Creative

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6754947

Gideon Ofnir was a prideful man, believing himself worthy to be among the heights of the All-Knowing. To that end, he spread his eyes across the Lands Between, to watch the happenings, to locate the Demigods hidden away from plain sight. He had the makings of a lord, but he was just another of the myriad Tarnished, however wisened he may or may not have been. He was no better, nay, worse.

You can find the rest of the cards here!

https://beehaw.org/post/6727795

If you are interested in acquiring some of your own or in my other work, feel free to message me or email me at art.zuron@gmail.com

I recently finished the series, this is one of the scenes which I find most striking. I used pencil to sketch and fineliner and alcohol-based markers for the rest.

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6740248

Fanart of Vyke as the Fool tarot card. Vyke was featured prominently in much of Elden Ring's promotional material, and is said to have been the Tarnished that was the closest to claiming the Elden Ring.

However, unable to access the Erdtree due to the unyielding thorns, and unwilling to allow his Maiden to burn as kindling, he disappeared beneath Leyndell to seek the Three Fingers. Whether by his own will or by the coaxing of another, though, is unclear.

You can see the other cards if you follow the links here!

https://beehaw.org/post/6727795

cross-posted from: https://crystals.rest/post/113230

Here it is animated, because lemmy is TERRIBLE about uploading gifs.

(This is an older interpretation of Paul from the Pokemon anime)

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6727795

Last year, I spent several months working on these Elden Ring tarot cards! I made 22 of them, one for each of the major arcana! This is just a low res preview of cards as a whole!

I'll probably begin posting the cards individually in the next few days! Keep an eye out for your favorite cards, or your favorite characters!

If you'd like to see them ahead of time, you can also find them on my Deviant Art or Artstation along with my other work!

https://www.deviantart.com/banjoker/gallery/78109959/tarot

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/NGvlGg

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6727515

I've been playing StS again recently and have been doing some more fanart for the characters! This one is the WIP I currently have for the Watcher!

Keep an eye out for other works in progress and finished pieces!

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6727503

Finished version for my new Ironclad fanart from Slay the Spire! I am pretty happy with how the metals turned out in this one!

You can find the WIP here!

https://beehaw.org/post/6701726

I've been playing Slay the Spire again recently and wanted to do some more fanart for the characters in it! Here is the WIP I have for the silent!

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/6716705

The finished version of my latest Defect fanart! I'll probably be doing one for the other three as well in the days to come!

I've been playing Slay the Spire again recently and wanted to make some more fanart.

This one is for the Ironclad. I’ve also got the Watcher and the Silent doodled out and ready to post in the next few days.

Here is the Defect as well!

https://beehaw.org/post/6701622

I've been playing Slay the Spire again recently and decided I wanted to do some more fanart for it. Here's the Defect so far!

I've also got the Watcher, Silent, and Ironclad done, but I'll post those in the coming days!

I made a stick figure animation and so here it is

While many creatives may spend time rubbing out or digitally removing mistakes from their work, the animator and illustrator Sakshi Jain welcomes them. In fact, she only believes a piece of hers to be complete when “a mistake effectively becomes part of the artwork”.

I think that with a big push towards digital art being realistic, there is more room to appreciate art that is purposefully imperfect.

This is my first time:

• Using linen
• Making a tunic
• Constructing a mandarin collar

All in all, I'm very happy with how it turned out. This is one of the few garments she has that doesn't make her feel cold nor hot in a wide variety of temperatures, so happy it appears to be functional

Pattern is Perfect Tunic from Wardrobe by me

(above image is a necklace made of 3 conjoined glass blobs)

Here's a few more:

They're for sale in my shop, but mostly I just wanted to share my work with beehaw :)

I have completed and released my first short story, Hide. It is a prequel to the novel I am currently editing, Singularity.

Blurb

Deep in the mountain lakes of the Yukaan Empire, Tomas ij’Lu’kan, a haunted ex-soldier and recovered addict returns to a hunting hide he visited with his father as a child to scatter his ashes.

Someone is waiting for him in the darkness of the hide, someone from his past, left long behind. In remembrance of the man that was his father, he and the other are forced to confront the transgressions they have made and the secrets they have kept from one another.

