The Smoke of Distant Fires

A deerheaded person in a skirt with a firearm in front of two conifer trees, looking up

Another sketch.

#drawing #comic #illustration #procreate #art #oc #blackandwhite

A black and white drawing of a lome house in a landscape.

It's been a while...

#drawing #comic #illustration #procreate #art #oc #blackandwhite

My secret toast tech is to put two halves right next to each other in the toaster when making sandwiches, and then putting the untoasted sides on the outside. This way, you have the toasty flavor without the roof-of-mouth chafing.

Incidentally, I had decent success in the past with filling empty BIC ballpoint pens with printmakers ink (the one you use for etchings). At the time, i really only did it because I wanted earthy tones you couldn't get in ballpoint pens, but they would've also been morre lightfast than regular ink.

Indeed, but you need to actively look for it. Most fountain pen inks you can easily buy are dye based.

The same is true for all dye based mediums, which include ballpoint pens, fountain pens, fine liners and so on.

If you want long term stability, you need to use pigment based colors (and even those have different light stabilities).

Protoelectric sirenheads. Love it.

In traditional painting, there is Sfumato, which means painting intentionally blurry to enhance realism (your brain basically "fills in the blank", that's how it works)

I believe there is something similar in drawing, but it's more abstract.

Three puppet heads in a hand

Two puppets standing next to each other

The tordo of a puppet

A weirdly glitched out puppet head

How about weird puppets?

James Turrell, Rhoden Crater

Michael Heitzers work as well.

I have a theory; that the forums of yore were in part successful because they were a means to digitize information that wasn't digital yet. I spent quite some time in the early 00s in blacksmithing forums and at some point, most answers to questions became "use the search function". That was the end

A portrait shot of the very figure the article is about, who looks completely horrified

Me, seeing this

Kinda random, but the other day, I wondered why it was pride flags, rather than pride heraldry.

Also because I kinda wanna see what that would look like.

This is especially funny because the companies involved are doing their hardest to create digital scarcity.

DRM, expiring ebooks, exclusive skins, NFTs...

Do these people think the ones running gpu farms will let you use them for free forever?

I'm personally a big fan of the Tombow Mono100. They feel sooo smooth.

If they only got rid of that pointless plastic cap at the end...

Imagine Trump dying and him becoming president

... but in the end, I'm not sure whether you could actually do anything useful with it. I thought maybe it could be a way to stem the imminent tide of AI based visual misinformation, but it doesn't work that way.

I spent way too much time thinking about all of this, all of it pointless

That was kind of the one thing I thought this whole blockchain idea might've been somewhat useful for; proof of existence.(i.e. that a digital object did exist at a certain point in time in a certain state and that you are the uploader). A delegate approach would suffice, no bs token needed...

I'm not familiar with pikmin lote, but at least the last one gotta count as cannibalism

Animation, but every pilgrim's story has a different style.

I can emphasize with that. There's a version of an Arc'teryx messenger bag that is exclusively sold to army/law enforcement, and a few months ago, one popped up in the local craigslist equivalent for a ridiculous price and I couldn't help but stare at that thing until someone finally bought it.

I wonder if the ice cubes are also made with the blue bottle sparkly water.

This absolutely rocks.

Also, I can't praise MtGs current art direction enough.

The thing with a lot of the messenger bags that popped off during the craze, they were all ridiculously heavy, including chrome. Two layer nylon and tarpaulin, a seatbelt buckle, you carry so much stuff even if the bag is basically empty.

...used a messenger bag for years, they fuck up your back over time. The small ones are fine, but if you get a big one, thinking "it's hustlike a backpack, I can buy groceries with it" - don't.

This reminds I went down the messenger bag/fixed gear stuff rabbit hole a few months back. The whole scene basically disintegrated.

It's not that you can't find anything anymore, it just feels like whoever sells it to you gets it out of a box they just blew the dust off.

Also, as someone who...

Him eating the banana non-gay...

Probably because it's not good at the moment, but black and green are my colors and I'll make them work or die trying.

Why does the woman on the right look like the Joker? Is it on purpose?

I gotta admit, I'm the one doing it on Arena at the moment. Bloodghast+Insidious Roots, then either Choking Miasma or Terror Tide and play a land. It's glorious, but I feel a bit dirty sometimes.