Fin Downes

bitch, what?

Whoa is that Imani? Looks amazing!

Delusions of a Protocol On vaporware as an ideological product.

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Boxer by michaelkutsche on DeviantArt

Dang. I did some searching and the closest I could come up with is a link for this tutorial that no longer exists: www.deviantart.com/michaelkutsc...

The only one I remember being shared around a lot was this one, but there's no large guys in there www.androidarts.com/art_tut.htm

These designs are so cool

#pleinairpril 2/30 - Cherry blossom season is here again, Garry Point park is very pretty !!

#pleinair #digitalart #cherryblossoms #sakura #quickpainting #pleinairpril2025

In Italy they don't say Staples, they call it Stapoli.

Have you played Citizen Sleeper?

Wrinkly forehead good

A page of stylised medal designs

I'm particularly proud of these medal designs that I did for Starship Troopers: Extermination

A screenshot from persona 4 saying 'you begin to suspect that your bowl is a portal to the meat dimension'

Hello, it me

This painting contains my family in their chinese zodiac form 🐉
I'm an Ox, though I'll let you decide which of the three is me ;)

shapeshifter

tiny terrors 13-16

tiny terrors 21-24

Damn what a shame, these look great. Love the shapes in the first one

I'm on the floor too, I'll keep an eye out for you!

Yep, I started with a 3d model and then added a bunch of paintover and photobashing. I tried to leave the areas that I wanted to draw attention a bit sharper, and kept some of the less important areas looser and more painterly

A environment concept art painting of a tropical environment covered with lava. A sci-fi structure is visible in the middle of the painting, while a volcano errupts in the background

And here's a concept I painted for our tropical lava planet

A painting of a blue arachnid from Starship Troopers, covered in ice and fur, along with a few thumbnail sketches of colour and ice variations

Another piece of creature concept art from Starship Troopers: Extermination, this time an ice variant of the classic arachnid

A creature design concept art sheet for the gunner bug from Starship Troopers: Extermination

Here's a creature concept for Starship Troopers: Extermination that I haven't uploaded anywhere else yet

I've been pretty happy to keep bluesky as a chill space to upload sketchbook stuff, but since I'm heading to Lightbox I should start uploading some recent work

You're going to be there?? Awesome, can't wait!

Hell yeah, can't wait for your talk

some character designs i did while i was at Phoenix Labs for project LAX 2 yrs ago. it was like pop urban subculture fighters imbued with magic powers? maybe i still dont quite get the direction

The art in this game has so much style, you've all been doing amazing work

'Announcing original character Gun Wukong'

When a T. rex is not stomping, shaking their heads and roaring, they are just like us. And cats.

Animation by me. T. rex model by Herschel Hoffmeyer.