Gygart

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

Some sketching from D&D night, sketching a shot out of BDO character creator that had been kicking around in my head informing my original vision for my bard Courtney’s design, and trying to note down a design I saw at Renfaire over the weekend that might be helpful to a friend’s awesome halloween costume. 

Finally got my Cintiq 24hd in working order. I’ve wanted a Cintiq for like 14 years now??? So amazingly pumped to finally have one. I’ve been doing a lot of actual people work lately. Over the summer I was a lead instructor at a summer camp in the San Jose area teaching video game design and a bit of graphic design for web stuff. More recently I’ve been working doing merchandising for ye olde big box electronics retailer. My lovely wife Caity has long since been back at work teaching high school which has the unfortunate ramification that I only get to see her on weekends pretty much now as she’s not staying at our apartment and is instead primarily at the house we own. But we make it work.

So the top image is studying some of the way that my old friend from Art Center Bryan Lee paints and draws portraiture. We have a ton of shared interest artistically and I love the results he’s been getting from years of daily timed portrait paintings and the way he designs his shapes and blending of some classic illustrators approaches to get really concise images. Definitely look at his shit and see all the stuff I’m trying to pick apart and see how he’s thinking about stuff so I can find out if those questions will be relevent to my own art process. 

Next up sketching a neat coat thing off google images. Not much going into it, wanted to find some costuming stuff and study it before bed. I’m working on a more in depth illustration with a bunch of friends as Harry Potter characters for a birthday gift to them/all of us and commemoration of us all going down to Wizarding World for the 30th birthday extravaganza of one of those friends. More to come on that as it develops

Playing some D&D5e with friends online and finally sketched my bard a bit in our Catfolk disguises to start off our recent main story quest stuff. The game is comprised of all artists and our campaign often deteriorates into us shitposting on discord and drawing goofy shit. But it’s lovely.