Also, Because I Mentioned This Guy’s In The Twitch Stream Earlier Today Without Realizing That I Never

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.)

So, this is the result of my Twitch Stream! I’m pretty stoked that I’m back in the swing of things after Hurricane Irma, and I’m pretty happy that I made A LOT of progress on the page in the past 4.5 hours (although I felt like I wasted a bit of my time with Lazy Nezumi. I want to see if I was doing something wrong, because I only found it useful for two things.)

I also appreciate that the quote “Vaporwave Trash Child’s Baby” is now immortalized in a Facebook status of @arzeron‘s, and I got some good pointers for drawing babus from @galacticglaciers.

The Instagram version of this is so much better, btw. Here is this thing in its non-pixelated glory.

This is basically where I’ve ended my first Saturday Twitch stream at, minus a few minor tweaks.

I’m pretty happy with those hands, personally. :’D I’ve liked drawing hands for years, though, so getting to focus on them once again is really, really fun.

I’m thinking of holding another stream tomorrow because I also want to see THIS cover thing done, as well as the logo for this entire comic/comic series I’m slowly working on in my spare time.

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.

Today I learned that Corel Painter has a new edition out now, Adobe Flash is now Adobe Animate, and that Toon Boom Studio is no longer available for commercial purchase.

I’ve been caught off guard with these developments. I’m disappointed and surprised.

So, this is the result of my about 3-4 hours of work trying to draw the Gen 1 Starter Pokemon.

I was initially going to make it a short and quick cartoony thing, but then I decided to go into digital painting mode for some reason.

I’d also say that @galacticglaciers has the quote of the day, because I was listening to the Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles OST, and I laughed when it was described as a Celtic hoe down.

Probably not the best work, but it’s more or less a second draft of a typographic quickdraw I made when I was irritated at another classmate over trying to lecture me about gender roles.

I decided to combine Inktober’s Day 3 theme of “Roasted” and Inktober’s Day 5 theme of “Chicken” in order to make one weird comic idea that’s been on my mind for the past couple of days.

It’s definitely some dark humor. However, it’s something that came to mind because I was thinking about how one of my great-great grandmothers knew how to snap chicken necks with her bare hands, and how distanced I am from that as a modern human who hasn’t really seen a chicken get killed at all. It’s kind of a bizarre thing to think about, really.

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?