doin shading exercises and it's pretty remarkable the effect vs effort
Moonworm
joined 2 years ago
Oh sick, I thought the first season was great. I hope they're going with another one season complete story, I think it's a great format for genre fiction. Just a tight little package with a straightforward enough plot and arc to be really well-executed in between a mess of great visuals.
I turn that shit off asap. I'll put cool stickers on my case or use a low backlight for the keyboard but otherwise why would I want a bunch of distractions from the screen?
and this time Iran is going to hit them with enough heavy missiles to make it impossible to live in Israel.
I'll believe it when I see it.
They argue that because the tax cuts from Trump's first term that were set to sunset are being extended they don't really count as something they have to pay for.
Edward "Big Balls" Coristine in 2025
Lyme disease is most prevalent in the United States and Europe.
Those erotica authors were no angels, did you know they were doing tax fraud?
Oh yeah we're totally not going to ever peek even a little at all your private communications even though we're now explicitly collecting them to feed into an LLM. It's a secure cloud environment!
I just picked up a relatively recent refurbished thinkpad with an ssd for a couple hundred off newegg. They have a few on there as low as $130.
Two of my very favorites. I think Castle in the Sky might be the first anime I ever saw.
What a lucky day it is!
Did you cats know about this? The ice gets pushed around by the waves and keeps refreezing so it forms a bunch of peaks and valleys. You can walk on it but you really shouldn't. Hard to tell where the ice is weak. Sometimes it forms little "volcanoes" where the water will splash out the top and stuff.
What are some unusual natural formations around you?
I drew a guy with a mustache and just kept going.
rides a dinosaur in a sci-fi style, part of a great horde that stretches across the alien steppe.
He turns into a bear when he gets hurt.
Messin around with diferent hair stuff. Don't really love any of it. Axe is too high on the neck. Line weight is more even though. Hands are less terrible than previous.
In the course of drawing this I realized that I could have been using the selection lasso to mask areas to paint the entire time I have been using this fucking program. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me before that that might be really nice for these watercolor brushes.
Anyway these ladies claim to be literal descendants of the Sun. Maybe they're right, I dunno.
Messing around with the gradient was fun. I still think my backgrounds are mostly bad, but at least there's something kinda cool going on.
This guy is a thunder priest who also turns into a bear, also he's one of the larger and stronger humans called a Chud. It's pronounced like chood though I think. The previous character, the Son of Heaven, is also a Chud, but he's part of the settled side of the Rus, whereas this is a woods type of guy.
I'm really enjoying this little project. I can feel my confidence with these brushes growing a lot and the successive drawings going much more smoothly and faster. I let myself get a little more fun with the pose since the last one was looking pretty staid.
The Rus Series continues with this fella. I think it didn't turn out very well, but I redid the coloring once and at some point you gotta move on. His foreshortened arm is really fucked up too, oh well.
I'm hoping that when put next to the smaller characters he'll look more impressive. At a certain point he was supposed to have some intricate embroidery, but I couldn't really make it work with these brushes. Maybe I'll go back at some point, or maybe I will not.
More from the Rus series.
Still would love to find some really good watercolor brushes for Krita, but what I have sorta work; I did get a new inking brush today that I used here and I quite like.
It's interesting trying to imagine the fashion of a fantasy people based on pre-Viking Baltics and western Russia. The historical record is pretty limited to nonexistant that I could find before ~900. I like his little drape thing though, the pattern turned out quite nice - I tried to make it feasible to produce by weaving.
More dominions fanart, want to do a bigger piece with the EA Rus lineup. Have been having trouble getting sources about what the arms and armor or fashion of pre-Viking East Slavic and Baltic peoples were, but I did my best. I know it's very loose, but there's something about the character of my sketches that I really miss when I render them.
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