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David Revoy

"Fa Bd Comics" books on SCAMazon: don't buy them. A new article on the blog about the worst publisher reusing my artworks and the one of the Pepper&Carrot community. Full story here: davidrevoy.com/article959/fa-b

A tryptic of book cover photos of the publisher FA Bd Comics, a text is written on the top "Pepper&Carrot (FABdComics logo) books on SCAMazon" a reaction of my characters Pepper and Carrot are on the corner, horrified.
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Harkalé Linaï

@davidrevoy à la lecture de ton article, c'est de pire en pire :D l'adresse caramail, sérieux. J'image que leur business model, c'est de chourer pleeeein de BDs en ligne, de les mettre en forme automatiquement et de les vendre en espérant que quelques personnes se fassent avoir ?

Enfin bref, bon courage, c'est pas cool tout ça. D'expérience, la "DMCA takedown request" d'amazon marche bien, je ne pense pas que cet "éditeur" aille contester pour cause de license CC.

Sylvia Ritter

@davidrevoy So sorry that this is happening to you. If someone breaks one of the rules of the creative commons, the rules of copyrighted artworks apply. I saw that two of these books aren't available for purchase anymore but Amazon has to remove the whole product page...

maxmoon 🌱

@davidrevoy It's so sad, that someone wants to make money this way, even if it's okay to use the work of others.

They just don't appreciate the work and want to make money.

David Revoy

Lightwork
A speedpainting inspired by Devin Townsend's 2022 music album. I'll go to his concert tomorrow in Toulouse! Lightwork Tour. I listen to his music since 2000. I can't wait!
#krita #MastoArt
#devintownsend #concert

A digital painting illustration with advanced shading and dense brush work. A lighthouse is in the center of the piece, under the attack of a kraken and waves of the ocean. On a rock in foreground, the silhouette of Pepper and Carrot, watching the scene. 

The scene is inspired by elements of the music album "Lightwork" by Devin Townsend (more symbolic and flat on the cover album, and not shaded).

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
David Revoy

I made this 3D mockup for the backgrounds of my future webcomic episode. It's WIP, not finished, and will receive a lot of paint-over later, but I love this process and wanted to share Blender screenshots 🥰.

#b3d #MastoArt #wip

Blender screenshot: a viewport with colored objects while modeling the scene in 3D: a fantasy gothic bridge at night.
Blender screenshot: a viewport with a realtime Eevee rendering of the full set shaded: a fantasy gothic bridge at night.
Blender screenshot: a viewport with  nodes to tweak the world (adding mist) and a rendering from the camera: a fantasy gothic bridge at night.
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Ithanul

@davidrevoy

Darn, the rendering style almost gives a slight animation vibe to it.

Scruffy Dux :krita: :inkscape:

@davidrevoy I would absolutely love to see a video capture of your 3d paint over process if that's something you ever feel inclined to make in the future.

Blender + Krita, FOSS creative heaven. ❤️

jfml ✨ Jonas Laugs

@davidrevoy Wow, that is so cool! Love the towers/roofs and the lighting!

David Revoy

Are there any GNU/Linux users of Wacom MobileStudio tablets around here? 🤔 I'm curious about your feedback.

#linux #device #mobile #wacom

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Magotrap
@davidrevoy Don't know if this counts, but I have a fairly ancient and smol tablet called CTH-490
Halla Rempt

@davidrevoy Until it broke (fairly quickly, in under three years) I used one. Mostly with Windows, because Linux desktops really need a keyboard, and on-screen keyboards were not very good.

It ran Krita much smoother under Linux than under Windows, though -- I think both you and Timothee played with the device during a sprint?

In any case, overheating and after a year or two, three autoshutdowning were a bummer for a device that expensive.

David Revoy

:fediverse: Tiny Fediverse Family Sketches

I'm still penciling on the next episode of Pepper&Carrot, and this week, I did my daily warm-up before working on the pages with these sketches. Here is a cleaned compilation of them (credits in alt).

