I’m So Glad That I Managed To Finish This Tonight! It’s Been Something I’ve Been Wanting To Finish

I’m currently on a Gotham kick--the typeface/font, not the Batman universe city.

Anyway, I doodled this in International Macroeconomics after a bit of thinking on my last self-imposed design challenge, because I wanted to make something that would WORK with the grid layout trend I’ve been seeing...

...this more or less came out as expected. I’m pretty content with it. I’d wager I could use this as a base for some sort of project later on if I got the right photographs and fiddled around with the black space. Or the white space. Doesn’t really matter, I guess!

I finally made a motion graphics version of my thing. It’s alive! It’s also terribly compressed, but eh. I can still say I did a thing in After Effects!

This was a pain to make, though. Predominantly because of file sizes. However, feel free to use it for whenever you’re in an internet argument (although you are automatically losing by virtue of the fact that you are in an internet argument. Never forget that.)

So, I finally got to making the base vector for my webcomic’s logo...other little fixes aside. Also, this means that the name of this project is out there. :P

(That said, I have learned that it’s actually significantly harder to make wordmarks in Adobe Illustrator that look like wood carvings than it is to do more curvy handlettering in it. Yikes.)

I’ve decided to upload my digital paintings from the advanced illustration class I took over the Spring.

I’ve decided to upload my King Lear illustration for now, because I’m pretty pleased with the fact that I know of a slightly different coloring method in Photoshop that...admittedly, is much quicker than what I was doing before.

So, I made a bit of progress on the first comic page, and I made a little bit of progress on the logo stuff for the comic.

Also, @plaguenurse had a comment on Twitch that basically made me laugh maniacally for a good minute or so while working on the architecture on the top panel.

So, the kitsune death god I’ve been meaning to draw has been mostly speedpainted in the past 3 hours. I need to work on some contrast stuff, rendering that scythe, and deciding on the left hand, but...eh. Still pretty cool

Also, I have a 5-minute Milhouse doodle for no reason other than being asked.

It’s not even a good Milhouse doodle, pssh.

I’ve officially completed my own logo. Again. For the umpteenth time now. It’s going to have other applications other than this, but I figured that showcasing it on black lace would be nice.

So, I had this commission for a friend that I finally finished—I have to say that I’m proud of myself for getting Photoshop CC’s current liquefy tool to recognize this as an actual face and let me make a few slight tweaks as if it was a photo of an actual person. I legit did not expect that.

Trying to explain a particular nitpick I have with some typographic designs lead me to make this to illustrate what I’m talking about instead of trying to explain it in words.

Specifically, I really dislike it when people break up words like “Macchiato” into illegible crap that makes you pause for a bit, and then you’re stuck there for twice as long, trying to read what the fuck the word is. (Also, legit, I actually don’t like the Supercell logo that much, and it’s a perfect example of what I’m talking about.)

I may try to experiment with a similar square grid later on, but something more legible--because I do like how effective the economy of space is in things like this, I just hate it when it’s illegible as fuck, and I wouldn’t have made this if it weren’t for illustrative purposes.

I am pretty happy with the color scheme, though.

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.