That's totally fine. Sometimes, it's good to take a break and focus on other things - or just prioritize your own well-being.

More than anything, it's just good to know you're doing well.

Who doesn't like to spot their opponent an 80% health advantage at the start of a final round? 😛

It's tough for a lot of people right now. I know that doesn't exactly bring you much solace in whatever you're dealing with, but I find it rather grounding to know that many of us are enduring some struggle and that there's always space for more compassion and empathy.

I offer you my best wishes.

I'm horrible at going blindly into a drawing, so I need something like this to ensure that I'm at least starting on good footing.

I also prefer redrawing the pose to just using the traced sketch as my base because it at least gives me the benefits of repetition and the ability to access errors.

As always, critiques are appreciated. Lately, I've been rather unsure about my figure drawing skills. I'm still not confident in my ability to see errors in my own work and know when a sketch is "good" enough to proceed. And as usual, this leads me to not drawing very much.

I could use a boost.

For all we know, they could have made that decision already and DOA7's currently in early development. After all, we didn't know anything about Ninja Gaiden 4 until months prior to its release, so it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for the company.

A bit of wishful thinking here, but still... 😛

It's barely info at all, but the fact that the idea of a new DOA wasn't shut down entirely is at least a sign that the series hasn't been abandoned.

If Team Ninja is constantly working on multiple games at once, you'd think one of them would have to be a new DOA installment eventually.

Those are some gorgeous-looking apples (can apples be gorgeous?!)! Your painting technique is quite a sight to behold, and the canvas texture adds a nice touch to the composition.

Nicely done!