Finally finished up editing the timelapse because it involved making decisions about the music. Also I used Procreate, Artstudio Pro, and Krita so it's actually 3 timelapses stitched together. So enjoy watching about 35 hours of work in 11 minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeXs...

Ran Sabbat LARP tonight and a player showed up with a bag of shiny rocks and said it was to give all the autistics. I have three new shiny rocks.

Random shower thought tonight, George Carlin's 7 dirty words monologue is basically just the adult version of Sesame Street's "one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn't belong" and that thing is tits.

if your stockroom uses u-line products your company is bankrolling this.

To piggyback off my post from last night: Give me your fantasy, sci fi, and horror book recommendations. Especially anything published really recently, I'm terrible at finding newer books to read.

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Dear whoever creates recommendation algorithms for books: Just because I love Dungeon Crawler Carl and binged all the books since February does not mean that every single recommendation should be LitRPG. Especially when I've only read 2 LitRPG series but way more regular fantasy and scifi.

I am 0% surprised

I love this set so much, absolutely gorgeous! I also love seeing more variety of body types in reference images.

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

I wonder how many drawing gloves I'll find when I eventually move out of this apartment. Because I keep losing the damn things. Just ordered more because I can only find one of the at least 8 that I have.

I'm a kid of the 80s and 90s who always loved fantasy. My biggest influences were the cover art for books, films, and roleplaying games. So artists like Frank Frazetta, Brian Froud, Michael Whelan, and James Gurney. Along with countless artists who've worked on D&D and M:tG.

Well didn't take me long to finish the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl book. It only released on Tuesday. Yeah, it's good. Totally recommend the entire series and Princess Donut is the best cat.

I cannot stress it enough, but if you pledge even to the smallest tier of artists' Patreon/Ko-Fi/whatever subscription service they are using, you are already doing a lot. If you are regularly sharing art with others, reposting or sending links their way, you are already showing support and care.

It definitely makes me feel good that so many people like my new painting.

Finally finished this painting of a Selkie I started back in October. I'm really proud of how it turned out. Also credit to @trueref.bsky.social for the amazing reference photo I used as inspiration for this. #digitalart #painting #fantasyart

So I'm just getting over my very first bout of COVID and I'm angry about it. Not because someone brought COVID to a LARP event game but that because the vaccine recommendations were changed I couldn't get a booster because I'm not considered high risk. The last 2 weeks have royally sucked.

Here are the Goth news highlights: Bela Lugosi is still dead. #goth #vtm

You should have art. You deserve beautiful things. A lot of my alarm over the last 24 stems from concern that people sound like we can't have art in bad times. Bad times are when we need art.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

I could handle being this sick if I could work on art but I don't even have the energy to draw right now and even if I did the pounding headache I have would make it impossible. I have slept so much the past few days

My luck finally ran out and I have COVID for the first time. Got it at a LARP event game last weekend. Holy shit is the loss of smell weird as hell. Like what do you mean I can't even smell Vicks vaporub?

I go on a 5 day LARP trip and I actually took care of myself for once. Ate, hydrated, slept a kinda okay amount. Then got home and promptly tripped and fell on my knee so hard I can barely walk right now. The LARP was amazing. My poor Brujah is utterly traumatized and about to go burn it all down.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Consider taking some photos and photobash something. Photobashing is a pretty approachable skill to learn.

"City prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued 'no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.'" (For the record, the costume had, erm, somewhat deflated by the time of the arrest.)

You don't even need to go back to the 90s. There are people publishing choose your own adventure style books now, for example The Aggregate by Ben Bishop. Also the countless visual novels. Or PLAY A GODDAMN TTRPG

This just made me think about the same thing. I don't think teenage me would quite believe that I can create the things I do. Some of my work now I look at and still think: I can't believe I did that

Been using Nomad for like a year and just learned tonight that you can export turntable gifs of your 3d models. So here's a work in progress sculpt

Forcing a day off from art. I have got to rest my goddamn shoulder before I end up at urgent care.

I have been nonstop working on art for weeks, probably way longer without breaks than I should be but hyperfocus is like that. Now shoulder and traps on the right side are all kinds of fucked up and I just cannot get the muscles to relax.

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So my day job I work for a small IT company that has a very similar name to another company in a different industry. We frequently get emails from people trying to sell services to this other company. This is a first though, someone just sent us a job application for this other company.

TIL what June Bugs are called in some places and I have questions youtube.com/shorts/iMUgb...

Production Log #2 for my animation project www.patreon.com/posts/animat... #art #animation #blender

#NASA #ArtemisII - Crew is asking for a name for some newly discovered unnamed craters, One they wish to name after their spacecraft "Integrity" And another feature the crew is asking that they name for his late wife Carrol who passed due to cancer in 2020. Solemn silence ( and no dry eyes)

Those of us who are lucky had that teacher who was able to inspire who you are as an adult. Mine was an English teacher who not only encouraged my love of books but would work on art projects during class and encouraged me to create and draw. Thank you Mrs Taylor, your memory is truly a blessing.

You can take my oxford comma out of my cold dead hands

I don't celebrate but with Easter coming up, please remember not to impulse buy rabbits and chicks. They are living creatures and not toys. They require a lot of time and care and shouldn't be given to young children unsupervised. Please also keep true lilies away from cats! This includes pollen

I don't know why nautical terms mispronounced in audiobooks bothers me more than other mispronunciations. Maybe because I have several good friends who work on ships but it's pronounced "bosun"

The ONE virus you absolutely do not fuck around with is rabies. Now any potential exposure people are going to need rabies post-exposure treatment out of caution and that's both expensive and painful. Not to mention not knowing if there's a wildlife outbreak to target areas with vaccine drops.

I was good today. I made myself take the day off from working on any projects and just chill.

Been on my desktop so much lately working on this animation project that my shoulder hurts now. Am I taking a break? Of course not. Instead I'm sitting on my couch painting leaves to use as textures

This is why I keep pitching Octopus Jeopardy, a 100% all-octopus spinoff. Everyone tells me it’s a terrible idea but I think it has legs.

Because sometimes we need to know about the happy news too.

It also is about analysis of a creative work. Viewing it on its own merits separate from the artist and their intentions. It's not a "get out of jail free" card for writers and artists to do terrible things with no professional consequences.

New Krita release and there's so many cool changes. Text tool now actually works! Making bundles of brushes & other resources is easier. You can put dockers like layers in the popup panel. I'm supposed to be working on 3d stuff today but I need to try everything out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNhf...

I know UV unwrapping is important for 3d but why does it have to be so tedious?

Ahhh! I think I found a method that'll work for what I want and uses Krita where all my favorite brushes are youtu.be/oW7zKbylReI?...

Why is 3d texturing so goddamn miserable? I hate Blender's texture painting and Substance Painter is even more convoluted. I don't want to make complicated PBR textures. I just want to paint textures directly onto the model, with layers, and decent brushes. Why is this so difficult?