All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.

I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Wrapping up 2025 and #kidlitartpostcard day. This year has been fun. I’m Chris, picture book illustrator. Agent - Lori @steelworksliterary Web - thornockstudios.com have a safe holiday season!

I’ve been making this postcards sized illustrations for fun lately and I think I’m gonna make at least 15 more.

Amazing! Congrats to you all! 🙌

Finally had some time to work on a few animations for this guy! Definitely still some issues to work out, but I'm pretty happy with how it's coming along!

#Illustration #b3d #blender #character #gamedev

"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have." I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame? I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green. I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue? I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti.

“I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?” Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!”

“It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.” I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…” Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.” His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying. “No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel. “It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”

In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:

Definitely needs a lot of polish (and weight painting 😢) but some progress!

Anyway, I think I'm about done with the modeling part of this and might be getting sucked into some client work in the next couple days here, but I'm excited to start rigging and animating it!

I've been slowly working on this rabbit knight project to figure out the new(ish) Uniform app by @sparseal.bsky.social. The learning curve is pretty steep, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it? Very interested to see where it goes either way.
#lowpoly #3dart #characterdesign #ipadart

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Painting completed! And holy crap it’s way past my bedtime

It's so absurd, especially when their justification is "look at all these new AI features you get with it!" 🤡 But basically the only thing I'm using Adobe stuff for at this point is importing vector projects and converting them to .ai files for clients. I hate it.

I like the way you think!

So how do we start convincing clients to accept Affinity Designer files, or like, SVGs or something instead of Illustrator?

Aw thanks! This is looking amazing!!

I'm no economist, but surely this all must somehow be Obama's fault?? 🫠

Very excited to share this 3D robot commission I made for @Procreate! I am, unfortunately, not in Tokyo this week, but if YOU are there, head over to Procreate's pop-up event to see an *actual* huge statue of this friend, and paint it in 3D!

#Illustration #Procreate #iPadArt #iPadPro #Art

Thanks Sarah!

I’ve been busy with client work this week, so while I don’t have anything *actually* new to show, let’s all cast our minds back to this fun AR project that I made in ye olden times and pretend it’s new together, yes? 🙏

#Illustration #Procreate #Art #ARKit #iPadPro #CodeArt #iPadArt

See also: prehensile tails! I am a firm believer that we were robbed by evolution on this one.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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I've been working on some new 3D things ahead of my @warriorartcamp.bsky.social workshop next month but none of it is quite ready to show yet, so here's a remote-control boy from a couple years ago instead 🎮👦✨

#Illustration #Art #Procreate #3DDesign #b3D #Animation #CodeArt

Haha I think brain-haver is maybe the best compliment I've received all week??

This is cool. I think yellow makes more sense?

Color sketches of stylized characters featuring 3 wolf heads, something that looks vaguely like a kangaroo head, 3 dragon heads, a cow head of some kind maybe? Also features a deer standing on 2 feet with arms akimbo looking slightly down, a boy's head with blue hair in both a front and side view, and a smiling yellow robot.

Color sketches including 3 dogs with hats, a green male child holding a red car while looking like he's plotting something, a semi-humanoid bird character, a camel head, a giraffe, a chimpanzee, a 2 girl heads (one glaring and one looking happy), a polar bear, a tortoise, and a snake about to eat its own tail.

Color sketches of human character heads.

More color sketches 🖍️🌈✨

#Illustration #Procreate #ProcreateArtist #Art #Sketch

It depends on how good of a job you want to do on UVs, but if you don't really care and just want to start painting, it's pretty easy to generate them in nomad directly and then just export an OBJ straight over to Procreate.

Yep, and then painting in Procreate and rigging / animating in Blender on a mac