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Unforeseen Naps

toxic hell substitutes are not accepted here

I think I forgot to update this website in some time. I was a bit carried away with redesigning and reworking this ‘game’ of sorts, studying the River City Ransom sprite sheets. Added some CRT shader, a simple quest, double jump, better UI, and a bunch of other stuff. Wrote up some kinda manifesto for it, now I just gotta learn more programming and program it on up, no prob. Look up Heartbeast on Youtube if you wanna get into it, he has a sale on his course, which I am currently engrossed in doing: www.heartgamedev.com

Rats for your liquor store

River City Reference

Best pixels yet

Old design had just too many pixels for me to animate, maybe in the sequel a fat headed baby design can be put to use by me. Or as a boss.

also, drawings and such

This pic, was going nowhere slow. Now it can do so in pieces, cause… composition needed a severe shock, won’t fix anatomy tho.

Scanned in some for today too:

Skullhead again

Some more shading

Not much new here, but have you seen the news?

And a few more miscellaneous bits from the studio since I am here and not neck deep in “game development”.

Post cut

Still working in progress though

Sketch….

Cure Destoryer

make things and be productive with your time here on earth i guess

Like you had anything better to do. So this drawing is pretty much done. Now I will get back to the big and messier drawings.

Done, I think. (Pencil on A2 Paper {image 4k})

still. the godot engine foolishness.

“Development” needs to back the hell up, I have no clue what the fuck I am doing.

Barf City – Yet More Barf

Swimming Times

I had hoped to draw more, but instead was consumed with scribbling down ideas for some manner of beat em up meets RPG meets platformer, ‘Super Double Zelda Dragon Ransom Bros. 2’ = BARF_CITY, and I cannot code for shit, but I hope some ‘charm’ will arise from this, can code be like ‘outsider art’, Henry Darger, but a game, that honestly would be a better game, just take his whole “The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion“, it’s all in the title, player characters, enemies, NPCs, settings, shit, I should have started with this.

$Timer.cooldown or was it $Timer.stunned.

All that said, this week I did manage a bit more hunching over paper and less hunching over keyboard, and hopefully some new balance shall occur, cause I think I get it now that this will not be done anytime soon, some dream of a balanced enemy vs player schematic can be found then built upon is probably nonsense.

Analogue Balancing Act

Still not done…

Barf City on the brain

If I had more time, sleep, hands

Nothing new to see

Proportions or lens angle?

Scanner glitch

Managed to make it in

Brush pen is super pen

Still. Something something, craft, analogue, traditional, plying ones trade, keeping the root system healthy.

Seen some real art

Do excuse the angle on it, there was a severe glare, but I think you can still just soak this majesty on up.

Frivolity in Times of Pandemic

Learning Python and Godot in a kinda morning routine interspersed with life drawing to keep the wrist cracking. The heads need a “getting stomped animation”.

The corpse heads are courtesy of Asesprite, most fun I had drawing on the screen in ever. I mean I think Gimp can do all the same, but this is fun somehow, I guess cause its pixely.

Still, what with the drawings as such.

With all apologies to Van Eyck.

4K Edition

Almost done…

The above nears completion, marking A2 pencil drawing #2 this year, unless I fuck it up royally now in the final lap.

WordPress likes to be a fucking narc on the big images, like I care about SEO shit, so you gotta fix functions.php in the theme:

add_filter( 'big_image_size_threshold', '__return_false' );

WIP_2020 to be WIP_2021 I assume…

For now I fuck this up on the regular, it was once overburdened with potential and clean pencil work which could be adjusted with ease. Now it drifts toward absolute disaster, and I have to pretend it’s all some intentional improv act.

Fugly heads

Skulls, can any drawing have enough?

Conservative dance moves

Gotta get that overall shot

No major fucks ups yet here.

I made him organge, like Heathcliff.

This scene is on the grow.

Scanner carries on in its bandaged up state

Misc. Sketchbook bits.

Ink Huffer

#!/bin/bash
find /home/nathan/videos/tv/The\ Simpsons/ -type f \( -name *.avi -o -name *.mkv -o -name *.mp4 \) |sort -R > ~/.randovid.m3u
vlc ~/.randovid.m3u

A messy, yet functional prayer.

“Work in Progress 2020” continues progress after its month or so break. Minor details, but figure it’s worth a scanning.

Go go scanner powers.

Looks better in a screenshot some days.

Three Amigos.

This hand is coming along well enough.

Bread, or potatoe?

Details….

This dude has been annoying the hell outta me

But he’s looking better now.

Archways getting tightened up. Also I got a brown pen.

Small Work in Progress, progresses as well. (All hail the myth of progress.) Some kinda crap on the scanner, think its some eraser dirt, but this work is not worth a another scan this week.

Pencil on some A2 paper

Miscellany stretches beyond progress.

Random photo found.

Never forget the basics.

Spent like 200 EUR at the damn art store for this?!

One day, a beat em up.

In case I forget what year it is.

Kurzarbeit is Best Arbeit

Working 9.6 hours a week is about as good as it gets. Remainder of hours spent awake are divided randomly across a few things worthy of exposing to the internet.

