The cockroach of writing

Inktober is a thing where anyone interested attempts to make an ink drawing every day of October, or at least a once a week, or anything else in line with the main goal of making good habits. I’m more of the pixeling persuasion, so this year I did indeed produce an assortment of monochromatic pixels […]

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As a quick interlude to the colour stuff, because there’s more where that came from… Last year wasn’t great for my arbitrary “at least once a month” posting schedule, but was rather productive in terms of drawing. Below is a collection of most of those doodles and art-adjacent depictions, arranged roughly chronologically in English reading […]

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Inktober is a yearly event where participants are encouraged to spend the month of October making an inked artwork every day. Or every week, or anything else really – it’s nothing official and there’s nothing to penalise, but the idea is to work on “positive drawing habits” and frequency is almost all of that. Last […]

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This is hopefully the last of me sharing my experiences with beginning digital drawing as I don’t think there’s much significant that could happen from here. Check out my initial impressions followed by using pixel-based brushes if you’re interested. It’s hard to make an introduction here that the title hasn’t already covered. Indeed, I now […]

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Previously I mentioned how much more convenient it is to do drawings digitally as opposed to on a sheet of paper that never gets used again. The picture I managed to convert did indeed look very nice, but was lacking that extra detail. I’ve suspected for a while that pixel-based brushes are necessary for that […]

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Usually I do my drawings on (small) paper with a pencil, but this has the significant downside of not being able to do anything with it. But now, after more than a month (with a long stretch of downtime in the middle), I finally converted an old picture into a digital copy that I can […]

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Until about the early 1900s (don’t quote me on that), many boats were powered by paddle wheels. That’s not too important. The efficiency of a paddle wheel is increased when the individual paddles remain upright the entire time they’re in the water. One way of doing this is with a vertical bucket paddle wheel, which […]

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Only 2 months this time, I’m on such a roll. Not much to say about the whole thing. Click on each image to see some information about it. The c17 maps are next, of which there seem to be 16. So, if these prison maps are anything to go by, expect that to take 130 […]

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