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ひよこ組 (Hiyokokumi) dolls, the maker of my life-size doll of my OC Elegos, has some amazing updates regarding their handmade dolls!

You can now pay for a toy skeleton service for all dolls. A skeleton allows the doll to pose better. All previous dolls made my them can also be sent back for a toy skeleton installation! The skeleton can be installed for a fee.

They are now also accepting orders of girl dolls up to 150cm! You can now directly order a girl doll by contacting them on their Twitter (or Mercari.jp page; more on this below). Previously, only male and smaller unisex dolls were being accepted for orders on the Hiyokokumi account.

If you do not use Twitter, they have now also opened up a Mercari.jp page for buying. You can order from there, too. You will have to be knowledgeable of how to order products from Japan.

https://jp.mercari.com/item/m71706806881?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share&source_location=share

The representative speaks English if you contact them directly from Twitter and I think this is the better option for English speakers, in my opinion.

Also, I have been mispronouncing the name this entire time as "Hiyokogumi". 🫠 You can thank Google translate for that!

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Looking through AliExpress weird products is a guilty pleasure of mine

Up until around 2 years ago, art programs for Android tablets were really ASS. So I have struggled ever since buying my S6 tab 4 years ago and it has discouraged me from even making art. They're in a much better place now, though! So here's some info of art programs I've tried for android, in order:

Ibis Paint
Krita
Medibang
Infinite Painter

Working on a tablet has its advantages and disadvantages in comparison to working on a Wacom or any other desktop tablet plugged into the PC.

For me personally, it's a lot more comfortable to do art on my bed and I feel more productive being comfortable. Also my medical conditions prevent me from being at my computer way too much, so I don't have much of a choice. lol
You aren't confined to a computer and can work on the go.

The disadvantage I've ran into is that some programs might struggle with optimization on all the different tablet models. You can experience lag that hinders smooth workflow or make it extremely frustrating to work in. The programs also may not be as powerful as the desktop variants, though some newer programs like Clip Studio and Krita for mobile seem to be 1:1.

I'll start with my favorite.

As I have mentioned in an earlier post, Infinite Painter's simple UI and workflow are perfect for me personally. The 1st screenshot is of landscape mode on Infinite Painter and the finished chibi face of my OC, which I will post fully sometime next month, as I'm waiting on some things to kinda "relaunch" my social medias and make them more art focused.

Very fun to work in, if it wasn't for the lag on my tablet when I hit many layers. If you are a more polished artist than me, you may not need 100+ layers like I do, though.
It's not a chore to switch tools either. The brush selection is simple imo and sadly I can't figure out their brush editor. What's there is really good already, though. I get overwhelmed if there's too many options available. There are some glitches when using masks that cause massive lag if you want to select and move some layers, so that also sucks.
If coming off Photoshop or CSP on desktop like me, it is very different and it takes getting used to. This program has some tutorials online but nowhere near the massive amount of support Clip Studio or Procreate has. This is a smaller studio, so updates and fixes can take a bit.

Next is Ibis Paint. I did do some works many years ago on Ibis Paint. I never liked it and using it felt like torture after mainly using Photoshop most of my life. It actually made me hate doing art! The UI was very cluttered and the filters were terrible to work with; I felt I had no control of how it would apply on the actual overall image. The layers would eat up so much of the screen, too. You also can't move the canvas while the layers are open.

You can see this in the 2nd screenshot. This is a very ancient character concept of the undead form of my OC, which I will re-adapt into his new moe and pudgier design at some point. I never finished the character sheet because I despised working on it in Ibis Paint so much lmao

However, one of my favorite JP artists uses Ibis Paint and I've seen some professional works done on this program. So I don't want it to seem like it's worthless just because I couldn't get used to working on it. It's popular in Japan and has a good amount of tutorials available.

I ended up uninstalling Medibang and I vaguely remember not liking the UI, either. Didn't test this one out much, sadly. It's one of the go-to Android programs, though. This has been around since I was trying Ibis Paint 4 years ago. I've seen many artists swear by this program.

When I tried Krita for mobile, it was in Beta and performed horribly and clunky. However, this has been fixed a lot in the last two years and many people I've seen on videos are recommending it as the free alternative to Clip Studio Paint. They have ported over the desktop version the way Clip Studio has but also made it more intuitive to utilize on tablets. Krita is also open source. It's the 3rd screenshot. Here's a link to the video it's from going over some art programs for Android; I felt it was an informative watch.

https://youtu.be/MdOoPRi_xlk

I also just found out about a new drawing app for Android called HiPaint. This is a Chinese "knockoff" of Procreate for Android and hey, it's apparently really damn good and since the devs of Procreate won't release their program on Android, this is definitely the closest thing in terms of the UI and features.

I've never tried Procreate but coming from Infinite Painter, the HiPaint UI is fantastic. I can see why people like Procreate now.
I tried some brushes on this. Not a big fan of the ink ones when I was doing fast doodles as the one I wanted to use felt laggy and there is some glitchyness when using the airbrush. The video I will link touches on these two points, too. The app is newer, so maybe that will be ironed out and some people report no glitches on their tablets for the airbrush. HiPaint is the last screenshot here and it basically looks 1:1 to Procreate and it really nails the small details of some of the Procreate features. The video I watched on it was very good, too.

https://youtu.be/PeIJGLkwLKU

As I want to keep everything consistent for when I'm able to work on my computer, I will still try to use the Clip Studio Paint mobile app and get used to it. Going to see into getting a Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. The screen is huge and will accommodate the CSP messy UI on mobile a bit better.

I have heard many mixed things about Procreate for the iPad. Some claim it's better than Clip Studio and the best art program created and others claim it's absolute garbage and a mess. However, I really don't want to buy a CRAPple iPad. Overall, most people recommend it despite me seeing a decent chunk of negative opinions. But since there is no Android version, I can't give it a shot.

I remember 10 years ago, I could buy video game remixes made by YouTubers for $1 or so. Or an entire digital album for $5-10. Now a lot of them have stopped doing that and just link you to a streaming service. I don't understand why not have both options.

I just wanna listen to vidya music and remixes on my Winamp. Gay earth, man.

Credit to SenseLordie on X for this one