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.
small posts to be enjoyed en masse
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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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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.
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streetlights

playing with long exposures and wrangling values after to make things feel more nostalgic.
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Dusk with Patio Umbrellas

I love a dramatic sky!
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The Creek

Love this creek at golden hour.
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alleyway photography

fucking around with extreme colour grading in lightroom and having a very nice time!
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rec: short horror comic
This short horror comic by Scott Base is making the rounds on tumblr again! and as it has haunted me for years, I feel it’s worth sharing:

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Dog Sketches in Procreate
Drawn with my non-dominant hand:



