Head in the Clouds @dreammelter - Tumblr Blog

there's a thing I have this crazy urge to make and it has to be done in a particular way in order to feel the satisfaction of having made it

#it's driving me nuuuuuuts #yee.txt #it's not easy to do at all but I just MUST #i could do the same thing with a drawing or whatever but no--

dreammelter

....trying to figure out if I want to keep my blog here or play somewhere on the wild web.

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In 19 days it'll be a year since this post. I suppose I still do want to move my blog elsewhere, but alas. I don't have a blog to worry about just yet.

Life has been life-ing. So when I get online, I'm usually just browsing for a minute, then step away. I'm bound to return once I can engage studio work more consistently (and comfortably.) For now, though, this place (and to some extent the others) will stay quiet while I do what I need to offline.

Peace and love -- ☁️

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It's May (almost June) 2026.

The new blog is still in the works and I'm still handling offline duties. My website is built on Astro, so it won't be difficult to add at all, it's mostly a matter of finding time in my schedule. I do think I'll keep this tumblr around, though. For funsies.

#yee.txt

A random chibi demon sculpt I started (several months ago) to get cozy with Nomad Sculpt. I never posted these cuz I thought I was going to finish it soon...... lol.

#3d #wip #maybe I'll get to it one day but we're overwhelmed with life as it is

Still trying to figure out how I want to approach line art and coloring for a graphic novel... best option is starting to look like whatever comes naturally to me. Which also means I need to do some more shape and value studies. Even some drawing warm-ups to help with line quality.

#2d #drawing #art #i have a default angle/expression i draw and i wanna change that too lol #so much to work on...

on a random note...

C# is very nice to work with but like.. half the stuff I want to bother with are either C++ or Rust... or TypeScript.

I like Rider a whole lot in general.

#I haven't written enough TS to determine if it really is as nice as C-sharp-but-JS #yee.txt

So I... am in the middle of...

building my first gaming PC. impromptu. with bad budgeting.

I used to have a plan but all of that went to hell. Actually, every time i had one it did.

So I just started buying parts recently.... in the worst time to be buying them. Only because--at this rate--I'd probably never have a machine. Just excuses for why I don't... or another laptop that doesn't quite match my needs.

...IDK why it's a weird feeling. A mix of agitation with the state of the market, wistfulness for the decades I've wanted in on but missed, excitement for all the beautiful pieces coming together, and some unidentified emotion floating either beneath or around it all...

(Perhaps it's a little shame that this is time I'm supposed to be spending on homework assignments...)

Other than new opportunities pushing me to get a new machine now (not two years later when things might look reasonable again), I've been feeling the need for a digital space that feels hyper-customized and in my control... It's very unlikely I'll need to upgrade anytime sooner than 5 or 6 years. I tend to be pretty content with older, "lower end" hardware cuz it's all I've really ever had access to. And with the way things are going in the world at large, I might purposefully stick with these parts for as long as possible.

#i'm disappointed to hear AMD cards do not perform all that well in Blender #but i am building a linux machine and would like to keep my driver compatibility options open #I'll have a windows drive around. and some other random windows machines. as one does.#yee.txt

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...i have yet to even talk about who the heck the characters I'm drawing are. I've been posting Xandinho while I try to figure his stuff out, so I guess the sands are shifting but... still. He's got a solid base/personality, the only thing changing is his story, really.

I think once I'm comfortable drawing everyone again, I'll just start posting small scribbles and blurbs. Right now, I'm kinda stuck in survival mode ><; so I draw at like, 1AM when I should be sleeping but have too many emotions. (so they're just stress drawings that aren't for sharing...)

#yee.txt #soon. i'm so excited for the summer there's so much I want to do

So this looks completely different on my monitor w/ HDR enabled but...

I've been drawing/painting again. I usually make a bunch of little mindless scribbles, so I wanted to play around with some overall process ideas. This one started as a quick head sculpt in Nomad that I roughly drew over of screenshot of. I made two other "versions" where I explored line art and cel-shading... but I still suck at that lol. (Not that this is very good either... lots of muddy and incomplete shapes.) I bounce between laying shades all on one layer and using layers to change colors and lighting. I don't think I have any preference for one method over the other. (Honestly, it's whatever makes my head hurt less.)

Definitely gotta dive into anatomy, lighting, and drapery studies this summer! With reference. Pretty sure half of my problem is I'm trying new things but not giving myself any North Stars to follow.

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#2D #xandinho #vv:xc #art

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#kickstarter has been over but this is another project I've been following!#rb #comix cleric

I guess you're hearing it here first! Since I haven't been active... I'm getting myself setup on Fluxer.

With all the stuff going on regarding digital privacy, I really want to support software that aligns with how I believe the internet should be. I wasn't interested in Fluxer at first, but I got curious after seeing a solarpunk YouTuber I like start his community there. Once I read about the project and it's roadmap, I figured I'd also jump on-board! I'm excited to see what a collection of federated, self-hostable Discord-esque communities could look like. For the last few years, I've been reading up about other chat/communication tools and protocols centered around P2P, decentralization, and distributed systems, so there's a whole world of projects out there to keep an eye on. I think Fluxer is similar to BlueSky/Mastodon in that it's a reasonably actionable, incremental step closer to those wilder futures.

Federation isn't here yet, but it's planned. Even ideas for RSS/Atom feeds and publishing forum threads from pubic communities to the web were mentioned in the roadmap. It's a tiny team over there, but if there's anything that gives me hope in our thoroughly cyber dystopia, it's that open-source communities are often proof that something can absolutely be done about it. When you find something you believe in: whether it's software or a whole a movement, you gotta get involved however you can.

Feel free to add me on Fluxer, Mastodon, and Bluesky! I plan to return in the summer. ⛅

#yee.txt

dreammelter

....trying to figure out if I want to keep my blog here or play somewhere on the wild web.

dreammelter

In 19 days it'll be a year since this post. I suppose I still do want to move my blog elsewhere, but alas. I don't have a blog to worry about just yet.

Life has been life-ing. So when I get online, I'm usually just browsing for a minute, then step away. I'm bound to return once I can engage studio work more consistently (and comfortably.) For now, though, this place (and to some extent the others) will stay quiet while I do what I need to offline.

Peace and love -- ☁️

#yee.txt

....trying to figure out if I want to keep my blog here or play somewhere on the wild web.

#yee.txt #partially because I want to separate one of my old identities again.#we'll see.

....really wanna draw again.

#yee.txt #prolly gonna scribble during lunch break #hi hello long time no see