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Don't mind if I do!

Awesome! I'm building up some good momentum there, come see!

I'll watch for you to get crossposted on Mastodon.

You think they would? I've never been there, I'm terrified of mammoths.

I follow a few from bluesky on Masto, but I've never figured out how to setup the bridge. I just follow when others have done the heavy lifting. It's a dragon thing, after all.

Gorgeous lighting, dude.

UV can do some amazing work in lieu of digital editing, I've only scratched the surface. Thanks buddy, always good to hear from you.

I already commented on this art on bluesky but I will say it again that it looks amazing!

Thanks Vuhsar. I'm going to keep posting on both sites of course, Blue is just a bit quicker.

Looks amazing!

Oooooh! AAAAH this feels like fantasy of the highest order, I WANT TO BUY ALL THE BOOKS <3

This is SO beautiful! Definitely dropping a follow!! :D

Hey Gael! I saw you on Bluesky, thanks for coming along! You've been a great booster, I'm really glad to have you.

You're welcome, happy to help however I can!

This looks incredible!! Awesome work!

Thanks Pertho! I'm practicing for even bigger stuff!

I look forward to seeing it!

Wow. The way that glows is just amazing.

And it's really easy! Like amazingly easy, though you can't scan the drawing with UV, you need to take a picture while holding the flashlight to create the desired hotspot. In this case it was on the wider sword base.

Psh. Stop being humble.

It almost looks like it's reflecting in their eyes, too.

Excellent work on the glow!

Dude, if you ever mad at web comic id reddit just for the sheer enjoyment of your art style!

Hmmm, tempting. You know I can do these pretty fast now, maybe a motion comic. I've got some basic animations down already, check out my YouTube channel.

Nice sward

I too am stuck on how bright this looks. Even for art that physically glows, sometimes a photo of a bright thing doesn't look bright. But I've caught myself squinting at images of a solar eclipse. Feeling brighter than #FFFFFF is an optical illusion.

Here, I think the key is the linework. It's still dark around the fuller. Any digital gradient could add a haze toward the sword. But because the closest outline is darker than that would make it, your brain says that must not be what's happening. Surely all these outlines and shadows are still black. (Well, umber.) Even the pixels that are navy blue.

It's like that chessboard shadow thing - our brains see contrast, not value. So near the hilt it's pure white, but the gradient tells your brain what color the pure white is. The whole shape becomes blue that's too blue.