In other news, I just got a hand press for lino printing as a (very) early b-day gift (partially to myself, partially split with another). Hoping this will make printing a little faster and maybe help me get more pressure than the book press I was using.

Ok, still sick as a dog, but at least it's migrated from throat and head to just a head cold now.
Sick family member seem to be okay-ish... more recovered than I am, but I still worry.

Ahhhgg!
Now I'm sick too! It stinks

And today was even worse. Didn't eat dinner (the only meal he really eats) last night and we had to practically force him to eat even a small bowl of soup tonight; The only food he's had in 48 hours. Major flashbacks to last april with its repeated ER visits and 2 week hospital replaying in my head.

I literally do not know how else to explain “learning how to do something is what makes you able to do the thing”

Yesterday there was an echo of the medical drama with a close family member from last April. I've got my fingers crossed that this doesn't devolve into a similar situation again, but I'm finding it hard not to fall back into old thought patterns from last time.

Game in a littleover an hour.
Had an extremely bad emotional health day. Feeling very lonely, and I'm sure another depression streak is settling in.
Fingers crossed that game night helps.

So, the afternoon's attempt went better, but still disappointing. Swutching up tools helped. Tried one more time in the evening, and finally got something I didn't loathe, even if it's just micro-sketches.

I much prefer working traditionally with paper pen(cil) over digital most of the time... but when it comes to actually designing something or carving out shilouettes, I just can't seem to do that without a screen.
Clearly I need more practice... but if anyone knows other shortcuts / tips... 😅

Drew a little before lunch. Hated what I drew, got frustrated with how rusty I am. Feeling dejected and tired. Gonna take a little nap and maybe try again this afternoon.

Love how we had this series of extremely contentious and contemptuous interactions with this website's higher ups where they pretty much told us to our face "Yeah we're using Al to code, you fucking peasant. Deal with it." immediately followed by a good month of very frequent outages on the website.

Holy... this has caused me severe psychic damage.
If these AI loving weirdos were even a sixteenth as creative as they belived they are, they'd have been out there creating long before AI arrived on the scene, because hard-or-not they'd have needed to see their thing made.

Been playing a lot of Book Of Hours lately. Love the occult vibe to bits, especially the tidbits of lore dropped when mastering books. Really wish I could make art that gave off a similar vibe.

The only real choice, to be honest. The others aren't even close

The fact that anklyosaurus got lumped in with "other" 😡

Here, AI strike again, its use always, always cause harm. Harm is a built in feature of this shitty technology.

🤣 you're absolutely right. Maybe instead of posts of consequence, then at least art instead instead of trauma dumping 😅

Oh hey, looks like image posting from mobile works again for me. Maybe I can actually post things of consequence again, finally.

Linocut print of a lightouse, with the carved bloc next to it. #art #linoprint

A closeup of a linocut print of a lighthouse with the slogans "escape it all" "go slowly mad" "die alone"

So about a month ago I built a little photo backdrop out of cheap old wood boards. I wanted a way to take nicer photos of my prints 'n' things, with a rustic look.
And of course, beyond these test photos I still haven't used it 😅

This is 100% medically accurate, actually. Pee is melted bone goo, 9 out 10 science guys agree.

drawing of a burning warehouse “all you had to do was pay us enough to live”

people will tell you it’s complicated but it’s really not

Need to get off my butt and actually do stuff this week. I'm suck of feeling like a useless blob

It's a small but rad indie game, with I assume a low budget, and I'd feel guilty charging much for it... but also, any extra income is precious right now.

How the heck do other artists price commissions?
I've been asked to do some cover art for an expansion of an indie skirmish game, but I don't even know where to start with pricing that.

And, while I am very excited for Blades 68 as well, I also really want to play a|state, and not wait years to do so. So, while I have the time, because of no job, I'm thinking of starting up another game group to try it out.

In last night's game, we didn't end up playing any actual game. We just spent 2.5 hours talking about Blades '68, and how excited we were to play that after our current game, and coming up with character and crew ideas. 😅