Thank you!

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. While walking on a path in nature, a young fantasy adventurer with a fairy with pink hair, suddenly looks at the floor at a golden shiny detail crossing their way: > Pink-fairy: "Stop! A Golden Twenty Dice!" > Adventurer: "A what?..." Panel 2. Shot on the fairy landing on the grass near to a golden scarab pushing a d20 golden dice. > Pink-fairy: "A scarab rolling fate! We could take his dice and roll our own fortune. Last time a twenty turned a farmer into a lord!" Panel 3. The adventurer kneels down near the fairy and scarab, really curious now. The fairy is super happy and exited. > Adventurer: "A moment like this comes only once in a lifetime! Please, please, please, let me try!" > Pink-fairy: "Mmm.. Ok. Why not." Panel 4. The adventurer runs for his life while the pink fairy is grabbing him to follow his motion. She is very embarassed, and him feels anger and frustration in this emergency run. A lightning strike near them and burns the floor, a crack on the floor appears, a furious dragon runs after them and try to bite them, and a meteor is about to fall on them. > Adventurer: "Of course you rolled a one!" > Pink-fairy: (in small) "Sorry..."

The Golden Twenty Dice

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A character design sheet: a digital sketch in color, rough and almost cell shading. It represents a young fairy with dragonfly wings, pink long hair with a large pony tail braid between her wings. She also has bright cyan eyes. She has a white top and for a red skirt. She wear fantasy accessories on top (a purse in leather attached to her belt, and little potions in tubes on other side). The artwork also contains two expression for her: deeply bored, and surprised happy. Title on the bottom: Mini Fantasy Theater , Litchee, Character design.

🪷 Litchee

A new character design for my weekly MiniFantasyTheater comic series.

#krita #conceptart #oc

This change is to give the illusion to the user that the new device has more "pressure sensitivity", but it only makes every user press more and get carpal tunnel issues after years.

The pressure sensitivity marketing is BS anyway since 1024/2048 devices exists.

Yes, on my reviews, I test with a scale how manufacturer are increasing the length in grams between 0% and 100% pressure signal,eg:

- www.peppercarrot.com/extras/temp/... (XpPen Deco: 430gr)
- www.peppercarrot.com/extras/temp/... (Kamvas Pro 19: 633gr)

I recommend adjusting 100% to ~300gr

looks good!

Indeed, the end of the Avian Intelligence arc was meant from long ago to point to the Rubber Duck as the ultimate Avian Intelligence, and an opening on a privacy responsible, ethical solution. Now I have to write to boot a new series :) Next wednesday is approaching 😅

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Rubber Ducking Avian Intelligence A parody experimentation about Rubber Duck Debugging with a classic interface of AI. Talk to the duck. The duck listens. Find your own answers...

Yesterday's comic was published, but the prank part for 1st April wasn't... (not ready, and too tired to finish it) A bit sad. So, I finished it this morning.

Discover my new online service, Rubber Ducking Avian Intelligence!
www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/...

Yes, here I use my cat, they know all my scenario issues. 😆

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, is at her iconic desk with a quill, she was writing in her big personal project: her book of incantation at university. She is thinking with intensity bringing the quill to her mouth, looking up and frowning. On a stack of book, nearby, stands a yellow static rubber duck. > Cepper: "Avian Intelligence, what is the correct incantation for a fireball? Hmm... You know, something _Pyro... Ball..._" Panel 2. Cepper is now excited, the rubber duck is still silent, staring happily in the void. > Cepper: "**PyroBolus!** Perfect." Panel 3. Amall, the small blond elf sorceress appears in the frame from one side, she is puzzled at what she probably saw before. Cepper is laughing a bit of embarrassement. > Amall: "**A rubber duck!?** But it can't answer you! Are you okay, Cepper?" > Cepper: "Haha, don't worry Amall, I'm fine." Panel 4. Cepper is happy and proud of her invention, Amall scratch her head but with a smile, considering the discovery of her friend. > Cepper: "I just figured that formulating my questions out loud helps me to solve them, and finally that's all I needed."

