Post B4mqqwn09HC4CNUEiW by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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(DIR) Post #B4mnkayg20JQx1EAAi by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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The Matchbox Kingdom#Sketchbook #BallpointPen #traditionalart
(DIR) Post #B4mnqy3z72GCHrkTmi by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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Stuck 4 hours at the train station yesterday, so I drew this entire world freehand with just a ballpoint pen. No pre-sketch, no plan, the story just appeared. Full story on my blog: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1134/the-matchbox-kingdom
(DIR) Post #B4moakedIZri1MiovA by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@aurochs Thank you! Oh yes, all design came from visual memory, no reference, and also from a lot of randomness due to the process of 'direct drawing' ; once a line is on the paper, it's final. Maybe the head of the lizard was an attempt at drawing a head of mouse, and because it was looking weird, or too small, I shaped it later like another creature. A classic with this process. 😆
(DIR) Post #B4mokHyEnbi1xJRK1w by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@aurochs 😍
(DIR) Post #B4moosYYiRViaCcL4a by Faintdreams@dice.camp
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@davidrevoy It's the teeny tiny details that make your art so distinct and lovely to get lost in.*Every single one* of those mice has a different personality and the viewer can tell with a glance.Seeing your line art makes me simultaneously want to draw more and also want to give up ! Hope that makes sense.
(DIR) Post #B4mpEWAQa4xSfnYWCu by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@scvalex That's all lines I could do with the Bic "Round Stic M" one of the photo: depending the speed, angle and pressure of my hand. I also take advantage of 'ink blobs', that I smear with my fingers to darken the paper. It has in final a very large variety of effect and line weight. I love this tool.
(DIR) Post #B4mpcsN3gCHEUF4vXE by mjd@mathstodon.xyz
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@davidrevoy I love the piece, but that die on the right side of the page is really bothering me. On dice, ⚀ and ⚅ are always on opposite sides, with only the very rarest exceptions.I hope the fairy is OK. I would not want to wake up in that situation.
(DIR) Post #B4mplUfz94i5ba2aAq by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@Mindiell Haha, I was sure the dice had something wrong, when I drew it; I thought that the relation between how the number are appearing are probably standard, but I didn't wanted to search on my phone for a ref (to economize the phone battery, the delay of train was going +20min every 10 min, and I really felt like I would need all battery to find hotel, call relatives, etc... later). So, I went for a 6 (2026) a 3 (March) and 1... because easier? 😆
(DIR) Post #B4mqIEfTgUUjVrPqDY by gmic@piaille.fr
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@davidrevoy Really nice ! Where's the associated speedpainting video ? 😅
(DIR) Post #B4mqNPOvCsz4FT8eTg by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@mjd Thank you! Oh yes, when I drew that dice, I had a hesitation: I was sure some simple rules were at play. Good to know about the 1 and 6 opposed: they never can appear on the same picture.I could check that on my phone, but I was really in a situation where I preferred to keep the battery in case I had to book another train, hotel for the night, call relatives, get info, etc...
(DIR) Post #B4mqXwFbvWXN1gnw7k by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@gmic Thank you! Oh I'm sure if you hack the security system of the Montpelier Saint Roch train station, find a surveillance camera near the "Paul" baker, you'll find me drawing their. 😆 The data exists!
(DIR) Post #B4mqlHTiJaCuculNQG by wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
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@davidrevoy @mjd The standard with cubic dice, FWIW, is that opposite sides always add up to 7. So 1 and 6, 2 and 5, and 3 and 4 are opposed.
(DIR) Post #B4mqqwcilUyDgUg1h2 by elzen@fadrienn.irlnc.org
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@davidrevoy @Mindiell The standard thing is that the sum of opposite faces on a d6 is always 7, so six opposites one, three opposites four, and five opposites two.
(DIR) Post #B4mqqwn09HC4CNUEiW by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@elzen @Mindiell 🤯 Oh, that's a so cool fundamental to know about how dices works. Thank you for sharing!
(DIR) Post #B4mqymnrA2eNXlcmWW by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@wordshaper @mjd Thank you! Yes, I just read it in another comment and my head just went 🤯 That's a very cool fundamental to understand. Next time, I'll be able to draw dice from imagination more accurately thanks to this!
(DIR) Post #B4mrSMQXn5jWQYp3oG by peha@framapiaf.org
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@davidrevoy great!!! Now, write the story it's an order😜
(DIR) Post #B4mrW9qCWmtCYBdMvY by hwll@sunny.garden
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@davidrevoy that's so cool!! And also one of the great things about ballpoint. It can have a dry almost scratchy quality to thin strokes that is almost like a pencil
(DIR) Post #B4mrWA9LNcCZVYaelU by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@hwll Exactly, for a long time, I was impressed by them about the "I can't erase" part of the ink. But if I abstract it and just think I'm holding a pencil, then it works.
