Moving expenses are on the horizon, so I’m promoing some hand-painted jackets and shirts currently available in my shop! Feel free to contact me there if you’re interested in a custom order as well.
Moving expenses are on the horizon, so I’m tossing out a promo post for some hand-painted jackets and shirts, currently available in my shop! Feel free to contact me there if you’re interested in a custom order as well.
Today I learned that Junji Ito has absolutely made the day of several horror artists I follow by reacting to and praising their art on an internet video. Imagine the architect of one’s fondest nightmares smiling down upon the lovable abominations one has wrought. Join me in second-hand enjoyment of their delight.
Weirdtober Day 14 – Radio Signal
“All your gardens are filled with bones,” the voice on the radio said, “the dust rises to reach your eyes, beetles nest in your throat.”
The signal kept fading in and out of static. It was mostly nonsense, but curiosity kept him listening. It wasn’t as if he had any other company on the drive.
“You, whose footsteps were marked out by the one who walked before, you who built and labored knowing not what you built for, open your lungs now and scream the songs of unmaking… .”
@hitodama89: Okay wow, that is really impressive! =O I’ve known about messing around with “broken” brushes before, but that has to be one of the most impressive pieces I’ve seen made with that technique.
!! Thank you very much! I really love my texture brushes. The marks they make are so unique, and they keep changing as I use them.
(One that I used a lot on that last piece used to give me very consistent, stiff stripes because of the way the bristles were split, but over time it’s softened so much that it makes a completely different mark.)
@pomrania: Me, I pretty much only do digital art these days, because all the people I want to SHARE my art with, are online.
Oh, same. It’s 2020, unless the only people I want to see my art are my roommate and the roaches I gotta get it in a digital format, I just have a scanner for that.
Either way, I love traditional ink but digital is great too, they’re just two different mediums with different plusses and minuses.
I feel compelled to note - that last Weirdtober image is 100% traditional ink. The only digital messing is a tiny amount of level adjusting to make the darks darker. And most of the textures in it, I got by using seriously junky brushes - just wrecked up messed up sticks with hair.
Basically I’m saying you’d be amazed what you can get playing around with brushes that you might otherwise throw away and if you use traditional brushes at all I highly recommend taking an old, split, or super cheap brush and just wrecking it to see what it does.
Weirdtober Day 13 – Isolation
The longer he stayed there, the less clearly he could remember what it looked like outside.
Weirdtober Day 12 – An Ordinary Church
Let me ask you something, she said, ‘cause I’ve read most of the Bible. It’s full of stories about people getting too close to some holy site and being struck dead and maimed and so on. So if the point of church and worship and all that is to reach out to the divine, why would you expect anyone to come away from it unscathed?
@pomrania: This is somewhere between “thanks I hate it” and “this is horrible, I love it”.
Excellent, that is the ideal mood.