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Aleksi Gray@alakotila.bsky.social |
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Comics and novels: SPIDERSILK, FELL SWOOP. Coming 2024: THE BARD AND THE MESSENGER 🌈 🏳️⚧️ He/They. ✨ Local flower rogue ✨ I work in comics: Editor | QC | BG Artist | Flatter | Inker
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Aleksi Gray
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I think a lot of vehicles and plants will work with "diagram" too, but you do have to get specific with trees. Image-searching "tree diagram" won't show refs early! The results will range from cartoony clip art to detailed diagrams, which is nice. I like looking at a few approaches.
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Aleksi Gray
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If having trouble with photo references on simplifying a creature or just not knowing what you're looking at, try image-searching it again with "diagram" added.* That usually helps me get a better understanding and photo refs are easier to parse after! *If clothing, try "pattern" instead.
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Jarrod Baker
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
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Aleksi Gray
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I was so excited the first time I made it to the train in Stardew Valley to get whatever fell off... I got four pairs of leprechaun shoes. I have gotten leprechaun shoes on multiple occasions from the train. What am I supposed to do with all these 😂
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Victoria Ying
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I don’t remember where I heard this but I always defined it as MG: character discovers a world beyond them and YA: Character discovers their role in the world
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Aleksi Gray
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This is why I draw my characters like that I guess lol! I'm trying to branch out but the baby face curse kicks in 😂
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Aleksi Gray
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Please share this campaign in the original post! If possible, try to donate. I was able to add 25€. They are getting closer to their goal! About 80% of the way there! 🍉
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Aleksi Gray
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Got mistaken as a student today again and it's got me thinking about my characters. They tend to look young probably because I do. I have a baby face. If I tell you a character is 35 then they are :'D These guys are 35 and 37
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Aleksi Gray
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aww thank you so much! 💖
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Aleksi Gray
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ohh thank you! I started drawing those fancy lads this year and they're so much fun! I've got satyrs and mermaids and stuff too ✨
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Aleksi Gray
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Another lesson to me from all this is to just post what you want anyway! I don't want to be stressed about it. Also, even if something gets lots of views, it doesn't necessarily translate into more followers. A reel I posted about a cool bug had more engagement 😂
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Aleksi Gray
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QRP with how you draw men Probably wearing fancy stuff, probably loving on each other
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Phineas@drawing comics
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QRP with how you draw men. Fucked up and loving other men a lot of the time lol
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Danny Lore
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I’m going to regret this But quite a few of you are following ldragoo/n here and while some of her tweets are buckwild here On Twitter under the same name she’s been ramping up zionist harassment particularly of bipoc folks in comics, ttrpgs and YA Letting you know so you are informed
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Aleksi Gray
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Two: Share art you like! It does not matter if you share it to one person, put it in your story, whatever! Someone saw it four hours ago and said they were gonna share it to everyone they knew because they thought it deserved more likes 🥰
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Aleksi Gray
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Two lessons on a recent reel: One, artists, reshare your older work if you still love it! I am not making new art every day, but every so often I go back and look at my old reels (1+ year or more) and recycle them. This last one was from my early days of using the CSP models. And Two...
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Aleksi Gray
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Some kids started visiting an older friend of mine and she wound up running an impromptu art camp for them one summer 😂 They would paint rocks and stuff and she became friends with their parents.
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Aleksi Gray
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I looooooove peonies + daisies. If daisies do not bloom by my peonies, I will put them there. And have you ever seen sage flowers? So pretty!
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Natasha 🏴🌻
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And by "prepare" I don't me go all dooms-day-prepper, individualist bullshit. No man is an island and all that. I mean start building community, talk to your neighbors, lend a hand and ask for one when you need it too. We need each other, for care, for protection, for support, for courage, for joy.
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Aleksi Gray
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Thank you! The details are so soothing to work on and I think I have less perfectionist tendencies with trad work... now to inform some digital work with that energy!
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Aleksi Gray
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Thank you! I think that's what I like about it -- the energy!