1. Spend much too much time learning to make a pixel platformer which now morphs into an actionRPG (it is the next tutorial in the list) and then hopefully if I can manage it, one day… a RiverCityRansom-esque brawler, in a 90’s TacoBell.

minuscule steps, much cuter than last week

He can walk and duck and jump and I can do so with my knockoff Xbox controller, all this on Debian (stable no less) Linux is quite something. “moonpiewhatatimetobealive.jpg”

I also made the little beer can, or what aims to be a beer can, its a tribute to “Natty Lite”, as this game will be set in a vague and very humid memory of Florida, and so, yes Natty it is. That said, I have not made it to the part where you can interact with any object, so its just stuck there for now…

Doing this by copying along to HeartBeast’s tutorials, very easy to follow along with if you have any inclination toward making something with Godot.

2. Return of the Glitching Wreckage.

I made this “glitch bot”, I wanna say… last year-ish probably, and it was good-ish for about an hour, than it got real stale like. I didn’t know how to really pull in some randomness. I think I could do a better job now, and that thinking is half the effort, it will require a day or so of work, but it could be something interesting and an excuse to sharpen skills which really aren’t even worthy of the knife metaphor in use there, more like continue effort to have knife like skills, right now butter is safe against these programming efforts.

random is just better

ziploc gimmie some money

no clue

fashion

Again it will improve, and bits of it will make it out to Twitter @defty_k

3. Are you still drawing those pictures?

– Yes. Yes, I am afraid I still am drawing “those pictures”.

Ah yes, the finest waste of time imaginable, if you think your identity is a bit lame now, and could use that air of prepackaged creative free spirit, grab your watercolors, pens and assorted mediums and become an ARTIST.

Trying to get back to this big one, the original “WIP_2020” I was so definitely going to make this year and have done on time and really for real just make a yearly pattern out of making such a piece.

Still think he is working out ok.

This mess still be grinded away at daily.

Eh…

Still, ok.

This hand was the crowning achievement of the weel.

Just fill it up with hatching.

UPID too.

GOFISH

And the new pencil work is progressing, not enough to be re-scanned, but enough for a solid lazy photo from my phone.

Sketching is better than reading the news in the morning.

Draw from life, its rough.

You cannot identify anyone I draw.

I could never be a cop sketch artist, cause fuck them snitches.

Ok now for the rest.

Scroll no longer.

No progress.

But post anyways.

Neglect visualized.

Mess, but one day progress.

I forget what was up here.

Same here, like whaaaa.

Again, hell if I know.

I can’t paint for shit.

And this mess behind the studio building ain’t helping. So much noise.

Bad Prototype Fantasies

Started learning python, know some bash, feels vaguely familiar, but the syntax is simpler-ish (?) and makes me wanna throw out my german keyboard cause I can’t deal with all the parentheses, trying to follow a really simple course and I just keep looking down and seeing them on 8 & 9, then another brain cell dies.

Also commas, commas everywhere, so i had to set the numpad dot to comma (nerd alert, linux command below):

setxkbmap us -option kpdl:comma

As well, I have now into learning Godot, and am super excited just to make a dumb bit of pixel sketching kinda jump, next step = gamepad, just one button input working will be amazing.

Still pencil is meeting paper,

more pencil workings, back to basics and such like.

details. derivative I know, but enjoyable, so ehhh gunna keep on.

study up them hands

studio shot filler

mmm yep not sure whats up here

so many details, no clue

yeah slight angle change

token reverse studio shot

i think i did these arches this week

and a lil ink here…

cat tax:

guardian of the internet keeping me from typing more shit into the void

Emblem of Civilization (V)

I can’t say I did much this week, I am not sure where it went or when weeks begin and end, the axis is skewed as of late, mostly weighted in a direction that favors me, yet it seems to slide into places unplanned.

I’ll just post a couple bits therefore.

some sketching was done today, but honestly, why?

get the stupid out

more to come this week on this i do believe

learnin to paint

sun fried eyes

As well I guess most effort went back into what once held the glorious title of “Untitled 2020”. Which once again is another piece which starts up with my usual ‘Man walks into a bar’ setup and I hope to wind up at a new punchline, the man in question is emaciated and has a deal about civilization and plans for wheat, and probably books on the best use and case situations for cages. “Great Man of History” or something to that effect.

More evidence that scanners are magical.

get some civility

this dude was surgically re-worked with my meat hands

a few days ago, but yeahhhhh

I can read so sometimes I do.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/12/humankind-a-hopeful-history-by-rutger-bregman-review
- - - - *(Reading the above now, and the whole time I am hearing this type of insanely confident Dutch male accent, Dutch dudes are beyond cocky, hanging out by the Herengracht sipping beer and collars popped. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

Inherent Issues – Go Old School or Go Home

Past week has been pretty much just one drawing, some bits of changes on other works but mostly i just did this:

The longer you look, the dumber it gets.

I used to draw just in pencil, I’m sure that’s kinda the norm, HB lead pencil in a classroom = drawing to escape boredom. But then I got into ink and it became a kinda default of work, a stupid expectation that everything will wind up dominated by this medium and balanced against it. But just working in pencil is so easy, I forget what a pain in the ass pen and ink is cause I have internalized its terrible pace.

Deets

when it was a work in progress

scan away scan away scan away

the transfer from the physical to the digital plane still blows my idiot mind

that smile…

Besides this, not much.

Supposedly I am taking part in an open studio day, but really? I don’t foresee letting people come in to my tiny drawing box and breathe their covidian breathings all down on the place. Usually someone comes in and just asks if it’s George Washington, snickers and that wraps up the human interaction portion of the day in which I play my role as subject in a human zoo.