Cigi Waters's Art Blargh

Living Primer Post: https://www.tumblr.com/cielwells/769548943473491968/living-primer

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I'll do art of someone or something else next time, I promise. Suris the Skeptic again.

Any suggestions?

One of the rare pieces where I feel content in how far I pushed myself.

There are "flaws". I didn't want to mess with hands so I made sure they were out of frame. The chest might be too "forward" towards the viewer. It stands out more when I do the horizontal flip. The awning is way skewed in perspective unless you assume it is old and falling down on one side.

But, I did experiment more with shading. The tree came out good enough in my opinion.

Timelapse below because timelapses are cool.

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So, in the vein of "misread sprites", I crit failed recognizing what a mural in progress' line art was. What was supposed to be Nicol Bolas, Magic the Gathering, (I think) looked to me like Glendale from Centaurworld wearing overly ornate armor. Glendale's "face" was actually Bolas' nose.

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Random thought about “The Amazing Digital Circus” if SOMA theory is true.

C&A must be monitoring the program to a degree if they are keeping the system running. Without Caine influencing things, it would be safer to send in new brain scan copies of employees to triage whatever is happening.

Just for the sake of example, let’s say some variant of the “Kinger Dies” theory is true. If the real flesh and blood person behind Kinger is alive he could just rescan himself.

Pomni: Hold on, I’m sure we can get out of this situation somehow.

Gangle: Everything is doomed!

*Poof! New king piece character enters, just looking far more gray. Maybe somehow depicting a receding hairline*

Zooble: A new one? I’m sorry, but you picked a wonderful time to join us.

King Piece: Hello, I’m… Grant. I believe you were well acquainted with the copy made from the brain scan of my younger self. The files called him Kinger, if that makes any sense to you all. I’m here to help you all get to a different, more stable, computer system before the execs fully format this simulation now that’s crashing.

Ragatha: So you’re here just to replace Kinger!?

Grant: Oh no, no, no. The formatting is slowed due to security checks as long as there are sentient beings in this system. If everyone leaves it will complete instantly. Erasing us all before the transfer could finish.

Someone needs to stay behind. Well, I’m a fresh copy none of you have emotional attachments to yet. Now that I say that, I guess it is kind of cruel of me to make you watch two versions of myself die in quick succession.

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Part of yesterday's practice. Liking this sketch enough the next morning.

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Daily practice sheets: 775-784

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It has felt like my social media was nothing but this meme and people asking what Pomni meant all day.

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On her March 6 stream, admittedly I was half paying attention due to being at work at the time, Nyara cracked a joke about her being a maid cleaning with a mob with Suris as the cleaning fluid.

I believe this was a joke/reference to "Goblin Cleaning": https://store.steampowered.com/app/2748340/Goblin_Cleanup/

Originally I was trying for something more ambitious, but I quickly felt like it was beyond my current skill level. For one, I realized I had no idea of how the anatomy of the arms would work to believably hold the mop.

I thought about "borrowing" from "Floating Hands Studios"'s aesthetic and just have disembodied hands appear on the mop hand.e

In this version you can sort of see the draft idea I had for the maid outfit. Was running into some stumbling blocks. I had wanted to incorporate Nyara's blue, black, and pink mix but hadn't yet figured out how to.

Fanart Of: (I'm going to forget to do this ever again, aren't I?)

NyaraYT

YouTube: youtube.com/@nyaraVT

Twitch: twitch.tv/nyaraVT

Suris

YouTubes:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh-YXgnF0tmBxCsh4w_4svw

https://www.youtube.com/@surismtg

https://www.youtube.com/@SurisLIVE

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nekosuris

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Updated my daily art practice template based on Marc Brunet's "Drawing Skillmaxxing: Daily Routine" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FORP4yz2UOY

New Version

Old Version (last set filled in)

Reasoning

What Marc laid out in his video was what I was already stumbling towards.

Shapes and lines was mostly became a mix of warmup and construction drawing.

Anatomy was sometimes true anatomy, but I was sometimes using it for gesture practice.

The references were either some quick sketch but was meant for "master practice".

Over time they became, for me, four boxes for whatever. May now I be a bit more focused going forward. I may not do them all each day, but now I have a better idea of what to do for each column.

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Years in Comparison

The last few days I've been on a trying to copy Clevetass panels for part of my daily practice. It almost makes me think I've improved. Not saying I'm fantastic.

These are up to day 743.

Tried to pick samples of comparable effort put into them. I still can see where I have improved, but dang it really hits me now how spikey my quality is.

Except for maybe one panel in 2025's, I these were all referencing some character, person, or specific panel. Feel free to take a guess for the ones I didn't label. If they are recognizable it means I was at least close enough :D

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Clip Studio Paint - Mass PNG Export with Stream Deck

I had trouble finding a guide on how to do mass convert .clip files into .png natively within CSP. So, I made a Stream Deck script.

This requires using the "Super Bar Macro" plugin by Barraider.

{{VarSet:varSleepLen:100}} {{//}}This sets the standard sleep/pause length between lines {{VarSet:varLoopBuffer:500}} {{//}}This sets the standard sleep/pause length between lines

{{//}}This exports as PNG {{ALT}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{F}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{R}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{R}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{Enter}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{P}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{Enter}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{Enter}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{Enter}} {{PAUSE:$varSleepLen}} {{//}}This closes the file {{KeyDown:CTRl}} {{W}} {{KeyUp:CTRl}} {{PAUSE:$varLoopBuffer}}

This has two parts. The first part does the exporting. The second part closes the file once completed.

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I'm this close to starting to poke my head into what the fandom of this series is saying online. I don't know why I like "Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You" so much.

Referenced a panel of Sasaki for the daily art practice of the day I drew this. Drew the head too short. The hair might be too puffy. Otherwise I feel like I can see the progress I've made with this one. Even if I doubt anyone would know who it was before being told.

Also, bonus Shachi practice sketch referencing her stream PNG because I feel bad my last post was just a weekly practice sheet.

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So, I've been doing a draw something, anything, goal for 720 days (approximately) and counting. Part of the accountability, somewhere I also post something once a week. Maybe not under this identity, but somewhere.

Between being busy and what not, I haven't done that yet this week.

Yeah, so here is my weekly accountability post. It's just the random scribbles from the most recent full practice template.

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Spent today's drawing practice eyeballing Nyara from a few videos. Didn't find her ref sheet until I went to post this, but I think I did decent enough between my basic skills and YT compression '''>_>

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Fanart for/of a streamer.

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I get that I could have stared into a bright light or something, but how in that specific shape of a generic creepy anime face outline.

Visual snow has been part of my vision as long as I remember. In the first grade I got into a fight with my teacher because she said air was invisible. Until then I Just assumed the snow was what air looked like. During that back and forth it slowly dawned on my that seeing TV like static over everything wasn't normal.

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Had to scribble out a shower thought

Basically, if demons use fire attacks while being fire resistant, stereotypically, does that mean we are just mistaking demon larpers for being elite soldiers? Like, imagine someone armed with nerf swords attacking a community of people allergic to nerf.

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Accountability post. Day 669 and 670 there. Trying something newish this week. Using one reference column to admittedly trace over the reference to get a more direct feel for the reference. Then trying to eyeball it in the next column. Clearly no where near accurate, but it kind of feels like I learn from it?