#also a speedpaint will be up in a bit! i finally remembered to record this time so 👍🏻👍🏻

[mystical-one]

you've been working on your dancing! 🎱🎹

[voidsoupz]

Your digital painting is absolutely incredible!! if you dont mind me asking, do you have a general process you follow?

thank you and yes! I start out gathering references (i use PureRef ) then i make some tiny sketches to figure out the composition when I'm happy with it I make it fit the canvas then clean it up a bit and make sure there's no holes so I can select and invert to fill with color, set the color layer to look transparency so i can play around with the colors without worry (I also start the background color here) when the colors are looking good and have some nice shadow/light contrast I merge the sketch layer and color layer so I can just paint on top, I usually make a duplicate of this so i can check if it's actually looking better (for my sanity) If there are complex shapes overlapping i might separate them in a few layers(as few as possible) like for my magma dragon i had a wing layer and a body layer so i could work on the wings without messing up the body and vice versa during all this I might color/value adjust several times the composition might also change a bit I then add final details on a new layer, like little dots, butterflies or what else it might need

then you just sign it and send it:)

here is the layers from the magma dragon, please excuse the dyslexia and messy writing

this one started out on it's side, and with a value sketch rather than a line sketch but i mostly do lines unless it's a noodle dragon, then i always start with value sketching if i don't wanna suffer

hope this helps and isn't to hard to read:))

(I've actually wanted to make speedpaint videos but recording makes my art program slow;-;)

(edit: also remember to flip the canvas frequently)

[gorey]

hello. please explain in as much detail as is comfortable how your music taste has grown and changed over the course of your life. thank you. ?<- question mark for redundancy since you said to ask it but i accidentally didnt phrase it that way

Hi!!! Thank you for this question

So one thing you gotta understand is we're the son of two professional orchestra violinists so a lot of our early introductions to music were classical with the exception of fiona apple when our mom introduced us to the album extraordinary machine when we were like 7. we also listened to a lot of stephane grappelli and django reinhardt, ella fitzgerald singing harold arlen, duke ellington - jazz is one of our favorite genres to this day and fiona is an all time favorite artist so clearly that era stuck with us. lots of the Beatles also and we have a soft spot for some of their songs despite despising them as an entity

we'd listen to radio pop on our computer and record shit thru the speaker onto our shitty voice recorder so we could play in the backyard and listen to it this was a no phone no ipod era

the first artist I can remember us really getting into on our own was owl city before we found out he's rather Christian which we don't really vibe with. our best friend at the time introduced us to some classic rock especially queen. somewhere along the way we discovered patd by watching some random speedpaint and then got rly into them age like 10-11. some mcr too but we never had a fall out boy phase Hashem bless.

I remember buying a Florence + the machine cd at Barnes and noble at like 11? 12? Lungs which is a great album I've always loved their music but I didn't list any of their albums on my big list of favorites just now bc I take issue with some shit she's done. Also got into Muse around that time I think

2012 is when shit really started the idler wheel by fiona apple came out and we were a hot mess so it rly resonated with us. This is also when we got into andrew bird. Discovered a bunch of shit - soley, daughter, marina, lana. really mentally ill period

After summer camp 2013 I got into arctic monkeys and vampire weekend which was at the time really transformative to our approach to music. Then we started dating someone with rly fucking good music taste and everything really fell into place. Got rly into alt-J on my own but my now-ex showed me james blake, rory ferreira, sufjan stevens, the antlers, death grips, bunch of shit. I started getting more into hip hop, got into chance the rapper for a bit before realizing he's kinda mid though acid rap does rly hold up, also discovered glass animals in like 2015, really there was a lot of stuff I don't have very good memory of this time period

2016 was like. Vince staples car seat headrest deerhoof Hiatus kaiyote whatever the kids at Berklee summer were listening to...got rly into a sun kil moon album but later found out he did some creep shit so we don't listen to that anymore which sucks. Our then best friend got us into gorillaz and Kate bush

2017-19 we discovered king krule and mount eerie among other things which was epic and cool. Phil elverum sees straight into our mind it was a revelation. Rory ferreira only keeps getting better and better. Too many things to name. Hyperpop, sophie and PC music, lots of blood orange, we were chronically high as shit

2020 we holed up in the upstairs of our house with a dude who no longer speaks to us to record an album of original music. I finally decided to listen to talking heads and my world was blown open. Also the era of listening to let's eat grandma and grimes (I know) while flagrantly psychotic in quarantine. Shabazz palaces black up shoutout and all the random goofy shit my (ex) bandmate showed me also fugazi

2021 i broke up with good music taste ex and started dating someone else also with very good music taste but in a different direction, got into the Mars Volta and a bunch of shit here you go

And the 2022 one is even longer. By a lot. it speaks for itself really fucking good year for music

And this year I've been getting more into punk shit like cherubs, special interest, a frames; finally got into sonic youth the other day, lots more deerhoof too.

extremely long response thank u so very much for letting us ramble about this!! 💓