Snaketember?!? During year of the snake??!?

wtf

Most of my last 10 or so posts have been old (months to a year?+) WIPs that were mostly done and just never got finished due to not being "perfect" and/or burning out on them. I really got trapped in the cycle of starting new projects, working on them until they got challenging or I burned out, and then dropping them for something new. This is especially bad with the few projects I started as commissions or because I promised other people I would make them.

I'm trying to clean up this pile of half-finished things by trying to meet these old WIPs where they are and just fixing the few glaring issues or unfinished areas and calling them done, or finally scrapping them if they're unsalvageable or completely uninteresting. It's very hard for me to get past this mental block that develops around these projects when they reach this point though, and it's all the art energy and motivation I have just to even put in this little amount of work.


Basically:
A: Expect some more older, looser looking uploads in the future.
B: To the people I promised I would make things for, or are waiting on something from me/waiting on me for something, I haven't forgotten and I'm sorry for not getting around to it yet. Things have been weird this year.

Current IOU List: (If you should be on this list and aren't, please let me know.)
1. WetGianni - Sorlag Commission (~70% Done, needs rendering and detailing, and fixed background.)
2. Crescenceon - Eels Collab Pic (Need to clean up and finalize the sketch/lineart for this, sorry for keeping you waiting so long)

It's time...

🐍

I'm bad at giving speeches but I hope everyone has a great rest of the year and start of the next! Also wanted to say thank you to everyone for the 2000 watcher milestone. It managed to sneak in just before the end of the year, shits crazy.

Enjoy your snegg nog responsibly.
-RA

I have been doing a ton of traditional doodling with ballpoint pens lately and have accumulated a small mountain of crusty little sketchy sketches. Most of them aren't post-worthy, but there's a few that I want to test out sharing without re-doing and finishing them digitally like I usually do, though I am a bit afraid of scaring away people who expect the more "finished quality" stuff I tend to upload. Most of these will likely end up in scraps.

If these aren't your kind of thing don't fret, I do have quite a few full quality WIPs that are nearly done that I just need to find the motivation to finish that will hopefully be coming soon™, especially the ones for Snaketember, but we'll see how things go! Until then, hopefully enjoy the doodles, and happy Snaketember!



_{There's so many WIPs please send help.}

Snaketember, just a week away! Wow! I am so happy about this information.

Hotted SNOOBS up ahead! SNITS big ones!

May this month be filled with slithery serpents for everyone, don't forget to show them your love 🐍🙏

Snakes be upon ye...

🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

That is all.

Not sure what happened, just browsing twitter and looking at art, opening a few things up in tabs like I've done 1000 times before. Start getting notifications about being rate limited which I just ignored thinking I was loading tabs too fast or it was a bug or something. If you've ever opened a few tabs too quick on FA and gotten the 503 you know what I'm talking about.

5 minutes goes by and I get an email telling me my account is suspended for violating the "Developer Policy and API Restricted Uses Rules on multiple applications."

Now, this could just be Elon's fuck up of the week banning me for browsing a bit too fast. But, somehow my account could have also been compromised in some way and being used for something without my knowledge. That's a bit worrying right? So I go to the security settings to change my password and/or log out of active sessions or see what other sessions are open, and guess what! Can't change your password, can't see the other places you're logged in, and can't even LOG OUT OF ALL OTHER SESSIONS when your account is suspended. You're locked out of ALL THE SECURITY FEATURES. How pants on head, ass backwards and upside down is this?

I don't even care about getting banned from twitter, sites a shithole anyway, but holy fuck at least let me check to know my account didn't get stolen, is that too much to ask?

I don't use that account for much more than following artists and getting/retweeting comms so it's not very big, but if anyone comes along wondering what happened to it now you know.

Thank you everyone for the big milestone, and for all the support over the last few years!

Merry Christmas, Snitsmas, and any other festivities you enjoy this snowy season, and happy new year!

Time, Mr. Freeman? Is it really that time again?

I still don't know what I'm going to do for it, if anything, but hey, snakes right? 👀

Happy new year everyone, and I hope you all had a merry Christmas as well! I’d also like to say thank you for 400 watchers! I’m surprised at how quickly it happened, managed to squeak it in just before the end of the year too. Thanks again, and best wishes to you all in the new year. :D

Thank you all for another milestone, and just in time for the 3 year anniversary of the account too! Thank you to everyone who enjoys my work and/or supports me here and especially thank you to the friends who have come along with me. I appreciate you!

I know everyone and their mom has a discord server and everybody is probably in a million servers already, but I was curious if there would be any interest in one here. A place to share and talk about art, sneks, furry stuff, shitposting, hobbies or just chill and hang out. I may also share doodles and WIPs there that I don't really post anywhere else on occasion.

