Gracious Anthracite @anthracite@dragon.style

so this diagram explaining different kinds of public nudity got posted to a chat I am in and now this has lead to me sitting here thinking "what if Horny Variant Peganthyrus was being an art model" and I am remembering the ways models would act in the many figure drawing sessions I've attended over my life and just casually knocking out some little doodles with absolutely no reference that would make the me who was taking all those figure drawing sessions green with envy.

And I guess really the right sentiment is to say thank you to Past Me for investing all those hours in staring at naked people with utter dispassion, and thinking hard about how to draw them despite repeatedly messing it up. Thanks, Past Me.

Also while I am hurting everyone's eyes, have a piece I did in 2006. Someday I still want to print this out at several feet wide and mount it in an arch over the viewer.

tweaking character colors so they all fall into a midtone between the bright yellow and deep purple I'm using for highlights/shadows, starting to do some clothes, starting to not feel like it's a Giant Mess any more.

were you looking for a full-screen piece of eye pain

because I made some earlier this morning

Today I was reminded of the chaos magic servitor Fotamecus. He is a sledgehammer smashing a clock, watch, or other symbol of our bondage to the tyranny of finely-measured time. He is a hoarder of unnoticed moments, a trader of time, and is known to be willing to share his time-hoard with you, as well.

He was created in the nineties by some slacker chaos magicians, and he has been kicking around the corners of the world gaining fame ever since, growing his store of seconds into an eternity that he can use against the counters of beans and the schedulers of days.

http://vimeo.com/70727808 - a short film of a working to attract Fotamecus' attention

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/fotamec1.html - origin story and basic user's manual

a story in three images

I Am Not Milton Glaser

But I think if I wanted to, I could ape this definitively-seventies style of his pretty well; this is about twenty minutes of idle doodling and playing with Live Paint. It's a very different workflow from my normal one....

Read the whole post: http://egypt.urnash.com/blog/2020/09/23/i-am-not-milton-glaser/

At long last I am at the point where I can start fooling with some slight recompositions and general lighting/contrast stuff. This one stayed in a weird place where it kinda looked like a giant mess for a long time, I need to think about how to avoid that state if I do more of these sorts of things.

Or maybe I will just end up lengthening my expectations for how long a piece can spend in that state. Dunno. We'll see how I feel when this is done. Which is probably gonna be pretty soon if I can deal with these battery troubles.

also, ugh

Ooh baby let’s make that tail bell jingle.

There are so many enemies in Persona 5 who are unexpectedly horny. Look at this pretty bird. I just wanna take him out on a date.

Sometimes you just gotta stop off at the hundred year old pastry shop for a snack.

This is Mr. Elephant. He belonged to my mother when she was a kid.

Since I don’t have any kids he doesn’t have much to do any more. He’s pretty happy to keep our face masks safe for us, though!

I feel compelled to dig up some notes on Drawing Hands Gooder from around 2000.

Twenty years later, this is still pretty much my thought process when I have to work out a tough hand pose.

Lies and calumny. These are barely even Peanuts From Heckin’.

I’m just gonna sit here and rev this motorcycle pope for the rest of tonight.

Pothole.

I think that every time I have ended up passing by this labyrinth, it was lightly drizzling. Today was no exception. I walked it anyway.

It did not transport me to the one true reality of which all others are shadows, unless I am already there.

I am so glad a matched set of genies volunteered to be the furniture here because it lets me do crazy shit like this.

I might replace the canopy they were originally gonna be holding with something else decorative or symbolic. @Doephin, if you have any suggestions for appropriate symbology for your reign, lemme know. :)

Finally making an art brush for a certain genie’s bottle. I think half the reason I never did this before is because I’ve been drawing her since before this model sheet existed!