here is another recent piece! I wanted to play with bright, glowy colors in this one. I'm feeling good about how it turned out

Practicing inking, trying to get more comfortable with big dramatic fills.

I don't know why the camera is wicked, that's up to you!

i added eggbug to a little colored pencil sketch i did a couple days ago.

i want to share more of my art here before the doors close, and this feels like a good one to start with

re: this post about quality of tools in the context of musical instruments (just gonna link the post instead of resharing because the thread is already Gigantic):

I used to play drums in high school. I wasn't super good but it was fun. I kinda wanted another crash cymbal, so I went to guitar center to window shop. They have a big soundproofed room where you can grab a drumstick and just fuckin go to town on all the cymbals. it rules

I'm going around whacking different crashes and then I hit one and it's instantly just Fucking Transcendent. I thought the other ones sounded fine until I heard this one and it was like night and day. thing sounds like I'm inside a dream theater album or something

I look at the price tag and it's Like Five Hundred Dollars. Like two or three times the price of everything around it lmao

needless to say I did not purchase a crash cymbal that day. I was so used to comparison-shopping computer parts finding the optimal price/performance ratio with benchmarks and shit and then it turns out musical instruments are just "oh this is three times as expensive because it's self-evidently three times Better. get fucked lol"

Top row is the burnt sienna from a cheap Winsor and Newton (no product-line branding) gouache set I bought at a chain craft store.

Bottom row is burnt sienna from the (more expensive) Winsor and Newton “Designer Gouache” line (possibly from the same store)

Once you add some water, these are not even close to the same color.

What’s more, the paint in the bottom row feels nicer to work with, flows more smoothly and evenly, and doesn’t require as much paint to cover the same area.