#MastoArt #krita #sketches

Pleroma-chan, a tiny fox girl (pleroma.social) chase happily a squid, Sepia (joinpeertube.org). This last one is affraid and run.
License: CC-By davidrevoy.com, pleroma.social
Rȯse a fennec-fox (joinmobilizon.org) make some balance exercice on top of a roll and a plank, she is in full focus, eye closed. A squid, Sepia (joinpeertube.org) applaud at the scene with heart in their eyes.
License: CC-By
License: CC-By davidrevoy.com
Fred, a firefox panda mascot I found for Pixelfed (pixelfed.org, inspired by artist Andy Cuccaro) panic on the back of a large whale smiling with headphones (https://funkwhale.audio/). These two are not official mascot, just approximation with random quick search.
License: ??? (for Fred), my whale with headphones is an invention.
AI, Misskey mascot, a girl with a Japanese student uniform and cat ears pets on the head a tiny mastodon creature, this one is happy.
License: CC-By davidrevoy.com. Misskey by Syuilo ( https://github.com/syuilo/ai/commit/15406d0f30c134e641267795e6eb6cc46a66888a ) under a MIT license as far as I can tell... ((It's really hard to find license info for Ai on Misskey... Not cool -_-)) The Mastodon is not looking like the official mascot, just a cartoony Mastodon.
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Gidja

@davidrevoy I have to admit I love yours drawings.

EchedeyLR

@davidrevoy would love to see the time when GoToSocial Sloth is part of it.

Poroto Sórdido

@davidrevoy It's nice to find them here 💜 I saw the title in my feed reader but your site was down and couldn't see the images.

David Revoy

It's the first SEO/Adv email I receive of this kind with a custom header that attempts the fake-friendly "hey, see, I speak about you" intro and the wording looks like a poor mashup of my About page.

That's why I'm suspicious this is part of a new generation of AI-enhanced spam (I can't verify it, it's only a guess) and I wanted to share it.

Have you got this recently in your mailbox? What do you think about it?

Screenshot of an email:

Object: Remove the guesswork from UX and revenue today
From: (censored)
To: David Revoy

(underlined part)
David, I wanted to reach out and express my admiration for your incredible work as a freelance artist. Your website showcases an impressive range of skills and expertise in illustration, art-direction, concept-art, storytelling and teaching. With your thousands of monthly visits, I'm curious to know if you're getting best value.
(end of underlined part)

I can see my colleague reached out to you last year, but it looks like it wasn't the right time and you had some concerns about showing ads. 

(Censored) is built to maximize ad revenue without harming user experience. Ad combinations that would cause users to bounce are automatically phased out of its testing, in case you were concerned about how ads may affect your visitors. Can I share more information? 

(Censored) |

Senior Business Development Manager at (Censored)

(underlined) Intelligent Technology (underlined end) For Exceptional Content

Improve Revenue, Performance, & Grow Traffic Faster
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Taywee

@davidrevoy
I'm a programmer with a LinkedIn, and my email address is in a ton of public repository commit histories, and I've been getting the same kinds of emails for about a decade and they sound about the same. Whether it's AI or not really doesn't make a difference to me; it's the same kind of spam either way.

Solinvictus :vm:

@davidrevoy my goodness, this is like next level phishing... that’s not bad :0560:

DELETED

@davidrevoy
> ...if you're getting best value

🤦

David Revoy

Concept-art for the future episode of Pepper&Carrot (click to see Carrot hissing at the bottom).

#krita #conceptart
#MastoArt

A digital painting concept-art, a colored standing pose of a defiant young witch named Pepper. She has a cloak and staff. She looks ready to play an RPG adventure. 
On the floor, Carrot, her red tabby cat in a combat-mode pose, hissing.
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jnbhlr

@davidrevoy you sure that's an teapot because it looks a lot like a catpot to me?

Dan Jones

I love this.

I regularly use 418 in unit tests that have anything to do with HTTP responses.