Viewable for free on my Patreon, on Royal Road, or on my Substack.

I might consider this complete! I forgot the nurglings, but maybe that's what the other flowers are! Budding nurglings!

This Great Unclean One is one based on the parasitic Rafflesia flower. It’s name is Festus the Fragrant. My impromptu lore is that Nurgle created the flowers as an attempt to please Isha in his sort of way, as much as it was an attempt to spread rot to the Galaxy.

The so-called “Pestula Petals’” intoxicantingly putrid stench is known to induce a powerful stupor and to bring a sort of awe and euphoria to the Plaguebearers and Nurglings that flock about Festus.

The microscopic seeds of the flowers root into the bodies of trees, animals, and even the armor of tanks, its roots splitting bones, bark, and steel as it spreads, before finally bursting out as more odorously fragrant flowers. The flowers consume and integrate the genes of its hosts, allowing the flowers to adapt rapidly to even Astartes or Tyranid physiology.

Creatures that have been infested by the Pestula Petals often have their craniums ruptured by the growing flowers, turning their bodies and surroundings into smaller, but no less beautiful, versions of Nurgles’ blessed gardens.

Original colored Here

https://beehaw.org/post/1099615

Linework here!

https://beehaw.org/post/1034644

Sketch here!

https://beehaw.org/post/1000220

A little something I threw together as a test in Blender, but it ended up turning out better than I thought! Made in Blender with some post processing in Potatochop.

A while back I saw the DnD movie and Themberchaud really reminded me of a chonky little cat, so I decided to draw this up in Procreate a little later.

This is probably the finished colors. I might edit them a bit still. And, when I do a background, I’ll add some more shading and lighting!

This Great Unclean One is one based on the parasitic Rafflesia flower. It’s name is Festus the Fragrant. My impromptu lore is that Nurgle created the flowers as an attempt to please Isha in his sort of way, as much as it was an attempt to spread rot to the Galaxy.

The so-called “Pestula Petals’” intoxicantingly putrid stench is known to induce a powerful stupor and to bring a sort of awe and euphoria to the Plaguebearers and Nurglings that flock about Festus.

The microscopic seeds of the flowers root into the bodies of trees, animals, and even the armor of tanks, its roots splitting bones, bark, and steel as it spreads, before finally bursting out as more odorously fragrant flowers. The flowers consume and integrate the genes of its hosts, allowing the flowers to adapt rapidly to even Astartes or Tyranid physiology.

Creatures that have been infested by the Pestula Petals often have their craniums ruptured by the growing flowers, turning their bodies and surroundings into smaller, but no less beautiful, versions of Nurgles’ blessed gardens.

Linework here!

https://beehaw.org/post/1034644

Sketch here!

https://beehaw.org/post/1000220

Replica of the two forks lookout.

Noting I'm an aspiring author, not published, and started writing for myself at the age of 13, but I want to share it now. This is going to be an infodump in itself for background and details.... Virtually all writing guides say to avoid info-dumping and most say the same thing about how to fix it if not avoid, but I'm struggling and just want to talk it out here... A bit of background on the books- I've been working on a set of scifi novels for over a decade (with breaks due to life) and it's quite a busy story- lots of happenings among multiple races of people with the expected tech, but with heavy emphasis on immersive characters with deep development and relationships, all in a fleshed-out galaxy with factions, governments, and struggles of such.  Pretty standard scifi stuff- that's all defined before I run into my troubles....

At one point around 400 pages, tramatic events happen to group A: the 6 or so people the audience has come to know.  After events, group A is "saved" by new characters in group B. These two groups have never met (one side knew of the other) but their situations in the prior 400 pages heavily impact each other. The reader doesn't know group B exists either.

