Decided to do a quick painting on Friday and now I'm on the third re-do

I don't expect ad agencies to be bulwarks for creativity, but pivoting to AI services is just so misguided. It’s like saying there are opportunities to be had because someone’s paying people to dig a 6ft hole and then stand in it.

Looking up some node js tutorials instantly put me on the “ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A JOB?!?!?!” youtube algo

surprisingly AI didn't kill the design industry by replacing workers, but by being the only companies left with marketing budgets. Might be truly grim times for agencies and freelancers once this bubble bursts

Any recommendations for shows to watch on a second screen? Need something English-speaking that's mostly dialogue-driven (like House, Person of Interest, the various Star Treks, etc). I figure it might be nice to listen to something other than reruns or vtuber streams for a change

Are there any other platforms I should consider posting my art on? I stopped using instagram and reddit since they didn't seem worth the effort, but I'm curious what other places people use.

...Ser Aymeric? #FFXIV #FFXIVART

One of life's small joys is getting a painted style commission printed and placing it in a frame to go on your wall

If people have any suggestions for stuff that would look good in my painting style, please let me know. Going forward I'm going to diversify my subject matter a bit, probably with more fighting game stuff on top of the FF14 work, but I'm open to exploring other things as well.

Spent a bit more time on this one to explore new techniques and processes. I incorporated Blender into my workflow and used paintovers for the weapons and the background. Some of it is still scuffed but it feels like I'm actually working towards solutions instead of drawing and hoping for the best

Individual portraits of grown up Gaia and Ryne

Adult Gaia & Ryne #FFXIV #FFXIVART

I spent 2 of the last 4 days redrawing what I drew the day before why does art have to be so hard

kinda hoped blender would let me make better hand references for myself but I haven't been able to make anything that doesn't look like a bunch of sausages.

WIP Aging up these two was trickier than I thought, don't know why I assumed it would be straightforward. Overall I'm happy with the faces but there's something a bit...uncanny about it, like I'm painting two cosplayers instead of the characters themselves.

are people super sweaty in uma musume or am I just bad at the game? Just been getting trounced in the taurus races and it turns out I had to prep specific horses in it to be competitive?

WIP trying new workflow things and experimenting a bit with my process to see if it can let me do more ambitious stuff. Kinda hit a wall towards the tail end of summer commissions, so I'm going to slow down and meander a bit to see what happens

is there a database or something of models from ffxiv in a generic 3D format like .obj? Google just brings up STLs of re-modeled props for 3D printing, but I'm curious if there's just plain geometry from the game available somewhere.

Anyone have a good workflow for rendering 3D characters? Daz3D -> Blender seems to cover everything I'd need to make references for myself, but I'm wondering what the level above that is. There's a pretty consistent look to the NSFW stuff I see so I figure they must share alot of the same tools

AKI showing you her beauty mark #SF6 #SF6_AKI #StreetFighter

If I knew the perfect reference image was a month away I would've waited

imgur.com/a/2HyqiLh Here's an imgur link with all 13 commissions from this summer, I'll set up a proper gallery once I redo my website

With that, all 13 commissions are done! Thanks to everyone who participated, I learned alot from the experience

Commission Tasya, Stylish Belle

Commission Solace, Ephemeral Trickster

Commission Arcadia, Azem's Chosen

I just remembered that Clive's costume has an open chest because it was a keepsake from his father, who was a normal human with normal human pecs

is there an English equivalent to the Chinese term lao youtiao (老油条), as in someone who's been in the same place for so long that it transformed them into the embodiment of stagnation? I remember there being a similar descriptor (stale water?) but I can't for the life of me remember it

Commission Lucien, alluring Elezen

Commission Strawber and Sphene, ready for adventure

Commission Yorha, after a hard day's work

Been trying to make some tweaks and improvements to my style because it annoys me whenever people label it as AI. I think overusing point highlights, "floating" facial features without a sense of structure, or over-blending are pretty strongly associated with that look.

has anyone drawn Hulkenberg from Metaphor: Refantazio in a racing suit? If not then I might do it lol

these Northernlion umamusume streams are the only thing keeping me out of the abyss

Fixed the color grading (truetone was turned on for some reason on my macbook)

Cammy Outfit 4 #SF6 #StreetFighter6

Commission Z'nohdi, cooling off #FFXIV #FFXIVART

Commission Emmahe, stalwart defender #FFXIV #FFXIVART

might have to drop everything and draw tanline cammy

ffxiv adventure plates:

We finally might get a good mayor AND a bunch of donors wasted 50 million dollars? best night of the year so far

Man, if Cuomo still manages to win the primary I think it might be time for me to finally leave NYC... I love this city and lived here for almost 20 years but something changed after covid and everyone in power seems content to just let it get worse

these cumin lamb skewer flavor Lays are fucked up, you can even taste the lamb fat and the charcoal... like how????

A polite bigot is a bigot nonetheless. A true warrior knows that courteous words do not dilute the poison, but only serve to conceal it until it has spread. Civility in the service of hate deserves no polite response.

kind of a niche thing but how do people feel about the realistic lens flare on the blade? I couldn't really find a historical example I liked, but the stylized solutions I tried didn't really work and the photographic treatment is a bit incongruous with the rest of the piece, imo. Thoughts?

Yotsuyu, Imperial Agent #FFXIV #FFXIVART

Was trying to remember the last time I used Doordash (their PAC is running Islamophobic ads in NYC) and it was the FFXIV promo with the pizza emote where they ran out of codes and didn't give me an emote. Don't use Doordash! (for a variety of reasons, but also because they cheated me personally)

Is there a way in gpose (with or without plogons) to use emotes your character doesn't own?

Commission C'ranmaia, candy enthusiast #FFXIV #FFXIVART