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another webfishing screenshot redrawn with artistic liberties in rebelle 5.
i've been having fun figuring out what 'works' and what doesn't in rebelle; some of the brushes are too "noisy", or textur... |
| .: :: :: dogthingwalker :. |
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some kinda dogthingwalker.... made in blender! theres also an alternate spinning version here.
i had fun figuring out the way the screen works - it has three layers: a background layer, the pixel ins... |
| .: :: :: pinyon :. |
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referenced a photograph of an area i used to LARP in with a friend. it was probably one of the few parts of my middle-school life where i was happy. the highland pinyon tree is not a very photogenic p... |
| .: :: :: portrait of a zig :. |
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more mucking about in rebelle. here's a zigzagoon swifty/forest. i am rather delighted with the result honestly... |
| .: :: :: fishing on the web :. |
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played like 60 hours of webfishing and i cant stop thinkin about how summer camping used to feel...... |
| .: :: :: high sun :. |
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trying out rebelle 5 again. some post-processing and color-correction in clip studio using my own texture scans. i am actually pretty pleased with the outcome this had!... |
| .: :: :: tunic 2: tunic's vacation :. |
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scaled-up a drawing i scribbled on a shared canvas that i thought would be nice as a full thing... |
| .: :: :: exhibition :. |
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getting used to this new cheap-paper-quality sketchbook; it sucks for dark colors and sharp pencil tips, but it does feel nice to color with using duller pencil tips. i had fun brainstorming this pie... |
| .: :: :: my wish :. |
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a larger test of the new sketchbook. the paper is kind of cheap and has a waxy feel to it, which can be fun to color on but not so much to layer on. i found myself poking a hole or two from overworki... |
| .: :: :: summer vibes :. |
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a new site banner for the 'summer' theme i've been using as the default for a while. the old banner was a placeholder made using an edited version of this piece, but i finally kicked myself into finis... |
| .: :: :: quiet hands :. |
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doodle. the overlay was a last minute addition but i enjoy it anyway. nice to have a use for those old report cards haha... |
| .: :: :: humble gardener :. |
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i did a couple drafts of this before i got to this point. i did some of the coloring digitally for toby here because... drum roll... my inks arent waterproof. i was SO MADDDDDDD at finding this out b... |
| .: :: :: sleeping hills giant :. |
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inspired by early morning california road trips i took as a child to visit relatives. i was always so awed by the towering hills on either side of us as we navigated into valleyways. i used to imagin... |
| .: :: :: EXIT TRANCE, ENTER TRANS :. |
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for my friend's birthday ^_^ i have drawn her fursona before - i helped her design this one! - but i wanted to draw her again for her birthday. i decided to take some inspiration from one of the 'EXI... |
| .: :: :: firebringer :. |
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this was a heavily edited mixed media piece. originally it was just watercolor but the colors washed out the lines really really bad style. so i salvaged the lines somewhat in csp and used some water... |
| .: :: :: runner :. |
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scrabbling around with rake brushes; there used to be the word 'run.' written on the tail of each silhouette, but i ended up deciding against it. i also initially had the foxes be pure black, but it... |
| .: :: :: patience :. |
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monthly wait in the psych office. painted from reference photo taken by myself while waiting. haha... |
| .: :: :: scraps of glass :. |
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i have lately become more obsessed with this border between glass and texture. i have always been enamored with fogged glass, both artificially fogged and organically.
there is a window in my bathro... |
| .: :: :: windmill :. |
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another watercolor painting of my yard with some border touchups in clip studio. not much i want to say about it, but i think i did a nice job with the variety of greens i managed to make here. i alm... |
| .: :: :: recluse :. |
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another tobytoby. watercolor on paper with some modest cleanup in clip studio (and some white lines cuz i didnt have my gel pen. loooool)
kind of funny how much ive improved with watercolor without... |
| .: :: :: harvest season :. |
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finally got myself a new hdmi-to-displayport converter, which i needed 'cuz i switched out my gpu for a slightly better one and it only had one hdmi port. haha! ive been toying with a concept like th... |
| .: :: :: hiding hiding :. |
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i wanna take more photos for edits like this. maybe when the weather gets nicer. i enjoyed how this one came out a lot.... |
| .: :: :: compass rose :. |
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another edit of a photo of a cutout. i took this photo spur-of-the-moment; my yard has a lot of strange 'yard art' or 'redneck sculpture' in it, and that includes this strange rusted metal wheel fram... |
| .: :: :: 100 dreams :. |
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edit of a photo of a cutout! i hate taking photos irl if i think someone will see me i get so self conscious. and if i have to bend over its like. i dont want people to see me with my ASS OUT !!!!!!... |
| .: :: :: the tanager's nest :. |
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a noodling doodling...... |
| .: :: :: dandelion valley :. |
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self indulgent piece. clip studio paint !... |
| .: :: :: the family dinner :. |
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drawn in colored pencil and slight value editing in clip studio.
