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David Revoy

Recent illustrations I painted for Framasoft, all under free/libre culture license.
Sources and Wallpaper are all available here: peppercarrot.com/en/files/fram (and more)

I really love working with them. It's mainly what I do when I'm not working on Pepper&Carrot.

Their yearly funding campaign (at 78% while I'm writing this) ends in less than 10 days, please help them if you can 💜 soutenir.framasoft.org (the page is translated)

#MastoArt #Krita #ccby #HumanArt

Recent illustrations I painted for Framasoft, all under free/libre culture license.
Sources and Wallpaper are all available here: peppercarrot.com/en/files/fram (and more)

I really love working with them. It's mainly what I do when I'm not working on Pepper&Carrot.

Their yearly funding campaign (at 78% while I'm writing this) ends in less than 10 days, please help them if you can 💜 soutenir.framasoft.org (the page is translated)

A digital painting illustration of Framaspace. Over the clouds on a colored space, a little unicorn with a self made astronaut hat made of kitchen ustencils blows bubbles (like a kid would blow soap bubbles), the bubbles grows and are personal space: having icons of home folders, musics, calc files, archives...Etc). In background, thousands of bubbles float in the universe.
A digital painting landscape of a sea-side port of boat at night, the scene is lighted by the video projectors: one is on each boat and project a video on the main wing of each boat. A network of bridges connect them. On the foreground, on the sand and one of these bridges with a red carpet and glowing lights, Sepia, the mascott of Peertube, invite the viewer to join the federation of videos.
A digital painting illustration of a large landscape with a village for cat in canyons. They build up giant strawberry and cream cake on top of clouds, or lemon cakes on top of big scafholding. the colors are like candy. A kitten in foreground, reminiscent of the design of the CHATON collective logo is inviting the viewer to discover the project.
A digital painting isometric top view of a large and structured vegetable patch guarden. A bit similar than in the collective patch guarden outside of city, runs by association. It's a day of party, and guests sits at a large table in circle around a fire. Ducks delivers Pizzas from a pizza truck, kittens, zebras, gnu, and unicorns (even Sepia the squid) are dinning together.
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Volpit :ac_thought:

@davidrevoy I love them all, but the last one was a wonderful shock. It's so calm, happy, friendly... it's now my wallpaper :)

ehsash

@davidrevoy Super travail ! Magnifiques illustrations !

David Revoy

I just published a new 7min20 video.
"Overview of my Krita Digital Painting Workflow − end 2022 (commented tutorial)"
It describes the recent steps you saw in my "Process" posts: the one with color flat, and shading.
I hope it will inspire you to paint.

▶ Peertube: peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/6Getv
▶ Youtube: youtu.be/kisT96h5h80

#Mastoart #Krita #tutorial #ccby

4k Wallpaper: davidrevoy.com/data/images/blo

I just published a new 7min20 video.
"Overview of my Krita Digital Painting Workflow − end 2022 (commented tutorial)"
It describes the recent steps you saw in my "Process" posts: the one with color flat, and shading.
I hope it will inspire you to paint.

▶ Peertube: peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/6Getv
▶ Youtube: youtu.be/kisT96h5h80

The video thumbnail of my tutorial, the artwork 'point of view', on the top an overlay of the text "These Steps Make it Easier (for me/for now) and the Krita logo.
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Raghukamath

@davidrevoy Awesome tutorial. 👍🏽 Always inspiring to watch you.

About the wacom commandline option. I think you can make a profile in KDE plasma tablet settings and have a shortcut to switch between profiles.

Arne Babenhauserheide

@davidrevoy Thank you very much! I’m passing this on to artists I know 🙂

(also: @Curator is this interesting to you and mastodon.art? rollenspiel.social/@davidrevoy )

David Revoy

[UPDATE]: FIXED by @RinCat 😍 Thanks you all for feedback! 👍

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So, I had a kernel panic while I was recording a video tutorial with OBS, and I had to hard reboot the computer because everything froze. Unfortunately, the ongoing record before the crash was corrupted at reboot.
It's an important piece of the video, and I can't retake it. So it ruined my long video tutorial... 😭

The corrupted MP4 segment: peppercarrot.com/extras/videos

#video #obs #kdenlive

[UPDATE]: FIXED by @RinCat 😍 Thanks you all for feedback! 👍

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So, I had a kernel panic while I was recording a video tutorial with OBS, and I had to hard reboot the computer because everything froze. Unfortunately, the ongoing record before the crash was corrupted at reboot.
It's an important piece of the video, and I can't retake it. So it ruined my long video tutorial... 😭

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Fran :clapidi: :tux:

@davidrevoy if VLC can play it, you're good. You can the export it with VLC. @RinCat

Michael Kammes

@davidrevoy I tried 6 different apps here with no luck.

Is this a part of a larger or a chunk of a recording? 91MB is really small for a long video.

