small posts to be enjoyed en masse
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Thermal print camera and ttrpg play!
Shoutout to curious quail for this wonderful example of where thermal printing is fun and cute and useful!
Hunting Cryptids with Frame 352 (and a cheap thermal print camera) | quailblogAnalog journaling game meets toy receipt paper camera – just in time for October -
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 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, and are still really quite lovely as a color spread themselves. I think this might be my new go-to process!
I might try giving this one a real glossy varnish, just to see how close I can get things to look to an oil painting. maybe doing that on paper is stupid, but worth a try!
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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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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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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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wyrmsketch
metallic and shimmer watercolours plus fountain pen
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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 exploratory work and no harm done. as i said, still very proud of this colour scheme!
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macro fishbowl asters
i have been having a lot of fun making some intentionally messy photos with clip-on macro lenses on my cellphone camera, and trying more and more to get the blown out, bokeh’d background to be a more intentional element. this one feels like it’s showing me some potential!
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Moss and grasses
Loved this hike and felt immensely inspired the whole time and yet still wrestled with all the green in the photos. I never understood how people could say green was hard to deal with until I tried to post process digital photos.
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Another portrait in oil pastel
New challenge recognized: glossy black fur. -
oil pastel dog portrait!
finished this piece of a much missed lucky boy; oil pastel on canson mi-tientes paper.
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wall of heavenly green
Can’t resist a backlit forest! I love this especially because it feels like a Paul Saari or George Outhwaite painting.
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Wolf in oil pastel
painted on canson mi-tientes pastel paper
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immortal tiles
I just love the soft glow of artificial lighting on worn tiles!
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flaming… hot? probably
sunlight! graffiti! one weirdly distracting white sedan!
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oil pastel study
in a Robert Bateman sketchbook, using Neopastels from Caran d’Ache.
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red and yellow and blue and green
delightfully sunny alleyway
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glowing concrete
Visited a beautiful and slightly apocalyptic building at the perfect time of day.
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cute bike!
My friend bought the absolute cutest bike and has kindly invited me to photograph it whenever. And I loved the warm light here especially.
