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I'm so glad I saw the writing on the wall with Fallout4 and didn't pre-order. Beth has surely fallen from grace jfc.

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Aay

honestly I've been busy 24/7 during the 'end of the year' holyday, just not exactly drawing. Not to much printing either due the extremely bad weather but I did have a few things that turned out alright.

Made some characters in TitanCraft that are currently being painted. They are much bigger than the TTRPG, I have no desire to display stuff where I need a microscope to be able to paint with.

My all-time fave couple in their 'off brand' TTRPG forms, I guess, because I'm continuously to damn lazy to actually sculpt them myself. I did howevr made some minor changes to Rhan in particular to have him match the ref closer. Sei doesn't really lok like the ref but thats ok. I just call all of these the 'Titancraft' versions.

Eventually I'll make something of my own that I print again but I'm just forever distracted by the amazing stuff other people do and work on that instead. The community is HUGE and thers really something for everyone.

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Free stuff

Heads up, Titancraft is having a free STL weekend, anything you make is free to download !

I don't think their selection is fantastic for the size I like printing, but I do got a nice Rhan ish mini out of it. Close enough, did a bit of adjusting in Zbrush, because as said this originally is for microscopic size (tabletop is rediculously tiny imo)

Just to bad that the print keeps failing, I might have some thinkering to do this week hmm.

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qsdqfqd

Oh boy game addictions are fun...

right ... back to work, I still only have 1 of my own models printed, thats pretty meager. Printer isn't sitting still tho I just need to work up the courage to paint all the models I bought.

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lieeeeesss

"Oil paints dry in 2 days, that's not too bad."

*me waiting for 2 weeks for this sculpt to dry. I feel betrayed ...

and no, its not dry at all.

Update;

I think it took almost 5 or 6 weeks to dry

Update 2:

I just realized I never mentioned these are water suitable oil paints but I've compared it to real oil paints now, and wow its a world of difference, those dry in 2 days. Time to get new paints because mine are faulty. This time I'll just go for regular oil paints.

Also my airbrush actually broke, I have no idea whats going on with it, at least I can say I've done a proper time with it considering the thing is 22 years old.

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sketchdump

Spend a week at the livingroom saving heating as I was house/cat sitting and actually got some drawing done to finalize Rhan, here is some of the spoils.

His progression from the no self esteem 'don't look at me I'm a freak' to confident 'I literally couldn't give a fuck ' is a fun one to work with. Not always fun for Seie tho.

edit; not sure how but I forgot about his Livirian accent, its literally just fucking German. Because I love it and it suits the Dieslepunk theme of the Konstantine society. I do not plan to use it in writing tho, but it remains fun in one shot comics and drawings

current design is shaping up nicely. I like the feel of this, it still looks like it has his military look but blends better with the non Livirian side of Erthas that has a more medieval look. His original cloths do not survive the escape so this is not a Livirian outfit. But if he where to get back inside he wouldn't entirely stand out like a sore thumb like most of the rest of the group. I have yet to draw the height chard to see how much Rhan sticks out like the actual sore thumb between all of them.

I think he'll do okay.

like the feets, ditched the footthumb it was a constant irritation to draw. New tail tip as well.

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boop

Well the good news is I've been drawing and getting to a point where I'm reasonable happy with how things look. I'm trying to move my business to the Samsung tablet I bought a few years ago for that purpose. Its a fun toy. I should use it more often, and I'm actually capable of drawing on it what wasn't the case with the 10 inch Ipad. (god I hate that thing fff)

The bad news is that I don't really have anything to share, I finally did finish the ref so I could start on the figurine if I wanted too, but Rhan looks so god damn bored I'm not even sure if I can share it. It fills its purpose thats true, but jfc. Everything is boringggg...

I'm also just incredibly tempted to rename Valrai back into Rhan. And do some dumb shit with all his names as I'm trying to fit Adalmar to its role. Originally Rhan founds Adalmar, I might not do that now, but rather have him inherit it from Elvirian roots. That makes him a noble what is ... really funny considering everything.

I don't know. Thers just this feeling of recognition towards Rhan as a name, I'm still quite fond of it. I did realize I made a huge error in his naming, especially since he's been adopted as a kid by Zerche Haugher, his last name should technically be Haugher as well, not just Triscott but Triscott Haugher. Oh dear. So his Livirian officially documented name would be Valrai Varrick Rhan Tricott Haugher. The fun part, this isn't even taking in account his original name Alromea Somalro Hudaya, thats supposed to be there ,somewhere as its a link to his actual heritage.

