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New prints are available in the shop!

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What's the possibility of getting The Ancient Sword back in the shop? It's my favorite piece of yours I have hanging up, and I want to get a print for my brother.

Sure thing! It should be available again now

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Hey, I received your prints from your sale ( Mostly the ones of the astronauts! ) but many of them turned out very very dark. Is that normal for your prints? I was sad to see many ( Not all of them though! ) would be hard to see even being hung up in a well lit room. Not trying to complain but I don't know much about prints and was concerned!

Thanks for the feedback! I saw some copies that a friend of mine ordered and was also surprised at how dark some of them came out. INPRNT handles the physical production of the prints so that part is out of my hands, but I've uploaded brighter versions of some of the darkest illustrations so that hopefully they will print more visibly in the future.

Since some of those darkest illustrations were from last year's limited run, I've made their lightened versions available again until 4/30. Additionally, with the code ADDVHW you can get 25% off any of my prints until 4/30 as well! I figured anyone who wants to give buying one another shot should at least not have to pay full price for it.

Some examples of the original illustrations vs. the lightened versions are under the cut:

#I'd make it 50% off if I could but the maximum discount INPRNT allows is 25%

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I love signal wizard so much! Would you be willing to show how you did the noise effect? It looks sooooo good and I have no idea where you even started lmao

Sure! It was a pretty messy and experimental process, so there isn't an easy step by step recreation method, but I can go over the tools that I used.

It was largely thanks to the Dissolve blending mode which turns opacity gradients into pixelated ones:

I would first create a solid shape that I liked, then airbrush the edges to be less distinct on a Dissolve layer, and then use a textured brush to carve the airbrushed edges out a bit to make the shape more gritty and rough. Then I put a desaturated noise filter with its brightness levels adjusted to boost the contrast on top of it all. Here's a simplified step through with just one extra tone added at the end to give the shape some volume:

I layered a lot of these in different tones on top of each other with different opacities and blending modes and messed around with differently textured brushes until I was happy with the look. Then I threw in some tidbits of magenta and cyan for a little color and voila! The Noise.

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Hello!! I'm a huge fan of your art and I thought I would ask about your colorwork, because it's genuinely super impressive to me how all your pieces have amazing palettes and they add so so so much to the general atmosphere. Do you have any process to pick colors for pieces? Like using picture references, gradient maps, etc or do you genuinely just eyeball them? I'm super curious :]

But yea I really love what you do and love seeing every new piece!! Have a nice day! Ty for reading <3

Thanks! I very much use references, though I don't use the color picker on them, gotta train the eye. I have an ever-expanding reference folder of photos and paintings with colors that I like so that when I start a new painting and I have an idea of the color scheme I want in mind, I'll already have some reference on hand. Good reference really makes a world of difference!

I also like to bias colors a little bit away from their standard versions:

The more blue green and the more yellow green are both more interesting to me than the "just green" green. Nothing wrong with that average green though, sometimes that's exactly what you need. It's always situational.

Lastly, a fantastic color tip for digital art specifically that I got from Mike Hernandez: Use the RGB sliders instead of the HSB color selection!

By default, Photoshop gives you the HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) color picking setup which looks like this:

It's perfectly functional and has its uses, but it doesn't really feel like mixing color. On the other hand, if you use the RGB sliders:

Now you can add a little more blue if you think that's what the color needs, or you can take away red, add some green, etc. It gets you actually mixing color and thinking more about how the colors relate to each other. It can take some getting used to if you've only used the HSB setup before, but it's worth it!

#and thank you for your patience! #I know this and other questions have been sitting in my inbox for a while #these past months have been the type where there was always something (or several somethings) just a little more urgent on the to-do list #and once again thank you so so much to everyone who has sent in kind messages about my work!! #it would flood this blog if I were to respond to every one but know that I do immensely appreciate every one #they absolutely make my day

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And that's a wrap on the fundraiser, thank you so much to everyone who donated! With the volume of requests I've received, it may take until mid-April for me to complete everyone's creatures, but if you've sent one in it will be drawn!

edit: Still working on the last few, should be finished before the end of April

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By 11:59, do you mean 11:59 PM? I'll donate regardless, I'm just making sure ^^"

Ack, yes, I have added that to the post thanks for letting me know!

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The Final Day!

