@thedammitch
Award-Winning All-Ages Artist, Character Designer, Author, Illustrator, Full-time Twitch Art Streamer. https://twitch.tv/thedammitch Also bald, and I have three cats. Links, Art, Commissions, and Contact: https://thedammitch.carrd.co/
I wish that Procreate was available on a full-fledged computer, where you could put tons of processing power and RAM behind it to really let its potential shine.
But yeah, CSP should be perpetual license on mobile/tablet.
Clip Studio Paint 5.0 is nout now, and on sale! www.clipstudio.net/en/
HOT TIP: When buying, switch currency to CAD from USD, as that will actually save you money. I'm saving about ten bucks on the EX upgrade by paying in CAD after the exchange rate, instead of paying in USD.
I had a Wacom Cintiq, and replaced it with a Huion Kamvas Pro 24 four years ago. The Huion was a massive upgrade, I felt.
That said, mine is a first-gen model, as I wanted 1440p, and buttons on the device. The new Huions being 4K are nice, but I love my old-model physical hotkeys too much to lose.
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
He later walked by with a new bag and a ladder.
He's taking his case to a higher court.
Sorry, gang, I can already tell I'm getting really cranky and grumpy. Gonna hide myself away so I don't snap at someone.
It's been a rough couple of weeks, and I think I let it get to me.
I'll try and be back tomorrow.
Easy, pick the best Pokemon. Which is clearly Brock. He's a psychic type, and his attacks are Dad Joke, and Charm Lady.
Charm Lady is not very effective.
If all else fails, Magkikarp.
Back home. Whole left side of my face is still numb, but at least nothing hurts. Tongue is also numb, so talking is all slurred. Going to have to chalk today up as a loss, unfortunately. :(
Well, I just broke a tooth while eating a sandwich. Apparently my tuna had some bone in it. Joy. Off to the dentist. This won't be cheap...
Needless to say, stream will be delayed, at the very least. Will update when I can.
For spotting cancer cells, and cleaning up/upscaling video and audio signals, yes.
For art? No.
Gotta love it when someone sends in a commission request for:
1. Something I specifically state I don't draw.
2. They send me an AI image ref for the pose.
Also, it wasn't even a good AI ref.
No. Get out.
And Discord is borked again. Never change, Discord.
Wait, no. Change that, Discord. This happens to often. =P
Mike Richardson is an amazing guy, and he's why Dark Horse was successful. He knew that keeping the IP rights in the hands of the creators was the correct way to do comics. It made less money for Dark Horse, but because of it they were able to get in some truly amazing talent, with landmark series. I think only IDW might allow the sort of freedom for its creators that Dark Horse did. At Emerald City Comic Con, in 2004, the place was dead. Just plain dead. No one there, really bad year. I went and met all the creators I had planned to see, got stuff signed, got some rare stuff, and then had a lot of time left over. So, because I mostly read stuff from Dark Horse at the time, I went to the Dark Horse booth, and looked through what they had. The three guys running the booth were bored out of their minds, and Mike was one of them. I did not know who he was at the time. But he asked me what I liked, and what I didn't like, and basically we spent about three hours going over everything at their booth, giving my feedback on it, hearing from them about why some thing are the way they were, and also asking me about my projects. By the end, I still didn't know I was talking to the CEO for three hours. Flash forward to 2007, San Diego Comic Con. Super crowded, 130k people, and I'm passing through the Dark Horse area, on my way to somewhere else, when I hear a voice call out, "Hey, Mitch!" I turn and look around, and it's Mike. He recognized me in the crowd, after three years and having only met once. Plus he remembered my name! He also remembered some of my projects I had talked about. We talked for another half-hour, and then he asked if I'd like to meet Joss Whedon. At the time, none of the bad stuff was known about him, but I still politely declined as I wasn't too familiar with his work, so it would be awkward. Mike laughed and thanked me for my honesty. He then cut me in at the front of the line to meet Mike Mignola and get some stuff signed and he wished me well.
I'm very glad to have met Mike Richardson, albeit only twice, and I'll be forever grateful for how me made me feel in those short points in my life.
Thank you, Mike. You made me, and so many other fans, feel special, and you really meant it.
Shame on you, Embracer Group, and @darkhorse.com
Awesome covers, but, why is the first one $3.99, and the others are $4.99?
Photograph of a carbon fiber look hood scoop for a Mini Cooper. It's not actually carbon fiber, it's just plastic which has been hydrodipped to look like carbon fiber. Just like most "carbon fiber" things. On the plus side, it's probably the same weight as carbon fiber, and it's a lot cheaper!
I'm a good reporter. I got the scoop.
I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉
hey look a fun history lesson!
A work-in-progress image of what appears to be a movie poster for an animated movie. The title is sketched in, reading, "The Blood of Aphraxad." Beneath it is a brown-furred paw openly grasping a large ruby, which appears to be melting into blood dripping through its fingers. Below are two characters: a tall, slender weasel, and a shoter, portly muskrat who is stood upon a box to be the same height as his friend. Artwork by The Dammitch.
