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Never done of these before. Art vs artist! I really didn't make much this year.

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could i have more lady of the lake passages?

Lancelot Part I: 9. Portrayal of Lancelot as a Boy.

Send me a character and I'll reply with a Vulgate passage!

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Had to design brandy's armor, since she actually wears full plate now. It still needed to be slutty, though. I wanted it to look like it's not quite clear what's her skin and what's armour, so I made it look the same as her skin!

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hi hello hi, your dev log gave me more inspiration to create than anything lately, i'm now committed to start a cult in your name and bound my soul to you for life. do you have ko-fi?

Hello! That's very sweet of you - I remember having used ko-fi a long time ago so I checked and I do, here. I think I have a patreon as well, but much like the ko-fi I never really got around to setting it up properly. It's a little intimidating, you know? I feel like I'd be committing to some sort of regular update schedule of Content, which historically I've never been able to do, so they've just been sitting there largely unused. I'm delighted to hear I helped inspire you. Of all the comments I receive, those are my favourite - it's so hard to keep making art sometimes, isn't it? If we can keep inspiring each other, there will be that much more of it in the world.

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anyway that's not actually what I currently feel like. I wish - I do some of my best work when hyperfixating to the point of neglecting everything else in my work (this is not healthy) - but it isn't. It just reminds me of it to be making a design doc. Why would I write down my ideas if I can be actively implementing them instead?

I'm finally tackling vampsim's design document and god. I mean, I know I need to do this, that it's good to actually put all my ideas on (metaphorical) paper, that it'll be a useful reference for the future, etcetera, but I can't help it - when I want to work on the game it feels sooooo bad to just be... writing down ideas instead. I don't WANT to write down ideas. I want to MAKE them. It's unbearable.

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(taking a much needed shower for all of ten minutes) NOOOOOOO!!! LET ME OUT! LET ME WORK!!

I'm finally tackling vampsim's design document and god. I mean, I know I need to do this, that it's good to actually put all my ideas on (metaphorical) paper, that it'll be a useful reference for the future, etcetera, but I can't help it - when I want to work on the game it feels sooooo bad to just be... writing down ideas instead. I don't WANT to write down ideas. I want to MAKE them. It's unbearable.

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It reminds me of when I'm deep in the throes of a hyperfixation. It becomes physically unbearable to do anything except satisfy the fixation - even making a sandwich feels like raking myself over a cheese grater.

I'm finally tackling vampsim's design document and god. I mean, I know I need to do this, that it's good to actually put all my ideas on (metaphorical) paper, that it'll be a useful reference for the future, etcetera, but I can't help it - when I want to work on the game it feels sooooo bad to just be... writing down ideas instead. I don't WANT to write down ideas. I want to MAKE them. It's unbearable.

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I'm finally tackling vampsim's design document and god. I mean, I know I need to do this, that it's good to actually put all my ideas on (metaphorical) paper, that it'll be a useful reference for the future, etcetera, but I can't help it - when I want to work on the game it feels sooooo bad to just be... writing down ideas instead. I don't WANT to write down ideas. I want to MAKE them. It's unbearable.

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I made a bluesky account: https://bsky.app/profile/aitze.bsky.social. I will probably mostly use it to post about vampsim, if I use it at all.

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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.