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miss-m-winks · 4 years

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Instead of a summary of my art from each month of 2019 I’ve compiled a summary of my art from every year of this decade! Finding some of that old art was incredibly difficult.

And making an exact image description of all this would be too long to write or read so I’m going to do my best to describe all this in a concise and interesting way.

2010: I was a sophomore in high school, so about 15 years old. These two drawings are in pencil and colored pencil, one of some random girl character wearing brightly colored clothes and a rainbow shawl thing (??) walking on clouds it seems. No idea what that was meant to be about. The other is a reference for my old oc, the very first one I ever had, based on myself. She looks human but with unicorn ears and a horn, plus wings and a tail. I hadn’t figured out animal legs yet either so she has perfectly normal human legs that just end in hooves.

2011: still mostly pencil, colored pencil, I don’t remember if I had a laptop yet. I would have been 16 years old at this time. I picked a self portrait here, a coloreddrawing of myself in black concert dress playing the trumpet because I got to do a solo in jazz band and I was very happy about it. The other art I picked for this year is digital but in the old ms paint program (you know before it tried to be fancy with a few more realistic tools and was only pixel art tools) I do believe I was still using the family computer for this, with a mouse. I was really creative with the tools. It’s my unicorn girl oc again, flying through the sky. I included a progress image, showing how I made it. I’m so glad I saved the steps and posted them it’s really cool to see my old art process for that.

2012: 17 years old, and I think I finally had a laptop with a good art program on it by this time but I still did mostly traditional art, lots of colored pencil work. I found this old experimental art I did that year, a colored pencil drawing of a girl sitting on a tree branch, but the background is all digital, a painting of a fantasy night sky with three moons. It actually looks kinda good, the edges of the colored pencil drawing are crisp and smooth and the digital background doesn’t look out of place. I mean the shading is a bit of a mess and I used white clouds on a black night sky which is a bit funny looking but it isn’t that bad. The other image is a colored pencil drawing that was really ambitious for me at the time. I had this cool idea to draw Death with sunset colored wings, all poetic and stuff. Why did I also draw death with blue skin and horns? I don’t know. Why is death sitting on an ambiguous brown cliff overlooking a cemetery? Well I guess I just was having trouble finding any other way to make a nice background and have death above a cemetery. I should redo this one, it’s a really good concept.

2013: my last year of high school, 18 years old. I was doing digital art a lot more often this year and expanding the diversity of my ocs. One of these images is a digital drawing of two of my first characters of color, two male black elves (black as in African-based) smoochin. My first black oc was also my first queer oc, jayvyn. A gay elf. There are a lot of issues with the way I originally conceptualized his story but even when I was thinking he was the only queer person in his town and there was homophobia towards him (I was only just dipping my toes outside the mindset I grew up in) I gave him a whole massive group of friends (a boys' lacrosse team he was on don’t ask me why lacrosse I have no idea I don’t even know much about lacrosse it was a weird choice) and those friends were extremely loyal and supportive of him, even to the point of going on dates with him just to make him happy. and again, he was the only gay character I had so I was writing a bunch of straight dudes taking their one gay friend on dates in a town full of people who were at least vaguely homophobic, I definitely had a lot of growing to do in my writing and my own mindset but I’m kinda proud of myself for doing that? I could have done so much worse with my first queer oc and my first real step into characters of color, but I made the whole story about this tight knit group of boys who were all such close loving friends. (Gee I wonder if this had anything to do with my being ace and not knowing it yet). Oh yeah, the other image is also there, that one is from a photoshop class I took. We had a three-way folding mirrors the bathroom at the time so I put on a hoodie, turned out the bathroom lights, folded the mirrors in and shoved my face into the gap and then took a photo with the flash while holding my mouth open in a silent scream. The result is this really cool series of screaming faces at different angles, which I then ran through a few filters and major contrast adjustment. Could be an edgy generic horror movie cover lol

2014: 19 years old, and I just finished a year of community college and then left on a church mission for 18 months. I probably should have used some of my first college art class drawings for this year's summary but I was using my old deviantart gallery to collect these old images so I forgot I had all that college art too. These two digital images are pretty dynamic in different ways. Dynamic lighting and dark skin, an experiment I was doing to figure out lighting better for my characters of color. That’s Jayvyn again I think, with lightning shooting out of his hand because I sure love making characters with lightning powers. The other is dynamic in the posing and I’m still incredibly happy with it, it’s a drawing of a grey centaur from behind, bucking in panic because a kitten pounced on its foot. Definitely still one of the best centaur drawings I have ever made.

