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Feb
03
2022

AER Cameo: AussieNinja

Ninj and his new running partner

@aussieninja actually requested a self-insert cameo some years back and I think he was also the first person to do so.  While I cheerfully made Ninjaroo for him, I was much less confident doing people as characters back then and as I'm better at 3d than drawing I decided to just jump straight to 3d for that one.

More recently I've been a lot more comfortable drawing people as characters (the terror of the person not liking the result is constant though) and inspired by one of his posts that included getting surprised by a dog on a run:

Jan
25
2022

Crowd Cameo: mousey smallsteps

mousey smallsteps

@tarazkp requested a cameo of young @smallsteps as a mouse (because she loves being a mouse).

I don't have child proportioned bases yet so there was an entertaining round of contorting an adult sized base and then after sketching over in Krita, the transform tool got a good workout.

My butterfly (companion of the upgoat) made a cameo (with different shaped wings).

butterfly closeup

Apr
28
2021

AER Cameo: Beard

Beard

  That was literally what @holoz0r asked for.  I'm terrible at facial hair so...

AERverse bearded dragon not a real bearded dragon

I made a bearded dragon x_x

I think it evolved the crazy tail for prey trapping purposes.  Also tried out using the tilted pencil brush as @veryspider apparently liked using it quite a lot.  I can kind of see why but unlike some people I can't draw.

Feb
15
2021

Adoptables and Breedables as NFTs

Preamble

This is a high level outline for a website/system/something to be built on hive utilising nfts and targeting adoptable/breedable artists.  Adoptables seem to be a great use-case for NFTs as they're supposed to be unique and assigned to one owner at any one time and can just slot into the existing nft system hive currently has.  This idea extends that to firstly specifically target artists who may only be interested in an art-centric community and secondly to simplify and possibly add a bit of chaotic randomness to the "breedable" system, which as far as I can tell is currently done at each artist's discretion.  I'm throwing it "out there" and hoping someone much smarter than me will be interested enough to pick it up and run with it. 

It's been written with the assumption that the reader knows more about NFT and hive (and blockchains in general) than I do.

Sep
26
2020

Fill the darkest night with a brilliant light

shooting star songpic

Too many gloomydoomers on my hive feed plus listening to Owl City: Shooting Star on loop results in fyn taking too long a break from retopo (this while mildly indfuriating is perfectly normal as fyn usually has to do what art brain says or bad things happen).

 

So this is my "it will be okay, keep going, you're doing great, we can make things better" because doing this kind of thing is easier than talking XP

so yes that's a self-indulgent selfie at the top

Aug
05
2020

Hive hoodie

Zara in a hive hoodie

Quickie because sculpt fixing is taking forever and I felt like doing something else for a little while. 

As I said in the last progblog, I had been intending on sketching Zara in a hive hoodie as I've drawn her in a steem hoodie previously, and then decided I should use her model instead.  Some fixing was required and that had to be done anyway so it got done, and then I made the hoodie together out of a cube.

Blender 2.8 sculpting jumper shape

Jul
07
2020

Pretty shinies

After an epic two day battle with my phone and my computer, I am now able to show off my new shinies.

bearone's orgonites and candle