Working on Projects and Yelling About Them

When I make things, I tend to rant. This is my ranting corner, which I wallpaper with sketches and previews. Current projects: caterpillars, animation, and figure drawing.

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routae replied to your post: wait waitPYRAMID CATBAMthis is the bes...

fucking pyramid cat. the ancient egyptians would’ve lost their shit over that one

the absolute most egyptian thing youve ever seen

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you will not believe what this started as omg

are you ready for this shit

are you

are 

you

no thats fucking right you werent

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wait wait

PYRAMID CAT

BAM

this is the best thing ive ever learned

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oh my god im having fun

DRAW THING

THING MAKE LACE

i cant stop im dying

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so i was playing around making lace patterns from the copy-paste-flip-method using terrible shitty sketches of the guardians of the galaxy and then

why do dicks always make the best ones always. always.

also here’s Rocket half done looks great

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/wipes brow

guns are work.

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new hobby: pestering youtube roleplayers into giving me accurate details on their characters' appearance. 

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I have officially spent more than enough time making this AK-47 accurate.

on the plus side, kaitlyn makes costume design super easy for us by literally wearing her character's clothes to sessions so bless her for that.

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shading evades me. shading is hard.

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FLAT COLORS

/screeches around learning curves in a cloud of burning rubber/

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inking paper-drawn sketches seems doable

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some sketches of Jesse. it is no use denying my nature this is all i can draw.

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Okay, first drawing entirely in SAI (this time around). Learning curve is highly curvy but it's a start. I have no doubt that i will still tend to sketch irl and then ink digitally, partly because i really like having physical copies of things like to take to cons and stuff, but it'd be nice to have other options. 

i have no idea why i drew Hawkeye for this I have never drawn him before. Hello Clint.

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THIS

THIS IS THE SMALLEST BRUSH I CAN MAKE NOW? THIS IS THE SAME PEN I SKETCHED WITH WHAT THE FUCK

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soooooo i got this far and added another layer to start inking....and it's like, nah son, error message, suddenly my pen is giant even though the size is set to one? like

why

how do i fix

hang on i'll show you what its doing

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well, sketching is way more fun. idk if this will look like anything when it's done but i'm trying.

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like 15 minutes in:

familiar overwhelming feeling of "jesus these controls were built for people who know too much about brushes" but the pressure sensitivity seems more responsive and it recognizes switching to eraser which is good. I miss some of the intuitive controls from MyPaint which is what I used to use to ink, but I guess I can't expect every program to have single-key shortcuts for brush size, zoom level and canvas rotation. :P Does have a click and drag tool for moving the canvas, GIMP was missing that as far as i can tell. can't seem to find a history panel. hmm.

still a little bit of lag. feel like maybe that's unavoidable.