2015: 20 years old, I was actually on my church mission for this entire year so finding art from that year was very very tricky. One is just a small pencil drawing on another oc, Ronan with his cool mechanical leg playing fiddle I guess? I was doing a lot of synesthesia doodles that year so there are lots of swirly lines coming off the fiddle. I was also surprised to find this really neat digital art I made of Ravio from link between worlds, I almost forgot I did find a way to make digital art on my mission (no access to my laptop, limited apps we were allowed to use, super limited access to normal computers except for emails and such, always busy doing important stuff) I discovered the drawing function in the iPad notes app and every time I had time I would use it until I figured out how to make it work for me, using only my fingers, the limited color palette options, and this marker tool that had one size and only multiplied (except when using white) this is definitely one of the best ones, but I don’t know where the rest went. I had a lot. I was stunned to find this because it really looks like I could have done it on a laptop, can’t believe I forgot I did that.

2016: 21 years old. Had to get used to a laptop again. Also I created my current main oc Morianten during my church mission so here I have the very first full body digital art of him! I’ve definitely changed his anatomy a lot since then, made him much more bird like. Kinda funny to look at this old one and see just how differently I draw him now, only three years later. I also have here a digital painting of some other members of morianten's adoptive family, his dad and little brother having a father son race in nice racing wheelchairs. I still struggle with proportions when I draw characters in wheelchairs.

2017: 22 years old, and back in college. I really had a focus on figure drawing that year, I was back in college art classes and I found posespace.com which is just full of professionally shot art model photos. I’ve got one digital figure drawing of my oc Talib, another practice in lighting on dark skin. The other image is a charcoal drawing of my oc Parva, I think I did that one in a 30 minute time frame where I was taking pictures at different points to show my process but I’ve lost the process images.

2018: 23 years old, and really getting into color depth with my digital art. I found a really old pencil drawing of a dynamic dancing scene and redid it as a digital painting with extreme colored lighting dynamics and new characters. I also got super into mermay so I’ve included one of my favorites, a rainbow trout gal and her elf girlfriend having a chat after a nice swim. I’m super proud of the colors and proportions here, and the shading is pretty great too.

And then it’s 2019! This year! I’m 24! For this one I used three images instead of two, all digital. My ocs Talib and Kouto as persephone and hades in a really quick painting I did but the colors and lighting are intense and fun. No outlines painting of Morianten with some pretty intense lightning lighting. That one took ages and I’m still not entirely pleased with the way I drew his face there but I’m proud of it. And I never actually posted this last one, it’s a new oc created exclusively for the DC superheroes au I dabbled in with @askmissbernadette, a young hero called Lion riding a skateboard in a dark city with a long coat on because that’s a fun way to replace the common superhero cape design.

Overall, it was really fun to go through my art for the entire decade and see how much it’s changed over time. And to see how much my characters have changed. Hope 2020 is a good year, hope the 20s in general are good. Here’s to another 10 years of change and progress!

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mysynthfetish · 5 years

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The Lair, Ludicrousness, & Life.

So here's the current incarnation of The Lair of Nefarious Machinery. The only things not in the photo are the VT-4 I recently hot-rodded and a controller keyboard to go with it, the HS-80 I chop-shopped, a second EP-11 (trying to get one working unit out of two semi-broken ones, then mod it), and an effects processor or three. Oh and the Alisa. I don't know what to do with that one. I need shitloads more time than I already don't have to properly deal with bringing that one back to life. Oh and an HR-16B I'm not sure what to do with.

Recent fun is as follows. First, this guy joined the family.

Ok how can you not like a synth that has a preset patch called Death? Hehehe. It does live up to its name, it's a bona-fide fuckin' freak. I've only explored two of the oscillator engines and already I'm really impressed. I've got it run through a BOSS DD-3 delay then a Digitech Polara reverb and wow do those put the icing on the cake. Understandably, for a synth you can pick up for less than $300, you won't be getting any built-in effects. Pedals to the rescue! In any case, I wanna spend more time with this thing. One little irk I have with it is that in the manual it says you can power it over USB, even with one of those portable power brick thingies I see all the chinese tourists powering their phones with, but they recommend you always use the supplied DC adapter, as it's a 3-prong, earthed deal, and the capacitive touch stuff can get wonky if the unit is not grounded. I did use the supplied adapter, and earthed it, and holy shit the NOISE that came through!? High-pitched digital whine from bog knows what part of this condo building, on top of the 60Hz hum that was going on. Jeez! Yanked that fucker right out and back in the box it went. Using a 10,000 mAh USB power brick now and guess what, NO noise or hum or anything, and the capacitive touch works fucking fine. No idea what the hell is up with that. Whatever works.

