Mastodawn

🎨 📹 Timelapse/Making-of video: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/038.mp4

It's not often that I paint directly from scratch with no sketch or line art, so I wanted to share this one. It's a risky technique, and I'm even eyeballing all the perspective, no grids here. I also avoid blending and smoothing, showing the brushstrokes on the canvas more clearly. I'm doing this to incorporate 'errors made naturally by humans', and I like it. It feels closer to the spontaneous style I like in my ballpoint pen sketches.

cryptax Feb 4

@davidrevoy amazing! But I'm surprised you put in the text first, image after! I do it the other way, but I'm a real amateur, so maybe actually what I do is stupid!

them#tic Feb 4

@cryptax @davidrevoy This had me think of printing text and only text, then penciling.

@thematic @cryptax I took this habit after applying this (gold) tutorial, that was an in-house comic 'tips and tricks' at Disney: https://www.tumblr.com/fundz64/150897623108/aapstra-disneys-comic-strip-artists-kit-by (page 1 shows the problems, page two the solution).

The max area size of the panel is rarely what we can fully use to express the art, character and acting. The space occupied/eaten by the text speechbubbles substracts to the full area of the panel (and usually goes on the top). That's why I prefer now to place it first.

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cryptax Feb 4

@davidrevoy @thematic thanks! Very interesting!

cryptax Feb 4

@davidrevoy @thematic this is gold mine!!!

@davidrevoy wow!

@davidrevoy Thank you! That's awesome. Your talent is truly impressive.

@Leah

Thank you!

ArneBab Feb 4

@davidrevoy If you hadn’t written that, I wouldn’t have realized it.

(the only thing that feels a bit off is the toilet seat)

EDIT: loos ⇒ feels ← strange typos I do as of late …

Rune Skovbo Johansen Feb 4

@davidrevoy This comic looks quite different to me than your others (also before I read your description). Less traditional cartoon-like and more painterly. Somehow even the facial features and expressions seem quite affected. Both styles are nice, but there’s a certain charm and expressiveness to this one here.

@runevision Thank you

Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{Feb 5

@runevision
+1

@davidrevoy
… and in both styles it’s the details. Here: that parro…, I mean AI-shaped paper holder in the last panel got me giggling.

edgarej Feb 4

@davidrevoy nice, i love it.

Raina Raven Feb 4

@davidrevoy impressive

rival Feb 5

@davidrevoy I have a couple of illustrators in my family (partner, nephew) and I'm always insisting in that, to my humble taste, the more artistic, expressive, interesting, poetic, etc., version of their draws, is that which they call drafts, sketches, etc. I understand the ideas of clean and polished, but for me the magic is mostly in that primitive or improvised phase, where the creative search is still an uncut gem, let's say... I guess, tastes. But for me, seems like live music, let's say. ❤️

@rival 💜 Thank you. I sort of learn more and more to appreciate this small "built-in' mistakes that I have hard time to correct while sketching or painting directly (eg. Like on this ballpoint pen sketch on my sketchbook). Those 'honnest mistakes' due to the process itself and skill is a good "human made" signature in our times. When I post fix my art too much, I get comment suspicious that I used AIgen now anyway. 😆

rival Feb 6

@davidrevoy I really love this. Really beautiful work. ♥️ 👏 I guess is in general the aesthetics of preference to me. But this illustration in particular is awesome. 🤗

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops Feb 5

@davidrevoy this is beautiful and fascinating to watch, like a dream coming into focus, the opposite way round to how I've been trying to draw

(is this video on your website?)

https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/

@ifixcoinops Thank you! Yes, it approach the scene with big blocks of sort of Nintendo64 low poly resolution ( a pass named 'blocking' ), then directly on the top a paint-over with smaller brush, and layers of glazing to adjust the tones, light and shadows.

Yes, it's on my server, but I don't have yet a front-end php/html/css page to list the making-of (on my TODO!). The directory is here:

Index of /0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of

Kevin Granade Feb 5

@davidrevoy I watched the video before reading your comment so I was already thinking along the lines of, "oh wow sketching with blobs of color, I wonder what the tradeoffs are vs line art".
Now I'm really curious how many different traditions of... for lack of vocabulary, "order of operations" for constructing a piece of art there are.

I would guess a lot but I'm very ignorant in this area.

@kevingranade Thank you. Your intuition is right: a lot! But the main family branches are (imho):
- Sketches/line colored then optionally painted over (the colored drawing workflow)
- Greyscale painting then recolored (the grisaille)
- Direct painting ('Alla prima' family), the one here.

I started painting this way 11 years ago ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lMLEuxSLk ) but I went back to colored drawing because I couldn't paint perspective, anatomy and pose.

Maybe now, with more skill, I can revisit.

