So I decided to test my might with pencil and in honor of pride month and Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland) I studied his style and made art of a friends D&D character.
I was very tired and pleased to learn, I still have some skills.
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It’s the final few days of the Bluminarmour Project! After some issues with Kickstarter let’s see how far we can get!
If you want to see fantasy tropes, historical movement and silly tricks tested in authentic full plate armour, please consider chucking a few quid over (or like and share this post):
Blumineck is trying to fun a video series doing fun and serious historical and fantasy testing in fitted plate armour.
Start with a large sheet of cardboard. Stores like home depot have large moving boxes that come flat like this, perfect for this project.
I use a projector to trace my butterfly, but you can also put tracing paper up to a screen and glue it to your cardboard, or ask your library to let you use their projector.
Make sure to trace not just the outside, but also all of the markings and patterns. Doing the antennae as well and keeping the scrap cardboard will allow you to measure out the right length.
2.
Cut around the outside of your lepidopteran and crease where the wings meet each other and the body. I use my hands, but a ruler can help. After bending your wings into a natural position, make the body and head with your clay of choice, mine is foam clay which is cheap and easy to use.
Blend the sides of the body into the wings just enough to stick, this will hold the pose you've chosen.
Prop up the wings with whatever is around and keep in a safe spot to dry. Mine dries overnight at this size. You can see I've used bottles for mine
3.
Once dry and solidified, the clay holds the wings in place in the way you left them.
Measure your antennae wire a little longer than needed and poke it into the clay. If it doesn't stay, add a little dot of super or hot glue at the base.
Glue a mounting bracket on the back. You can angle this however you like to have your lepidopteran upright, sideways, or even upside down
4.
Paint your sections individually so you don't lose your trace lines. I go in with white first to cover up the print on the cardboard, then put the correct colors over that.
If making a high contrast lep like this, go in with black at the end to clean up your edges.
If adding any fur to the body, get a piece larger than you need and hot glue it on, then trim the backing underneath the fibers with tiny snips, as not to cut the fur itself, and carefully glue the edges of the backing to the body as well
5.
Brush a matte finish like mod podge over your final product. Hold your lep up to where you want it to hang, then mount with a nail
Art Mart is an up-and-coming physical retail space in Tampere, Finland, where artists can rent space to sell their products - the team is currently looking for funding to offset the initial costs of setting up a physical store!
As a local artist I'm giving this campaign my support and I'm offering a limited number of commission slots, each worth 300€. This gets you a single character illustration with a simple background/background elements and it can be done in either digital or traditional style - whichever you prefer! Even a scroll type painting such as in the example is possible. (Mailing of the physical painting is posisble but not included in the pledge as the price is tied to the size of the parcel, location and the shipping rates at the time.)
I don't often offer commission slots so this is a unique opportunity!
The campaign is on a Finnish crowdfunding platform, Mesenaatti, so some restrictions may apply. Pledges will be fulfilled if the campaign is successful. There are also a bunch of other pledges you can support to bring this project to life! (I don't manage this campaign and I'm only offering my services for the behalf of the project. All proceeds go to launching ArtMart.)
The campaign had a great start with over 25% of the minimum goal funded in the first 24 hours so I'm very much looking forward to seeing this project prosper!
I'm planning on making a one shot roleplaying game called HIME.
In short: It's year 2532. Humans are extinct. Monsters, machines and extraterestial aliens roam earth. One of these factions is trying to eradicate everything. Only HIME can stop it. She went MIA and you have decided to go rescue her. Only you can't do it alone...are you a monster, alien or a machine?
The game is for 3 players and to be played around the same table. It's rules light.
No AI was used making this. (I feel compelled saying this nowdays..)
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So I tried to draw completely different picture. It just didn't go the slighthest in the direction I would have wanted it to go, so instead I started drawing my inner demon, my critic who is so relentless in everything I do and does not miss a chance to point out where I did WRONG™ or if I should do better.
The inner critic is vicious one who disguises herself as a beautiful thing that wants what's "best" for you and knows best.
I try not to listen to her always, though she is so very tempting. Sometimes I need to tell her out loud, shut up, let me do what I do!
So I did another dragon bust this summer. Hopefully I'll have time to make more. I hope those who know the game also can identify the breed of the dragon from the game Flight Rising.
I was positively surprised how much the other bust got around through re-blogs and all! I got like 40 notes! Thank you very much! I appreciate every note and it made me happy that people enjoy my craft <3 ^^
Oh my goodnes! I drew something! It's been a while and my shoulder is letting me know that I've been at it for hours now...heheh... This is a roleplaying character of mine. She breaks easy but hits like a hammer. Meet Kippo.
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Fimo White for the body (or pick any colour you want, there are glitter options!)
Fimo Translucent White (for the teeth)
Clear glass Christmas bauble
Glass eyes. Roughly 9 per mimic. Do not use plastic, those need to be able to take the oven baking of roughly 100°.
First step: Make a bunch of teeth from the Translucent White Fimo. I use a baking pan, because it has the perfect curved edge to make the teefies curved.
Bake. Repeat till you have a bunch of teefies.
Put a noodle of white fimo on the baubles. This is the general shape of the mouth.
Add the already hardened teefies.
Once you have added enough teeth, add lips with White Fimo. Personally, I flattened a noodle and put two layers of that on. It's a fantasy creature, do whatever you feel is right for you. :D
Bake at 100°.
While this is baking the teeth and later the lips, you can prep the glass eyes. If your eyes come with wire hoops, clip those off and embed them in the Fimo.
I use roughly 9 glass eyes of different sizes per mimic.
I placed the eyes on a flattened bit of white fimo. Use white in any case if your eyes are see through: The white fimo here will make them look their colour. Then add lids. Same deal as with the lips, it's a fantasy creature, there is no right or wrong approach. Go wild.
Once the baubles with the lips finished baking and are hardened, place the eyes on the bauble, where you feel they might work for you.
Do that on ONE HALF of the bauble. Not both, will be hard to hold the bauble and not squish what you already sculpted if you do both halfs at the same time.
If you don't feel confident about how to get it right yet, start at the bottom.
Fill the space between the eyes and lips with white fimo.
Smooth it. I used the back end of a round pencil for that, since I don't have tools for sculpting, I just improvise.
Add whatever texture you feel like. I like swirls.
Since I'm not too great at smoothing out rough bits, I put some texture and warts on it.
One side done.
Bake at 100°.
Careful, the glass eyes get hot and stay hot longer than the rest of the sculpt or the bauble.
Repeat the eye-fitting and sculpting on the other side. NEARLY THERE!
Bake at 100° for the last time! :D
(yes, this is the same image every time. <3 )
Congrats to your finished mimic!
Personal request: please do share your mimics with me! <3 I would love to see them all~! <3
I only made six though. Dunno where the seventh one came from.
I finally got to do this and delivered the last of my Christmas monsters <3
Thank you @drachenmagier for sharing the tutorial on how to make these. It was a lot of work, but the result was certainly worth it. I mean look at that cute gnarly face! And best of all, my tea loving D&D buddy appreciated the gift <3
And I just couldn't resist making their teeth from glow in the dark material xD Because what wouldn't be a better way to spook a person than a sudden smirk in the dark in the general direction of the Christmas tree. (I did warn all who received these just so they wouldn't be shell shocked for life.)
I'm faily happy about this little bullfinch I did in december.
The inspiration is firebird in slavic mythology as bringer of hope, as such they are to me in the middle of winter.
This reminds me to stay hopeful.
This one was for a friend and I had never tried to do something like this and it surpriced me positively, but I really should have scanned it properly before handing it over to the friend. Maybe I'll just have to make another some day.
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There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
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