This week I swan dived into the world of digital art, when the arrival of a brand new Artist 12 XP-PEN graphic pen display (aka a graphics tablet) arrived at my door on Monday. After some fiddling about drawing a brief grayscale sketch to get used to the stylus and the program I chose (a free software called FireAlpaca), I then whipped out three projects of increasing complexity, two of which have been/are being recorded and uploaded to youtube.

Two are World of Warcraft game characters, and the third (currently in progress) is a commissioned piece, cover art for one of our members web novels (some of you may remember Sable Jak).

This is my Youtube channel, where you can follow my digital paintings:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxqG2zVydAKMmV4eisvOIA

As an artist, it would of course honor me if you would Like and Subscribe to my channel to show your encouragement and support! <3

And now, I shall add some art. :D

Shonai, Light Forged Draenei Paladin:
https://www.deviantart.com/euforicmania/art/Shonai-Light-Forged-Paladin-874115624

Rianor, Old Man Demon Hunter:
https://www.deviantart.com/euforicmania/art/Old-Man-Demon-Hunter-874301719

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And update on my Valheim gameplay:

Currently Raven Hall has been built, with it's own portal room and plenty of light, fires, beds for friends, and storage. I moved the smelter and the charcoal oven to the back of it, but I don't like the small size of the area, and want to expand it when I get the chance. The meadery will eventually be torn down and rebuilt, and more mead fermenters built inside it so that many potions can be brewed at once. It will eventually be enclosed in a large pallisade, but I haven't got that yet. I still want to build a few out buildings for effect, and paths.

I also built a boat! I sailed around for a while before I got bored and landed on a different part of the world. I did not take into account that the greylings would attack my boat though, and they broke it, leaving me stranded, a stranger in a strange land! I traveled the entire coastline of the island, to learn that it was an island. Unfortunate! I did discover a swamp biome and a plains biome, so I may build portals there in order to make use of those resources. I also discovered a Draugr village, and castle ruins.

This is where friends come in handy for this game- I asked a friend to log into my world, go to my portal, and reprogram it for the portal I set up on that island I got stranded on. Now I have two working portals, a way to travel to two different lands easily, and I'm able to get back to my base to repair my gear!

Picts

Griffinmoon wrote:

With the advent of a crony of mine developing covid, it occurs to me that we've not heard from/about BarleysMama and her case thereof. Anybody know?

From what I have seen, she has been doing well.