consider an analogy. a wolfdog is neither dog or wolf. it's not predictable, and if you've only ever raised dogs, you will have troub... |
| .: :: :: life is green :. |
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mixed media (oil pastel, colored pencil, paper cutout). i like the fresh green smells of spring and summer... |
| .: :: :: nature in perspective :. |
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colored pencil on paper! i am happy with how this turned out, but i have to remember to line with something darker when i start sketching or else it tends to wash out the parts that i want to have mo... |
| .: :: :: along the trail :. |
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mixed media (oil pastels and colored pencil)... i almost gave up on this at a few points but was determined to finish, even though i REALLY wanted to draw swifty in fullbody... im happy with it in th... |
| .: :: :: the verdant tapestry :. |
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a rough doodle and experiment with layering on greens. the etching was a little difficult - i need a better thing to press down the pattern sharply...... |
| .: :: :: forward :. |
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colored pencil on paper; this is a concept i had sketched on my phone initially on 3/5/24 before passing out in bed LOL, i am glad i finally got back to it!... |
| .: :: :: the tower :. |
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more of a well if you ask me!... |
| .: :: :: summer splash :. |
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a remade version of the old site splash, using a new and revamped swifty model and some other misc edits to the background textures. i really enjoy how it came out!... |
| .: :: :: zip! :. |
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color pencil on paper :-) ive been having fun with different traditional methods lately, since i feel like im at a sort of standstill w/ my current digital approaches. it feels nice to practice with... |
| .: :: :: the embrace, part ii :. |
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in truth, it was another take on part 1. i like this one because i feel like it's gentler, and so i interpreted it as 'part 2' in the end. it feels sort of like a reflection of how my own relationship... |
| .: :: :: the embrace, part i :. |
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one of my first pieces where i was still struggling with gripping the pastels well, and figuring out how to feel for the hardest edges on the ends.... |
| .: :: :: the dancing dreamer :. |
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this was, i think, a first draft or first pass of my chroma's key piece. however, the odd tilt of the frame and general bad placement made it hard to photograph without my camera leaving a shadow, an... |
| .: :: :: chroma's key :. |
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experimenting w/ oil pastels, it's very rewarding and feels kind of youthful or unrefined in a fun way... |
| .: :: :: leafy boughs :. |
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3d piece i rendered and edited with a borrowed computer at my gf's house! i am really pleased with it! i was having trouble with the color profile at first, due to the aforementioned pc being ancient... |
| .: :: :: love is :. |
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mixed media, 2011x2024, pencil and paper x digital. saw this sketch in an ancient sketchbook and it really resonated with me.... |
| .: :: :: golden child :. |
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THIS was my first try at making an oil pastel drawing in the past while. uhh. please make no note of how much it might seem edited. there were some very bad mistakes - as youd expect from a first try... |
| .: :: :: blue coyote moon :. |
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singing alone until the sunrise, drawing i made after coming home from visiting my girlfriends house for four weeks... |
| .: :: :: thalassophobia :. |
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funny little render i wanted to do - i had to rerender it once or twice (the other pc i was borrowing wasn't strong enough to render it well), then i did some post processing. overall it came out nice... |
| .: :: :: chrysalis :. |
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a dogthing! one of the first thing i drew in 2024.... |
| .: :: :: yuzu springs :. |
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a little something i had in mind that i ended up wrestling with a lot. but it turned out OK!... |
| .: :: :: marketable plushie :. |
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bday gift for my friend vee based on the eeveelution sitting cuties patterns!... |
| .: :: :: who's afraid of the dark? :. |
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a gift for my girlfriend since she was playing through pokemon mystery dungeon: explorers of sky recently (for the first time). i had fun with this one... |
| .: :: :: reservoir :. |
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reservoir i usually see when i go to the mountains. this was during a drier year when the water was significantly lowered, though you can't tell from here. someone commented on this piece on another s... |
| .: :: :: never found :. |
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therianism is a very dear thing to me. it is a very immutable aspect of who i am and who i ever was. if you took off my human self youd be left with a weird dog. you know?
