I Know I Worked On These A Long Time Ago, But The Righthand Warlock Actually Is My Gaming Icon. (I Go

Even if I’m not particularly happy with how this turned out, I can’t say that I started with a very happy premise, either...considering that I’ve mostly been in the mood to do venty typography. Also, trying to go out of my typographical comfort zone by 1) explicitly working with RGB colors, 2) trying to fiddle with glowing shit after years of not bothering, and 3) trying to use a screwball 8-bit font...probably didn’t help.

Regardless, I tried. I figure I should show stuff I don’t do too well with, too.

I’m also kind of mad at myself for forgetting to save the stupid .psd for this particular iteration, so if I want to make it look like this again, I’ll have to start from scratch.

I am constantly annoyed with DuoLingo gaffes like this, so I shall start making a chronicle of the various screwups that DuoLingo makes in the DuoLingo Japanese course, as well as silly sentences, because why not?

Oh snap. I just realized that the icon client has Pepsi colors because I'm trying to avoid IKEA colors.

Crap.

I’m at the point where I never want to work with this color combo ever again.

This is my Day 1 for Inktober—and like a total nerd, I decided to draw a greyscale Alolan Muk for the theme of “Poisonous”.

I know Alolan Muk is super colorful, but I’m thinking that keeping the greyscale palette that I intend to keep for my (mostly neglected) webcomic would be good practice.

Here's a digital painting based off of an old OC I had from late high school/early college.

I wish I had more time to sit down and do more digital painting for my characters, but I tend to be doing design and economics work for college.

I’m gonna make it a point to do my streams on Thursdays, so feel free to drop on in to watch me draw and nitpick over a webcomic that doesn’t have that many pages!

I was thinking about how I starting learning Adobe Photoshop stuff way back in 2007 when I was 15…and back when Adobe Photoshop CS2 was cutting edge, you had to pay for it. Which is unlike now, where CS2 is officially free from Adobe (sort of), but Creative Cloud subscriptions are a thing, but that’s even more expensive.

I also thought about the first album design I ever made back then as well, and my dad kindly posted it on Facebook and tagged me in it.

I forgot how bad it was. Dear lord, the back and front have no cohesion, warped text is terrible, there’s way too many fonts, and tilting text is generally a no-no unless you really know what you’re doing… but I actually appreciate looking at it, because I’m looking at it and going “Oh wow, I’ve improved a lot in the past 10 years.”

It’s also really interesting to see what’s stayed the same, because there’s a few things I can clearly pinpoint as consistent things. Firstly, I clearly like either A) bright colors, or B) dark and moody stuff. Secondly, I am clearly a nerd, considering that the first one has a modded amp tube diagram on the back, and the second one has a Sierpenski gasket. Thirdly, I always seem to have ridiculous ideas for song names.

It’s nice to have reminders of how far you’ve come. It really is. I was the kind of kid who got frustrated with a lot of my work and would just wantonly throw things I made out if I deemed it to be terrible for what I could do later. That hasn’t helped me too much nowadays.

(Also, I’m very, very tempted to redesign the old one. I could probably make something a lot better now.)

This is the culmination of a six week class on 3D modeling that’s required for me to officially grab one of my two degrees.

I’m also pretty happy that I thought of a game idea where you’d need light to survive—to the point where you’d just keel over if you weren’t near any light at all. So, I asked if I was allowed to make a HUB for it too, and it was OK’d...so, I did.

I asked my partner about how he’d feel about drawings, and he basically mentioned that he would feel so bad if it took me longer than 30 minutes to do something like a stick figure...

...I told him that I could do a lot more than a stick figure with 30 minutes, give or take, and I decided to challenge myself to draw something in a 30-minute time frame right in front of him.

I ended up drawing a character of mine that I haven’t touched in a few years, because why the hell not...and he was quite baffled by my ability to sit down and churn this out, and was expecting something more like my weird 5-minute Milhouse doodle I did a while back.

Granted, this isn’t polished, but...yeah. It’s a pretty rewarding speedpaint.

My hand slipped.

In all sincerity though, I’ve been trying to work on a website logo for the web design class I’m in, and decided to experiment with the geometric box I made, and this particular chromaa palette.

Dubtronic is one of my guilty pleasure typefaces, and it seems to have this odd geometric 80s thing going on. Also, from what I can recall from when I was younger and very nosy, my mom’s college textbooks tended to have a lot of geometric design on the covers, and she went during the late 80s/early 90s. So, after a few minutes of mulling over it, this came out.

Anyway, enjoy my late night rage experiment.