It's almost been a year since I've had Momo in my life now and I wanted to paint him now that he's all grown up! For the past several months, I have been struggling a lot with burnout and depression, but Momo has been the absolute light of my life during this time. He's a very happy kitty that loves to chat, play, and explore his surroundings with wonder and amazement. Because of this, I wanted to paint a piece that showed Momo in the the way that I see him. ♡
So it's finally happened. I'm tired of ☠️-ing Adobe software. With its shift to AI and other dubious practices I'm finally switching to #FOSS alternatives.
For photoshop I'm using #Krita; Illustrator, #Inkscape, tho now I'm looking for an indesign alternative. So far #Scribus seems the most popular. And I might have to get a free trial of indesign to export my existing books into XML format 🙃
Anyone know any other alternatives? #OpenSource#software#windows#askmastodon#opensourcegraphics
For #InternationalAsexualityDay please, have this nice #Ace#axolotl with pride flag colours - I am not sure why they are #asexuality mascots, but saw lots of them last several years on forums and sites.
I hope fellow Aces here would like it :heart_ace:
Summer dress... based on one of my aunt's holiday travel photos. (I don't publish original here, don't want to publish her face without consent).
Aaaand... this constant problem with shadows on faces on model photos :blobCat_giggle:
Frage an alle, die digitale Designs erstellen:
Welche Eingabegeräte könnt ihr empfehlen?
Ich arbeite viel direkt auf dem iPad, das geht aber auf den Nacken.
Jetzt habe ich auf dem Rechner #Krita installiert und steuere das Programm mit iPad/Stift über die App #AstropadSlate. Das funktioniert leider nicht gut.
Ich überlege ob #Wacom One etwas sein könnte? Andere Tipps und Erfahrungen?
Krita is a KDE project which hosts its development on a KDE GitLab instance. They also have a GitHub mirror repository.
The GitHub mirror is starred by 6.5k accounts. Their GitLab repository is starred by 75 accounts.
And their ticketing system is Bugzilla. Which I greatly disliked before, but I don't even see an obvious way to search for issues by text filtered to the Krita project.
I think it's a shame they evade GitHub as a platform for contributions. It certainly makes me give up contributing to it. Even on issue tickets.
So in Polish wishes for #Easter we often say "happy #egg" (pol. wesołego jajka) or "tasty egg" (pol. smacznego jajka). So what about #dragon egg (smocznego jajka)? :blobcat_amused:
Wait... I just realized I've been officially #krita maintainer since 2004 now. I think it was March, too, when I got the Official Baton. That's twenty years...
I received photos on family group chat, random things from web, and this #bird images too. Without any description so I don't know its species name (but as I remember with questions if I would draw it some day). So I couldn't search for more and used those photos as models. In my mind I called them "these black-and-white #birds".
Canva acquires Serif’s Affinity Suite, and I can’t help feeling doom about this.
I’ve worked with Canva in the past and they were good people, but this feels like a move towards subscriptions. I guess that’s kind of inevitable these days anyway, but being bought out often signals the end. I love the Affinity suite and I hope I’m wrong.
If people fully stop supporting private companies with subscription models and embrace support of Open Source projects, either financing or colaborating to improve them, all this crying will end overnight. #gimp#inkscape#krita
Affinity has been bought by Canva, to compete with Adobe.
It was of course a matter of time before Affinity would outgrow its status of sympathetic small-scale Adobe alternative, and be sold for large proceeds.
Canva is into AI. Hopefully Affinity will get some useful AI-powered image processing tools, like upscalers and denoisers, but Canva will probably add generative shit and introduce subscriptions sooner or later.
They said "Draw #demons". But nobody said I couldn't draw them like some Cartoon Network series #characters :blobcatjoy:
I could imagine this, series like "Dexter's Laboratory", but taking place in Hell and other dimensions of universe. They could also be siblings, grumpy brother and overly optimistic, often lighthearted sister... Are these some kind of "typical cartoon #character stereotypes"? :blobcatjoy: