fandemonium

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[userfpurteen]

seafood BBQ plus themed bibs (captains orders)

I was gonna do em all but my seafood themed bib imagination ran dry after four 🗿

[inuyama0205]

🟢

[purinkei]

neon genesis evangelion (yoshiyuki sadamoto, 1995)

[rukasin]

may 2022

[dogsstew]

Two California valley boys!!

[ashlenasharma]

more ff7

[sothasil]

A moment of calm ...

I had the idea for this watercolor after seeing @.houjistun's art. Do check them out :)

[cosmos-kitty]

ABZÛ! 🐠

[nenufara]

dancing away

[fiorusfuaforfir]

[naruysae]

Home, Sweet Home 🏡

Initially for Brothers in Arms zine but, sadly, the project didn’t come to fruition 😔

[c2011]

heres a bunch of pokemon who didnt make it onto my album cover

[male--wife]

comm I did for the awesome rosie toast/rosieart13 of sayaka and homura dressed as fred durst and jonathan davis

[mashpotatoe]

[thefaiao]

Some alts of the Somsnosa I recently posted. I wanted to talk a bit about image sizes, and how I'm a little flabbergasted at how small the latest drawings have been, file weight wise. The original drawing of Som weighed 326 KB as a PNG, and even less as an Aseprite file, 244 KB. These alts have less colors, so they also weigh less: 286 KB, 156 KB, 151 KB, 165 KB, respectively. The Wayne picture is minuscule, weighing 67,6 KB as a PNG and 50,2 KB as an Aseprite file. The group picture is 120 KB and 114 KB. But anyway, why is this relevant? I think it's relevant because my more painterly drawings weigh a hundred times more than one of these drawings, with the .clip file weighing 10,5 MB and the PNG weighing 5,56 MB. I tend to stick to one layer with most of my drawings, so that probably helps reduce file size for both cases.

I just feel there's something kind of nice about how small the Aseprite drawings are without losing in detail in comparison to other things I've drawn. In a time where we waste a lot of memory and computing power (not just AI) very sloppily, I think it's easy to forget that this stuff is somewhat finite, or at least there's an invisible cost we are happy to miss. I guess what I'm getting at is that even if it all goes to shit, we will figure out new ways to draw again, and how to get the most out of the medium. There's elegance in restrictions!

Now, does this mean I just want to do detailed background blocks with two tone dithering (though it is really fun)... no... not really... While I have the resources I'd like to explore both forms of drawing. But it definitely has affected me knowing I can do similar things for much less file space. Like I've taken too many things for granted.

As a final note I want to highlight that the palettes for the first three pictures are from the Yume Nikki drawthrough. I used the same technique for the OFF scanned drawings, to give them unique colors despite being B&W, which is to say basically they all have colors from the YN set, but I tweaked the palettes to get something I liked, these Som pictures are basically raw application for the most part. The last one uses the palette from a very old Hylics set of mine, which is the reason I wanted to tackle Hylics illustrations in that style again. Just felt like it's something I underutilized and I suppose I was right if it lead me to a realization like this.

[mellowmaidenhairs]

tomorow……………

[warriorfujoshi]

i still cant play chapter 5 yet… but i drew… ralsey…