landon x art

🌈 I tell stories through colorful characters. 🌈 happycrazywild.com

[landon-x-art]

Gargcycle

Garg can shapeshift into a motorcycle. This sketch turned out so goofy, I just had to color it…

[landon-x-art]

Eugene H. Krampus

This snobby theater major dresses up as a Yuletide beast every year, to preach to the "unwashed masses" against the evils of consumerism. With his barrel chest yet ballerina-like legs, I wanted him to come off as somewhat foreboding, but also more bark than bite.

I know this guy is more Christmas-y than Halloween-y, but his design has been done for months and I just couldn't wait to share him!

[biglawbear]

So I went to read the Kids Online Safety Act, thinking that it couldn't possibly be as bad as what people are making it out to be, I mean I'm a lawyer and expert in statutory interpretation, it can't be that bad, right?

Oh no. KOSA IS that bad. It will literally eradicate queer people online.

The bill says that a "covered platform" - broadly defined as "anything on the internet a minor might use" which is literally the entire fucking internet- has a "duty" to protect minors from anything that might harm them, including "sexual exploitation" and other undefined terms

It also gives state attorneys general the ability to sue to enforce it.

So here's exactly what's gonna happen:

Wacko republicans, as they've been doing with increasing force this year and last, are going to sue any and every website in existence, saying that the mere existence of LGBT people online constitutes sexual abuse of minors. And websites are gonna be so afraid of not doing the most that they'll just axe all LGBT everything.

Like. Republicans have been calling all LGBT people groomers and child molesters for years. The lead Republican literally admitted this bill will be used to attack trans people.

This bill is BAD bad. I'm appalled that democrats are lining up behind what is clearly a republican Trojan horse to eradicate LGBT people from the entire internet.

Call your senator

[landon-x-art]

Just wanted to edit this reblog to add some tips for effectively contacting elected representatives in the US:

Provides information and tips when contacting elected federal officials.

The EFF also has a page that makes it easy to find your local officials. Note that it's much more effective to send a personalized letter/email/phone call, so don't just copy a template; add your own words :)

Tell the Senate: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help Kids

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see on

[landon-x-art]

Ulric (alternate designs)

Sketches of a hellhound-ish character, Ulric. I've gone through a lot of different takes on this character to nail down the right design--here are a few more! Currently writing some stories and looking forward to formally introducing him.

[landon-x-art]

pov: Garg made you soup

Lil Garg comic I made earlier in the year to cheer up a friend 😄

[landon-x-art]

Old sketch of Garg. He's very well-read (supposedly)…

[sprocketfinch]

Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel

IT'S BAD

PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS

EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why

[sprocketfinch]

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT JUST A MAC PROBLEM

[gl4ssfan]

GUYS IT HAPPENS WITH KRITA TOO

[darkdragonsouls]

It's important that instead of making these changes as a kneejerk reaction that we understand why the setting should be changed for a digital artist, especially in this case because some people might use CSP for their physical prints they sell. Doing some quick reading on this, I came across this article that has a seemingly decent explanation of why the four options here do what they do. Also here is the explanation of this setting from Clip Studio Paint's website.

From CSP:

"Perceptual preserves the visual relationship between colors so that colors are perceived as natural even when color values are changed. Saturation compares the maximum highlight in the source color space with the maximum highlight in the destination color space, and shifts the difference. Relative Colorimetric tries to reproduce vivid colors, even at the expense of color accuracy. Absolute Colorimetric does not change colors that fall within the destination gamut, but changes out-of-gamut colors."

The article linked explaining the two options we are discussing (but also explains the other options on this drop down) :

Perceptual - A perceptual rendering intent preserves the overall color appearance by changing all colors in the source space to fit the destination space. The perceptual rendering intent is favored for images that contain many out-of-gamut colors.

Saturation - A Saturation rendering intent converts saturated colors in the source space to saturated colors in the destination space. It favors reproducing vibrant colors and will do so at the expense of reproducing hue or luminosity accurately. The saturation rendering intent is useful for reproducing graphics with high color impact.

TLDR, the options are to make it so that if you are to print the artwork to a physical copy, the colors are reproduced better and are still accurate to your art.

If you don't understand what color gamut is, its basically the colors that a printer is capable of reproducing and if you want accurate looking colors in print you need to consider how the piece is actually going to be reproduced by the printer.

Since your reference is something that you want the colors to be consistent on, you will want to change the setting as mentioned above. But if you are making a piece to actually print out then you might want to care more about this setting than just changing it and forgetting about it.

[landon-x-art]

This past week, I participated in SCAD's Webtoon Comic Jam and made an awesome mini-comic with other SCAD alumni! These were the characters I designed with help from my teammates. Very proud of that 80s/90s anime vibe. It's different from my usual style, and I love it; it's great to break out of my comfort zone. Their names (left to right): Beau, Bartholomew, and Belle!

[skcolb-archive]

They met at the dark dangerous area of the Florida swamps that nobody really goes to. Now they’re good pals!

Georgie is a rare albino gator usually hunted for the next Hermès bag, Tucker is a 5th generation hillbilly who continues the family’s small fishing business for a living. They occasionally go bar hopping and pick fights with the homophobes there, then enjoy some karaoke to unwind.

[landon-x-art]

Love these two!

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Dragon guy I found in my old art folder. He's so friendly!

[lackadaisycats]

Got this expression related question in my inbox here a while back and figured a drawn response was warranted. -------------------------- Lackadaisy is on Patreon! Posting a lot of animation pre-production art and merch previews lately!

[landon-x-art]

I love this!! Great thoughts and examples of crafting expressive characters.

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Tourist Trap Tale

Little concept for a NES-styled game.

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OatmealBox

The "OatmealBox" was a concept for a fake 90s home computer and operating system, which I designed back in high school. Just recently looked back at this, and it still makes me laugh!

[mushroom32x]

MONOKURO print ad (1997)

[landon-x-art]

I thought this was a real print ad so I was SO confused when I saw "Windows"/"Ren'Py" in the corner 😂 Even then I thought "Dang! Ren'Py is that old???"

Looks very cool, had me fooled a good while!

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Time-Traveling Rats (2021)

Cute character layouts and designs I did for a SCAD project. Still pretty proud of these!

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2D Animation with Grease Pencil Shadows in Blender

I made this cute 2D/3D hybrid animation in Blender back in 2020. It still makes me smile!

Want to know how I got the 2.5D look?

I haven't revisited this method in a while, but it should still work in Blender 3.6.

[butchlinkle]

Musing about lines and mark making...

Hope that makes sense ^_^

[landon-x-art]

Lovely thoughts on markmaking!