Behold, a piece I love, but will probably never be finished.
#art #WIP #NoAI #furry #furryart #weasel #muskrat
A giant black squirrel dressed in a hanfu standing on a tree surveying a Chinese mountainscape.
On sight
Stream Art Challenge: Squirrel, Ancient China
A giant black squirrel surveying the temple at a distance.
Art done in Adobe Illustrator CS5.1, Adobe Photoshop CS5.1
#DigitalArt #Digitaldrawing #ArtChallenge #squirrel #ancientchina
This is terrible. Absolutely awful decision by the horrendous Embracer Group. Say goodbye to Dark Horse. =(
bleedingcool.com/comics/mike-...
You can also refer to anyone you know who bought a house as a hoMEOWner, too.
No one can stop you.
Not only were they printed with the Dark Horse imprint, but the creators were allowed to pursue their own creation how they saw fit, with minimal interference from the publisher.
And that's what Dark Horse was, a publisher, not a controlling force. You made your comic, they published it.
Mike Richardson is an amazing guy, and he's why Dark Horse was successful. He knew that keeping the IP rights in the hands of the creators was the correct way to do comics. It made less money for Dark Horse, but because of it they were able to get in some truly amazing talent, with landmark series. I think only IDW might allow the sort of freedom for its creators that Dark Horse did. At Emerald City Comic Con, in 2004, the place was dead. Just plain dead. No one there, really bad year. I went and met all the creators I had planned to see, got stuff signed, got some rare stuff, and then had a lot of time left over. So, because I mostly read stuff from Dark Horse at the time, I went to the Dark Horse booth, and looked through what they had. The three guys running the booth were bored out of their minds, and Mike was one of them. I did not know who he was at the time. But he asked me what I liked, and what I didn't like, and basically we spent about three hours going over everything at their booth, giving my feedback on it, hearing from them about why some thing are the way they were, and also asking me about my projects. By the end, I still didn't know I was talking to the CEO for three hours. Flash forward to 2007, San Diego Comic Con. Super crowded, 130k people, and I'm passing through the Dark Horse area, on my way to somewhere else, when I hear a voice call out, "Hey, Mitch!" I turn and look around, and it's Mike. He recognized me in the crowd, after three years and having only met once. Plus he remembered my name! He also remembered some of my projects I had talked about. We talked for another half-hour, and then he asked if I'd like to meet Joss Whedon. At the time, none of the bad stuff was known about him, but I still politely declined as I wasn't too familiar with his work, so it would be awkward. Mike laughed and thanked me for my honesty. He then cut me in at the front of the line to meet Mike Mignola and get some stuff signed and he wished me well.
I'm very glad to have met Mike Richardson, albeit only twice, and I'll be forever grateful for how me made me feel in those short points in my life.
Thank you, Mike. You made me, and so many other fans, feel special, and you really meant it.
Shame on you, Embracer Group, and @darkhorse.com
This is terrible. Absolutely awful decision by the horrendous Embracer Group. Say goodbye to Dark Horse. =(
bleedingcool.com/comics/mike-...
It's been a long, slow build, but hit critical mass, it seems. So, there's nothing to be done but stop and face it head on, handling things I've put off, and making needed changes.
Not how I wanted things to go, but at least I'm still here to realize it, and to make things better. See you Sunday.
I came to some realizations last night that my near panic attacks were what spiked my blood pressure, and those attacks were brought on by self-inflicted anxiety.
I need to step back this week and fix some things in my life or it'll just get worse. Calling off streams for the week to make a change.
Sad thing is, it used to be good, and grew out of a community which really loved anime. Hopefully we'll get something like that again, but Crunchyroll has exclusive deals with some of the bigger studios.
Still, there's lots of great stuff to watch there, so enjoy your week for all it's worth!
Comic book cover layout of Bugg Bearnard, everyone's favorite bugbear with extra bear, done in the style of Usagi Yojimbo creator, Stan Sakai. It featrures Bugg in a purple kimon with bear-claw mon crests, standing in a dark forest with trees towering overhead. He has a sheathed katana held over his shoulder, one hand into his kimono, and his wakizashi through his belt at his side. His eyepatch is replaced with a bronze tsuba, or guard, from a sword. The piece is done in digital watercolors. A tokage lizard peeks up from the bushes in the lower left corner. Artwork by The Dammitch.
Ahh, the fun time I tried my best at the style of Usagi Yojmbo creator, Stan Sakai.
Think I did fairly well, what do you think?
#art #NoAI #UsagiYojmbo #bugbear #BuggBearnard #furry #furryart
When Putin needed pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's authoritarian system of online censorship that effectively bans LGBTQ speech, he did it through the EXACT same moral panic about social media and kids that liberals and many leftists are spreading today.
