As soon as I go a little more in the direction of stylized drawing, I find the quality of it increasing. This sketch is loosely based on Preston Blaire’s animation drawing, using a reference photo to get the details in. I’m somewhat pleased with the result, but know I can do much better.

I really should try a portrait tutorial, work on my art fundamentals, and draw a skull from lots of angles to improve my drawing skill. This portrait is from a photo reference, and I think it’s meh, though better than what I’ve drawn a week ago. So there’s progress.

Am I the only one who puts their photo collection on a page instead of in a blogpost? In my case it isn’t for an event, but a subject matter (c.q. sketches).

Such a messy messy sketch, with lots of mistakes I can learn from. I’ve redone the nose and mouth, which were placed in the wrong position. They still aren’t correct, though, but better. Unlearning bad habits is hard, yet I will get there.

Has it been two years already since @relayfm left Twitter? Original post here.

Quick sketch of Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor.

On my Raspberry-Pi I got a warning my Firefox browser was getting out of date. Updating was no easy task, I had to add an Ubuntu repository, which seemed to fail, then install Firefox. Somehow it all worked after a reboot. Of course, I had to set up my bookmarks, which didn’t take long. 🤞

Forgot to charge the iPad overnight, so I doodled instead.

Sometimes all I can manage is a wispy sketch, and no more. I don’t want to continue, so I shouldn’t. I guess I needed some distance, and perhaps finish it later. The creative mind is an unpredictable mess that doesn’t listen to time tables and deadlines.

What to do with circles I took so much care constructing? I know…

Whimsical is good!

Trying to apply what I’ve learned in the past days to a portrait from a photo. Though it’s rather “mechanical” I’m pleased with the progress I made in such a short time. Furthermore, drawing longer than 30 minutes doesn’t seem to bother me anymore. So that’s progress too.

Today’s rough sketch is a stepping stone in getting better at drawing portraits. You can read my self-review here.

👨‍🎓 Another thing I learned today from cross-posting. Fancy html like using figure and figcaption is a bit of a waste. Better to assume the reader is sophisticated enough to grasp the image, and let the ALT tag do its thing. The messages are short anyway, since the Big Wall ‘o Text (BWoT) is separate.

Today’s sketch is a squirrel. I did a little self-critique you can read here.

Anyone can doodle. You don’t have to be good at it. That’s the whole point. Let your imagination run free. Liberate your inner child. At least, that’s what I told myself…

Unlike 2024, when I should’ve made a game, but didn’t, in 2025 I want to challenge myself with something I’m more familiar with. I want to get better at creating art for myself at first, and perhaps for others later in the year.

Read more here.

Learning as I go. It seems Bluesky prefers text-with-one-image. I suppose I can live with that. It simply means breaking up longer articles into smaller ones, or write a separate blurb with a link to a larger article. I suppose that would require a dedicated blog for long-form content, which I have.

There’s no use beating yourself up over things not being perfect, because they never will be. Rather than that, I prefer a loose interpretation of a scene, with my spin on it. There are some anatomical issues, though.

When the title of a piece is more interesting than the piece itself, I know I need to step up my game…

This is a good thing, since I felt a bit rusty in my art creation lately.

Line→Shape→Form

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The only reason I still frequented Twitter/X is because of Pixel Dailies. They now switched to Bluesky, so I follow them there. Alas, there doesn’t seem to be federation in place, unless you use a hack, so I can’t but share Pixel Dailies profile page.