๐บ Black and Queer, Nonbinary indie game dev making cute and colorful pixel art games.๐พ | Portfolio: Games & Art || My games on itch io! |
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recorded clips from this game because i believe the original website was deleted
+ extra gay whale
Here are a few websites you can visit to sign petitions:
https://www.badinternetbills.com/
https://www.stopkosa.com/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act
today i learned twitter artists are posting their own art but captioning it as if they're reposting someone else's work, bc it gives them waaay more engagement. and its worked every time. the state of social media is truly so over ๐ญ
Thread on how to spot AI generated pixels by reyhkibanki on twitter!~ Might be a useful read to help you spot common mistakes AI makes when generating pixels.
The Dark Game Awards. We have categories
Biggest day 1 patch
This probably could have been a movie
Proof that indie games aren't inherently more artistic
Most playable asset flip
Most gambling addicts created
Because of the dire situation and famine in North Gaza, our friend Hussam from Rafah decided to keep helping by directing 20% of all donation (starting March 11) to Mahmoud AbuSalama and his team in the North who were able to buy all what you see in his video above. So far, he received $5000 since Ramadan started.
Both Hussam and Mahmoud are so grateful and humbled by your continuous support which is helping so many families in the North and the South. Let's keep up the pace everybody!
Please note that Ramadan target of $50k started the first day of Ramadan on March 11 and the first $100k was donated and spent throughout the couple months before Ramadan.
HelpGazaChildren Notion Site || #helpgazachildren tag
[Quick ID: video of Mahmoud Abusalama as he describes the items he managed to buy through donations from helpgazachildren.]
Daytona USA seagull animated in procreate
this is so good
As well as countless of others from the AI generator community. Just talking about how "inaccessible art" is, I decided why not show how wrong these guys are while also helping anyone who actually wants to learn.
Here is the first one ART TEACHERS! There are plenty online and in places like youtube.
๐บHere is my list:
Proko (Free)
Marc Brunet (Free but he does have other classes for a cheap price. Use to work for Blizzard)
Aaron Rutten (free)
BoroCG (free)
Jesse J. Jones (free, talks about animating)
Jesus Conde (free)
Mohammed Agbadi (free, he gives some advice in some videos and talks about art)
Ross Draws (free, he does have other classes for a good price)
SamDoesArts (free, gives good advice and critiques)
Drawfee Show (free, they do give some good advice and great inspiration)
The Art of Aaron Blaise ( useful tips for digital art and animation. Was an animator for Disney)
Bobby Chiu ( useful tips and interviews with artist who are in the industry or making a living as artist)
Second part BOOKS, I have collected some books that have helped me and might help others.
๐Here is my list:
The "how to draw manga" series produced by Graphic-sha. These are for manga artist but they give great advice and information.
"Creating characters with personality" by Tom Bancroft. A great book that can help not just people who draw cartoons but also realistic ones. As it helps you with facial ques and how to make a character interesting.
"Albinus on anatomy" by Robert Beverly Hale and Terence Coyle. Great book to help someone learn basic anatomy.
"Artistic Anatomy" by Dr. Paul Richer and Robert Beverly Hale. A good book if you want to go further in-depth with anatomy.
"Directing the story" by Francis Glebas. A good book if you want to Story board or make comics.
"Animal Anatomy for Artists" by Eliot Goldfinger. A good book for if you want to draw animals or creatures.
"Constructive Anatomy: with almost 500 illustrations" by George B. Bridgman. A great book to help you block out shadows in your figures and see them in a more 3 diamantine way.
"Dynamic Anatomy: Revised and expand" by Burne Hogarth. A book that shows how to block out shapes and easily understand what you are looking out. When it comes to human subjects.
"An Atlas of animal anatomy for artist" by W. Ellenberger and H. Dittrich and H. Baum. This is another good one for people who want to draw animals or creatures.
Etherington Brothers, they make books and have a free blog with art tips.
As for Supplies, I recommend starting out cheap, buying Pencils and art paper at dollar tree or 5 below. For digital art, I recommend not starting with a screen art drawing tablet as they are more expensive.
For the Best art Tablet I recommend either Xp-pen, Bamboo or Huion. Some can range from about 40$ to the thousands.
๐ปAs for art programs here is a list of Free to pay.
Clip Studio paint ( you can choose to pay once or sub and get updates)
Procreate ( pay once for $9.99)
Blender (for 3D modules/sculpting, ect Free)
PaintTool SAI (pay but has a 31 day free trail)
Krita (Free)
mypaint (free)
FireAlpaca (free)
Libresprite (free, for pixel art)
Those are the ones I can recall.