Rubber Ducking

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A photo detailed ballpoint pen drawing in a sketchbook depicting a sleeping fairy on a matchbox, surrounded by an assembled army of mice. The fairy lies peacefully under a blanket with her wings visible, her discarded clothes on the floor beside the matchbox. A cherry sits nearby, remnants of her dinner. Around her, an intricate mouse civilization has gathered: a shaman mouse observes her intently, soldier mice display varied reactions of fear and uncertainty, a female priest mouse stands with her servants gesturing to others as if announcing a prophecy. Additional details include a soldier mouse with a lizard familiar wearing a belt and carrying gears, and another mouse mounted atop a small passerine bird. The composition is densely detailed with numerous characters and interactions filling the space around the central sleeping figure, all rendered in black ballpoint pen with no preliminary sketch.

The Matchbox Kingdom

Stuck 4 hours at the train station yesterday, so I drew this entire world freehand with just a ballpoint pen. No pre-sketch, no plan, the story just appeared. Full story: www.davidrevoy.com/article1134/...

#Sketchbook #BallpointPen #traditionalart

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. Cepper, the Gothic Sorceress, sits at her workbench in the basement of the university with her iconic clothes and glasses on her head. She is surrounded by steampunk cogs, wires, circuits, and code snippets written on parchments. She's determined in front of her masterpiece, her own local AI Parrot looking like a big pigeon. > Cepper: "I did it! Running 100% locally now. My own machine, my own terms! hehe." Panel 2. She excitedly asks it a question, but it takes an eternity to respond. > Cepper: "Avian Intelligence, what's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?" > Local AI Parrot: "1... 1... m... e... t... e... r... s... loading 2%" Panel 3. Cepper starts to realize the immense computational power required to run AI models remotely. She looks at her local AI Parrot and starts to wonder. > Cepper: "Ouch. That's painfully slow, even with the largest magical stone I had!" > Local AI Parrot: "p...e...r... s...e...c...o...n...d... loading 4%" Panel 4. A shot late at night, she sleeps deeply on a big armchair, while the local AI Parrot still finish to output. > Local AI Parrot: "a...n...d... t...h...a...t...s... a...l...l... loading 100%"

The Local Alternative

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Discover Krita 5.3/6.0: 10 new features explained to get you started YouTube video by David Revoy - Webcomic Creator

Krita 5.3/6.0 is released! krita.org/en/posts/202...

So, I recorded a new video: 10 new features explained to get you started
youtu.be/DNhf_WLfSaE

A screenshot on the two pages of the schedule, PDF hosted by the MJC, with the official poster: a fox sitting on his own long tail shaped like a large ring around him while reading a comic. On the background, the city of Monistrol sur Loire. On the right part of the page, the articles (in French) about the guest: Paul Frichet, Isabelle Maroger, Anne&Minh.

Agenda: I'll be at the "Fête de la BD" at Monistrol sur Loire (France) Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March: workshops, signing session, conferences. Blog-post: www.davidrevoy.com/article1131/...

Wooow! 😍
Great art and ambiance, bravo on the coloring and designs, super cool. I'll follow. 👍

I'm posting this new episode a day earlier than usual (usually on Wednesday for the weekly comic) because I'll be traveling tomorrow and I'm not sure I can rely on the wifi (train then hotel) to get everything uploaded smoothly. Better safe than sorry!

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. The Gothic Sorceress paces back and forth on the foundation of her house: all that remains are the floor tiles and the outlines of the walls. The Avian Intelligence (AI) flies while watching her. In the distance, a storm is approaching: lightning streaks across the sky. > Gothic Sorceress: “Let’s think about this. Given your powers, you can probably build me a brand-new house, right?” Panel 2. Close-up: the stoic Avian Intelligence and the Gothic Sorceress, cheerful and excited by the good news, as a few raindrops fall. > Avian Intelligence: “That is indeed a task I can handle. Shall I make it just like the one before?” > Gothic Sorceress: “Yes!” Panel 3. Same shot, Avian Intelligence seems to have shifted into a different mode. The Gothic Sorceress is shocked and protests, exclaiming. > Avian Intelligence: “Oops, I can't. You have exceeded your request quota for this month.” > Gothic Sorceress: “WHAT?!” Panel 4. Under now heavy rain, the Gothic Sorceress has turned her back and is trying to contain her intense anger, clenching her fists. Avian Intelligence continues its sales pitch: > Avian Intelligence: “Subscribe now to Avian Intelligence Premium for unlimited requests!” > Gothic Sorceress: “Grrr!!!!”

