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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Mörkö’s tunnel inspection

A masked silhouette photographs exposed rebar in a concrete column

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. Here, something else follows suit.