I paint. I sold through a gallery for awhile but it just wasn’t worth it when I could make ten times more for far less work doing my original job, so now it’s back to just for fun. Also I hate painting portraits of rich people but if you don’t do that it’s really hard to make money. I also hated the mandatory social media removed. Engaging in that ecosystem disgusts me.
I create Starfield graphic novels.
I’m a huge fan of the game, and there is this podcast called “Starfield with Normal People”, which has a Discord server, and they organise a weekly “Starfield Adventure Club”. Every week, one planet is selected, and we all go there and take screenshots and create a story.
People are very creative, some publish a captains log, for my part, I ended up creating a graphic novel.
For my part, it’s a mix of pure screenshots using the photo mode, some generative AI for the covers, and plain old montage using Figma.
I’m having a lot of fun and I’m not tired of it yet, I’ve been doing this since February. I discovered I had a talent for storytelling and… Air scripting I guess?
2023 has been a monstrosity of a year in all aspects of my life. This comic is self-care for me.
If you want to read a few episodes, you can find them on my Facebook page, as well as on my DeviantArt page.
Enjoy!
DM/GM from time to time.
Do you have a game of choice? I’ve just finished running a Dresden files accelerated game which was a lot of fun.
D&D and Pathfinder are the main ones, and Genesys sometimes when I can convince my players to give it a try. Currently trying to maybe get something going with Cyberpunk Red.
Tabletop roleplaying
Sigh, I wish I could get paid for it. I absolutely love building a compelling story, but I’m far too nervous with strangers.
Make skirts!
Cool. Want to share a pic?
Creating memes…
I bake for my families and friends, and i sometime do wood working too.
I cook for the family. It’s not the cooking that’s creativity for me, most of the time, it’s the menu planning that is the hardest to think through.
Omg! I complain about this all the time! Deciding what to make is by fast the hardest part!
Cook, bake, crochet, cross-stitch, oil paint, watercolor, party planning etc I hoard hobbies but don’t do any of them professionally since I already have a job. They are all hobbies I enjoy
I try to make electronic music, mostly with a laptop but I also have some equipment. It’s really just to scratch my engineering itch.
Photography. I mostly use my phone but I have a proper camera which is for my very specific use case.
I’ve been doing both of these most of my life, my father gave me my first camera around 10yo and I got into electronic music at about the same age.
My son is using my old camera a lot now, and he’s making music on his PC. Which is very pleasing to me.
My brother is really into making electronic music too. Last Christmas, he said he really wanted a Stylophone. I got him one, but first had him open a gag gift that was a child’s toy Xylophone and was like “I heard you really wanted one of these”
I enjoy photgraphy, mostly buildings and infrastructure, I have a gallery on a personal webhost, and never really share the link to it except to friends and family, but I have tyeblink to it on my CV.
I crochet little animals for friends and family.
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Make Gameboy games. Make music. Cook
Do you make Gameboy music though? I used to really be into LSDJ. I know nothing about programming actual games though
I made a track for my game, yeah, but using UGEtracker which is built into GB Studio. It’s not the easiest to use tbh so it wasn’t that fun.
LSDJ sounds very cool, have you checked out the DirtyWave M8? I ran the cheap version (Anbernic console with a dongle) but I couldn’t get over the learning curve. Now I have a Polyend Tracker Mini which I really like
BTW I’m not really a programmer either, GB Studio simplifies things a lot and it’s free if you want to check it out
I haven’t kept up with anything chiptune related in prob 10 years or so, so no I am not too familar with any new tools for the GB. I did enjoy making music on it though. It fun to work creatively when there are a bunch of limitations!
I do calligraphy!
This is visually beautiful but makes me long for a few days ago when the weekend was ahead of me.
