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im going to explode. i finished a leatherwork project for someone yesterday that took me three days to make and i just went to pick it up and finish the edges and ITS MOLDY

i must have not let it dry as well as it should have before applying the finish.

Had to throw the entire thing out.

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Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (Austrian,1891-1978)

Angora cat, 1925 

Linocut

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It turned out pretty good. The engraving is not as deep as i wanted - i was hoping it'd be deep enough that if i work antiquing paste on, the recesses would get colored by that, and that would kind of hide the obviously modern laser burns - but it turns out the machine was improperly calibrated and wasn't going as deep, so i might get better results next time. Still, i think this will look pretty good if i work it a little.

I made another quick one as a test, with more variation of depth - the above drawing is binary, black and white, and this was a quick grayscale edit of an image i took from a museum website. The engraver is evidently capable of engraving different depths, but i don't think the results are that nice for leather. It just ends in a bit of a burnt mess, huh? Makes sense though - rather than tooling, which depresses and manipulates the top layer of the leather, this just removes it and burns the fleshy inside.

I reserved the use of the laser cutter and engraver at the local library for an hour tomorrow to make some jigs and things for my leatherworking, and I want to see how the machine handles engraving leather while I'm there, so I made this quick profile portrait of a random elf queen or something to use as a test. If it works out, I'll probably turn it into the decorative front guard of a dagger frog (a frog is the thing you hang from your belt that holds weapons)

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I am one of the dozens of people worldwide who do not live in the United States. Please do not tag me in call to action posts for American political action; I cannot help you.

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I reserved the use of the laser cutter and engraver at the local library for an hour tomorrow to make some jigs and things for my leatherworking, and I want to see how the machine handles engraving leather while I'm there, so I made this quick profile portrait of a random elf queen or something to use as a test. If it works out, I'll probably turn it into the decorative front guard of a dagger frog (a frog is the thing you hang from your belt that holds weapons)

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#this looks so good i opened up aseprite and will be doing art for the rest of the day.

this is the best thing ive ever heard anyone say on my art. im ecstatic and wish you all the joys of creation

Prototype portrait for a game project.

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Someone tagged the living saint portrait #old favorites

Girl i made that like last month

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Hi! Do you have a YouTube channel where you post about your game? I could have sworn I scrolled past a video about a vampire farm game on my recommended, it disappeared because I accidentally refreshed my feed😅

Hello to you as well! I do not - I started working on this in earnest only a couple weeks ago, and I don't really feel like I have enough to actually start sharing things. I'm only really posting it here because, as my art blog, this is as much a log I keep of things I make as it is a way for me to share things.

You might, however, have encountered a video on Moonlight Peaks, which has a very similar you're-a-vampire-and-you-farm premise, but which is much further along in development and, presumably, not made by a single lesbian who can't program. I only learned of it's existence myself just today, but it looks neat.

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you can pet the cat in whatever the fuck my game will be called

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girl watch out theres skellingtons !

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watch out she has a GUN

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Hey, maybe the croissant can be a kipfel. They'd look pretty much the same at this scale.

Some 16x16 item sprites I've been doing for a weekly challenge in a pixel art server I'm in. Maybe I can use them for vampire farm, though technically croissants would be anachronistic for a game set in a ~14th-15th century analogue. That said, the vampire's outfit is anachronistic too, so maybe that's fine.

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Some 16x16 item sprites I've been doing for a weekly challenge in a pixel art server I'm in. Maybe I can use them for vampire farm, though technically croissants would be anachronistic for a game set in a ~14th-15th century analogue. That said, the vampire's outfit is anachronistic too, so maybe that's fine.

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Running water seems like an issue for vampire farmer.

Also there’s a pun somewhere about you being a necromancer because you’re animating the dead.

lmao i suppose i am at that! and yeah, it absolutely is - I'm considering having streams and rivers be natural barriers blocking the way to areas you have to unlock.

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i love your vampire farm! the art and idea are like. astoundingly good! can i ask what size canvas you use for the sprites and portraits?

Thank you! You sure can, though I'm not sure you'll be impressed with my answer: I only got into pixel art properly about a month ago, and all the art I've done so far is really just like, visdev for this project. I don't have set scales for everything yet, I should probably figure that out. Looking at my working file, the living saint portrait - that's the armoured woman - is... 392 by 337 pixels, so I suppose I should use something like a 400 x 350 maximum for the portraits. It not being a multiple of 128 bothers me as a trained 3d artist but :shrug:. The character sprites seem to be about 80 pixels high. Again, I should probably establish a standard before I start making real assets, huh?

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#does 'vampire farm' mean that the vampire is farming the local population for blood#or is it an actual wheat-and-cows farmer who just happens to serve cunt while doing so A mixture of both, I suppose? The general premise is thus: You're an ancient, millennia-old vampire, and you're bored. You've done everything, experienced it all, and it's gotten old. As you wander your dark castle aimlessly, a letter tumbled out of the dessicated pockets of one of your past meals. The letter, addressed from your meal's grandparents, contains the deed to a farm just outside the town nearby your castle. You've never been a farmer before, how hard could it be?

various things ive been trying and making for a videogame passion project. It's been over a decade since I last made pixel art... probably more like a decade and a half, honestly - I used to do edits back in my fire emblem fandom days. It's been interesting to (re)learn.

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Nothing I've made has ever gotten more than a handful of notes before; I'm not used to this much attention. Hi? Glad you all like her, I guess.