David Revoy

I still have to recognize the genius of artificial intelligence with this proposal for the cover of Pepper&Carrot book 5 and its half-melted Pepper and its faithful companion Carrot as a yellow rabbit with a dragon-cow in the background (with obviously hemoroid problems). Or this cocaine addict Kiki mascot in the midst of a withdrawal crisis. Striking!

#sarcasm #humor #aiart

A screenshot from https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo , AI generative art web app. The prompt: Photo of the cover of the comic book 5 of Pepper&Carrot. 
The result is really random; a pseudo letter title reads: CAPEP & PEPEM and for the visual, it is possible to see a half-melted doll that is certainly Pepper with a violet dress and a witch hat (melted too), and an orange and yellow rabbit, that is probably her cat, Carrot. They both have issues with eyes, but that's probably something the AI figured it would be best-seller. 
In the background, a plain and the Sky, a large creature (the Dragon cow? hard to tell) flies away with apparently some **big problems of hemoroïds**. 
I appreciate a bit of pee/poo humor idea here I admit and feel flattered but I think the AI is bold to put that on the cover, I wouldn't go that far. The scene happens in a field of tulips and the graphical execution is not really well done. In a AAA scale industry, it would be closer to Z than other letters.
Another screenshot from https://stablediffusionweb.com/#demo , AI generative art web app. The prompt: "Kiki the krita mascott by David Revoy". The AI obviously know I'm a painter because the rendering is brushy and painterly. It depicts a portrait of a stylized white squirrel with wide eyes open, almost red. This an accurate depiction of what I would imagine if a creature saw a tank running on them after ingesting four times the lethal dose of the strongest drug available. The colors are vivid, and that a sign the scrapper of my art learn something good about my taste. It has a random signature and a title where the two K of Kiki are merged. That's some next-gen thinking out of the box here. I really hesitated to put a CW on it, because it has somehow a terrifying feeling worst than direct eye contact by a murderer.
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mond

@davidrevoy The first one looks like a child's drawing without a soul

teteotolis_art

@davidrevoy
AH! My favorite characters !
Spreppeeeer and Bwaaarott ! Melting away

David Revoy

I posted earlier today a poll about AI Art because I wanted the feedback of my followers (the post was limited to them). The 775 results (picture under) and the replies helped me:

I'll not use AI Art on Pepper&Carrot.

At least, not as it is done now: with all copyright issues (I also don't think these issues will be ever addressed correctly, TBH).

Time to move on now and continue to make human art.
Thank you very much for your feedback in my times of doubt :blobcatheart: .

I posted earlier today a poll about AI Art because I wanted the feedback of my followers (the post was limited to them). The 775 results (picture under) and the replies helped me:

I'll not use AI Art on Pepper&Carrot.

At least, not as it is done now: with all copyright issues (I also don't think these issues will be ever addressed correctly, TBH).

The screencapture of the result of a poll:
Question: What's your opinion? Should I use generative A.I.Art in Pepper&Carrot?
Answers:
- 14%: Yes, if it helps: paint over it, embrace it fully.
- 13%: Yes, but only as reference images or inspiration.
- 49%: No, don't change anything.
- 25%: I don't know or I don't have enough information.
775 people

The capture overlay a pencil sketch of Pepper and carrot hugging her godmothers, the ending of episode 17 "A fresh Start". the old witches are surprised.
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Léa in the sky 🪁

@davidrevoy thank you for being open minded about it! I do hope one day we'll be able to use those tools without stealing from others 🙏

Henri Hebeisen

@davidrevoy Hi David ! About the copyright issue, I guess the copyright issue can be easily adressed if AI uses a dataset with images that only have the right licence, for example CC-0 ? Or maybe we need a new level in the CC licence that allows AI derivation ?
Anyway, from what I've seen, all these images generators are not that useful for highly skilled artists like you, you would spend as much time fixing the AI drawing as drawing it from stratch.For now at least, we'll see how it evolves!

raphael

@davidrevoy re copyright issues and pessimism at these ever being addressed: that, i think is really the most tragic part of this all.

an artist friend yesterday said that for her, an artist with aphantasia (she doesn’t get ‘inner pictures’ in her imagination), generative imagery could’ve been such a useful tool. in an ideal world, she said, there would’ve been such a tool trained on everything that’s public domain or freely given to that cause. with restrictions on direct commercial usage of its results, and so on.

and maybe we could’ve gotten there. had this slowly grown from proofs of concept in academia, some ‘try at home’ enthusiasm without those huge pre-trained models, and so on. it would’ve taken so much longer. but there would’ve been time to tackle each of the really big problems it brought with it.

but we couldn’t have that because techbros and their insufferable ‘move fast and break things’ (as naomi wu pointed out: move fast and break things favours the financially stable, which artists tend not to be en masse) and ‘better to ask forgiveness than permission’.

@davidrevoy re copyright issues and pessimism at these ever being addressed: that, i think is really the most tragic part of this all.

an artist friend yesterday said that for her, an artist with aphantasia (she doesn’t get ‘inner pictures’ in her imagination), generative imagery could’ve been such a useful tool. in an ideal world, she said, there would’ve been such a tool trained on everything that’s public domain or freely given to that cause. with restrictions on direct commercial usage of its...