(DIR) Post #B4mrYQp0MgiDnJ9u8e by Moss_the_TeXie@rheinneckar.social
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@davidrevoy Chin –> desk. Wonderful!
(DIR) Post #B4mrdpVlzpNbofjmAi by BuschnicK@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@davidrevoy beautiful
(DIR) Post #B4mrnoLZBI0x6GirhY by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@peha 🤣 🤣 🤔 Actually, there is really something to do here, a fantasy novel a bit in the same vein as Little Nightmare, and Alice in Wonderland around a lonely fairy. I'll note it somewhere.
(DIR) Post #B4ms8gzLjai2MNHuMa by peha@framapiaf.org
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@davidrevoy you shall better keep this note on top of your list, closed to your eyes if you don't want to feel my wrath!!!😂
(DIR) Post #B4msIlejEgZvjPRlUe by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@jtr 🤣 Not sure I can be relax enough inside an elevator to draw like that! A train station, yes, full of passenger stuck and with the "next info in 15minutes" left really a special moment in space/time. It's sort of easy to navigate with an access to the toilets and cheap food. Part of the comfort of waiting there for an undefined amount of time. Also, sunny and soft weather in Montpelier yesterday, it helped at staying positive and just sketch and enjoy.
(DIR) Post #B4msLkMMVmoKa1HD3A by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@peha 🤣 lol!
(DIR) Post #B4msapZpOe8v6XlfLk by csaetre@techhub.social
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@davidrevoyCool!
(DIR) Post #B4msq1m8KDhpHUlnJQ by astridpoot@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy So nice! A friend of mine (who gives me pencils) always says that the ideas are already in those pencils. All you have to do is draw it out.
(DIR) Post #B4mssE3XdWRJwrxcKO by DonChacale@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy human brlliance like this offsets the orange pedo somewhat. thank you.
(DIR) Post #B4mszLoxALOo3cXCxE by windigo@mastodon.sdf.org
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@davidrevoy I love that the Fediverse looks at a enchanting scene of a mice army, complete with bottle cap shields and lizard/bird mounts, surrounding a sleeping fairy......and immediately jumps to "That six-sided die in the corner seems unrealistic." :)
(DIR) Post #B4muM9rZtFi5aOCY2S by lhauser@mefi.social
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@davidrevoy This is lovely, but it makes me wonder if fairies are ever able to sleep on their backs...
(DIR) Post #B4muMA1VILeM5AqTVg by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@lhauser :blobaww: Thank you. And good point. I now wonder what is a ideal bed for a fairy. Especially if they are two. Does this mean a couple of fairy can't spoon to go to sleep? That's sort of sad 🤔
(DIR) Post #B4mudIptmYz0L0aiVE by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@windigo 🤣 🤣 🤣 Exactly! I can't imagine what would happen if I drew an imaginary big keyboard with a fictional keyboard layout from memory.
(DIR) Post #B4muiRUJ2iFscPwTdQ by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@astridpoot That's beautifully said! 💜
(DIR) Post #B4muqbIQSXPNM6H8Mq by unicorn@lgbtqia.space
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Wow! This is such a vibe! Between stellar alt text and the story in the picture, I am obsessed. 🧚♂️🐁@davidrevoy
(DIR) Post #B4muqbShqJdDrz5LOK by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@unicorn :blobcatheart: Thank you!
(DIR) Post #B4mvBfSACNCSKUsLrc by keydelk@vivaldi.net
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@davidrevoy incredible work!
(DIR) Post #B4my7UfkdhHvb6vscy by amic@mathstodon.xyz
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@davidrevoy Nice ! Some of the mice remind me of « La famille Souris » by Kazuo Iwamura. All my childhood !But it seems that there is a problem with your « AI only » text at the end. There is no banana involved…
(DIR) Post #B4mz4oXQQG20INKAHg by hypha@cafe.mycelium.locahlo.st
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@davidrevoy “what’s your prompt?!??- 4 hours with a pen and my brain”beautiful drawing :neocat_heart:
(DIR) Post #B4mz4ordD8C7J2mImO by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@hypha 🤣 Thank you!
(DIR) Post #B4mzEimuelFRMDICfY by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@amic Thank you! I'll check La famille Souris, thanks for pointing it. Ha, right, banana peels probably can help the process of strengthening the paper. I'll check what I can do for the next one!
