Fairy-wren

Superb fairy-wren

Coloured and shaded remaster of Inktober 2022 #24, ‘Fairy’. Biding its time until it can find a mesh fence to flit through.

2022 inktober roundup

Inktober is a thing where anyone interested attempts to make an ink drawing every day of October, or at least a once a week, or anything else in line with the main goal of making good habits. I’m more of the pixeling persuasion, so this year I did indeed produce an assortment of monochromatic pixels for all 31 days, using the Official set of prompts. Observe, should you desire.

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Apocalizard

Some sort of red bipedal lizard thing leaning on a towable generator in the middle of a wasteland, kicking a can of fuel

Lots of words in here that aren’t exactly legible. Fortunately, by way of exclusive access to the original, full-resolution and layered image, I can offer this insight for third-party remaster:

WARNING TO BE USED ONLY AS DIRECTED!

RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK

Serviceable only by authorised personnel

CRUSHING HAZARD

Ensure unit is switched off and obstructions are clear

140 kW MOBILE GENERATOR UNIT ref no. KA217-OR

Provided under warranty by PRO-GEN® Electric Generators and Inverters Pty. Ltd. Warranty void if operated contrary to provided directions and safety procedures Do not operate in an enclosed space. Ensure adequate ventillation at all …

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Desolate street

An empty street with small hints of abandonment – a broken window, unmown lawns and holes in the road

The first ‘serious’ picture I did with a fancy new display tablet. The picture itself is kinda meh for the time it took. I think the ‘focal length’ is too short.

Mark presents the evidence

A man bursts into a room with a bundle of photos evidencing corruption and treason. But the pictures are blurry and the text is washed-out.

Fan art of sorts for the video game ‘Infra’. In this game you take photos of damaged infrastructure and documents indicating the context around how things came to be as they are. But there’s no control over framing or exposure so the brief previews that flash up on the camera after a photo are never particularly encouraging. Here, Mark presents the fruits of his efforts.

Dragon fly

A vaguely dragon-like dragonfly

“A cool dragonfly/moth inspired dragon.” For someone who wanted one.

Dragon disturbs telecommunications

A dragon perched atop a telecommunications tower

This was an attempt to do the thing where you draw the whole thing in greyscale and then slap colour on at the end. It was supposed to make it easier to focus on shadows and texture and all that. But after investing however much effort, I found right at the end that Krita’s idea of how the ‘colour’ blending mode should operate was at extreme odds with common sense. I managed to rescue it in the end, but the ultimate result is that there’s no variation in colour beyond shade.

That’s what experimentation is for but …

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