all purpose creative

Osculating Circles

Colored pencils on black paper, scanned.

Traditional descriptive geometry construction.

The osculating circle to a curve matches its slope and its curvature. For an ellipse (or conic section in general), you can construct it exactly.

Here, I let a hypothetical particle move on a meandering path. I zoom in on one squiggle - which I happen to match one half of an ellipse (yellow) exactly.

Turning the ellipse so that it lies flat in the drawing plane, I can construct the osculating circle (red)… which appears as an ellipse viewed from any other direction.

I draw every ellipse freehand, but guided by its osculating circles. So, also the ellipses representing the "true" osculating circle have their own osculating circles.

Raleza vs Mimic!

Raelza, from the Handyman Saitou isekai anime, Facing down a mimic! (rework of an older animation, with a new background)

Participating in Art Fight again this year - I'm on Team Tragedy!

Roster Below, I'll probably add more honestly...

catching up on march of robots, this is day 11 work, and day 9 hide

A disparate collection of vagabonds and strays!

Ive originally going to do him last, because I wasn’t really looking forward to making him, I was worried that the details would be a pain without looking impressive in the end, but actually it wasnt that bad, and I'm pretty happy with the result.

@putmeinaparka

I m happy to try and help!

So there's only one body rig, and I just tweak the body base to fit each character. (I have two bases). the armature is also quite simple.

the face is mostly made of floating parts, parented to the head bone, and "rigged" with shape keys.

the mouth is a cutout made with a boolian, but is otherwise the same

the main thing that definitely helps speed is memorizing all your main keyboard commands

If you interested, I do have some unlisted timlapes, on youtube showing more detail, but not for exactly this type of project

Ive originally going to do him last, because I wasn’t really looking forward to making him, I was worried that the details would be a pain without looking impressive in the end, but actually it wasnt that bad, and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Karlach in her happy place!

I finally made a reusable chibi base, but it's Karlach, so she's kinda ripped

But, on the other hand, this shot is actually what I was imagining when I made the skeleton back in October, so that feels nice to get done.

(turn around, and skeleton close ups below)

God's favorite princess herself ^^

I love her main armor, I just look at it and think, this is what a D&D cleric should wear. It has a lot more parts then I thought tho