endersaka
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Hello to everyone,
first of all, I want to thank the admins/mods for quickly approving me to this forum. I discovered you with a (old school) search on Google, and this forum among a handful of few others is one of the last survivors of the message boards era. And I was purposely looking for something like this, since I was thinking exactly to the problem of the disappearing of this kind of communities because of the centralized platforms arrived with the Social Network era.
Speaking of me, I am a nearly 50 years old artist (and not only) from north-east Italy, specifically, Trieste, with a true passion for comics, ink (to be rigorously placed on paper with dip pens, quills and brushes), pencils (black and white and colored) and watercolors.
Recently, I tried also a bit of alcohol markers, and, over the years, I am very slowly trying to familiarize with digital painting, using Krita (a very good open source software) and a XP-Pen Artist Pro 16TP Pen Display.
While traditional art has been always my first vocation, I also love to work with computer graphics software, either for photography postproduction or digital rendering. I have used many softwares and attended to a number of courses, though, now I mainly use GIMP, Blender, Daz Studio and Digital Photo Professional 4 by Canon for my DLSR camera.
Sometimes I mix some of these techniques (traditional and digital) together. For example, I have a scifi comic book project for which I plan to model all the backgrounds and sets in 3D with Blender, while hand painting all the characters. The challenge is to render non photorealistic images with Blender and find a way to match (as close as possible) Blender renderings to my personal style.
My main work is software engineering, so, when needed, I can code scripts and tools.
Among the others, I also have a project to adapt to comic book "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by Lovecraft, a humorous witch and witchcraft series and another scifi project going with the title of "The Importance of Being Alien" with a strong polarization on diversity themes (including gender, neuro-divergent people and race discrimination... Well, the word "Alien" is self-explanatory, I believe) put in an adventurous, mystery, and scifi story.
All of these things, are made very slowly, in my spare time. There could be periods when things go faster and periods when they go very, very slow.
Thanks for reading
endersaka
(Raimond Scarf study - main character from "The Importance of being Alien")
first of all, I want to thank the admins/mods for quickly approving me to this forum. I discovered you with a (old school) search on Google, and this forum among a handful of few others is one of the last survivors of the message boards era. And I was purposely looking for something like this, since I was thinking exactly to the problem of the disappearing of this kind of communities because of the centralized platforms arrived with the Social Network era.
Speaking of me, I am a nearly 50 years old artist (and not only) from north-east Italy, specifically, Trieste, with a true passion for comics, ink (to be rigorously placed on paper with dip pens, quills and brushes), pencils (black and white and colored) and watercolors.
Recently, I tried also a bit of alcohol markers, and, over the years, I am very slowly trying to familiarize with digital painting, using Krita (a very good open source software) and a XP-Pen Artist Pro 16TP Pen Display.
While traditional art has been always my first vocation, I also love to work with computer graphics software, either for photography postproduction or digital rendering. I have used many softwares and attended to a number of courses, though, now I mainly use GIMP, Blender, Daz Studio and Digital Photo Professional 4 by Canon for my DLSR camera.
Sometimes I mix some of these techniques (traditional and digital) together. For example, I have a scifi comic book project for which I plan to model all the backgrounds and sets in 3D with Blender, while hand painting all the characters. The challenge is to render non photorealistic images with Blender and find a way to match (as close as possible) Blender renderings to my personal style.
My main work is software engineering, so, when needed, I can code scripts and tools.
Among the others, I also have a project to adapt to comic book "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by Lovecraft, a humorous witch and witchcraft series and another scifi project going with the title of "The Importance of Being Alien" with a strong polarization on diversity themes (including gender, neuro-divergent people and race discrimination... Well, the word "Alien" is self-explanatory, I believe) put in an adventurous, mystery, and scifi story.
All of these things, are made very slowly, in my spare time. There could be periods when things go faster and periods when they go very, very slow.
Thanks for reading
endersaka
(Raimond Scarf study - main character from "The Importance of being Alien")
