Went through the entirety of today tossing around ideas for sketchies while doing the usual things that I do. Got to the end of the day and 10yo and I had settled in to draw together (well she was drawing, I was 3d-ing) and I mentioned that I didn’t have any ideas for my sketchy today and she said “DRAW ME AS A PONY!” I asked “What’s your special talent?”

Quick thank you sketch I scratched out for a very good friend of mine. We’ve been chatting constantly online for years and years now and haven’t actually met in person, but this didn’t stop him going above and beyond one night, staying up with me while I was having a meltdown over my failing computer system, helping me research problems with first Ubuntu and then Chakra, and finally recommending Manjaro and waiting around while I muddled my way through the install to make sure I would at least be able to go to bed having gotten the system operational. He even said that if there was a way for him to do it for me so that I could go get some sleep (it had been a really, really trying couple of weeks leading up to that point and I was over it) then he would.

Even shadowshifters have those days :) These are actually quite relaxing. Motivating me to try for one a day again. I haven’t drawn Twilight in forever. The last things I posted of it were a picture Sprat drew and that I coloured in 2005: and prior to that it was the first thing I ever 3d modelled at least a year before the previous (yeh I can’t just start out with simple things like everyone else, sucker for punishment, and I mislabelled it as Nightshade which is another shadowshifter who ended up in a collab fanfic):

My special talent would be inexplicably injuring myself. I have no idea what I did to my toe when I took the kids to the playground but it hurts. It’s currently been strapped (made it up on the fly as I don’t actually know how to strap the end of a foot, and I hate it for the same reason that I hate wearing shoes and even the fact it’s making it hurt less isn’t making it any more tolerable).

Wallpaper inspired by @jedau’s novel A Day in the Clouds, specifically a scene in chapter 9 described thus: I concentrated my viento on my feet and catapulted myself into the stratosphere. I spun in place, trying to accumulate the heavy winds that blew high above. Although I made it concentrate in his hands and uplift him with spirally winds partly because it was fun and that’s how I’d done the pose originally (because that’s what was in my head) and mostly because it’s been a while since I read that chapter :S

Arkwright is probably one of the nicest people ever. And he also has single-handedly gadded about making big triangles, clearing swathes of the area and taking down jealousy guarded portals being franticly recharged by multipe people (or at least made everyone waste capsules of power cubes doing so). The short story of the thought process behind this character goes something like: Arkwright -> someone that builds/designs arks -> like Noah -> Christian mythology -> Knights Templar -> Protoss High Templar. Though all I took from that were the glowy bluey eyes, I had already decided on doing a badass-coolly-walking-away-from-explosions-in-a-flappy-coat kind of piece.

I’m usually streaming on Picarto on Sundays after 12 and Thursdays from 9am-3pm AWST, though lion dance season is coming up which may throw the Sunday streaming a bit. I did a random ~4hr stream today as the in-laws have a busy week this week and decided to come today rather than not coming at all because they’re awesome like that, working on an Ingress wallpaper: Yesterday I switched up between working on the Zul’jinn concept:

Alternate title: ill-gotten gains So there was this song. Which reminded me of something that turned out to be this old gif that my sister had made. And then this got stuck in my head and wouldn’t leave til I drew it out. The setup didn’t take too long. The sketch took maybe 5mins. The colouring took a lot longer XD Their secret hiding spot will have to be left up to the imagination partly because I tend not to do backgrounds for sketches and mostly because I know practically nothing about that universe.

Edited 2017 Jan 7: made the scripts slightly more reliable (not relying on window ids) but they will now get extremely confused if there’s more than one instance of Blender open Because I’m not smart enough to get the MacOS version of the Automatic Scene Switching plugin for OBS Studio, I gumbied an easy manual one with bash scripts. So there’s some scenes set up in OBS like so: Set shortcuts for the scenes in OBS settings like so:

Midnight decided to branch out into more action poses and came up with this pic of her character Dahlilah (link currently goes to a flat wip), apparently fending off some troublemakers who mistook her for a soft target after she had just left training. So I knocked out a quick sketch of Starzone for her to spar with when I needed a break from doing photobooks. Haven’t yet decided if I want to bring Starzone and co back in the sequel to the collab fanfic Mid and I were doing, and if I do if it should be as adults or their original teenage selves, so Starzi is her 17-19yo original self in this pic as that was easier on my brain.