Patrick Gaertner3d ago
“Men find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

One of the more recent books to land in my favorites list, the tale of a semi-reformed pirate queen getting the band back together to hunt a magical artifact is a hell of a tale, and I've become a big fan of Captain Al-Sirafi.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #digitalart #digitalsketch #digitaldrawing #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #aminaalsirafi #theadventuresofaminaalsirafi #pirate #piratequeen #bookcharacter
LolaJun 16

Luckily I'm doing a lot of commissions, unluckily (?) I keep forgetting to update my social media accounts lol.
Here are some commissions I did recently!
Follow me everywhere to see more of my work:
https://linktr.ee/lagatalola.dibujos

#twitch #streaming #doodle #boost #live #livestream #twitchstreamer #cafecito #kofi #art #cats #digitalArt #mastoart #artistonmastodon #doodles #digitaldoodle #cats #catmeme #catdrawing #petportrait #opencommissions #cafecitoapp #redbubble #teepublic #inprnt #vgen

Patrick GaertnerJun 9
“What I’ve started I must finish. I’ve gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.”

- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story.

The Neverending Story is one of the most important novels of my life, and while Bastian is obviously the most important characters in the story, I've always been drawn to Atreyu, the young boy tasked with trying to save the world.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #digitalart #digitalsketch #digitaldrawing #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #theneverendingstory #atreyu #michaelende
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 7
🎉💻 Behold, the most necessary #innovation of the century: a digital doodle of Tolkien's imaginary playpen! 🌍✨ Now you can pointlessly click around an unlicensed internet map to revisit fictional events you’ve already read about—because who wouldn't want to measure the distance between #Rivendell and #Mordor during a coffee break? 🙄📚
https://middle-earth-interactive-map.web.app/ #digitaldoodle #Tolkien #internetmap #fictionalworlds #HackerNews #ngated
Middle-earth — Interactive Map

Explore an interactive map of Tolkien's Middle-earth with over 100 events from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings.

Risto A. PajuApr 5

It was twenty years ago today
Sam L Jackson fought the snakes in air
They've been going in and out of memes
Guess they're funny if you're in your teens
So may I just remind you of
The act you've known for all these years
Monty Python's "Hovercraft full of eels".

#snakesonaplane #myhovercraftisfullofeels

#digitaldoodle #meander #matopeli #creepycrawly #wiggle #slither #pythoncode #opengl #algorithmicart #algorist #creativecoding #artxcode #computerart #ittaide #kuavataide #iterati

Patrick GaertnerMar 5
"A Dry Martini. One. In a deep champagne goblet. Three measures of Gordons, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel."
- Ian Fleming, "Casino Royale"

I love James Bond, and the original Fleming novels are such fun and dark little noir espionage tales. Bond is a real bastard in those books, and he's fascinating.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #fanart #digitalart #digitaldrawing #digitalsketch #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #jamesbond #jamesbondart #ianfleming #casinoroyale
Patrick GaertnerFeb 20
“I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

I'm a huge fan of private eye stories, and my all-time favorite is Raymond Chandler's perpetually put-upon detective, Phillip Marlowe.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #digitalart #digitalsketch #digitaldrawing #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #privateeye #privatedetective #raymondchandler #phillipmarlowe #novelcharacter #fanart
Patrick GaertnerFeb 14
"Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
- Agatha Christie "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"

Oh Hercule Poirot, what a little weirdo. He's always such a jolly little man, even when he's about to explain why someone is a murderer. And, no, this whole series isn't just going to be fat mustachioed men.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #digitalart #digitalsketch #digitaldrawing #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #fanart #book #bookart #herculepoirot #agathachristie #bookcharacter
Patrick GaertnerFeb 5
"“I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.”

I realized I have really fallen off drawing, so I decided to give myself a bit of a challenge. I'm going to draw characters from some of my favorite novels. I'm starting off with my favorite book of all time, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, with his incredibly unlikeable protagonist, Ignatius Reilly.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #digitalsketch #digitaldrawing #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #book #ignatiusjreilly #aconfederacyofdunces #ohfortuna #novelcharacter
Patrick GaertnerJan 15
I recently played a one-shot with my D&D crew, and got to play my usual one-shot character, Zuko the Burly! He's a moronic dwarf monk who fights like a bare-knuckle boxer, has an intelligence of 6, and is just the friendliest doofus in the world.

#sketch #drawing #doodle #illustration #digitalart #digitalsketch #digitaldrawing #digitaldoodle #digitalillustration #dungeonsanddragons #dnd #monk #dwarf #dndcharacter #fantasy