list.

Google's ids are probably more sophisticated, and if they're unique enough could be used to figure out who is sharing a link, but importantly, they only mean something within Google's ecosystem...

Source ids are common, but are neither a shared standard nor all that complex. Most sites and companies have their own unique param names ("si" being Google's, for example) and the data attached to them is typically not anything more than "where did this navigation come from..."

Speaking as a professional web developer, most of this isn't true. The stuff after the ? are called query parameters, and just have additional data for the page you're loading, like your search query in Google or the article you want on a lot of WordPress blogs. They're divided up by & characters...

Yeah! I had never really enjoyed drawing animals before, but after doing those lessons I gained a new appreciation for them. By that point I was looking forward to whatever the next lesson would hold.

It is kind of tedious at first, but doing drawabox exercises during lunch breaks with a cheap ballpoint pen was the single most effective method for building up line confidence and technical proficiency for me. Definitely recommended, and those exercises are still good to revisit from time to time.

Seconding Printful, for sure. I got a job that took priority before actually getting a storefront up, but the quality of their samples/proofs and communication were great.

Huion's screen tablets are great. I've been using a Kamvas for years, and while I never had a screen Wacom, its pen and software are much nicer than the Wacom stuff I did use. It's quite affordable, too.

I'm just a Stranger on the Internet, but the most eye-opening advice for identifying unusual or chronic pain for me was "The correct amount of pain for daily life is none."

If small tasks are physically painful and that sort of pain is consistent, it's worth bringing up to a doctor.

Thank you✨

Thank you✨