so this turned into somethi... |
| .: :: :: uh oh :. |
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dont know what inspired this but i couldnt stop laughing at this poor creature while i was drawing it and i didnt want to change any of it. this is a beautiful moment in time right before this animal... |
| .: :: :: dream flow :. |
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a creek i used to visit often whenever i went up towards the mountains! really gorgeous place. the photo quality is ass because i had a dinky ipod touch and it took AWFUL quality photos. i was afraid... |
| .: :: :: asphalt :. |
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a piece drawn over a photo i took on the way to the airport once. this went through a couple iterations before i gave up and called it done... there's an overlaid image of the airport terminal over th... |
| .: :: :: mirage dragon :. |
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drew this while watching adventure time lol, colors inspired by a curtain my room had when i was little that had rainbows and clouds on it...... |
| .: :: :: somewhere in between :. |
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this was laying around unfinished for a few weeks at the latest. decided to tackle it properly and used some old art as a texture overlay for flair...... |
| .: :: :: movie maker :. |
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the xp coloration of this is less nostalgic for me - i never used XP, i upgraded straight from 98 to 7 and used xp's movie maker there - but it fits with its original OS. xp wmm (windows movie maker)... |
| .: :: :: melon melody :. |
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colorful doodle... i intended to make it more dull and grayish but i was enjoying the colors :D... |
| .: :: :: peatmoss :. |
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messing with grays and greens :-)... |
| .: :: :: home again :. |
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this drawing uses photos i took IRL - one of a carpet (used as an overlay), and one of a thrift store i visit occasionally. ive been on a cutout kick lately...... |
| .: :: :: holograph :. |
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i think playing yume 2kki every day has had an effect on me LOL. the colors weren't in my initial plans but looked nice with what i had drawn.... |
| .: :: :: the archivist :. |
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krita drawing. i have been enjoying the color crunching process ive figured out. it is a hassle, though, when i have to remake the filter when i downscale it for public posts. sad!... |
| .: :: :: lemon lime :. |
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krita doodle i ended up liking a lot!... |
| .: :: :: soup with friends :. |
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something i thought would look cute... i like the idea of soup with friends :D
i used photoshop's export-as-legacy option to limit the color palette and made it dither to accommodate other colors.... |
| .: :: :: across the fence :. |
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i keep feeling like im re-learning how to draw... i like whatever this look is, though, the faux-painting texture. it's an overlay of a paper i scanned myself years ago that i reuse constantly - it w... |
| .: :: :: moon landing :. |
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via vb's oekaki. i wanted to do a space drawing and this idea came to mind and it made me laugh so much i had to finish it, despite never drawing the moon's surface or a flag at rest before. nyanland... |
| .: :: :: raindrop :. |
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i forgot to post this one o_O sketch i came up with. i think i coulda done a better job with value blocking before going into the coloring process. that said, i like how my sketchy lines look here!... |
| .: :: :: the recurring dream :. |
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based on a dream i had many years ago that i remember often. the concept has stayed the same, but the interpretation has varied over the years. the dream itself was of standing (as swifty) in a storm... |
| .: :: :: box of crayons :. |
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expression of how different perceptions of the self tend to be distinct while also being the same person at their roots. i don't have DID, at least as far as i am aware, but i do feel sometimes that... |
| .: :: :: the together-quilt song :. |
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and here's the first thing i drew when my new tablet cables came in... haha! i really missed playing with texture and colors on a bigger canvas, and had been mostly dinking about in aseprite in the m... |
| .: :: :: hearth warming / heart warming :. |
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two mimir...
this imagery came into my head and i tried to put down what i saw. i think i could have used thick brush strokes instead for the lineart but that's fine. i am still happy with this!
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| .: :: :: star cycle :. |
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not much to say. just iterated on a sketch. been having tablet troubles and have been too tired to draw again. (and too busy with limbus company and stuff....)
drawn in krita.... |
| .: :: :: remember how we used to run (forest fires) :. |
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i stopped touching krita for a bit - my energy hit an all time low and i was struggling to do much at all.
i finally got around to doodling this as a wind-down before i slept. it started with just th... |
| .: :: :: desire paths :. |
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inspired by a photo i saw of an art installation that looked somewhat similar. meant to inspire a feeling of vacancy or being at a crossroads with no determinable markers or 'right way' to go.
painte... |
| .: :: :: the bathroom dream :. |
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this is a 3d render i did of a recurring bathroom setting that ive had in my dreams which has actually gotten less frequent after making said render...????
very large auditorium esque size with lots o... |
| .: :: :: first anniversary banner :. |
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it's kind of crazy to think ive been doing this for a whole year.... this is the uncropped version of the new banner. posting this a little early....
painted in clip studio paint, ft. ivy brush from d... |
| .: :: :: girl in the daffodils :. |
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this is, actually, a painting i referenced of a real photo of my mom as a teenager. (this was probably taken in the 80s.)
my mom was a complex individual with a lot of problems, and for this painting... |
| .: :: :: hill from my memory :. |
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i am not sure why i didnt put this one up earlier (posting at 5.25.23, while this was made at the given date!). i guess i wasn't sure how far back in my art archives to post. but i figure it's pertin... |
| .: :: :: relaxing :. |
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enjoying the breeze ~... |
| .: :: :: windflower :. |
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another vacation piece..... did you know krita has super cool texturing brushes? i fucking love em. so fun.
the scenery here is meant to resemble the hill-garden my grandma (dad's side) maintains, d... |
| .: :: :: sleepytime river - portrait render :. |
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a continuation of the other one, but sized for my phone background. still really happy with this posing and framing!... |
| .: :: :: sleepytime river - landscape render :. |
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i did some full on concept art for this one. my first attempt at making something that looks hand crafted, and it shows, but i still had fun with it.... |