Inquissien

two besties, ~1900, colorized

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I painted these fellas to (1) strengthen my anatomy knowledge and (2) practice rendering skin. And I really like how they turned out, so you get to see them too.

I did so much stuff, but generally it has been really nice to just not think about social media for a while (even tho I barely use it in the first place) and focus on other things.

I found that I enjoy reading books on art theory. Including the rather dry and technical kind. I read a lot of them recently! I made a bunch of study sketches and I think my style shifted a little bit with it. Really cool stuff. Maybe I write down some recommendations on certain topics at one point.

I coded my own website! It's part of the indie web revival. I made 3D assets in Blender for said website. I also finally sat my ass down and properly studied anatomy and my art looks better then ever before. Awesome!! Not art-related but I also very recently started hitting the gym. It's been on my mind for ages and I'm very proud of myself that I finally did it.

Munti is finally done!! I feel like I'm really getting the hang of modeling characters in Blender.

Next up is figuring out how to build environments so that I can move them out of the black void they currently inhabit.

Turnaround:

*takes the chicken from your manuscript and rotates it horizontaly*

based on a design I made for one of my manuscript illustrations.

plus a little bonus animation

2025 was a really nice year for me art-wise. I made a lot of works I really enjoyed and also learned a couple of things I always wanted to get into! Especially doing historical manuscript-inspired art and, most recently, making 3D models in Blender!!

Thank you very much!! I'm humbled that you're asking me for advice, but I have to somewhat disappoint you- I started learning Blender exactly 20 days ago, so I know pretty much nothing besides the things I learned from entry-level tutorials on YouTube. But I can at least share with you the exact videos I've watched and what helped me get started on my Blender journey.

Finally, the result of dumping all my free time into Blender for the past 1.5 weeks. My second fully finished model.