I now have 24 [Libre office doc] pages of 14 people sitting around a table, talking- is this an "info dump", or is it just a really long spot of dialogue (that I still need to trim/move parts of regardless)?  They discuss: -coming to terms with a character's past -group A inquiring on the motives of group B with suspicion -group A learning that group B was the reason why events happened the way they did before this( this is quite a few pages by itself, somewhat suspensful with personal connections) -Group B formally and dramatically asking for group A's help -group A breaking to talk shortly amongst themselves and agree to trust and work with group B -Group B asking for information they know group A has; they decide to share limited info -a check on the next objective that group A had planned out since page 100 -a tiny bit of planning for next objective -technical jargon (1 page max)

I'm questioning if this is an info dump or not because it doesn't seem to tick the boxes: It's 90% dialogue that is all relevent to the plot and characters: it explains or adds on to things that the audience saw happen, but didn't understand why it did (and they and group A wouldn't be able to know if not told) and heavily impacted or explained the story prior (coincidences), character interactions and a bit of development... it's not worldbuilding, backstory, or inner or outer monologues (I've completely avoided "as you know, Bob"). 

Why I'm on the fence: A lot happens in the 400 pages prior but I have no other deep info dumps. It's just 14 people bascially getting to know and understand each other, and get up to speed on how they're going to work together to save the galaxy (this is what makes me think it IS an infodump; it explains what has already happened but from a different POV, and will help the reader understand a little better as we move on- conspiracy stuff yay).

I still feel 24 pages is just too long for a meeting and it's a dump no matter, but what do you all feel I might be able to cut from the above list? Any general thoughts on info dumps or dialogue? Any feedback in general?  I really like writing and need critiques since I'm becoming adamant to publish.

AI-driven Denoise helps reduce noise in RAW photos, seamlessly. Improve the quality of your photos by preserving crisp details and removing noise.

I'm getting back into photography after not having the chance to do so this year. It looks like Adobe pushed out a pretty fine-looking update to Lightroom and Lightroom Classic a couple of months ago. If you can look past them calling stuff AI driven and AI powered for the buzz, there's some interesting stuff in here. I've experimented a bit with Enhance Denoise, and it looks pretty cool.

Enhance Denoise comparison

Pictured: A Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula) perches on a tree branch on a cool Fall’s day, staring down the camera head-on. This picture makes use of Adobe Lightroom's Enhance Denoise feature. A full-size crop is linked to allow for closer inspection.

Pictured: The same picture as previous, except using Adobe Lightroom's conventional denoising tools. This picture also links to its full-size crop for closer inspection.

If you look closely at the pictures in the Lemmy interface, you just might be able to make out the differences between the two. Taking their full-size variants to another tab, however, makes spotting their differences a bit more noticeable.

My first impression is that Enhance Denoise appears to be a substantial improvement over the previous denoising options in Lightroom. I have to go gentle with the usual denoising tools unless I don't mind losing some finer details on a photo, and even then it's not going to always do a meaningful job clearing out the noise and there'll be parts that get overly smoothed out. But Enhance Denoise seems to let me have the cake and eat it too. Picture noise appears to be substantially reduced and the picture seems to maintain sharpness.

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2x sized comparison crop

Pictured: The same picture as previous, with some cropping and resampling. The picture is cropped to the bird's head and doubled in sized to aid in comparisons. This picture makes use of Adobe Lightroom's Enhance Denoise feature.

Pictured: The same picture as the previous. This picture uses Adobe Lightroom's conventional denoising tools.

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All that said, I feel a little hesitation with me using it. I'm noticing that, particularly on elements that remain well defined through conventional denoising, Enhance Denoise appears to make these elements too sharp. I'm pretty sure this may be counteracted with how I set the picture's sharpening, however. The AI moniker also gives me some hesitation toward AI specific issues. For example: "did those edge feathers really appear that sharp, or is the end result having me misremember it? There's talk of AI having the tendency to hallucinate information depending on how its prompted—how likely is it for the denoising AI to generate all-together the wrong thing while it's trying to denoise, and how much of a pain will that be to spot and correct?"

But then again, the older denoising algorithm has its own similar stack of issues that might make these feel less significant. Likewise: "how much can I denoise this until it's noticeably smooth? What is noticeably smooth, anyway? Was that a patch of noise I just had smoothed out, or was that actually part of a physical texture that was there?" As it so often goes, I think I'm gonna have little choice but to keep experimenting, keep seeing what feels right, and go case-by-case.

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What do all of you think? Are there any other photographers using Lightroom here that would like to weigh in; any particulars on how you would treat an Enhance Denoise photo to brush up its quirks? Any lay people with their own thoughts of which they think looks better? Do either of the samples stand out as the better?