Noadi

This is where I feel betrayed by my parents and their generation (I’m 58). They taught us that people wanting to come to America was a compliment to America and we should be proud of it. I took that message to heart and now I found out they didn’t actually believe it. I still believe it 100%.

Running a downtime investigation for a few players before our LARP session tomorrow and maybe be careful using aura perception around really strong wraith effects.

Listen. You stay the HELL AWAY from my car.

the council of sharks #art #sharks

I love True Ref and hype them up any chance I get. Seeing them collab with an artist I also really admire is great.

I will learn to understand drawing perspective but this is hard!

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

Back in MY day we got mad and wrote a 100,000 word fix it fic. Fandom these days is SOFT I TELL YOU they would never survive the things I have seen

The latest Nomad sculpt update giving us VDM brushes makes me so happy.

USE REFERENCE! USE REFERENCE! USE REFERENCE! Also build a reference library. I have nearly a terabyte of reference images on an external drive that I've been collecting for years plus books. I have reference photos from websites that no longer exist that would be impossible to find now.

And another one. Who is doing this to young artists that they question whether tracing their own art is okay?

One of my rare book DNFs today. Some men can write women really well, this one could not, especially not in first person. Also the writer apparently has never in his life cooked because who cooks bacon in oil? I know that's petty but still.

Look, all I'm saying is if what YOU see in this photo is "Noah's Ark," you are a far better person than I am...

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

Someone should have googled the radium girls

Well I've never felt more validated by an art book. How to Draw by Scott Robertson is recommended by like everyone for improving perspective and it actually recommends using 3d to create perspective grid underlays because doing it by hand is really hard.

I designed some little thumbnail sketch stencils to 3d print. They're up for free on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/Noadi/posts/... #artisttools

Bored and I want to draw but my hand hurts so instead I designed and 3d printed some stencils at common aspect ratios to use for thumbnailing. These are all 2.5 inches on the long side.

I've had this book on my wishlist for years but it was always so pricey. Finally snagged a copy. I'm such a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro and I love seeing how other creative people think and plan.

Let's repost this since I realized posting at 3am might not have reached many people.

Hey fellow #artists I'm on a quest to improve some areas that I'm really weak in. I have books covering perspective and environments either on my shelf or on the way. What I'm lacking are books on animals and creature design, any recommendations?

As someone old enough to remember the last years of the Cold War, I can think of another.

Reshare because I'm really really proud of this. Blender is hard.

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring

Every single time

One of the downsides of running a fairly large LARP-style game (it's run online so not exactly live) is that sometimes players make choices that lead to PvP and while I try to discourage it as much as possible it's sometimes unavoidable. This just happened and it sucks.

catching up on the news

My whole apartment smells like split pea soup and I have "peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old" on loop in my head. I also have some nice crusty bread that will complete my medieval peasant dinner tonight.

Add another thing to the list of things I agree with the Catholic Church on. It's not a very long list but it's a pretty good one.