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It's the year 2016. The post-future. Mildly considering making fun things like a wrist computer (phone case) and cyberpunk clothes.
Been feeling different kinds of ways. Playing a lot of games and getting wrapped up with work. Family matters have been pretty heavy, and lots of life stuff is keeping me from the important things, like making fantasy camo and 3d modelling ponies and other arguably silly but personally fulfilling things.
Anyways, tried to catch up on correspondences and uploaded a new icon. Will change it up a bit as the new year accelerates, but right now it looks pretty much how I feel.
Been feeling different kinds of ways. Playing a lot of games and getting wrapped up with work. Family matters have been pretty heavy, and lots of life stuff is keeping me from the important things, like making fantasy camo and 3d modelling ponies and other arguably silly but personally fulfilling things.
Anyways, tried to catch up on correspondences and uploaded a new icon. Will change it up a bit as the new year accelerates, but right now it looks pretty much how I feel.
Okaaay, so Eclipse
Yeah, apparently Deviant Art "Eclipse" really is here to stay. Suffice to say it's clumsy, unintuitive garbage, while at the same time being as vapid and soulless as possible. So much for the quaint, quirky DA I think all of us were familiar with and sticking around for. I don't know if that's what the Deviant Art dev team was going for, but they sure seem pleased with themselves. Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety (though I feel more knowledgeable on UI design than when first joining, but whatev), and maybe in a couple more years or something it will get better, or I'll just get used to all the bizarre hidden menus and work-arounds to use the site somewhat normally. But right now I can't hardly figure out how to easily check group notifications, perform admin duties, check on and respond to messages, etc. I kept giving as helpful and specific feedback as I could, and turning "Eclipse" back off over and over, until it was no longer an option. Now... here we are. Cheers, and
The Fruits of Other's Labor
I feel like I'm finally starting to make things that I can start to be proud of. Arguably due to no particular merit of my own, but that of extremely patient and supportive family, friends, and mentors.
Summer's starting, and I'm looking back, thankful.
20177777777777
Oh my. Well, here we are, right? Anyways.
I'm drawing so much now! Doing a lot of traditional art, actually, finally invested in some new shading techniques inspired in part by AssasinMonkey (https://www.deviantart.com/assasinmonkey), hopefully to help accelerate my progress, and mayyybe even smooth the divide between my traditional and digital art workflows. That combined with syncing my mobile photos to the cloud will make it easier to get photos of my work on here perhaps.
Um, kinda bummer news for my groups though... almost all of my art is done manually, at work. So no new digital camo and no guns. ^^; I am still designing and testing camo, but with little time for any fu
Krita and CYBER MONDAYYYYYY
Been messing around with Krita and it so far looks amazing. Those multibrushes! That wraparound mode! And the right-click radial looks handy. More updates in, like, another six months lol.
Also, for Cyber Monday I got a book (30% off on Amazon, yo) featuring my favorite cyber furries and their artist, complete with tutorials on how to draw and color them. :meow:
© 2016 - 2024 madcomputerscientist
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Heya, didn't respond earlier so sorry about that. Either way I hope life's lightened up a little for you as the new year's started to roll.