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Aleksi Gray
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aww thank you so much! a friend introduced me to markers (re-introduced??) and it took some time to get the hang of it, but I'm really having fun with them now!
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Aleksi Gray
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Still one of my fave fancy lads. I might have to do a digital version with some refinements, but the imperfections really make it for me too. I like drawing these guys in my sketchbook more than I do digitally!
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Aleksi Gray
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I love this image from one of our recent events 😂 Expert photobomb back there in the wire grid behind Big Noise in Spaceland! That statue is still sitting on my partner's desk, only this time her arms are down and it looks like she's yelling at the ceiling
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Don Curren 🇺🇦
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As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Aleksi Gray
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Linky: www.patreon.com/posts/mlem-1...
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Aleksi Gray
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~mlem~ Whatever is Laibrook up to just out of sight there?? Stay strong, Einar lol. Full post on patreon for the cute medicine tier! This guy is from my upcoming fantasy novel, The Bard and the Messenger!
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Aleksi Gray
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oh boy. I found poison hemlock today! my first time! I reported it, so hopefully it'll be taken care of. I'm a weirdo that roams a few places and documents flowers for no apparent reason 😂 I was a ranger in a past life for sure
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Matt Hollingsworth
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Okay, so I'm going to post a thread now about using Clip Studio Paint, about color settings, ICC color profiles, outputting to CMYK, getting 100% K in your blacks, etc. Technical shit. If you're struggling with this, read the thread. I'll reply to myself here, and it'll take a little time... 1/many
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Aleksi Gray
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A little bouquet I picked from my yard a few days ago. I really like this one! Sage flowers, chive flower, buttercups, grass-like starwort, lobelia, Iceland poppy, and pinks 💖
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Aleksi Gray
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ahahah for real. the curse of the baby face i guess! i fully do not think i look that young so it's always a surprise anyway xD
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Ed
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I guess I’ve become sort of a science-hype debunker so as far as this goes, let me just say: it’s real. Really really real. You could soon get a shot every six months that would basically eliminate your chance of getting HIV. Taken a step further: we have the tools to eliminate HIV in our lifetime.
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Aleksi Gray
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Let's meet the narrators! My well-dressed disaster queers + fantasy romance story tendencies continue.
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Aleksi Gray
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haha! or cough syrup. I understand when cashiers do it -- they have to if they think you're below 40 -- but a random customer tried to talk to me about school being in session?? Or maybe he thought I looked like a professor?? 😂
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Aleksi Gray
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thank uuuuu ^^
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Aleksi Gray
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YUP 😂 I have to hype myself up if I have to do it myself.
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Zoe Tunnell
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I feel like a lot of y'all need to remember this lately Yeah shit is real bad for us but that doesn't mean that other people of other identities (queer or otherwise) don't have their own struggles or identities and those things do not take away from OUR identities Chill the hell out
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Johanna Taylor @ JULY 23 👻📖
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Everyone wanting to write AND draw their own graphic novel needs to look at this, and plan your finances/side-gigs accordingly. The advance money reeeeally doesn't go as far as you think it does.
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Aleksi Gray
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So cute! I love the colors!
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Krispy
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And finished! Kirby piece I did with coloured pencils! 🩷 💙 💛
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Aleksi Gray
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woah absolutely not -- i rewatch movies to watch the same movie. repeatedly. i notice things i didn't the first time around. and rewatching a movie years apart is a cool feeling too especially if i get something new out of it
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Aleksi Gray
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Previous projects I ran through the back-burner tier include coloring books and an entire novel. Having a tier where I could add sections of writing, sketches, maps, etc was really helpful for me and interesting to people who enjoy looking behind the scenes!
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Aleksi Gray
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I'd like to highlight my back-burner project tier. Right now it's early access (currently exclusive) to one of my latest comics, He Took Me to the Stars. While the art might make its way off patreon at some point, right now the pages can only be read here!
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Aleksi Gray
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Revamped my Patreon! Brushed up all information on the series you'll see on the site, current projects, and tier information.
www.patreon.com/alakotila
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Olivia Stephens
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