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Contrary to 2024, which I painted quite a lot, this year was rather different.

It's the time of the year, to share my top 5 favorite albums of 2025, meaning, only albums released in 2025.

I was playing around with Procreate 5.4, and decided to test something on HEAVYPAINT, more specifically color jitter, and I totally forgot how awesome this app is!

If you are reading this blog post via your browser of choice, you might notice that things are a bit different here.

When learning Japanese (or any other language), immersion makes a huge difference.

I was living under a rock, because I totally missed the note about Rebelle 8's early access being today!

My dad planted a few coffee trees the other day, and they are growing already!

The amount of amazing content you can find about entertainment design and concept art on Feng Zhu's YT channel is surreal!

Long time no post.

A little over a month ago, on a Sunday morning, I left Okayama for Takamatsu, the capital of Kagawa, the smallest prefecture in Japan which is located in Shikoku, the smallest island of Japan's 4 main islands.

After Kanazawa and Shirakawa-go, I didn't have anything planned, I just knew that I still had a few more days in Japan.

One of the reasons I spent a few days in Kanazawa was its proximity to Shirakawa-go, about 1h30min away by bus.

It's hard to keep up with the pace of posts here amidst the rush of travel, but today, back in Brazil, I'm going to talk a little about Kanazawa.

KOIAI on stage, from left to right; HAZUKI, Wakazaemon, Kotono, Kanade e Li-sa-X.

⚠️ WARNING: This post contains LOTS of photos (and some videos too).

A little over a year after seeing NEMOPHILA live for the first time at Nippon Budokan, I had the opportunity to see them perform again, this time in Hiroshima.

Miyajima is a famous little island south of Hiroshima.

I arrived in Hiroshima last Wednesday, February 25th.

Exactly 1 year and a few days ago I was in Japan.

It’s almost the end of January, and this year so far things has been slow, and that’s neither bad or good, it’s just the way things are.

Since ZBrush for iPad release last year, I was willing to dig into ZBrush again.

⚠️ Due the amount of images, this post might be a bit heavy to load on mobile connections.

My Japanese 103 course is over, (I highly recommend this course to anyone serious about learning Japanese!)

Last year I posted about my favorite musics of 2023, but it was more broad, not focusing only on 2023 releases.

Proko is showcasing some artist's sketchbooks and it's an absolute joy to watch!

I just came across this app called Zen Brush 3, don't ask me how, but anyways, it's a cool little app that—apparently—simulates ink brushstrokes very well!

Week 06 ている/ています Used for: ongoing actions (currently doing, have been doing) current state/condition (result of change, appearance) habits and commitments (work, study, routines) Example Ongoing Action (currently doing): 今日本語を勉強しています。

Today I decided to paint a portrait again.

Week4 に行く / に来る / に帰る To add a bit more of nuance when indicating action, use the に particle.

Last year (also known as 2023), when I decided to take seriously my journey to learn Japanese, I blogged about the resources I was using at that time, you can check that post here.

I've been struggling a lot lately, trying to find myself again.

Some notes from week 03.

Yet another week went by, and it's Monday again.

Some notes from week 02.

The past two weeks went by super fast, I guess that's what happens when you are distracted doing things that matter.

Earlier this year I took two Japanese courses (102 and 103) at NihongoDekita, and I had a blast!

Super late week notes, I know.

This week, the rain didn't last as long as the previous one.

This video from Conceptual Ink Academy shows a simple approach to deal with perspective.

I'm glad it's raining.

Two of my favorite painters; Tiffanie Mang and Zac Retz teamed up to break down a painting from Arkhip Kuindzhi, the results you can watch below: You can learn so much from these two, and I really appreciate they did this and shared it for free!

Today ZBrush for iPad was finally released.

Howdy!

I've been digging S.

September 10th, that’s the date that Maxon will release ZBrush for iPad, and I gotta say, I’m really excited for this one.

So nice to see the official stance of Procreate regarding the BS that is generative """"AI"""".

Yesterday, the makers o Halide announced a new update with a new feature called Process Zero.

It's been about a year since I started exploring the Japanese Metal and Rock scene.

Today on my morning walk I was thinking how we take so many things for granted.

Stark is the Sky When the Rain is falling Never I will understand What's like to be loving In the deepest of the night The aeon is nothing When the beauty is hid In the crispy moonlight Thy wind shall blow Upon the mountains Upon the foes Upon the world B…