I'm not the artist, but this has been in my collection for decades and I noticed there aren't any photos of it on the web - until now!

Autumn trees are my favorite. So back at taking pictures and trying to paint em. I remember spending hours on trees to get them this far. Progress! Plus this time I noticed highlights I never noticed before so I tried to capture that for the first time.

How'd I do?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3n25p7fjsls24

Decided not to write the name in the bottom right corner for this one and put the name in the title instead.

Drawn in the forest of blood / screams in the region of Sept-Hurlements of my imagination.

I also thought of drawing Eli-Spectre with a background of the eight cities in the kingdom of Monelia, decided not to.

It's not like I'm doing much else right now, so here's another thing to look at for some of y'alls cyber snow day.

Using the new blender 5.3. If I used the new light nodes correctly, I recreated blinn-phong shader.

One from a few weeks ago I should probably go back and take a better picture of.

Made this guy for my friendsgiving invitations. We're having tacos. It's also gonna be on my birthday 😊

I made this yesterday.

A drawing that I struggled to finish or felt like giving up at it, until I managed to land an idea on it.

After 70 discarded layers, I ended up with the idea of drawing Aria in her past and just scrapping the old idea I had completely.

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3n22mdeiizc23

I painted this one for a Pride auction last year. I had a long description in the auction catalog but here, I'll let everyone decide for themselves what "intersections" means to them.

Hi everyone.

Thought it'd be cool to use some of the black and white stuff I usually ignore in the magazine stash (noted one of the other ones I posted here is also mostly b&w)

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3mzxybizduc22

Using a simple generic pen brush I followed a few video tutorials on how to make mechs. I had fun.

I was feeling brave and decided to copy from a reference today. Tracing had me worried that I wouldn't have the chops to make something good, but I'm satisfied. I was watching Knights of Guinevere and this frame really caught my attention.

I had a more involved post last time, but this time I am working with pencil and paper, so here's the final result again:

I thought it looked pretty good, but I wanted to see where I could improve. I dropped this into Krita and started checking the differences:

Obviously, this isn't useful, so I went and drew lines to see the difference between the reference and sketch:

I noted that the original is wider, but I really caught the left edge of the face pretty well so I'm proud of that. The hair is much thinner/closer to the right half. Despite this, I think I got what was aiming for.

P.S., would definitely recommend (it's free):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAdbUaMlAE&list=PLHovnlOusNLhr7ttEReJUuC3QPHoohqZn

A card my girlfriend made that she said I could share with you fine folks.

Let her know what you think!

I was at work for 8 hours. This piece filled in the downtime.

So, the college club I'm in did shodo/sumi-e and these are the best results, with the last one being my "masterpiece".

Drawing of a deer, in case it doesn't load. Don't know how to do post/comment text image alt tags.

Another deer drawing.

Third and final deer drawing.