So do with this information as you will but as you can tell there are ways to learn how to become an artist, without breaking the bank. The only thing that might be stopping YOU from using any of these things, is YOU.
I have made time to learn to draw and many artist have too. Either in-between working two jobs or taking care of your family and a job or regular school and chores. YOU just have to take the time or use some time management, it really doesn't take long to practice for like an hour or less. YOU also don't have to do it every day, just once or three times a week is fine.
Hope this was helpful and have a great day.
Mel
Tilly and Harlow artdump since Tiktok liked them so much!! ๐๐ฆ
If anyone is still participating in boycotting, Iโd like to recommend an app. Itโs called No Thanks and developed by a Palestinian.
Itโs very user friendly and allows you to search or barcode scan products.
If youโre not keen on downloading anything, thereโs also a website called bdnaash.com that has similar functions.
Stay decent and as always, free Palestine
game companies should be fucking EMBARRASSED about being inaccessible. it should be mortifying to ship a game with shit captions or no UI scaling options or no option to disable flashing / strobing effects. games lauding their character customization should be laughingstocks for not including hearing aids or congenital disorders or prosthetic limbs. EA should be publicly fucking humiliated for the sims series being 23 goddamn years old and include cats and dogs and horses and werewolves and zombies and mermaids and star wars and not FUCKING WHEELCHAIRS.
Boycott Eurovision
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Prehistoric Creatures appreciation post: [1/?]ย
Sorry itโs early but you really canโt use fanfiction terms in a non fanfiction context like if someone is trying to sell me a book to read and they tell me thereโs an enemy to lovers I would be annoyed because why are you spoiling the story lol
I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet, so I might as well.
They've updated their content policy to comply with payment processor Stripe and Paypal's censorhip. They gave 24 hours. On March 16th 2024, Gumroad TOS will no longer allows sales of any written or drawn nsfw content.
This is going to hurt for so many creators. Giving that little time leaves people's source of income wildly unstable, especially with such a huge overhaul of what content is allowed.
I hate this. I hate what censorship is turning the internet into. I hate that nsfw content creators keeo getting pushed to the fringes, that they need to digitally migrate so often, because nowhere can be trusted to allow their art for long.
I don't know what to do next, there isn't some sort of "here's what you can do to help!" People just deserve to know.
If true we HAVE to make this the biggest flop in gaming history, as in 'destroys the company' levels of gaming flop as in a 'lesson must be taught' gaming flop, as in 'E.T. destroyed atari' gaming flop
Pokemon Yellow ~
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If I had I nickel for every time I saw a lil calf with a heart of her forehead collecting flowers for her mama, Iโd have two nickels!!!
Last year in May, I made a small pixel art game about a lil cow with a heart on her forehead who collects flowers for her mama ๐๐๐ I love hearts and I really wanted to draw a cow character that day
[Image Description: A pixel art graphic of a green grass and flowers background. The title at the top reads "strawberry's flowers" with the words "on itch.io!" underneath. The title is in red text with a white outline, dark red dots inside and green stems at the top of each letter to mimic a strawberry. On the left of the title is an animation of a small cow wearing a blue dress. The cow has dark eyes, tiny horns, brown fur with pinkish-white spots, and a spot on her forehead in the shape of a heart. On the right of the title is a group of flowers. At the bottom of the image is a red play button. End ID]
A heart shaped friend ๐ฎ she is picking flowers for her mums flower shop!! (i will be posting more about her and her family!)
My wife: Are you making a list of fonts?
Me: No, worse. I'm replicating the titles of video games but it's the fonts that they're in
My wife: What does that mean
Me: This
They're doing it with video games now :/
They're doing it with video games now :/
Source
truly connected people on a staggering level. If you engage with anime, even if you dont like dbz, chances are the anime you like got to you because of dbz's popularity. If you like jrpgs, even if you've never played dragon quest, the games you do love almost certainly became a thing because someone in the 80s loved dragon quest. 68 is way too young but genuinely what a towering legacy.
Never forget the children of Iraq. Never forget the children of Syria. Never forget the children of Yemen. Never forget the children of Libya.
And never forget the children of Palestine, gone far too soon with each second the US not only remains complicit in their ongoing genocide, but actively funds it.
Never forget.
my favorite channel
You're launching surefire hit PS5 exclusive Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth in 2 days, surely the best time to fire 900 people from across Sony's offices including the entire London branch
No to AI generated images, no to AI generated text, no to AI generated music, no to AI generated voices, no to AI generated games, no to AI generated videos, no to AI generated slop in all its forms. NO TO AI FUCKING SCRAPING I do not and will never consent to have my work used to train your fucking stealing plagiarism machines.