It’s been a long, long time coming – years, really – but at long last I have a site I can maybe take enough pride in to use seriously and keep everything together. At least, theoretically; because strictly as I write this the site for it to appear on does not quite yet exist. I have spent weeks on development and testing though, with uncharacteristic productivity, so it should be all ready to go live more-or-less pending only these words.
For a while I’ve wanted to bring my various shenanigans together in a unified site that would present it appropriately …
It’s no secret that I like and respect horseshoe crabs – for reasons that deserve to elaborated on some time. So when someone shared this CRABTCHA, I had no choice but to respond “Front and centre where it belongs 🧘♂️”
Happy World Ocean Day now prove you are not a robot.
(This CRABTCHA is brought to you by @jopabinia.bsky.social and yours truly.)
A silly idea I’d had for a while, made manifest over the Easter weekend.
This particular picture holds the dubious honour of being suspected to be “AI art that somehow knew how to make hands.” Or “probably traced off a real image.”
I confess – as a possessor of two hands, I did dare to glance at them a few times throughout.
This picture began all the way back in April 2023. I painted the rock fairly quickly and sketched some bits of station stuff, but it didn’t look all that great and was forgotten not long after. Fast forward to the very end of that year when it was spontaneously unforgotten, and I reworked the sketch into something decent. Then kept on sketching and outlining until, in the end, the actual process of painting the complex amounted to duplicating those hours of effort by doing little more than colouring in the fairly rough lines. Oops.
Last year was nice and all, but by the end of it I thought, this is nothing like what I ‘usually’ (implies free time) do; if part of the goal is to practise then next time I should do something more in line with my typical approach. So, more about shapes and shading than lines and stark contrast.
Hence were born the RULES:
one hour
one layer
one colour
one scale
one attempt
Basically a bunch of things to focus on streamlining the drawing process and not get hung up on diversions. It’s not really ‘ink’ besides the lack …
