🌿 d o n a 🌿 @dona@mastodon.art

Good morning! I used to draw horses a lot when I was a pre-teen, then kinda stopped? So here's a unicorn sketch. Went a little overboard with blur because I was having too much fun discovering Photoshop's new "Blur Gallery". :D

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#mastoart #creativetoots

https://mastodon.art/media/ny9SXfKVHq57yXmgk4k

This is the kind of thing I've done before, for reference.
Although I think I can do better without deadlines and specific client requirements these had.

#creativetoots #background #mastoart #hopa

https://mastodon.art/media/PsYxZloKWbI5igI5_0c https://mastodon.art/media/cAcixd8AQGkCKFjUbF0 https://mastodon.art/media/MeTEcvRMT8qkEq_eTco https://mastodon.art/media/C9egmungAlhdE99c5tk

Sketch portraits from a few months back, slightly cleaned up and put on their own background. The blonde guy and the redhead girl are really old OCs that I don't do much with, but they're still dear to me.

(If you wish to support what I do: https://ko-fi.com/donavajgand)

#mastoart #creativetoots #portrait #art #illustration

Hi all!
I decided to check out Mastodon after hearing about it a few times. I'm an illustrator and video game artist, and my favourite type of art to create are fantasy and/or creepy, surreal portraits. Although work-work involves environments and all kinds of objects.

Here are some of my personal favourites. :)

#introductions #illustration #art

https://mastodon.art/media/QTreZu4sGRwRUuRjd3M https://mastodon.art/media/VnDwL-MrFPbM_MP06d4 https://mastodon.art/media/pAfd4CNWlUzYpdHU_LA https://mastodon.art/media/CV8mshTjCPzrhf_QnwQ

✨ EMOTE TUTORIAL ✨

Hiii, it's finally done! I wrote a tutorial on how I go about creating emotes and other types of small art, including some things to think about, tips and tricks, and a "cheat sheet" for Discord, Twitch, and Mixer emote sizes and chat colours.

I hope you like it! Please let me know if you have any feedback, I'd love to improve this tutorial if I can!

BONUS: Download link for the layered .PSD and .PNGs you can use however you like. Just no commercial use, please! https://drive.google.com/open?id=15sGMA1MoGgIdojffTLvheyri3q8Xct7k

#mastoart #creativetoots #tutorial #arttutorial #emotes

https://mastodon.art/media/wuykgTl1BBb6sRzTbVs https://mastodon.art/media/EOlkRY1F1MnwxzhQsT0 https://mastodon.art/media/QNivS_PpCmzqZlNkr-c https://mastodon.art/media/_9gOY3YUwF_sBlkNZVc

Cleaned up my timeline a bit, I felt really uncomfortable having so much negativity out there, so it's gone. I don't want to keep ruining everyone's days with stupid whining. :(

I did a very bad job managing my sleep and emotions this week, so I'm gonna do damage control today and hopefully rest up over the weekend. I hope everyone has a good Friday.

Anyway I'll try to spare you the crying/negativity. A good thing:

I've been poking around Cinema 4D and for the first time, 3D feels... easier? I've been trying different 3D programs and approaches since like 2005 and I can never do it. But C4D feels okay. Let's see where this goes.

Ah, look at me disappear for a week. @_@

Travelled to my boyfriend's, had a minor meltdown, saw the Human Bodies exhibition (with real preserved humans), ate a lot of chocolate and cake, played vidya, even did some work. I'll be here for another week.

How's everyone doing?

#E3 ^ mini thread if anyone cares to read my thoughts.

I'm over games that time and time again glorify war, glorify a post-apocalypse that we might as well face in the real world. We don't need more women in war games, we need less war games altogether. And I hear one of the trailers made a MAGA joke? Fuck that noise.

I want more games that tell heavy stories without resorting to telling it through a hardcore space marine's eyes, that doesn't just push you into the battlefield to solve problems with laser guns.

That was such a well-done show-stopper, props to Microsoft.

I *want* a good cyberpunk game, I really do. As I already said in my lil Detroit rant, no company ACTUALLY makes something that's out-of-the-box, punk, something that truly embodies cyberpunk.

I don't trust CDPR to handle gender and minority issues well at all ,and nothing in the trailer convinced me otherwise. But they did get Mike Pondsmith to really work on the game, so... maybe they'll surprise us.

. The free Life is Strange (mini?) episode was a total surprise, but I really look forward to that! I was just thinking how they'd probably make a boy star the next game. It looks sweet.

. Terry Crews in Saints Row-like, seems like mindless fun

. Elder Scrolls 6, tho judging by the comments I'll never get my Altmer TES...

. Tomb Raider might be good now that it's in former Deus Ex team's hands, but it looks like more of the same. And I don't trust them with racial issues.

Negative:
It took me five damn calls to reach my landlord. I guess he hates money. Anyway, he'll be coming over today, and I stressed that I can't be here tomorrow, so it must be today. I barely slept and all I want is to be out of here.

Positive:
I'm still thinking about that burger, it was too good...
I also have some more time to work on a sketch/painting/whatever it turns out to be. Of The Love Witch.

I got the classic Serbian burger, "pljeskavica". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pljeskavica

Opted for a fancy version with meat stuffed with cheese and smoked ham. Condiments: mayo, tzatziki, urnebes salad (cheese mixed with ground red hot pepper), and all of the veggie options they had - tomato, cucumber, lettuce, cabbage, carrot, onions.

It was exceptionally good! I still feel very stressed and about to cry today, and this helped calm me down a bit.

Sketch portraits from a few months back, slightly cleaned up and put on their own background. The blonde guy and the redhead girl are really old OCs that I don't do much with, but they're still dear to me.

(If you wish to support what I do: https://ko-fi.com/donavajgand)

#mastoart #creativetoots #portrait #art #illustration

Clocking in 6 months with my new bc pill, Belara (switched from Diane-35), which seems to be how long it takes to be "fully" adjusted. Annnd I'm getting hormonal acne again. :( Which means I'll probably ask for a pill switch in December, again, because my periods became super painful... again. Sigh. Diane was amazing in that regard, but it made me more depressed. :(

Fuck PCOS and fuck hormones tbh.

Really fucking bummed because my landlord didn't show up to pick up the rent & his phone is off, it's 10pm so he def won't be showing up, and that means I cannot travel tomorrow to see my boyfriend. I haven't seen him in almost 5 weeks and I'm getting lovesick. Bleh.

(Sorry @ younger me, who never thought older me would be sad-tooting about boys.)

...that burger breakfast day, looks like it will be tomorrow.

I will have to disappoint you all, but I had to go for veggies and chicken that have been in my fridge for days and would go bad soon. 😢

I promise there will be a breakfast burger this week! XD

Good morning!

Is 7am too early to get a burger? o.o

I felt quite inspired this weekend, but I kept to my rule to NOT do any work. I know that if I did, I would have burned out by Tuesday.

What I did do was catch up with some No Don't Die interviews (from 2016 - got a long way to go) and just read a lot. It helps with brain stuff.

Also tried some Chinese 'healing' bandages on my lower back because it seems it's gonna be painful periods with this pill. So the horrible Day One lower back pain is... back. :'( I'll be fine tomorrow, though.

Esmee, void elf from World of Warcraft. The character belongs to AnnaOfAzeroth. She was the second winner of my sketch portrait April Giveaway.

Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMUsizH3b_Q

(You may support my art if you wish: https://ko-fi.com/donavajgand)

#creativetoots #mastoart #art #worldofwarcraft #warcraft #wow #voidelf #velf