Lurking in the shadows

Hollywood superstar Shia LaBeouf

Living in the woods, Shia LaBeouf

Good ol’ Shia LaBeouf

I smile at her 😃

The contrast is either too little or too much and I won’t know unless I look at the drawing again the next morning

When I’d contracted the flu… I’d forgotten to get my flu shot that year, hard lesson learned!!

The darker nights, the Christmas music, giving others presents and receiving presents from people, and having an excellent excuse to eat huge amounts of chocolate!

Someone took my art without my permission and posted a version of it that was AI generated, telling me they used the art I’d posted for the AI’s output. The silhouette looked more or less the same but everything else looked like an uncanny amalgamation of textures taken from other people’s art and the AI also gave it weird snaggle teeth (turbinid dragons don’t have teeth, so it looked really off).

Oh good gosh I just about lost my appetite too reading this 😂 glad you were okay though!

Pasta that was four years past its date. Some pieces were a bit brittle and I think it went a little softer faster than what was usual but overall I didn’t notice any difference and I enjoyed it! 😃 Definitely don’t do this with already cooked pasta though! The pasta I had was raw and in a sealed bag.

I would say this year, from experience with getting my art stolen and reading about others’ experiences. I love drawing digitally, but these are precarious times for artists to be posting their art online. While I do link to progress pictures, timelapses, sketches and files in my descriptions, I have a clean, airbrushy style that AI tends to mimic most often, so as of late I have been experimenting with mixing my cartoonier style with my current one.

A little WIP of the style experiment:

If I had a coin for every pixel in this image, I wouldn’t have enough coins to get an extra life

Oh wow I didn’t know that was possible. Thanks for the link! 😃

Windows, because my pride and joy (Paint Tool Sai) is only compatible with Windows and I love Paint Tool Sai far too much to change operating systems.

A migratory goose, so I could fly around to other countries! I love swimming too, so being an aquatic bird is a plus!

On a train. It was at night and it was a long train ride, and it’s the only occasion where I remember falling asleep while sitting up!

TAKE COVER!!

No. I have never and do not use AI in my art and never will

Earlier this year, I decided to engage with social media, so I searched for lists of social media websites and signed up on the ones I could find. Lemmy was on one of the lists and also happens to be one of the websites I enjoy the most! 😃

No. I only use my phone to make calls or send texts.

If you want to, yes. When I see them I try and buy them some food. I also give to the local charities which support them.