I'll have to find a way to incorporate this image somewhere in my tests.

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

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aetios ▶️ kwsp
@davidrevoy Yooo beautiful work! You use tipp-ex as a colour? Or just for corrections (as is intended? )
Arne Babenhauserheide

@davidrevoy That’s beautiful! Thank you for sharing!

(and I wouldn’t have thought of using tipp-ex for snow :-) )

Tristan Nitot✓

@davidrevoy @Lapineige Gorgeous! Plus you managed not to draw the cars, which makes your watercolor better than reality :-)

David Revoy

Process:

📦4K/wallpaper: davidrevoy.com/data/images/blo

🗒️License: Fan-art derivation of Studio Ghibli © materials (fair use).

A digital pencil artwork, the preparatory step (A) for the illustration my "My Neighbor Mastodon 2" artwork. 
Note: See my previous post for the complete description of the scene.
The step (B) of the process: coloring with a large brush on a layer under the pencil lines.
Step (C) of the process: Painting details and lower the opacity of the pencil until the pencil is not visible anymore. At this point the scene is solid but still miss the background's details and the effect like the rain and the wet country road.
Last and final step, with the rain and the reflection on the country road. A slight 'unsharp mask' was added on the top so some brush stroke appear crispier than what they really are in Krita.
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Gen X-Wing

@davidrevoy Studio Ghibli would be proud.

Now we need a fediverse app that reminds us of a catbus :)

MightyBigCar

@davidrevoy That is wonderful beyond all description!

Ixtli Dekami :coolified:

@davidrevoy
Wonderful!

Added to my wallpapers folder…=)

Thanks!

David Revoy

🌱 My Neighbor Mastodon 2

Thank you, thank you, *thank you* for being more than 20K to follow my art here. It's fantastic.

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita #HumanArt

A digital painting illustration being a parody of an iconic scene of the movie "My Neighbor Totoro"; but instead of Totoro it's a big Mastodon, and the two girls are replaced by Pepper and Carrot, the OC of my webcomic. The scene is a large view angle under rain at night on a bus stop, the sign has '20K' written on it and a sticker of a red heart symbol on the corner. Pepper has Carrot sleeping on her back, she is under an umbrella, waiting for the bus. She looks on her side, amused, and discover a large cartoony mastodon also waiting for the bus, and covered only with a large leaf on his head. He looks at her as if he was suprised she noticed him and even blushes a bit.
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T.A. Walker

@davidrevoy As an avid anime (and Ghibli) fan, and someone who wishes he possessed more than a speck of visual-art talent… I loved “My Neighbor Mastodon 2” 👏👏👏 Now following…

David Revoy

I'll do a 50min commented Krita live painting for the first edition of Creative Freedom Summit, a new virtual conference for creatives using open source tools! ☺️🎨

It will be next Thursday, January 19 at 8:30 am (EST) and it's free. More info: creativefreedomsummit.com/

Question: What should I speedpaint that day? **Wrong answers only** 😺

#CreativeFreedomSummit #krita #ArtWithOpensource #LiveStream #Matrix #Peertube

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Valvin (framapiaf)

@davidrevoy a forest near hippiah school with automn colours and a mysterious witch maybe a student.

G'MIC 🎩🐯

@davidrevoy A picture of a cute magician tiger wearing a top hat and waving his magic wand to create a giant firework in the sky with the three numbers 3.2.0 (as the version number of the next G'MIC release which will happen Monday morning :) ).

I relieve on real artists, because AI are not able to do that sort of things :) (see attached screenshot from DALL-E, with the exact same request).

Everything is wrong in that generated image. The magic wand has even turned into a barbecue spike :)

Unattributed 👤 ☑

@davidrevoy Way cool - I can't attend the summit itself (live streams don't work well here), but I will watch the VODs on @creativefreedom later...

David Revoy

Process:
Digital painting made from scratch using Krita 5.1.5 on Fedora 37 KDE spin (no A.I.). Tablet: an Intuos Pro Large. A description of each step is written on the alt text of pictures.

