Unsurprisingly, things were busier than I thought they’d be, so I apologise for not getting to anybo
Unsurprisingly, things were busier than I thought they’d be, so I apologise for not getting to anybody until the last minute!@sarspax: That’s good to hear! I’ll look into X-Split and see if I can get Picarto rolling for my streams in the future.@an-evolved-dinosaur: Haha, thank you! I don’t think I have an answer for you for what I would consider my best piece! My standards shift pretty regularly depending on what I’m working on or what I’ve recently learned - which can upend what I had previously considered my “best” work and knock it back down to “needs considerable improvement”. While this is generally good since it helps to encourage improvement, it can also be frustrating since satisfaction with anything is pretty short-lived. This in itself can be a downer that can counter-act improvement if you’re not in a very good place. Despite any strides I have made recently, no recent work has really struck me as especially good or great. Even though the anatomy is clearly outdated and there are issues with lighting, I’m inclined to say that as of right now this piece from 2014 stands as my current “best”?Each time I run into it in my folders or my gallery when sorting images I generally feel that it’s still the image that I need to match or exceed in some way despite its age. I don’t consider this a bad thing so much as a reflection of personal circumstance that I’m still looking to exceed something made almost three years ago. It doesn’t have anything to do with feeling like I haven’t improved or anything like that - I’ve definitely improved since 2014, but it’s been incremental improvements that are not especially apparent in the final product. Overall, the work hasn’t changed or especially improved presentation wise since 2014, which needs rectifying.Eldritch imagery is one of my favourites, actually! Depicting the unknown while still keeping it “unknown” is something I really get excited about in art. Part of the excitement comes from not being able to really tap into creating that kind of imagery myself since I’m so focused on figuratively dissecting subjects so I can better understand them when I draw them. I more or less act towards “removing” that unknown-ness in my art in one way or another. Most of the time it’s intentional, since it’s related to my field of interest in terms of art-as-a-career, and a part of general interest of wanting to understand what I see. This is a good thing, but it can result in some spinning wheels sometimes.@noidboid: Thanks a lot! That’s very encouraging to hear - hopefully the new system I will have going will still keep things simple and accessible for those who prefer to use Tumblr over dA and Twitter. I will definitely look into IFTT - it sounds like it could be just what I need.ANON: Thanks, Anon! Out of my full lair, they are probably my favourite dragons to theorise about, and I’d definitely like to draw them someday. Their almost patchwork appearance (afforded quite a bit by the Toxin and Poison genes) played a really big role in how I decided to characterise them and their offspring. They’re a sad pair.@arourallisreborn: Ho! I hadn’t until now! That is the cleanest case of a living two-headed animal I’ve ever seen:I hope there’s an x-ray of her skeleton or musculature online somewhere, I’d love to see what the split looks like on the skeletal and muscle level - it’d be super helpful in figuring out how something like Cerberus could theoretically work. Thanks a lot for mentioning this to me! -- source link