Its crazy to think that at my age my father could look back and feel his life was significantly better than his father's generation have been. I have the impression it's quite the oposite for me: I'll never be able to give my son what my father gave me. I feel there was a massive empoverishment.

The rule of portraits is that they'll almost always look terrible at first. Then you try again and in some cases you get closer to the references. In other cases they keep themselves unique and distant. But I'm slowly getting better.

The rule of portraits is that they'll almost always look terrible at first. Then you try again and in some cases you get closer to the references. In other cases they keep themselves unique and distant. But I'm slowly getting better.

IT carreers and Bank carreers, both of them very stable until now, disapering out of thin air because of AI. We're talking about high skilled workers. I don't want to be a pessimist, but I feel the next years will be really dificult for everybody but the stakeholders.

Learning to draw on clip studio paint. Is it normal to be afraid to put color on your stuff?

Gundam Zeta is so much better than the original series. A lot of complex relationships between characters. Char fighting in the same side as Amuro is so unexpected. The one year war standing like a cursed apparition the background of all dialogues. Very good so far.

For the first time in life I've play a solid 2 hour session of the original Kingdom Hearts for PS2 just to finally check out this game everybody seemed to hype 20 years ago... ..man, this game is so lame. The characters look like low budget porcelain dolls, and why so many cutscenes all the time?!

Started watching Gundam Zeta. Very good so far.

Last night I talked with a person completely sold on the AI thing. She spoke that now she is not only a lawyer but ALSO doing front-end design work with Claude. All that without earining a single extra cent on her salary. She was proud of it. You can't argue with that level of doublethink.

Do you also have the impression we are still talking about the same TTRPG systems we were 5 years ago? Like we had a boom of indie publishing during COVID and then things got really cold and almost no new thing got traction?

Somedays I can't help but to question the whole effort of life. I wake with a heavy heart thinking whats the point of fighting so hard when there's little to no chance of achieving even half of what my parent's gen achieved fo their families? From "difficult but possible" to "fantasy". I don't know.

Its funny to look back at stuff you did in the past. Some work look better after a few years. :)

Accidentaly remembered the illutrations I did for my personal Lay on Hands TTRPG short game. Honestly? Not that bad.

I honestly believe The Brittish LIbrary book covers works very well as covers. It doesn't try to artificially look antique and it can range from paperback to hardcover foil print editions. One day I want to be able to illustrate and sign projects exactly like that (as a designer AND illustrator).

Next preview! New ‘Gilded Nightmare’ Shadows Over Cymru: Uncanny Stories of the Welsh Weird. Edited by Aaron Worth. Surely one of the prettiest jackets yet! & check out that contents list. Publishing 26/05.

I would love to do cover art for new 8-bit video game, physical format. Especially NES/Famicom, Commodore 64.

A belated happy birthday to Uma Thurman.

La vie #Encre

Hello, I've been told this is a spooky game, my second effort. This time you take a little walk around a garden, learn about some plants, fall in love. Best played in a dark room with headphones on. Thank you! W E L L T E N D E D: treelet.itch.io/well-tended #bitsy #interactivefiction

plasmodics update day! tldr: @posatahchips.gaygothvibes.online rules, onto revisions in layout, projected release date is in july/august! www.kickstarter.com/projects/goo...

Australia's 'Payphone Tag' game is an excellent use of public infrastructure: aftermath.site/payphone-tag-a...

Do you also have the impression the graphic design people value online is almost always disconected with the graphic design most clients value offline? Like, I feel most of the projects that has this "wow factor" are personal stuff published online and not things on the street.

BTB is in its final stage, so I finally have more time for client work. If you’re cooking a campaign, zine, or a strange little world of your own, I can help bring it to life! Prices start at $100, full details in the slides. DMs open for business, don't be shy! #dnd #ttrpg #osr #nsr #fantasyart

It's so good to practice perspective drawing real chairs.

Sketches from last week. Unironically this chair was the most difficult of the whole group.

Man, studying drawing with a tablet is so much more satisfying than with traditional media. The struggle that is to draw on paper and correct things almost instantly after you draw them wrong.

For the weekend friends

Quick study on Lee Van Cleef during lunch hour today.

Man, why powerpoint master slides doesn't work well in the year 2026 of our Lord? It's so frustrating that a billionaire company as microsoft still gets things wrong after decades of no real competition at all. Text styles simply never work on master slides.

One unexpected fact I'm realising is that the artists at the Master in Visual Arts program are way more tolerant to genAI than I am. At the beginning I thought it would be a group radically against it, but you see major museums in Brazil legitimizing the use of genAI in expositions. Quite sad tbh.

Annual reminder that virtually every 'Easter was a pagan festival' claim online is bullshit. historyforatheists.com/2017/04/east...

There are so many books I still want to read and re-read in life. So little time tho. After I finish my Masters I'll dedicate some years to Cormac McCarthy. I'll re-read most Gene Wolfe stuff and get deeper into Dostoyevsky again. I also desperately need to be more literate on symbolism.

Can you recommend me some blog posts on designing better TTRPGs character stats/attributes? I always felt some of them (intelligence, for example) were good ideas done the wrong way, mechanically.

⊃∪∩⪽ is back on the menu, boys

DUUUUUUUUUNE!

I love watching Americans reacting to brilliant Brazilian songs for the first time on youtube. It gives me goosebumps all the time.

I'm super into adventure but not much into combat as a center point in TTRPGs. Each day I'm more inclined to games where players have to deal with puzzles, gather clues to see the big picture and deal with tactical combat only once or twice in the whole adventure. But it needs to be an adventure.

I have so much to learn yet, but it feels good to be slowly getting somewhere new with my drawing skills. Anatomy is a pain btw.

i would love to be able to post more about Current TTRPG Discourse but this is my stance on almost everything

saturday night (2024)

So good.

How I long for the day when I can live lightly again. There's so much work and responsibilities that I feel like I'm no longer able to rest, only sleep.

🎯

My unpopular opinion of the day is that I think modernist abstract art works MUCH BETTER as book covers than full rendered illustrated art. I have the impression rendered illustrations ends up reducing what it's book is about. It sets how you're expected to imagine the scenes you'll read inside it

My thing with Dan Simmons is that people throw the terms "genius" and "brilliant" way too easily on the internet. His Hyperion original cantos was good? Yes. Was it anything as remotely brilliant as, let's say, Gene Wolfe's *worst* works? No. Not at all.

I'm trying to organize my life through Notion and so far things are working out great. From projects management (pic 1)... ... to movie tracker (pic. 2)... ... to gift wishlist (pic. 3) among many other things. My only problem is that the day has only 24 hours and I need to stay healthy.

Recently I've restarted reading and buying super hero comics after many many years without doing so. To my surprise (...not really) my taste is considered trash to the mainstream readers of super hero comics. Every comic online people say is the worst I find to be among my favorites.

Keanu Keeves is an actor everybody seems to love and I can't stand him. To me he's the wrong person at the right place most of the time in his carreer.

I've had such a Lynchian nightmare last night: I was inside a pale building¹. In the center of it was a cillinder-shaped room with no doors. The strongest light was coming out of it and painting the inner walls white. Me and another person were interrogating a frantic guy. 1/5

These will be the movies I'll try to watch next week. All of them for the first time ever. I love to watch slow burn movies and I have no problem at all with my attention span while doing it. I'm slowly realizing the problem is I detest most movies made by streaming services.