Did you cats know about this? The ice gets pushed around by the waves and keeps refreezing so it forms a bunch of peaks and valleys. You can walk on it but you really shouldn't. Hard to tell where the ice is weak. Sometimes it forms little "volcanoes" where the water will splash out the top and stuff.
What are some unusual natural formations around you?
rides a dinosaur in a sci-fi style, part of a great horde that stretches across the alien steppe.
He turns into a bear when he gets hurt.
Messin around with diferent hair stuff. Don't really love any of it. Axe is too high on the neck. Line weight is more even though. Hands are less terrible than previous.
In the course of drawing this I realized that I could have been using the selection lasso to mask areas to paint the entire time I have been using this fucking program. I don't know why it didn't dawn on me before that that might be really nice for these watercolor brushes.
Anyway these ladies claim to be literal descendants of the Sun. Maybe they're right, I dunno.
Messing around with the gradient was fun. I still think my backgrounds are mostly bad, but at least there's something kinda cool going on.
This guy is a thunder priest who also turns into a bear, also he's one of the larger and stronger humans called a Chud. It's pronounced like chood though I think. The previous character, the Son of Heaven, is also a Chud, but he's part of the settled side of the Rus, whereas this is a woods type of guy.
I'm really enjoying this little project. I can feel my confidence with these brushes growing a lot and the successive drawings going much more smoothly and faster. I let myself get a little more fun with the pose since the last one was looking pretty staid.
The Rus Series continues with this fella. I think it didn't turn out very well, but I redid the coloring once and at some point you gotta move on. His foreshortened arm is really fucked up too, oh well.
I'm hoping that when put next to the smaller characters he'll look more impressive. At a certain point he was supposed to have some intricate embroidery, but I couldn't really make it work with these brushes. Maybe I'll go back at some point, or maybe I will not.
More from the Rus series.
Still would love to find some really good watercolor brushes for Krita, but what I have sorta work; I did get a new inking brush today that I used here and I quite like.
It's interesting trying to imagine the fashion of a fantasy people based on pre-Viking Baltics and western Russia. The historical record is pretty limited to nonexistant that I could find before ~900. I like his little drape thing though, the pattern turned out quite nice - I tried to make it feasible to produce by weaving.
I think we're pretty close to that honestly.
More dominions fanart, want to do a bigger piece with the EA Rus lineup. Have been having trouble getting sources about what the arms and armor or fashion of pre-Viking East Slavic and Baltic peoples were, but I did my best. I know it's very loose, but there's something about the character of my sketches that I really miss when I render them.
I just want to acknowledge that we had a thread wherein users expressed anxiety that they would now be forced to post in the self-crit comm as part of moderation action against them. These users were assured that this was not the intention of the comm and that it was a place for voluntary self-reflection.
Basically immediately after this users started getting temp-banned and told that it would be made permanent if they didn't post to self-crit.
Hexbear pop culture enemies - for instance superhero movies are often semi-seriously marked with a "capeshit" warning
We should actually stop doing this. The function of Content Warnings is to help people avoid upsetting material, not to signal that something is disapproved of. Using them ironically or "semi-seriously" makes them less effective in their actual function.
Old buildings like a church on the windswept seaside, a place just beside the edge of empire where everything may be about to unravel?
He's Mr. Bonerpill. I think you're thinking about Contrapoints for the former.
I don't think either of them really want to go to war just yet. They're Still jockeying for position.
There's a little undercurrent here of "Toughen up, men" you obviously misinterpreted this and you're a little baby for being upset. Sorry, but that's the same toxic masculinity bullshit that everyone decries in the abstract.
I think there are a lot of people who are just so incredibly relieved to not have to think about Biden that they'll project all of their hopes onto her like a Kamala Rasa.
Their just retvrning to tradition
I think it would be unwise for this site to start believing that they're all special little geniuses who actually are immune to propaganda because they're just so correct about everything all the time.
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