Snazzy the Dragon

Mini painting is really fun but boy howdy does it take up your time haha! Very happy with the amount of work I was able to do tonight. The cape especially.

Btw if you ever want to learn how to paint fabric, the easiest way is to:
-block out everything in a color 1 shade darker than your base coat
-use a selective wash in only recesses and heavy folds
-layer over ONLY the raised areas with your base color
-then thin the base color heavily and start painting towards the shade to establish a gradient
-then repeat with a thinned highlight color, only on raised areas

It's a little tedious but well worth it, imo.

I've ALWAYS used keyboards for fighting games, and while I love them, my mechanical keyboard is really fucking loud and has a long travel distance between button presses. And it leads to a lot of difficulty doing combos or even getting buttons pressed at the same time.

This is basically everything I want in a fighting stick (minus a wrist pad haha)

after a dozen attempts at a more elegant framing for my hypothesis on how i was Formed This Way, i'm settling for this

so, a week after patreon abruptly permabanned hundreds of fetish accounts (with no warning & despite not violating patreon's tos) i'm now seeing a prominent 18+ artist getting his patreon frozen with no explanation at all as to what triggered it, or directive as to what he can do to recover his primary source of income. (link to tweet)

when the alarms started ringing on patreon's crackdown against fetish art, this is the slippery slope we were warning you about. dovegraveyard's work is not particularly niche in terms of content - he does primarily m/m pornography, rendered in watercolor. it is nothing more 'extreme' than you might find in any off-the-rack adult magazine. the fetishists and sex workers were, as they always are, the canaries in the coal mine, and in absence of patreon providing any real explanation as to why they have spontaneously frozen this account i seriously believe the noose is about to tighten further on all adult content, not just the kink.

not trying to be an alarmist or a doomer, but if you have a patreon you should be setting up some type of mailing list to keep in contact with your supporters, today. if your account ends up being targeted, it will be magnitudes harder to reorganize on a new platform without some way to inform subscribers what happened and where they can find you.

finally, if you are so inclined, i highly recommend pledging to dove as he attempts to rebuild on subscribestar. his art seriously kicks ass and he is just the latest in a long string of artists i deeply care about who have been casualties of patreon's dogshit staff shooting itself in the foot to please payment processors.