All commissions submitted by 11:59 PM EST today will be drawn!

From 2/15 until 2/29 if you purchase an e-sim or donate $20 or more to Funds for Gaza or any of the organizations listed under "Donations" here I will draw an inky creature for you!

All you have to do is send an email with a screenshot of your receipt (which must be dated between 2/15 and 2/29) to [email protected] along with a description of the kind of creature you’d like. Feel free to specify what animal or combination of animals you’d like your creature to resemble, as well as any other physical characteristics, or even just to say that you’d like me to surprise you! Colored accents or accessories are also an option. I'll reply with your creature once it's finished.

It probably won't be an issue because of the nature of the subject matter, but just in case I'll note that I will not draw anything NSFW. And unless you request otherwise, I may post finished commissions here.

#donation commissions #free palestine #also with the amount I've received so far it may now take up to a month for me to reply with yours #which is great! #keep em coming!

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2 days left to commission a creature of your own in exchange for donations to Palestine!

#the drawing fern #commissions #donation commissions #free palestine

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Only 3 days remaining!

From 2/15 until 2/29 if you purchase an e-sim or donate $20 or more to Funds for Gaza or any of the organizations listed under "Donations" here I will draw an inky creature for you!

All you have to do is send an email with a screenshot of your receipt (which must be dated between 2/15 and 2/29) to [email protected] along with a description of the kind of creature you’d like. Feel free to specify what animal or combination of animals you’d like your creature to resemble, as well as any other physical characteristics, or even just to say that you’d like me to surprise you! Colored accents or accessories are also an option. I'll reply with your creature once it's finished.

It probably won't be an issue because of the nature of the subject matter, but just in case I'll note that I will not draw anything NSFW. And unless you request otherwise, I may post finished commissions here.

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Some of the donation commissions drawn so far!

Interested in getting a creature of your own in exchange for donations to Palestine? Find out more here!

#the drawing fern #commissions #donation commissions #free palestine

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Thank you so much for all the donations you've made so far! I'm going through the commissions in the order that I've received them so it may take up to a week or two for me to reply with yours, but please do keep them coming!

Additionally, Let's Talk Palestine recently set up Funds for Gaza to help highlight families in urgent need of emergency funds, and I will also accept receipts of donation to any of their GoFundMes (I've edited the original post to include this link as well)

From 2/15 until 2/29 if you purchase an e-sim or donate $20 or more to Funds for Gaza or any of the organizations listed under "Donations" here I will draw an inky creature for you!

All you have to do is send an email with a screenshot of your receipt (which must be dated between 2/15 and 2/29) to [email protected] along with a description of the kind of creature you’d like. Feel free to specify what animal or combination of animals you’d like your creature to resemble, as well as any other physical characteristics, or even just to say that you’d like me to surprise you! Colored accents or accessories are also an option. I'll reply with your creature once it's finished.

It probably won't be an issue because of the nature of the subject matter, but just in case I'll note that I will not draw anything NSFW. And unless you request otherwise, I may post finished commissions here.

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From 2/15 until 2/29 if you purchase an e-sim or donate $20 or more to Funds for Gaza or any of the organizations listed under "Donations" here I will draw an inky creature for you!

All you have to do is send an email with a screenshot of your receipt (which must be dated between 2/15 and 2/29) to [email protected] along with a description of the kind of creature you’d like. Feel free to specify what animal or combination of animals you’d like your creature to resemble, as well as any other physical characteristics, or even just to say that you’d like me to surprise you! Colored accents or accessories are also an option. I'll reply with your creature once it's finished.

It probably won't be an issue because of the nature of the subject matter, but just in case I'll note that I will not draw anything NSFW. And unless you request otherwise, I may post finished commissions here.

#the drawing fern #commissions #donation commissions #free palestine

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Happy Lunar New Year!

#the drawing fern #lunar new year #year of the dragon #dragons

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Happy Appreciate a Dragon Day!

#the drawing fern #dragons #did an extra one this year since it's the year of the dragon!

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After talking with a friend I realized that I should also draw Turn Signal Wizard.

A distant relative of Road Work Wizards, Turn Signal Wizard's natural enemy is the BMW Wizard.

#the drawing fern #wizards

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Happy New Year!

#the drawing fern #art summary #good luck in the new year everyone!