I love names yo.

This unintentionally opens a very fun can o worms for the story since Zerche is one of the main villains. It won't be big tho, they are not blood related and that's all to obvious, but its still a nice 'ho shit' moment.

I'm just not sure if that moment happens before or after Rhan gets his ingenious idea of sneaking off, braking into Zerche's office alone, thus meeting the consequences of his irrational vengeance fueled anger. Only to have to be dragged back to HQ as he got shred to pieces and ends up crippled, with a new understanding that his 'past' is still more powerful than him.

Aaaaaaaand the fact thats hes an absolute moron for even attempting it. They will definitely know after tho.

Shoop dah wooph.

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Roger

"My name isn't Roger, its Damien you should know that by now !"

Val* professionally practiced glare of disapproval towards Damien from the other side of the room.

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Sunday, Val day. thinking about bringing some earpieces in the group. These should be easy enough to fabricate by any educated engineer from the Livrian empire.

Nobody knows how to really speak on them, or follow the rules, nor do they want to employ the rules to Val's great annoyance and they usually just end up trolling him. I can't wait to see him lose his shit when everyone starts talking over each other lol.

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"Come back inside when you're ready , we're always open to discussing it."

That moment the empath mage of the group has her fears confirmed that one of her group is degrading mentally at a rapid pace. And he thinks its too horrifying to even put the issue on the table.

Its just dreams, its not real, if I just ignore it it'll go away, right ? Right ?

Guilt is one hell of a drug as Val turns into the character I used to RP in 2012 ish (? jijkes I'm old) a broken, traumatized avoidant individual who thinks he's the smart one but most likely unintentionally angers half the room when he opens his mouth.

Eventually domination and amnesia spells fade, filing up the holes of the victim's memory, and releasing them, in Val's case that was around 10 years worth of mindprison. Sei gets the displeasure of seeing Val change from a person who was silent and submissive (they already knew he was under a layer worth of spells beyond their level) to a traumatized nerve wreck with guilt issues, a bible networth of secrets and self-loathing, who hides it by keeping everything bottled up and is calculated in his actions.

Unless he's drunk.

Don't let him drink if you value your money, seriously... He's just going to piss off the whole tavern.

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Still no art block in sight, I'm so fucking happy oh god. I just don't have enough hours in the day to do everything I want too lmao.

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One part of me wants to get back into online role play.

The louder part is screaming how it caused artistic burnout, and how I should stay far away from everybody.

Yeah ...

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I support savescumming, I will absolutely be doing it next time. I'm currently trying to play like its on a table, and you would not believe how much I screwed up my game with impulsive dumb decision making (ICC). I'm going to have to replay for an um less.... lets call it an accidental unwanted bodycount. Not to mention the missed content because people keep accidentally dying around Rhan.

On the flip side, its very much in character ...

me too my dude i have savescummed the fuck out of bg3 cuz i'm here to have FUN and RELAX with viddygame.

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Percy has a gun.

Fixed and polished in Zbrush, looks much better now, sadly enough I wasted most of my day on mundane things and getting distracted. But I think this is pretty print ready, all it needs is the names.

And the man attached to it.

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We're actually doing fanart ... Oh dear. this is only a part of what I've got planned. very much a WIP and quite a bit bulkier for printing reasons.

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Apparently there is this thing called 'artistic burnout' and the more I read about it the more familiar it sounds.

Lets just hope its really gone now. I don't think to many people may be familiar with the feeling of absolute terror when your mind just turns blank for years and all you can think is 'I used to be creative, all I'm doing right now is just keeping my skills on life support, fuck happend.'

Its fucking horrible and I'm glad its over, I'll be spending my evening writing and drawing. When the weekend hits I have the last part to print of the Val buste.

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Yes hello, this is Sunday, have Val's punchable face. edit: dem horns, third times a charm.

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I'm still so incredibly bad at drawing female faces that I feel like I've wasted almost my entire weekend on 1 character sheet, and I don't know what tomorrow brings. Will it be better, will it be worse ? Not sure why I'm surprised I haven't drawn anything like that in nearly a decade so I aint got no excuses other than 'get cracking'.