📦Source and 4K wallpaper: peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/art

🗒️License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-By)

Process step 1 first sketch, featuring line of construction and big brush stroke and flat colors, as on a overcast.

Description of the project: 
Title: "The distinctive smell in the air after it rains", a  digital painting wide view angle on an old city street, with old sign, old shops and plants. The shot happens right after it rained and the city lights are early one due to the recent darkness made by the storm.  Pepper, a young witch with her broom stands in front of a door, we can suppose she just went outside; she is not wet. She closes her eyes and takes a big breath. Her cat Carrot sit next to her leg happy. In the distance, a rainbow is still visible.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
No AI: painted from scratch in Krita on Fedora Linux 37 KDE, with a Wacom Intuos Pro Large
Original size: 3840x2047px
Process step 2 Paint-over the sketch, still with flat colors and overcast-like shading.
Process step 3: The shading pass (with a layer in Hard Light blending mode).
Process step 4, The final: all layers got merged and a paint-over for extra details and better local construction.
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James B.

@davidrevoy love this, thank you! Always curious about other artist's process and how they achieve their final results with digital media. Still finding my way around digital drawing.

gportier

@davidrevoy merci David de partager à chaque fois les processus. Ca permet vraiment de se rendre compte de tout le travail derrière !

irslo

@davidrevoy Tes dessins sont superbes ! Bravo ! Je me permets d'en prendre un pour changer mon fond d'écran !

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Torstein Krause Johansen

@davidrevoy beautiful! So much atmosphere in the picture. Wish you would do a point and click adventure so that we could live inside of that world for a few hours a day.

tuxmain

@davidrevoy
Je me demandais d'où venait le chapeau de sorcière...
Si j'en crois Wikipédia, l'image de la sorcière vient de l'image des juifs, après qu'ils ont été chassés d'Europe de l'est. Le pape les obligeait à porter un chapeau pointu. Le nez crochu vient aussi de l'imaginaire antisémite.
Au Moyen-Âge, les sorcières étaient représentées en femmes du peuple, ordinaires, avec simples robe et voile, sans chapeau.

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Adonay Felipe Nogueira

@davidrevoy

en-US: As a #FreeSoftware activist, this reminds me of Duty Calls (386) from #XKCD: xkcd.com/386/

pt-BR: Como um ativista do #SoftwareLivre, isso me lembrou de Duty calls (386) do #XKCD: xkcd.com/386/

AlicePaul

@davidrevoy

Well, now that it’s clear you are doing EVERYTHING wrong, what do you have to say for yourself?

That shitty letter actually brightened my day. 😂😂😂

Ross B from the oaty sea

@davidrevoy mm… Sounds like they've got shares in Apple or something.

LonM

@davidrevoy I like the top pose. Whenever I've tried to draw, I stumble often by focusing too much on the details and everything ends up looking wrong, but you always seem to strike a good balance between broad shapes / proportions and details, which is nice to see.

[DATA EXPUNGED]
David Revoy

✨ Happy New Year 2023!
I wish you with this illustration strength and courage against all the "dragons" who might be on your way in 2023. Can you see the numbers in the silhouettes?

#MastoArt #krita
#humanart

A digital painting illustration of a wide angle view on a landscape: a swamp in the mist, a half dead tree in the shape of a 'two' on the left, a arch shaped like '0' crossed by a character on a unicorn (it's Pepper on a donkey with a plunger on his head, carrot, her cat sits in the back), a "2" is a giant black dragon, and the "3" is the tail of the dragon. The whole scene has clear silhouette of "2023".
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Witek Kowalik

@davidrevoy od course they'll be dragons ahead, we will slay them if we must, but I'd rather avoid that. Conquer then with love, and befriend is much better. Would you not want a dragon for a friend?

RealGravitas

@davidrevoy Some dragons are helpful. Lest we forget.
Cool work! 😺

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