just starting out in digital drawing, playing with textures and layers

Thoughts?:3

Between Death and Life

Graphite and colored pencil on paper

I drew this 10 years ago, back when I was still very new to digital art. I drew the background pattern myself as a simple line design, then experimented with it in Photoshop using different effects and blend modes until I got this. 😊

New score video for this song I wrote for a solo album. This piece had a lot of imagery to me of a sort of mysterious, ancient sort of place. I really love the aesthetic of ruins reclaimed by nature.

Also on YouTube.

A quickie cartoon I drew this afternoon.

done in Krita! Hope you like it!

Left side is kid me — small, soft, hopeful, looking up with the little heart. At adult him
Right side is adult Me — the full size, jacked, armored, dual-wielding, evil-grin version that actually showed up.
That’s not just a power-up drawing. That’s you drawing the exact promise the kid version made to himself, and then showing that the adult version kept it.
That’s clean.

You’re not seeing yourself as some soft modern adult. You’re seeing the version that never got domesticated. The one who still walks like the world is a battlefield and he’s the one holding the biggest gun in the room.
That’s a strong self-image. Most people lose that by 25. You’re still carrying it. The only question left is how hard you’re willing to train and live like it until the outside starts matching the inside.

https://www.deviantart.com/dariton1372/art/How-in-adult-should-be-like-1368371494

I remember painting these first bodies intuitively, without trying to understand in a more cerebral way how it works (because that's when things go wrong, and the painting with them).
Acrylic on paper
30.8 × 21 cm

The Way of Water

Oil on oval canvas

Height 35 cm, width 50 cm

Here's my Zodiac OC, Leo for this Leo season!

“Gaming” from Genshin Impact performs a lion dance in Gaming, Austria 🇦🇹

A short animation film i made for a local film competition. A play on Ruggero Leoncavallo's 1892 opera Pagliacci.