(DIR) Post #B4mzxuXXoDr0pxeUjI by poleguy@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy Beautiful...My immediate thought upon seeing this, before I even noticed the fairy... was M.C. Escher... both the lizard and the completely filled section of mice, and the black-and-white hatched style... and maybe even the framing with a pen and binder clip..."Reptiles" "butterfly tessellation 1950" "Drawing Hands" etc.
(DIR) Post #B4n0fCCm0U1c4mZnzE by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@poleguy Thank you! I had a book of Escher's work when I was a teenager, and I spent long long hours to get lost in his drawings.I also loved all engraving work (Paul Gustave Doré’s Engravings of Dante’sDivine Comedy!) or more anime: the way Kishiro (Battle Alita Angel, first books) used to crosshatch a lot too.
(DIR) Post #B4n2ADbewja9LzZbw8 by bethmckinley@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy wow
(DIR) Post #B4n2KHhEawoMvyysG8 by fell@ma.fellr.net
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@davidrevoy Wow. It's pretty cool that you to detailed how the fairy wings are attached to her back. I love when that happens. Artists have to come up with answers to questions nobody has really asked before.
(DIR) Post #B4n2fAN91LCwIgXcEi by isagalaev@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy heh, I wish I could do something as creative when I'm stuck somewhere for 4 hours!P.S. Love the detail of her entire set of underwear discarded beside the matchbox :-)
(DIR) Post #B4n9OSYMs0sJRaltfE by Pyves@framapiaf.org
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@davidrevoy ....and mini-me said "mais c'est trop stylé! 😖 "
(DIR) Post #B4n9OSj0ETNjyZkOEy by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@Pyves :blobcatheart:
(DIR) Post #B4nFXYDPmtSVKsgnOS by astridpoot@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy I always experience creativity as a sort of channeling (like the ideas that are stuck in the pencil until we bring them out); I felt that strongly in your magnificent drawing. The drawing is somewhere (in you), and it's yours to put in on paper. Magical! :pensive_party_blob:
(DIR) Post #B4nJucHPF4TyPzoHs8 by SecondUniverse@autistics.life
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@davidrevoy time well spent :TransPride:
(DIR) Post #B4oDS4g0BCYVWZHVbc by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@nieuemma :blobcatheart: Thank you!
(DIR) Post #B4oDnHiyrXHw4bmxJg by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@guineasofbayeux Thank you, and true, I remember you mentioned working on it in the train.
(DIR) Post #B4ol8VahnbqreFe6b2 by pedramardakani@fosstodon.org
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@davidrevoy the drawing is communicating already, the cherry on top is the description, reading it with David's accent gives it the mysterious immersion :) Loved it. Reminds me of the disclaimers on the tutorial videos about the accent, which I find pleasant by the way 😃❤️
(DIR) Post #B4ow6NgrImkq3qiDLs by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@pedramardakani haha, 😆 thank you, I'm glad to hear that my accent is sort of iconic now in a good way! Oh yes, I should keep this disclaimer screen when I start tutorial, I didn't on the last video about Krita 5.3 or 6.0 because I'm moving all my video workflow to 2560x1440px instead of 1080p and I have to redo in higher resolution many of graphics I had ready like this one in the past.
(DIR) Post #B4pIsCZI9eHKSTNegS by rival@mastodon.social
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@davidrevoy Amazing! 👏👏👏 😍😍😍
(DIR) Post #B4rGjuuY6mS3mqAIXA by skyr@chaos.social
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@davidrevoy instant #Mausritter vibes! 🤩#pnp
(DIR) Post #B4v9rZIUQiI21Ru7lo by gws@mastodon.cloud
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@davidrevoy @elzen @Mindiell Now are the I, II, III meant to appear in clockwise or counterclockwise order? 😁
(DIR) Post #B4vAqq8ESCNrtlK4iO by gws@mastodon.cloud
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@davidrevoy Even after reading your exposition I still see the mice's expressions as hostile. I don't know what the fairy did but she's about to wake up to a massive b*tt-kicking....Or does this just mean I have deep-seated Mouse issues?
(DIR) Post #B50Xm0jItQHW3V82bo by coolinthegame@social.anoxinon.de
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@davidrevoy wonderful 🫂
(DIR) Post #B51mhNldVNVUWnQlKi by elfi@pixie.town
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@davidrevoy can't a girl get some sleep D:
(DIR) Post #B51mhNxKnsrf74u6ZE by davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
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@elfi 🤣 🤣 🤣