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[guy who hasnt drawn in a few weeks voice] yeah the world is horrible and life is agony

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sketchbook spreads of character exploration for my bg3 durge tiefling cleric, othello. with toxic past durgetash and developing present durgestarion

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Mini shikishi board test from ~Jan 2024 with some D&D characters that my friends and I never played

Freya and Anastasius will appear often

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to this blog's followers, i'm spam posting a lot of old, unposted art tonight.

i'll add this tag: mm2025spam if you wanna block it.

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and the break up that only ever appeared on discord :O

Celebrating Lexy's big fashion showcase

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Celebrating Lexy's big fashion showcase

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doing a kids on bikes game in an obojima setting campaign with friends

ed's appearance is based on jiro from the wind rises 😔

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i drew a brewing stand for a game jam that i did with friends back in december :)

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my amnesiac, sycophantic half elf paladin 👎🏼

he refuses to acknowledge to the party that he doesn't remember his name and he makes up a new name for himself every session

he woke up a mess but cleaned up nicely/yay scribbling and texture brushes

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also random blanket statement of thanks to the many nice tags that i've gotten in the past about my different depictions of characters and my art style and digital art coloring. i don't know what i'm doing, it just feels nice to me. a lot of recent digital stuff (there isn't a lot) was in clip studio. HOWEVER, using paint tool sai (despite clip studio being the art program of the 2020s as far as i can tell) feels like coming home to me

i've watched a chaotic drawing session with ‪@/actuallyrea‬ several times over the last week or so and the unadulterated fan feelings in the video and discussion they had on drawing with as little friction as possible has helped motivate me draw a lot of stuff this week :')

need to go out and try to make art friends!! maybe i can do it at work! i gotta stop being shy and anxious!!!!!!!

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i've watched a chaotic drawing session with ‪@/actuallyrea‬ several times over the last week or so and the unadulterated fan feelings in the video and discussion they had on drawing with as little friction as possible has helped motivate me draw a lot of stuff this week :')

need to go out and try to make art friends!! maybe i can do it at work! i gotta stop being shy and anxious!!!!!!!

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ooops, i scrolled down this blog too far and saw old drawings that i really love and realized that it's been 5 years and wow i need to scan a bunch of sketchbook drawings

i need to post. i need to share my art. i want to share my art with an audience that could potentially resonate with drawing the same way that i do!!!!

maybe doing this will suck but i really want to be perceived right now.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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yeehaw, animated stick figures made me want to draw again

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stream of consciousness about the new animation vs. coding episode, as a python programmer

holy shit, my increasingly exciting reaction as i realized that yellow was writing in PYTHON. i write in python. it's the programming language that i used in school and current use in work.

i was kinda expecting a print("hello world") but that's fine

i think using python to demonstrate coding was a practical choice. it's one of the most commonly used programming languages and it's very human readable.

the episode wasn't able to cram every possible concept in programming, of course, but they got a lot of them!

fun stuff like print() not outputting anything and typecasting between string values and integer values!!

string manipulation

booleans

little things like for-loops and while-loops for iterating over a string or list. and indexing! yay :D

* iterable input :D (the *bomb that got thrown at yellow)

and then they started importing libraries! i've never seen the turtle library but it seems like it draws vectors based on the angle you input into a function

the gun list ran out of "bullets" because it kept removing them from the list gun.pop()

AND THEN THE DATA VISUALIZATION. matplotlib!! numpy!!!! my beloved!!!!!!!! i work in data so this!!!! this!!!!! somehow really validating to me to see my favorite animated web series play with data. i think it's also a nice touch that the blue on the bars appear to be the matplotlib default blue. the plot formatting is accurate too!!!

haven't really used pygame either but making shapes and making them move based on arrow key input makes sense

i recall that yellow isn't the physically strongest, but it's cool to see them move around in space and i'm focusing on how they move and figure out the world.

nuke?!

and back to syntax error and then commenting it out # made it go away

cool nuke text motion graphics too :D (i don't think i make that motion in python, personally)

and then yellow cranks it to 100,000 to make a neural network in pytorch. this gets into nlp (tokenizers and other modeling)

a CLASS? we touch on some object oriented programming here but we just see the __init__ function so not the full concept is demonstrated here.

OH! the "hello world" got broken down into tokens. that's why we see the "hello world" string turn into numbers and then... bits (the 0s and 1s)? the strings are tokenized/turned into values that the model can interpret. it's trying to understand written human language

and then an LSTM?! (long short-term memory)

something something feed-forward neural network

model training (hence the epochs and increasing accuracy)

honestly, the scrolling through the code goes so fast, i had to do a second look through (i'm also not very deeply versed in implementing neural networks but i have learned about them in school)

and all of this to send "hello world" to an AI(?) recreation of the exploded laptop

not too bad for a macbook user lol

i'm just kidding, a major of people used macs in my classes

things i wanna do next since im so hyped

i haven't drawn for the fandom in a long time, but i feel a little motivated to draw my design of yellow again. i don't recall the episode using object oriented programming, but i kinda want to make a very simple example where the code is an initialization of a stick figure object and the instances are each of the color gang.

it wouldn't be full blown AI, but it's just me writing in everyone's personality traits and colors into a function, essentially since each stick figure is an individual program.

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i had a nice thought today !!!