The first dose is free...

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Digital painting illustration of a large, black-textured monster made of slop with AI company logos (Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and OpenClaw) emblazoned on its body, walking slowly toward a red cat character (Carrot, the cat of my comic Pepper&Carrot) with zombie-like hands. The cat is in a defensive pose with fur raised and an angry expression, hissing at the approaching creature.

New blog post: "Forbidding generative AI and LLMs on Pepper&Carrot"
www.davidrevoy.com/article1129/...

Bravo for the De-Googled OS, the Jack port, and everything else. Good to see we are many wanting just a cool device for everyday use.

A digital painting with visible brush strokes, of a landscape view with sheeps at sunset, on the Chalk, with Tiffany Aching in foreground and the Nac Mac Feegles. The cloud are shaping her a hat of sky (a reference to the book "A Hat Full of Sky").

GNU Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching fan-art

#krita #speedpainting #discworld

Scenario 101 (learnt in TTRPG): it always can get worst. 😆

Thank you for the other one in the series too! Yes, I miss them too, but I still have a bit to unpack with Avian Intelligence and the traction and growing audience around it is something I never had before, it's also informative, so...

Data centers in this series are coming soon! In my scenario, for April. (They'll be the Amphora of Intelligence as in bsky.app/profile/davi... )

That's really fitting the theme, a cage as a container for the Avian Intelligence. I'll see what I can do with it!

Thank you! 😊

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. The Gothic Sorceress stands in the middle of the ruins of her house, in the middle of the mess the floor; a consequence of the night with the Tree Spirits. She's looking overwhelmed. She talks a bit in the void, eyes lost in the distance. Her Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot listen, perched on a wall in ruins. > Gothic Sorceress: "Ugh, it'll take weeks to clean this up." Panel 2. A closer zoom on the AI Parrot, replying to the Gothic Sorceress. > AI Parrot: "I know a spell or two for that, but I need the highest permission level. Can you grant it to me?" > Gothic Sorceress: ""Granted." It can't get any worse anyway..." Panel 3. A tempest erupts inside the room, the AI Parrot flies in the middle like a majestic and all powerful bird: he is casting a spell loudly. Lightning flashes, cloud of dust are twirling, and many debries are flying. The Gothic Sorceress protect her face with her hands, in emergency. > AI Parrot: "Arehem Dash Areheff Root!" Panel 4. The aftermath of the spell: only the floor of the house survived. Just the tiles on the floor, lost in the middle of the natures with trees and grass. The room are empty, except a toilet seat in a corner. The AI Parrot is proud of his work while the Gothic Sorceress stares at the scene, seating still dizzy after the tornado. She feels powerless in front of the result. > AI Parrot: "Cleaning successful, room reset." > Gothic Sorceress: "I take it back. It **can** get worse."

Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...

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(2/2) ... use ink tool as I would do with a pencil. Not thinking of the clean line anymore, just 'drawing'. Nowadays, I like to do a light sketch with colored pencil first, then draw on the top with the Stabilos. This ballpoint pen period was beneficial to be less stressed with media I can't erase.

Thank you, I struggled a lot with lineart, I always had to much focus on line quality and control. Over the last year, I forced myself to just sketch with ballpoint pen directly on my sketchbook. It forced me to plan ahead a bit (and freeze the topic in my imagination) sketch slower, and ... (1/2)

Photo of a sketchbook page featuring a top-down view of Amall, a blond elf adult, but looking small like a child, sitting on grass. The photo has an ink pen lying on top (Stabilo Point 88 Fineliner) with blue ink, A5 notebook.

A character study of Amall, blond elf friend of Cepper the Gothic Sorceress, for the MiniFantasyTheater Avian Intelligence series.

#sketchbook #traditionalart