IT'S THE YEAR OF RUST

 

 I've been learning the programming language called Rust recently and it's pretty interesting. I'll spare the nerdy details, but it reminds me of my early art days when I was learning something new no matter which direction I went. Programming isn't foreign to me though, I did some Java when I was a kid at 14, that's how influenced I was from Minecraft. I also did some more Java again in high school for 2 classes worth and learned some concepts there. That's pretty much my extent of programming knowledge, and I'm just learning the Rust language instead of programming concepts at the moment.

Also, this is Rust's mascot, Ferris.

IT'S THE YEAR OF KRITA

 

Krita is my new drawing program going forward and I'm not going to look back. The BRUSHES, the LAYER MASKING, the CUSTOMIZATION.

And don't even get me started... on the minimal RAM usage....

One GB of ram vs PS's Eight 

EIGHT GIGABYTES.

It's the year of Krita!!!

Also, this is Krita's mascot, Kiki.

Happy New Year 2025

 

I thought about this one a lot while I was drawing it. I only had a little under 2 hours for this sketch but it felt like a day. I couldn't get the likeness of them down and it was really bothering me. I did quite a few iterations of the first few sketches but just settled with this. There's a drawing like this by the original author I think and it looked so good, nothing like mine. I had to use a ton of reference but I couldn't get the likeness down, I don't know why, it really bothers me.

New process

 This one took about 5 minutes, but I only have one to type this, gotta go celebrate the new year with everyone.

Drew this 1 min

Drew this in literally 60 seconds

5 min sketch hacks

 This sketch turned out really boring at first, it was just a head staring off into space, but a few more minutes of random shapes and it becomes less boring! Still boring though... but it was made on Arch!!!

I use arch btw

 

It's the year of the Linux desktop!!!

I have finally made the jump to Linux and have had a lot of fun with it, waiting for my complementary neckbeard and obese BMI as we speak. Jokes aside, it's actually pretty clean. Apps start up so fast it's not even funny, and the UI experience is fairly solid - although, I think Windows still has KDE Plasma beaten out of the box.

But... you might be wondering, how did I draw Arch-chan if I'm on Arch (btw)? Well... I'll tell you how... 

I drew it on Windows. 

BUT I did switch drawing programs to a cross platform one the past few weeks recently and I've been meaning to share it with you. It's gonna take a whole post of it's own though, probably in an essay format or something, because there's a lot to talk about with it. I'll give you a hint: it's the bunny program.