Zxo

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Blergh. NoAI.

Sometimes I take a look at the Discover feed, find people and think "hey, it's that person, I should follow them!" but then go to their profile and turns out I already do - I just don't remember ever seeing them in the Following feed. Don't know if this is a me-problem or not.

I usually save every sketch and doodle I make, to the point it feels weird to just close down without saving everything. Even things not really worth saving. Today while browsing through old files I picked one of those (a real old one) and has been doodling on it a bit.

Two versions of the same digital drawing. To the left is a very rough sketch from years ago that I saved because I usually save everything. To the right is the same one, but pretty much unrecognizable because I've continued drawing on it.

Weird question, but I'm trying to come up with a name for a character that has connections to thermal energy (both heat and cold). I want to riff off some kind of base, but I can only think of "thermal" as related to this concept, which is too on the nose. I want something just one step removed

Very uneasy so staying up mega late and adding digital lines upon digital lines, without a plan other than keeping it sort of like a human face.

A very doodly digital drawing of a human face, more or less. It has a slightly gory vibe with goopy red on the lower jaw and the surface below it.

Changed profile pic and gets identity crisis. I kinda hate having a face at all sometimes honestly. Why do I have to visually exist. Why is that necessary.

Small oil paintings from some years ago. The paint bled under the tape I used to get them even, but I like the way it looks. Especially with the insect. It would have been worse if it hadn't bled.

Three oil painting made on the same paper, two are portraits and one is of a wasp or similar insect. The paintings were separated by tape but has bled under.

Old, unfinished (?) oil painting. A4 format, I think. Oil on thicc painting paper. Found this photo of it among other old photos of old things I've made throughout the years.

Oil painting of a person, seen from the side, looking calm or even tired. behind them, also from the side and looking the other direction, is a humanoid creature with empty eye socket, sharp teeth and no lips.

I'm searching through old photos and not finding what I'm looking for but instead finding lots of other things. This painting was painted on top of another painting I really didn't like. And I didn't like this one either. But now, many years later, I think I could do something with this actually.

Unfinished oil painting in a very beige colour scheme. An eyeless, skull like face and very unrealistic ribcage or something underneath. It's all made up of tiny patterns and swirly things in a slight surreal fashion and the being seem to be laughing.

I've been looking up tips and tricks to make your brushes last longer but they all just go over how to get out paint from them and how to make brushy ones pointy again. Mine gets WORN DOWN. The hairs get SHORTER. These two were identical once, but one is new and the other obviously isn't.

Two small, flat brushes. One pristine and shiny, the other being worn down in a way that many hairs seen cut in the middle while some reach 3/4 up the original length.

Pre-diabetes is a thing but I wonder if pre-depression is? The "not depressed yet but you're going to get there unless you do something about it now".

Made myself a cup of 50-50 instant coffee powder and cocoa. So... is it a cup of coffee with chocolate in it or is it a cup of chocolate with coffee in it? What we calling it?

For some reason I didn't know Minecraft skins could use semi-transparency. If I think about it though I'm kinda, almost, perhaps sure I've seen someone use it? It's probably vanilla and has existed in the game for years. Anyway love playing around making skins of different styles.

Four quickly made Minecraft skins, all using transparency in some way. The first is almost lava like and a bit shifty because of the double layers. The second looks like a render effect with coloured lines overlapping and "bleeding" from the figure. The third looks a bit shiny and ghost like, and the last one is a mostly normal diving suit but with the glass on the helmet semi-transparent so a face is slightly visible through.

Played through Liminal Industries and that modpack was so much more balanced since last time I played! I also knew some of how it worked so I could plan things better. Over all, pleasant! Feels weird to leave once I'm powerful though. Still, the world is there I can always jump back in later.

Didn't know until today that Chuck Norris was dead. My first reaction was "oh no, the guy in the funny old memes!" but then I actually read his Wikipedia page and... jikes. Interestingly, I think he kinda looked sympathetic and nice? Didn't expect him to be that bad.

This. Part of why I play games at all is so that I can experience how my increasing skill combined with the game's progression makes me overcome obstacles. If the obstacles always match me, that's the same as never getting better, no matter what numbers say.

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last yr.

Hot take: in RPG's I should be able to see my character improve via gameplay, without seeing a single number go brr. It should be possible to hide all the numbers, all the level mechanisms and stats and level-up noises, and still be able to tell your character has gotten better at doing stuff.