If you're interested link is below (18+ only please), if not that's fine too, let me know your thoughts!

https://discord.gg/898ze33mKd

Thank you all for 200 watches, 2000 page views, and for all the great comments and nearly 2000 favs as well. I appreciate you all coming along with me on this weird little endeavor. I hope to continue it, and maybe share some more and different things I enjoy, as I continue to experiment and get more comfortable doing so. Thank you all again :)

I don't really do SFW content that much, but when I do I always enjoy sharing it. It's really awkward though when somebody asks if I have a gallery expecting to see more of whatever SFW content I've shared, and all I have to link them to is this page full of snitty.


So I figured I'd make an alt account only with my SFW stuff on it and ask some opinions about it.

Should I just keep posting everything here like normal and forget about the alt?
If I do use an alt should I post everything here, and just omit the lewd on the alt, or only post NSFW here, and only SFW there?

The biggest concern I think I have is since I only really make one or two pieces a month, one account is gonna sit dead while the other gets content, depending on what I make. And since I mostly make NSFW then the alt account would just end up collecting dust a lot of the time, and I wouldn't check it often for notes or comments and such.

I'm currently leaning towards continuing to post everything here, so if you only want to follow one account and see everything, you can and nothing will change for you, and just omitting NSFW from the other so I have a "clean" gallery I can link peeps to should the need arise.


Anyway, input would be appreciated, thanks!

I'm a bit late on the milestone but I just wanted to thank all 100+ of you for watching, I appreciate it!

Merry Christmas and happy new year to you all as well, and I hope its a good one for everybody :>

Just wanted to say thanks for the support.
I try not to put too much weight on the numbers but I can't deny it feels nice to know that people appreciate what I make enough to click that little button.

Thanks again!

A bit late on this one, I'm not sure if I want to keep writing these or if anybody cares to read them so this might be the last one.

I've made it through Marco Bucci's Digital Painting 2 and 3 "workshops." Honestly I can't say I recommend them, they're very long and without much solid technical instruction. They're more multi-hour long painting demos where he just talks about what he's doing and why. You aren't missing out if you just watch his free youtube stuff. I started a composition course as well but have really been struggling with it and haven't made much progress on that front besides getting through a few basic studies.

I've spent more time working on that same digital project that's been in my WIP folder for months now, reworking it for probably the 7th+ time. The sunk cost fallacy is real and I just can't let it go or start over, as many times as I probably should have. There's a couple large glaring issues with it still that would require basically another rework to fix so I think I'm just going to finish it up as is, upload it anyway and call it done in another 3 months.

Lastly I've picked up some small kits of different traditional paints to try out, and have been playing with making little paintings with them. I started with acrylics, which I really do not like and have yet to make anything decent looking with. I've given watercolors a try too which I actually really enjoyed and will probably continue to mess around with, so you might see the rare watercolor upload in the future. Lastly I have a gouache set coming in the mail soon, and a small set of oil paint which I have yet to open but will also be trying eventually.

Anyways, I hope you all are doing well and staying healthy, and thanks for reading.
Peace

I'll start this one off by saying the virus hasn't really affected me or anybody close to me in any significant way so far, so everything's okay for me for now on that front.

I managed to finish 2 pieces of art this month which I've uploaded, and made good progress on another. I also kicked around a character design for a bit but haven't yet put too much energy into it. The piece I'm working on now feels like it just won't quit though. Every time I think I'm getting close to finishing it I see or change something that leads me into re-working or redoing large areas of it. I'm way past the point of thinking the end result will be at all worth all the time and effort, but I'm going to finish it eventually even if it takes me a year.

I'm also still slowly working through Marco Bucci's "Digital Painting II", but I've been neglecting that gesture drawing course and drawabox.com for a while and drawing in general as well. I've been spending all my effort trying to finish this digital piece and haven't really been sketching anything.

Lastly I finally replaced my really old and crusty TN panel monitor with a (hopefully) properly calibrated IPS panel display. The colors and viewing angles on that old monitor were really bad, even for a TN panel, so having a nice display with the extra bump in resolution is a nice quality of life improvement.

That's all from me this month, it was pretty uneventful. I hope you're all staying safe and healthy out there. Peace.
-RA

Again not a lot to show. Still feel like garbage most of the time and don't really have the energy to do art regularly.
I feel like I've forgotten half of what I've learned and I struggle to sketch anything that isn't disappointing.

I haven't given up yet though, and have made a bit of progress on the few digital pieces which I've had going for months at this point. (the sketch for one was from October of last year, although I've reworked 70% of it) I'm still trying to figure out some sort of process for digital stuff, for the time being I've just been winging it, experimenting a bit and trying to find a style and method that I enjoy.

I finished Marco Bucci's "Digital Painting 1" which, although labelled as a workshop, was more just a demonstration with commentary. There's not much for you the viewer to do besides watch and learn. I do feel like I took away some lessons from it that may help me improve somewhat though. What I really need to do is studies of more fundamental stuff like anatomy but that could not be less appealing to me right now.

I also want to do more fully rendered pencil drawings in the future as well. They're more difficult, due to lacking the luxuries of digital that have spoiled me, but also more enjoyable in many ways. Hopefully when the weather improves and I can take a sketchbook outside again I'll make some more of these.

Until then, thanks for reading.
Peace