Speedpainting Timelapse, Krita 2.8

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Fell Feb 5

@davidrevoy I like that you can see the brushstrokes in the final image.

@fell Thank you! I'll try to keep this economy of brush stroke. It's more difficult than smoothing all surfaces, but on the pro side, it is slightly faster, and the result feels more human and spontaneous, so I have motivation to train this ability and continue.

ArneBab Feb 5

@davidrevoy Your process seems almost as if your molding clay, refining the forms until they fit, but instead of clay you mold color.

Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸Feb 4

@davidrevoy
I feel this comic so much.

Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Feb 4

@realtegan @davidrevoy

Ditto! Ever so ditto...

Not a Spring Onion Feb 4

@davidrevoy At least on the toilet paper it makes sense...

Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette Feb 4

@davidrevoy We will fight the avian intelligence with all our wingless might

mohs Feb 5

at least we know, that the step after putting it everywhere is the inevitable collapse.

stefan (stefbun)Feb 4

@davidrevoy you are still really traumatized by AI aren't you?

Christian Waidner Feb 4

@davidrevoy was at a tech conference today. Same vibes. So many booths that presented the same slop.

Leah Feb 4

@davidrevoy I feel it sooooooo much! Thanks for putting the feeling in a comic!

raphael Feb 4

@davidrevoy oof, this one is so real, it hurts…

BrazMogu (i.e. Bruno Guedes)Feb 4

@davidrevoy at least it's a place you can say it deserves to be in

*really* in

VANTABlack Feb 4

@davidrevoy At this rate AI in the bathroom wouldn't surprise me since everything must be smart now and every smart thing must contain :sparkle: AI :sparkle:

ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES Feb 4

@davidrevoy

but i like Weird Al Yanovic

(/s)

try this:

imagine every "AI" you see is "Al" and you can turn it into a game of "who is this Al everyone keeps talking about? he seems important, but I don't know this Al. Could it be Weird Al? Al Pacino? Al Green? Al Gore? ...Wait! It's Al Roker!"

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Feb 4

@davidrevoy Be sure to have the AI controlled app so you can get the toilet dispenser to work.

🇨🇦 Mandy Roy

Feb 4

@Dianora @davidrevoy Oi don't encourage them...

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Feb 4

@capergrrl @davidrevoy I'm just irritated today. I have a parcel coming today and the damn company wanted me to download an app to track the delivery. Fuck that.

Bredroll Feb 4

@davidrevoy AI is eating itself, I can imagine a blue cannibal parrot already

@Bredroll

Oh, that's a brillant idea. Thank you for sharing, I'll see if I can do something with it. I'll keep it in a corner of my brain.

fcat Feb 4

@davidrevoy Investors and private equity usually turns products into a mess that fails to serve the user well. "We suck more, and that's guaranteed"

Panta Rhei Feb 4

@davidrevoy in the last panel she's misunderstanding the intention of the Avian Intelligence.

It's surely meant to remind her: Aw, 💩 - oh, by the way … 🤪

SCNR

Gabriele Marcosanti

Feb 4

@davidrevoy "Wipe your ass with our AI Toilet Paper™ today, for an enchanted user experience"

Daniel, aka. CactiChameleon9 Feb 4

@davidrevoy Well, at least AI is in its rightful place in the last frame

Michael ☕️Feb 4

@davidrevoy
Report reason:
[✔️] I'm in this comic and i dont like it

Peter Feb 4

@davidrevoy

Took a shuttle today to the airport, and it was playing art deco retro-futuristic slop reels alongside (presumably) slop jazz.

It was bizarre. Playing ads at least makes sense?

Carlos Solís Feb 4

Well, at least they already know what they think about them, as they handily put their logo straight in the toilet paper so people join the dots

Coralie Renée Feb 4

@davidrevoy

well... as toilet paper (PQ), c'est plutôt bien trouvé

Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)Feb 4

@davidrevoy
Feels like that yes.

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective Feb 4

@davidrevoy I love this whole series 😄

awww! Thank you!

@davidrevoy Of course it's in the bathroom. The toilet flushes directly in to the AI so it can generate "new ideas".

lp0 on fire

Feb 4

@hellomiakoda @davidrevoy, no bathroom there that I can see…

Ken Brucker Feb 4

@lp0_on_fire that’s a water closet in the last frame.

dontony Feb 4

@davidrevoy my coworkers have started generating their reponses to me with AI, they overuse emojis and it’s making me tear my nonexistent hair out.

@dontony I totally understand. Since I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing , my AI style radar went super sensitive to many things more than the em-dash and emojis in lists: Rule of three, Elegant variation, False ranges "from ... to", and more... It's everywhere, esp, companies communications/blog now.

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia