My Plague Year, a54

Perfect genius wears the heavy crown. Says pay no attention. In my plague year.

Drive by testing

Continuing my experiments in how weird can dynamic brush painting get. Pretty wild it turns out. Lots of new territory to explore. This is totally vector, so you can output this kind of thing as a resolution independent svg file.

My Plague Year, a53

Americans seem to believe they have an inalienable right to 'be stupid'. In my plague year.

So this is actually a dynamic brush preset, believe it or not. Pretty wild. Playing around with color palette mapping as well in this after someone on the Studio Artist user forum asked about how to do it.

The Possum is hiding

Possum being the nickname for my friends cat.  Because she likes to hide. 

Tried a geodesic paint approach for this.  The image texture ended up seeding the start points for the geodesic spread way to much i think.  I should see if the existing pre-filtering controls we have can deal with it, or if we need to beef that up more.

My Plague Year, a52

Morons protesting in Honolulu arrested for endangering others during a viral pandemic. In my plague year.

I caught a fish this big

No really. The fish was this big. Like the biggest ever. That's what people tell me. This fish is number one biggest ever whopper of a tale. No really.

Dynamic brush speed painting. I always build them from scratch super quick these days. Paint synthesizer macro edits really help you do that very quickly. From scratch. Especially the initial dynamic brush setup. You always want to then adjust the Path Start and Path Shape Region Pattern Type details to match the source image you are working with. The dynamic brush setup macro edit sets the Path Application Spacing too far apart for my approach, so i dial that in much lower.

My Plague Year, a51

Wow, moron protests take an ugly turn.  A demonstrator attending the rally, where hundreds of people protested against the state’s lockdown and social distancing measures, was photographed carrying a sign bearing the words “Arbeit macht frei, JB”.
‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ translates to ‘work sets you free’ - it’s literally from the the Auschwitz concentration camp.

To quote the Auschwitz memorial twitter account this morning, “‘Arbeit macht frei’ was a false, cynical illusion the SS gave to prisoners of Auschwitz. Those words became one of the icons of human hatred. It’s painful to see this symbol instrumentalised and used again to spread hate. It’s a symptom of moral and intellectual degeneration.”