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jonklestool
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Fledgling artist for fun

Using Bluesky as an archive for my art journey

Days since began: 42
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Day 41: The Sun (Outer Wilds)

The finished product!

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January 14, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Got started on it and will hopefully finish it tomorrow
January 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Day 40: the twins have been completed! they now loop between giving each other sand. Now, just got the sun station to do...

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January 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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Day 39: Half way done with the second orbit of the hourglass twins; not much to say in terms of progress, but once this is at last over, I can do finishing touches to the overall piece and make the sun station

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January 12, 2026 at 11:18 PM
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Day 38: was able to do the first complete orbit of the hourglass twins! only problem is ive gotta do it again but reversing the sand transfer... here's a test vid of the anim

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January 11, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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Day 37: been tryna figure out the hourglass twins orbit and HOLYYYYY this might take a while. gonna work on getting all the frames of rotation done first but ive pathed out the orbit at least

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January 10, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Day 36: the sun loop is completed! can finally work on the background features now

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January 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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Day 35: gave the glowy aura a change in colour and some dithering and WHAM! way better... the second outline was changed a bit as well to a darker colour. Nearly done with this sun loop, just a bit extra tomorrow!

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January 8, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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Day 34: doubled the amount of frames because i felt it was too fast, and also gave it a gradient. Much better! still needs work though

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January 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Day 33: Sun nearly done! some extra solar flares need to be added, but overall happy with this for now

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January 6, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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Day 32: gave the rim a jiggly effect, although I think it's waaaaay too fast. It was just an experiment, so i'll improve on the design tomorrow.

Gave it an extra different sunspot array though, which helps it look more natural.

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January 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Day 31: animation is hard. low on water. send help.

will continue with this over the coming days

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January 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Day 30: made this tree as a part of learning the Krita interface, think it turned out well but the leaves could have been done better.

Starting a new pixel art piece for Outer Wilds as well, gonna try an animated gif of the sun. This'll be hard...

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January 3, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Day 29: Broken Vessel (Pixel Rendition)! Unsure about the characters, but it looks hella epic

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January 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Day 28: made good progress on the background. this thing is taking me ages, but is very satisfying to work on. needs some more objects to fill it in then can finally do the characters.

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January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Day 27: feel like the background is coming along! this is generally the most time consuming part of the piece, the characters will take much less time once this is complete. Hopefully tomorrow...
December 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Day 26: finished the eye, i think its pretty good for a first attempt at digital art. Thanks to 'The Ultimate Digital Painting Course - Beginner to Advanced' for the lessons!

Some progress was made on the background for broken vessel as well, but mainly focused on Krita today.

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December 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Day 25: nearly finished the eye, looks pretty good but theres some more to do!

Also doing one more hollow knight scene; the broken vessel fight. Started the background today and will gradually build it up.

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December 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Day 24: Planetary Map (Pixelated Rendition) is complete. Took me ages to make sure all the details were how I wanted them to after resizing some things.

I'm gonna focus more on learning general art over pixel pieces for a while now, but I'll still spare some time for them!

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December 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Also did some painting of the eye and a bit of refinement. Been focusing too much on pixel art so wanna do more with this side of things
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Day 23: completed all the planets and upscaled the sun; just gotta make more stars, the comet and some extra overlay stuff. Maybe give the sun some dithering as well

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December 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Day 22: trying to make the Outer Wilds planet map; did up to Giant's Deep, gonna finish up tomorrow.

Also, this drawing pad is hella fun! polished up the eye a bit and learned more about the Krita interface. Feel like this will deffo help with improving overall art skills

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December 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Also got a drawing pad for christmas and decided to try digital art as well as pixe art; made a rather dodgy eye to start off with
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Day 21: finished grimm, pretty happy with this

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December 25, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Day 20: beginning troupe master grimm next. Realised his head is way too tiny lol

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December 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM