Decided to paint about it

Plein air gouache in my sketchbook

I had the idea for this yesterday, and I just KNEW I had to draw it. I'm still getting used to HiPaint but it's pretty nice! ^^

You can find more of my art on the web or Bluesky at ollieis.online and on Mastodon at ollietheotter@mastodon.social :3

This is wild stuff, very funny, I absolutely recommend!

1 hour to just find the darn place 😁, 3-4 hours painting (my back!) and home under a burning sun.

Will try again.

On Art On Mobile

This is directed at somemany, and it's here cuz appie thought it would benefit more folk.

Appie is all about not having a computer, yet still being able to draw, code, manage files, etc.

Yall's options are many, if willing to draw on an Android device. Will drop some words here, in case yall are willing to try:

Software:

• Digital/Vector/Pixel -> Krita is available on Android. Krita is best used on a device with a wide screen (like an tablet). Or you could screen cast phone to a TV.
• Pixelart PixaPencil/Pixelorama/Libresprite. Pixelart is a good place to start, and yall could focus on transferable skills (colors, anatomy, composition, etc)
• Traditional art. Yall's sticker would be so uniqe, of it were photos or printer scans of traditional art.

For Krita, a wide screen, a keyboard and mouse, and a touchscreen pen, are preferable. But appie doesn't have any of the former, she uses Krita on a small screen, she learned a lot of tricks to navigate through the UI. She currently uses Krita as a general image manipulation program.

Yall could also draw traditional, then extract lineart on Krita, and color in Krita.

For pixelart, would recommend PixaPencil as it's the simplest, then Pixelorama if yall needed more features and control. Libresprite only if yall have a wide screen and/or mouse and keyboard.

Get Krita and PixaPencil on F-Droid.

Get Pixelorama and Libresprite from their respective github releases.

Wired mouses and keyboards can be plugged into a phone using a Type-C to USB converter dongle thingy. Yall can find it on those Chinese amazon-esque sites.

Or much better, get bluetooth mouse and keyboard. Have fun, and remember that limitations only birth new forms and ways to do art.

PS: Highly recommend Termux too. For rescaling, recoloring, trimming, animating pixelart and stuff, using shell commands.

Links:

• All of our pixelart was created on mobile. Find it here
• And of course, our CC-BY-NC-SA stickers. Find them here

#art, #android, #mobile, #androidArt, #mobileArt, #artOnMobile, #artOnAndroid, #stickers, #krita, #pixelorama, #pixapencil, #libresprite, #asprite, #limitations, #blogPost

Still struggling to get realistic textures on procreate. This is the best I could do. Slowly improving. Digital painting is not my strong suit. Mostly I draw so this was a different direction. The wood texture brushes I made custom based on actual wood textures. The fur brushes are made custom by me.

It's been merely two months since I pivoted from digital drawings (some of which I shared with this community) to a hyperfocused tinkering with 3D modeling in Blender (mostly designing a CharMorph humanoid model, changing it extensively while also sculpting and adding assets such as wings and dress), and this is my first successful sculpting of an entire new character, as well as my first successful rigging that didn't rely on CharMorph or similar ready-to-use character libraries (other than Rigify and its Bird metarig for the armature, which I had to modify in order for it to match the sculpture).

I was missing a (preferably free) owl model for my esoteric scenes (the owl is meant to be alongside the aforementioned humanoid model in my scenes), and every free model I could find available online didn't seemed fitting for the kind of symbology I'm working with; other owl models, perhaps slightly better fitting to the specific symbology I was seeking, were paywalled models, so I ended up throwing it all up and trying to do it myself (which I intend to release publicly as a CC0 project).

As a trivia, I started with the idea of sculpting a Great Horned Eagle-Owl (Bubo virginianus), but I ended up pivoting to a Megascops (specifically, this one who was one of my main visual inspirations), as Screech-owls felt somewhat easier for me to sculpt than eagle-owls. Well, even though a Bubo would be better to my scenes, it still fits the symbolism.

Another trivia: notice her eye pupils, they can dilate (morphable via Shape Keying; because both eyes share the same mesh, changing the morph will affect both eyes, although in real owls the pupils can dilate differently across both eyes depending on whether there are direct light shining onto one of them).

There's a lot I still feel I need to improve, especially the texture (my detail-oriented side looks at this result and can't help but notice the bizarre similarity with a racoon or possum, given the way I painted the face texture), the UV map (there are some seams due to my specific parameters for Smart UV Unwrapping; my potato laptop can do 4096px textures, but I try to make it easier for it and stick with textures up to 2048px, downscaling to 1024px when I feel it's too heavy to work with, but this leads to pixel seams), as well as additional rigging bones for the metarig (especially the eyelids, as IRL owls can and do blink).

Suggestions are welcome!

#arsritualistemplii #3dmodeling #blender #3danimation #owls

For some reason I never like to draw just my characters just... existing? Here I am fixing it. He is Foxtrot, one of the main character of my comic Heartland. He might seem cold and intimidating at first, but he's a softy at heart.

Just starting now, getting back in the drawing after surgery on both my old nerves and after many years of not doing anything with it and figured I just share.

The standard rules are to make the head and face larger particularly the eyes and mouth. How do you think this looks? Feedback?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3moickjfit22z

I treated the line work a bit differently here. More like a photo realistic and less like a drawing. Thoughts or feedback?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3moil4vpb2c2v

(without the VHS effect)

A moment from a performance by the magnificent @chickpeapole@mastodon.social.

Didn't have time to finish it all before having to pack up. Am going to try to do something about the topmost color band when it's dry.

Broken lighthouse

I've always liked to admire the ruthlessness of the sea at night.
@artshare #penandink #blackandwhite

I'm trying to work on stylized drawings of people. I've not been happy with any past attempts. Let's see if I can get happy with this set of attempts. Any feedback?

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3moeld7bjpk2c

My last in the series. Though I may revisit them. I made the most alterations from the original, as you can see below. What do you think?

Reference:

Timelapse: https://bsky.app/profile/ballshapedman.bsky.social/post/3modhm3mnb226

A digital painting of mine, from 2018.

Poem: Liars

Eye on cross

I 2 be tossed

He who b me

Must be free