Wait... I just realized I've been officially #krita maintainer since 2004 now. I think it was March, too, when I got the Official Baton. That's twenty years...
I received photos on family group chat, random things from web, and this #bird images too. Without any description so I don't know its species name (but as I remember with questions if I would draw it some day). So I couldn't search for more and used those photos as models. In my mind I called them "these black-and-white #birds".
Canva acquires Serif’s Affinity Suite, and I can’t help feeling doom about this.
I’ve worked with Canva in the past and they were good people, but this feels like a move towards subscriptions. I guess that’s kind of inevitable these days anyway, but being bought out often signals the end. I love the Affinity suite and I hope I’m wrong.
If people fully stop supporting private companies with subscription models and embrace support of Open Source projects, either financing or colaborating to improve them, all this crying will end overnight. #gimp#inkscape#krita
Affinity has been bought by Canva, to compete with Adobe.
It was of course a matter of time before Affinity would outgrow its status of sympathetic small-scale Adobe alternative, and be sold for large proceeds.
Canva is into AI. Hopefully Affinity will get some useful AI-powered image processing tools, like upscalers and denoisers, but Canva will probably add generative shit and introduce subscriptions sooner or later.
They said "Draw #demons". But nobody said I couldn't draw them like some Cartoon Network series #characters :blobcatjoy:
I could imagine this, series like "Dexter's Laboratory", but taking place in Hell and other dimensions of universe. They could also be siblings, grumpy brother and overly optimistic, often lighthearted sister... Are these some kind of "typical cartoon #character stereotypes"? :blobcatjoy:
Wiki:
"Johan de Witt was a Dutch statesman and a major political figure in the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century.
He and his brother were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob, ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy."
So even centuries ago the plebs could be influenced by any shouting populist. Hasn't changed much!
I mentioned here I created separate directory in my gallery for #dragon drawings, right? :ablobcatuwu:
So I wanted first dragon there to be Vis'Sai, my "guardian devil", imaginary character from my sad, lonely childhood. When I was 11-12 I started to create my own private mythology as coping mechanism, using mainly Western European alchemy lore and symbols. I had whole pantheon of demons/spirits made of fire and acid, few of them I imagined as having great divine-like power. Vis'Sai was the greatest deity and central character in my internal "lore" and he had many forms, but often appeared as dragon or man with dragon head and wings. I didn't hear about Lovecraft then but I imagined Vis'Sai as somewhat similar to Cthulhu - he was imprisoned and willing to annihilate the world if he would be finally free. And I tried to find a way to release him... wait, was I unaware Old Ones cultist as a kid? :blobcatjoy:
I had small clay dragon figurine, with the same pattern of horns on its head like in this picture. As a child I started imagining this particular dragon version as his canonical form. I was often sketching dragon portraits like this, but this time, many years later, I wanted to create this in "professional-like" style.
I'm so glad I took breaks when painting this, I feel like things really clicked into place when I came back to it. I really tried to push the textures and rendering more than I usually do. I've never repainted one of my old artworks before and honestly it was a good and valuable experience!
Who would've thought the first piece I finish this year would be one of the weirdest pokémon we've gotten in recent years cosplaying as a depressed worm-person doing its best!
Unsure about the colors/values still, especially at thumbnail scales. But really like how the halftone layer turned out! You just gotta zoom in... 🔎
A not too friendly looking man, pretty fat, smoking a pipe.
Image by Jan Brons
A not too friendly looking man, pretty fat, smoking a pipe. He could be a farmer… Holding a stick for no clear reason. A drawing I made as pencil sketch at first and as I liked it I decided to scan it and work on it as a digital […]
Meanwhile, @3dEyes is still busy updating our #KDE applications (#Krita being one of them), thanks to his work I'm experimenting thins on KF6, with the new release for #Dolphin 24.02.0 on #HaikuOS :)