Gekkonen

@Gekkonen@sopuli.xyz

Software developer and a novelist

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Gekkonen OP ,

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/fbf9ba3f-8244-407c-a908-6646daa3fe7d.webp

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Gekkonen OP ,

reported to meta. It looks like this is not the first time this kind of issues happen with between instances https://sopuli.xyz/post/9076347?scrollToComments=true

Gekkonen OP ,

Thanks, forwarded this post-mortem to my current meta question.

Gekkonen ,

Excellent use of shape and light!

Gekkonen ,

Losing vision as an artist has to be one of the most difficult experiences ever. So glad you share your art. Do you have more art available somewhere?

Gekkonen ,

Good work! Perspective is one of those things that is pretty mechanical, and one can avoid learning it for a long time by using crutches. It's always faster to work when one has internalized perspective and especially foreshortening so it comes automatically.

Gekkonen ,

From distance, I thought I'd see an ultra-detailed sketch, but this is conveyed by nothing but the directional lines suggesting of detail. Minimalism at best.

Gekkonen ,

I sort of hoped that Lemmy communities would have a more original "redditquette" idea to downvoting where downvotes are explained and only done when a post is noise instead of signal. But I guess downvoting as a system will always be "I don't like this opinion/post". It's a shame.

I upvoted this because you posted artwork that you created yourself, which is the point of this community.

Gekkonen ,

Looks like pill-shaped M&Ms mixed into a dough.

Gekkonen ,

DAYM these are amazing! The anatomy, light & shadow, clean marks, style... I love it!

Gekkonen ,

Very cool! I love the colors.

Gekkonen ,

Why are they so unhappy? Why are there so many? Why does the woman look like she's controlling a crowd of football hooligans?!

I love it.

Gekkonen ,

These are some good figure drawings! What kind of a process do you take when drawing them?

Gekkonen OP ,

Don't tell anyone but this was a character design exercise where I got fed up and turned it into a landscape. The sphere was the head.

Gekkonen ,

Very cool use of color.

Gekkonen OP ,

I also kinda wonder why Lemmy displays the preview sometimes, but not always. Maybe it has to do with image size? Or some metadata? My portfolio uses the non-standard og:image meta tag that usually works.

Gekkonen ,

At first glance this looks like a heart (the actual organ). Overall I like the ones where you tend to go for warm colors with this kind of gradient.

Gekkonen ,

How many layers is your usual master study?

Gekkonen , (edited )

Interesting. I've tried Alla Prima, but I haven't found it that easy to work with when using water-soluble oils. During winter I have no way of ventilating my apartment to use paint thinners.

Half of the Paintings I've completed, all oil on canvas. ( lemmy.ml )

Finally got around to getting my art wall reorganized with some of my newer pantings, it now displays 15 out of the 30 total paintings I've done since i started painting last month. 6 of these are Master Copies, 3 are from tutorials, and 6 are from pictures I took or found online.

Gekkonen ,

The forest scene at top right is my favorite. It has great use of light & shadow and color. Really looks like sun is hitting those rocks at the front and the forest expands further into the distance.

Gekkonen ,

We recently decided not to allow AI stuff:

Please keep posts to non-AI generated art only.

Gekkonen , (edited )

There were already some rumors about bad working conditions during the Dark Souls titles, now more with Elden Ring: https://www.ign.com/articles/elden-ring-developers-compare-working-at-fromsoftware-to-playing-dark-souls

Even with some negative accounts, other FromSoftware employees said working at the studio has been a great experience. One employee even likened it to FromSoftware's own Dark Souls, saying, "There's a lot of struggle to get things right, but if you get over the hump it is very satisfying. It's just like you defeated a boss in Dark Souls."

I'm not sure if we should be approaching work like Dark Souls.

Gekkonen ,

This could be a a map in Thief 1.

Gekkonen ,

Somehow this feels more vertical that the other works by you. I wonder if it's because of the darker spot at the top giving this a sense of depth?

Have you ever tried a non-rectangular paper? I wonder what that would look like?

Gekkonen ,

Do we have anything that can make use of such tags? I don't really see the purpose unless there's a programmatic way to filter based on them. Right now many people already write the medium in the title if they want.

Gekkonen ,

I'm inclined to say no to AI art, although i'd call it a grey territory to use AI for the first pass and then paint on top of that. However, I'll just say no to all AI for now.

Gekkonen ,

Your diligence is an inspiration.

Gekkonen ,

Are you using pre-framed canvases, by the way? I got myself a roll of canvas and just leave my oil paintings lying around until I can get around to buying some carpentry & stapling tooling to build frames.

Gekkonen ,

The second half is worse indeed, but still worth playing.

Gekkonen ,

This works in Mount & Blade, I suppose, at least for the first x hundred hours. The difference is that Mount & Blade makes grinding actually fun and you don’t notice to be grinding for a good while.

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