I put a lot of stuff up for sale on the auction, and am slowly getting bites. Gotta pay some shit off, and send $ back to the old man to help out with his caregiver lady thing. I may even reluctantly part with one of the Big Hitters in the setup (Virus, Polivox, ION) but that will be the end-of-the-line, last-ditch-effort, no-other-option scenario, and I hope it doesn't go that far. I had both MFBs listed, then had second thoughts about the 503. I think there's no drum machine as small as the 503 with as big of a sound, and as fully featured. The Drumbrute Impact caught my eye for a minute, then I saw that it doesn't store knob positions (or save the sounds you made for any particular pattern) with the pattern and that was a deal breaker. The 503 DOES this. And there are so many editable parameters per sound, it's more like a drum synth than a simple 909 clone. I do wish it had a rimshot though. Anyway.

I spent half an hour yesterday in full Sherlock Holmes mode, trying to hunt down the source of the 60Hz hum I could hear with everything turned on but nothing playing (turned the noise gate on the Compounder off for this). Oh speaking of the Compounder, for whatever reason, the channel one limiter LED stays lit all the time even when there's no signal present. Fuuuuck. I noticed that some weird shit was going on with the mix too, so I looked for a replacement and someone had one listed with a buy-it-now of about $100 so out of necessity I bought it. It works fine. I sent an email to Focusrite support asking for any advice on where to look to fix the problem. I had an issue with this Compounder a few years ago, and asked if schematics were available, so I had to sign an NDA and they sent them, and they pointed me in the right direction as to what I should look at and possibly replace to fix the issue I was having, and that did it. Fixed. Quite helpful, so hopefully I'll get the same this time.

Where was I? Oh yeah. Noise sleuthing. I'm using a Soundcraft Spirit Folio Lite as a sub-mixer for drum machines, with the main bus insert going to a BOSS NS-50 stereo noise suppressor, then into the Radius 3 Fat Man. When I dropped the channels on the main mixer that this mixer is being sent to, the noise went away. Ok, let's have a look. I undid then redid all the audio and power wiring for everything going into the mixer, then reset everything on every channel to zero and PFL'd the works. Looks like I was getting carried away with EQ and Gain settings there as time went by. MORE BASS!! LOUDER!! Heh. Anyway, zeroing out everything and starting over is probably a good thing to do every now and then.

And now for the Ludicrousness. I had the MC-505 stood up on its side, on the floor, just so it was out of the way and I could move shit around. I bumped into it and it fell over, so I tried to catch it and in the process the EFX knob, with the pot shaft in it, broke completely off. AAAARGH!!!! Same shit as the volume knob when I got the thing. Pain in the ass but a solderless fix. Took half and hour and I was swearing up such a foul storm my wife came in and was like "You ok? What happened?" I was so goddam pissed off. Silly, I know, but AAAAAAARGH already! In any case, the fucker works so that's all that's important.

And now for something completely different.

I love spicy food. Every time I return to the US, I make sure to bring back a few packages of different varieties of chili peppers, and this last time was no exception. I used to have a bag of Naga Jolokia, and those things were fucking hot. But I've used those all up, and wanted to try something a little different this year, so I went with Castabel, which I've never tried before but they looked cool, like little pumpkins or something, along with Morita (which are smoked, so they have a very interesting flavor and personality, different from the others) and the usual Habanero to make my own custom blend of oral agony inducing chili pepper flakes. After cutting them up a bit and removing the seeds, I noticed that the Moritas were still kinda pliant and not completely dried, so I thought I'd just set the whole works next to the large sliding glass door in the sun. After half an hour, the whole condo reeked like someone set off a can of pepper spray two doors down and the scent had wafted in on the breeze. Boy did I catch shit for that too! Hahahaha! Moved them to another room in the place, opened the windows and closed the door. Mischief managed!

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