I’ve been trying to nurse a sketchbook habit back into existence this year, and one of the things I desperately miss is a place where I can share drawings as ideas and not as achievements.
small posts to be enjoyed en masse
quick game dev thoughts
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lovely new art toy!
a 27qhd cintiq! complete with pen, stand AND express key remote!
seriously, I’ve already discovered how useful the remote is, it saved me yesterday during hours of setting up tiny assets in unity. it’s enormously more ergonomic for my partially paralyzed right hand than a keyboard right now and i wish I’d thought to try one much much earlier!
overall it’s beautiful and the extra screen real estate even makes game dev’s constant problem of too many apps slightly less annoying! not sure I’m back to full digital painting yet, but it was a great deal and i am glad i snagged it, even if it’s a bit earlier than initially planned.
anyone have any hot tips for min-maxing a Cintiq of this vintage?
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freelance artist psa from your friendly neighbourhood art director
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photos one by one
little art updates
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tiny gouache view
I was doing a sketch with this fountain pen, which has non-waterproof ink in it, and I decided to try washing over it with a water brush, and then painting over the tonal result with some gouache, which I haven’t done in a while. it ended up being a very enjoyable if very small painting! (…)
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oil pastel bird in the hand
painted on wood! I converted my reference photo to black and white, as well, and I think it did give me more permission to be weird with the color. you might not know this, but I kept pet birds from the age of 9 until I was almost 30, first a peach-faced lovebird named Pickles […] (…)
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oil pastel oranges
reffing a lovely still life from unsplash, i believe. done on slate blue 9 x 12″ canson mi-tients paper. I’ve been doing a lot of underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist pastels, which are a lot firmer, so they don’t layer that well with themselves but they behave really predictably underneath the rest of my pastels, […] (…)
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Thermal printer tutorial:
This is a great short breakdown into getting prints out of your label printer! Hope this helps folks hack theirs while I keep testing the limits of mine. (…)
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how to bind your thermal zine
no answers here, folks, I’m asking! accordion and scroll address both honestly very cute; i suspect there’s a stapled version i could figure out too given time. (…)
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thermal printer experiments
finally got some paper rolls for my label printer and started the important process of figuring out how to make zines with it 💪 (…)
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oil pastel boat
oil pastel pinterest study; i bought a pack of much firmer pastels and did the whole under drawing with those, and then layered the thick opaque pastels on top, and it really worked well! (…)
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Oil pastel dragon riding team
really love the colour palette i achieved here! not sure the drawing was strong enough to support it though, and the canvas was definitely too small for me at the level of precision in comfortable with right now. in the end i called this off before feeling 100% satisfied, but that’s simply the nature of […] (…)
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Three Pine Grosbeaks
my latest oil pastel experiment is this painting of three pine grosbeaks, referencing a CC0 photograph shared as part of an observation on inaturalist. this one was created on illustration board, with a full under painting in watercolor first, which you can see in the third image. The illustration board texture has a wonderful grain […] (…)
more little art updates
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oil pastel sweat bee
I painted this one on sanded paper, the much admired pastelmat type, and found it desperately unintuitive. The grippy surface could be nice, but it’s completely unabsorbant, and i found myself unable to layer the way I’m used to on rag papers, or honestly even on wood. that said, you really can blend infinitely on […] (…)
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mixed media test: failed haha
i did a quick watercolour (first) and gave it a coat of fixative so i could try out layering oil pastels on top for a mixed media look (second), but I’ve hit a few challenges: so likely I’ll toss this now and move on, but it has taught me a fair amount of interesting technical […] (…)
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WIP Knight in Oil Pastel
this is the biggest thing I’ve painted yet with the oil pastels; gonna be working in it for a while i was looking at digital paintings from 2022, and thinking about the method I had started using back then of having a mark making stage and a blending stage as two separate things; and the […] (…)
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oil pastel dog portrait!
finished this piece of a much missed lucky boy; oil pastel on canson mi-tientes paper. (…)
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oil pastel dog portrait in progress
working on canson mi-tientes paper, which really let’s the pastel slide around despite the rougher side’s surface texture. (…)
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The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra – Cover Illustration
This piece was created as the front cover illustration for The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra, an RPG adventure about the strange processes of grief in a disaster-struck community. This piece was drawn initially in pencil on Arches cream rag paper, then scanned and digitally coloured. (…)
just spitballin’ here
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practicing writing and drawing with my awful terrible no good left hand moodboard
i’m gonna relearn how to enjoy this if it kills me.
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