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~Vatz
Still working on all this. I'm a pagan and a science fiction nerd.
I do art and get in fights over the efficacy of the ORION program and magnetic confinement thrusters.
The best website is http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
I do art and get in fights over the efficacy of the ORION program and magnetic confinement thrusters.
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Recent Journal
[Confused Screaming]: The Returnening™
a year ago
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAi'm back and i don't know why
Actually, I know why. It's because for all my nay-saying over the years, FA still exists. It sure beats places that'll just delete every single piece of art I uploaded, going back to things from before college that literally don't exist anymore. Tumblr. It also beats places that don't have any archival or sorting functions, but I'll give the evil blue bird site a pass on that since it was never in their scope to be an artist's portfolio platform.
I'm high right now, so don't mind my rambling. 'S my funny talking animal page anyway.
Anyway, I shoved all the old stuff -- high school junk, lazily-edited SecondLife screenshots, napkin sketches -- in Scraps a year or so ago, and a couple of days ago I figured I may as well start uploading all (or at least most of) the art I've done since...let's say 2016, or so. Kind of that point where things got really interesting in my life.
I'll move older stuff back into the gallery if I still feel like it holds up decently. The same goes for uploading things from college as I get ahold of the physical sketchbooks again; stand-out pieces aside, those silly doodle pages were a lot of fun and still bring me immense joy to pick through.*
As far as newer art goes, most of it is focused on a project called Fringeworlds. I'll go into detail on exactly what Fringeworlds is later, but here's the gist of it.
Fringeworlds, a semi-hard science fiction universe, began in 2016 as a fun community roleplaying thing on a random Discord server and then, as a core writing group formed and we all grew as people, transformed into a sort of collaborative outpouring of worldbuilding, thematic fascinations, philosophical and political musings, and spiritual discoveries. It's not really a project that has a defined endgoal, and its core audience is only itself, but it's been a great source of creativity, artistic growth, and frankly a place to work out major issues we have, personal or in wider society, in a constructive and safely detached way.
I wouldn't trade it or the people I've met through it for the world.
Anyway. That's what most of the stuff I'll be uploading going forward will be centered around. It won't be everything, because that'd be severely limiting myself as an artist, but it's what's inspired even my lazy ass to keep honing my crafts. There might also be uploads of things other members of the FW community have made, with their permission. I dunno, I might have to make a separate account for that because of the way copyrights are automatically generated, but I'll figure it out.
It's a setting we feel confident in calling realistic. It's not some droll Turbofuck Killshitter™ darkness, but one of its core themes is accepting all that life comes with, good or bad. In the grand scheme of things, those who care for one another survive and prosper, but wars and great catastrophes and unforgivable atrocities still happen. A major focus is, naturally, on the fighting men of various nation-states, and their triumphs and tribulations. Another major focus is on technological advancement and humanity's drive to conquer any challenge laid before it. Yet another focus is on the place spiritualism, religion, culture, art, and history have in the future of mankind as we rapidly approach our knowledge singularity.
Frankly, writing these journals on a regular basis is gonna have to serve as practice in not being such a long-winded tit.
My skill in art is still frustratingly inconsistent, admittedly. I'm just gonna say "fuck it" and upload stuff anyway. It's something I've had to push myself to improve on ever since I started my creative journey, and it took me a long time to understand that it's perfectly okay for things to be rough and to have wonky errors as long as I'm actively practicing. (i had a whole other tangent here about "being the storyboard person" but i cut that shit lmao)
Oh yeah, uh. If you play Insurgency: Sandstorm, I've been having a ton of fun playing that. I'd be down for adding other players on Steam or whatever.
*Even if you can't draw very well, don't hesitate to fill a decently-priced sketchbook or two with nothing but silly doodles and extremely rough sketches or storyboards. I honestly believe it's a good creative exercise and chicken soup for the soul, as it were.
Actually, I know why. It's because for all my nay-saying over the years, FA still exists. It sure beats places that'll just delete every single piece of art I uploaded, going back to things from before college that literally don't exist anymore. Tumblr. It also beats places that don't have any archival or sorting functions, but I'll give the evil blue bird site a pass on that since it was never in their scope to be an artist's portfolio platform.
I'm high right now, so don't mind my rambling. 'S my funny talking animal page anyway.
Anyway, I shoved all the old stuff -- high school junk, lazily-edited SecondLife screenshots, napkin sketches -- in Scraps a year or so ago, and a couple of days ago I figured I may as well start uploading all (or at least most of) the art I've done since...let's say 2016, or so. Kind of that point where things got really interesting in my life.
I'll move older stuff back into the gallery if I still feel like it holds up decently. The same goes for uploading things from college as I get ahold of the physical sketchbooks again; stand-out pieces aside, those silly doodle pages were a lot of fun and still bring me immense joy to pick through.*
As far as newer art goes, most of it is focused on a project called Fringeworlds. I'll go into detail on exactly what Fringeworlds is later, but here's the gist of it.
Fringeworlds, a semi-hard science fiction universe, began in 2016 as a fun community roleplaying thing on a random Discord server and then, as a core writing group formed and we all grew as people, transformed into a sort of collaborative outpouring of worldbuilding, thematic fascinations, philosophical and political musings, and spiritual discoveries. It's not really a project that has a defined endgoal, and its core audience is only itself, but it's been a great source of creativity, artistic growth, and frankly a place to work out major issues we have, personal or in wider society, in a constructive and safely detached way.
I wouldn't trade it or the people I've met through it for the world.
Anyway. That's what most of the stuff I'll be uploading going forward will be centered around. It won't be everything, because that'd be severely limiting myself as an artist, but it's what's inspired even my lazy ass to keep honing my crafts. There might also be uploads of things other members of the FW community have made, with their permission. I dunno, I might have to make a separate account for that because of the way copyrights are automatically generated, but I'll figure it out.
It's a setting we feel confident in calling realistic. It's not some droll Turbofuck Killshitter™ darkness, but one of its core themes is accepting all that life comes with, good or bad. In the grand scheme of things, those who care for one another survive and prosper, but wars and great catastrophes and unforgivable atrocities still happen. A major focus is, naturally, on the fighting men of various nation-states, and their triumphs and tribulations. Another major focus is on technological advancement and humanity's drive to conquer any challenge laid before it. Yet another focus is on the place spiritualism, religion, culture, art, and history have in the future of mankind as we rapidly approach our knowledge singularity.
Frankly, writing these journals on a regular basis is gonna have to serve as practice in not being such a long-winded tit.
My skill in art is still frustratingly inconsistent, admittedly. I'm just gonna say "fuck it" and upload stuff anyway. It's something I've had to push myself to improve on ever since I started my creative journey, and it took me a long time to understand that it's perfectly okay for things to be rough and to have wonky errors as long as I'm actively practicing. (i had a whole other tangent here about "being the storyboard person" but i cut that shit lmao)
Oh yeah, uh. If you play Insurgency: Sandstorm, I've been having a ton of fun playing that. I'd be down for adding other players on Steam or whatever.
*Even if you can't draw very well, don't hesitate to fill a decently-priced sketchbook or two with nothing but silly doodles and extremely rough sketches or storyboards. I honestly believe it's a good creative exercise and chicken soup for the soul, as it were.
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