JLBee @jlbee@mastodon.art
I'm a cosplayer, ocarinist, and computer science student. I love Linux and the open source community. I usually cosplay as video game or anime characters.
Yesterday I went to a class for how to use my serger. It's an older Kenmore my grandparents had, but it has all the same features as the newer machines and it works great! I'm going to be working on some original clothing designs and hopefully get used to it before I start sewing things for a fashion show next year!
I am really happy with this edit. The angle was chosen by the photographer, TeddiTerri on Instagram, then I added vignetting in #darktable . A couple of pearl beads fell off of my hair clips, so I added those back in using #GIMP
I made the belt and hair clips.
I made the mistake of updating Ubuntu in the middle of editing pics from my last photoshoot. Does anyone here use Darktable and know why it changed all of a sudden? The red border is weird and the icons on the side are strangely large.
I'd been gone for a while due to being really busy with homework and stuff, but I did manage to get some new cosplay pictures last month. I did a few quick edits in #gimp just to smooth a few loose threads and wrinkles in the clothes. I love the #pokemongo character designs!
I know this is a place for sharing art, but does anyone have any tips for prioritizing art with other things like homework? I keep trying to do my assignments but then I end up doodling or coming up with good ideas that I don't have time for.
I've learned a bunch over the past year and wanted to redraw an old image! I learned a lot about color and light & I'm less afraid of using saturated colors. I'm also a lot more loose in my painting! The one on the left took several days to finish and I agonized over it, while the one on the right maybe took five hours and was really relaxing to work on. Overall, very happy and looking forward to learning more! #mastoart #art #creativetoots #onepiece #sanji #improvement
With all these issues of #NetNeutrality not only am I fortunate that I live in Canada (we have our flaws, but I'm okay with that), but I'm so happy that places like this exist. A free space to share stuff that doesn't require a lot of personal info.
Some friends begged me to get Facebook, but not only do they require a ton of personal info, they also don't allow your name to be a nickname. Both net neutrality and anonymity are important to the online art community in their own ways.
One of my Christmas #Pokemon designs. I'm doing all of the Alola starters and I hope to colour them soon.
https://mastodon.art/media/LfnpxhvXs29U810GjEk
I have a lot of things that I'd like to do over the holiday break, and one of them is making a video on cheap cosplay wigs and how then can be improved.
I love using #kdenlive for videos but I haven't done anything with it yet on my current laptop. Really looking forward to getting back into using it.
Hopefully the issues I faced in the past had to do with running Linux on a Macbook and not the actual program.
I just discovered that #GIMP opens PDF files! Each page is a new layer, so it's not the easiest to use, but for highlighting parts of a document, it works great! I still wish it would open the raw files from my camera, but I have other programs for that.
Does anyone else here sew? I just got my grandmother's old sewing machine from the 70s cleaned up but it's been so long and I'm not used to that style.
I'm working on some Christmas cards of the Pokemon Sun and Moon starters. I can't wait to get them scanned in and fixed up a bit!
If anyone knows of any good black pens for doing lines, I'm looking for a new pen that doesn't smudge easily. It could be my paper, but I ended up with some smudges.
Does anyone have any tips for doing a photoshoot and making it look more natural rather than plain portraits? I'm going to take pictures in costume this weekend, and I usually do landscape photography.
Tips for being on either side of the camera will help! My camera is a great quality DSLR so I'm familiar with more of the technical terms.
I got a picture of my #FireEmblemFates# costume of #Setsuna from the Hal-Con costume contest (from Topher and Rae Studios on Facebook) and edited it in #darktable. I wanted to be able to see my boots and other black parts of my outfit so I did some lighting adjustments and colour correction. I'm fairly new to the program, so feedback is appreciated.
#cosplay #photography
https://mastodon.art/media/yhGJXTr79G-a9dMv0j8
My current musical project is an arrangement for 5 ocarinas. Does anyone know this popular Nintendo song just by the intro?
#musescore #music #Nintendo #VideoGameMusic
https://mastodon.art/media/b64h9Yz5VD5qwV6mr7Q
I did a little pixel pumpkin for the fall season! I used piq.codeus.net to draw it https://mastodon.art/media/i5cO7FnC9uNq5lzXcaQ
For all the musicians on here, what is a good sound editor for Linux? I'm looking into recording songs I arranged in #musescore
I decided to use this site to post on. I have so many art interests, cosplay, digital drawing, and ocarina playing. I'm a huge fan of the open source community, and I'm glad this option is available!