David Revoy

Process:
Digital painting from scratch (no A.I.) using Krita 5.1.3 on Fedora 37 KDE spin. 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)

🌧️ Rain-effect video tutorial:
- Ytb: youtube.com/watch?v=VZ7g2netwo
- Ptb: peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/2Y9hd

#krita #MastoArt

Process:
Digital painting from scratch (no A.I.) using Krita 5.1.3 on Fedora 37 KDE spin. 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

Step 1 of the painting: it's really painterly, not contrasted and just direct blobs of painting at this step. 

Description of the illustration (not repeated on later image description as they are all similar): A digital painting of a visual development for Pepper&Carrot: a view of a city with high buildings and a tramway system on high bridges. The city is lighten with lanterns. Pepper stands in the foreground under the rain with an umbrella. A research of an 'antique Asian steampunk' in the designs.
Step 2: The 'blocking' step. I'm still using a large brush and I'm not zooming in at this step. I try to modelize with painting all the main shape and take care of the perspective, the anatomy and the light. You can note Carrot (her cat) was supposed to be part of this illustration. The illustration was like that for a big 10 days on my disk, I disliked it.
Step 3: I tried to fix the 'block' I had on my disk, for that, I decided I need something darker around Pepper to cut the silhouette. The umbrella was a good way to add a big circular dark element and also to get high saturation of the light going threw it. I also spent a little time figuring what to do with the part on the right. You can see here a medieval door... (and still Carrot).
Step 4; the final. I removed Carrot: too many point of interest was competing each other in the illustration. The rain was a good way to hide the lack of details here and there. The building was repainted on the right with a design that could fit the scene. I also added building, lights and suggested silhouette of poeple in distance.
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Wren Birdie (she/her)

@davidrevoy
This is just wonderful work. Found you through someone who boosted your work. ☺️

ItsMeChrisWade

@davidrevoy This is phenomenal work. Seriously, can we work together one day?❤️❤️

Imaginetten

@davidrevoy it’s sad that we must point the non-use of AI out. I’m doing a lot more digital process paintings to show what drawing from scratch means. Head, heart, and hand. Creativity is not an algorithm.

David Revoy

I uploaded a new set of artworks to have greeting cards ready on my Redbubble shop. You can still get them before the 25, worldwide delivery (and I get 20% off the sale :blobcheerbounce: so thank you for your support!):
- Greeting cards: redbubble.com/people/davidrevo
- All artworks & products: redbubble.com/people/davidrevo

#FediGiftShop #redbubble

I uploaded a new set of artworks to have greeting cards ready on my Redbubble shop. You can still get them before the 25, worldwide delivery (and I get 20% off the sale :blobcheerbounce: so thank you for your support!):
- Greeting cards: redbubble.com/people/davidrevo
- All artworks & products: redbubble.com/people/davidrevo

A picture of an advertisement for my Redbubble new products: five greeting cards. The picture shows CG version of the greeting cards, the title is "Pepper&Carrot Holiday Cards" and on the footer the address of the Redbubble shop and a QR Code.
 
Why a QR Code? Because Nartance on our IRC channel posted a lot of cool screenshot of QRCodes hidden he found on the textures of the new remake of Portal for the RTX graphic cards, and I am easy to influence. So, when the Redbubble offered me the possibility to generate a QR code, I found this cool too. But you know what? I explain this now because I'm not so sure it was a good idea anymore because the picture looks too much like a formal advertisement for a lifeless company.  😅
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Linebyline

@davidrevoy Nice. I love the expressions. Pepper is over the moon about that star, while the dragon is still trying to figure out what he thinks about all this. It's brilliant.

Geoff

@davidrevoy c’est fantastique! Simplement superbe. Bravo et merci de partager!

Jitsch

@davidrevoy It’s super interesting to see how much the 4th step adds to the atmosphere of this piece although it already looks quite finished after shading.

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Axel Werner

@davidrevoy nice. So many artists hold on to Adobe 's crap and let them enslave them for no reason really. According to your work it's obvious, that open source software is very capable, if one has the talent. 🌟

MY OPINIONS and ATTITUDE

@davidrevoy This is so beautiful and the narrative is wonderful

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Linebyline

@davidrevoy Looks like Pepper didn't account for what happens to the coffee after the spell is over. Hope that book has a spell of stain removal!

Petra Brandström

@davidrevoy Oh lovely work! This image tells a whole story <3

Jesse Rowell

@davidrevoy I love the play of light against the coffee floating out of the mug, nice touch and attention to detail.

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青い暗闇

@davidrevoy

Krita has a recorder ?

Huh, I thought only ibis does

Noe 🐝✨

@davidrevoy

Pourquoi l‘effet surexposé ?

Pour moi la surexposition n’existe que à cause de la plage dynamique limitée des capteurs d’appareil photo, et pas à l’œil nu.

J’aime beaucoup le dessin mais je ressent la même frustration que quand je fait une photo avec des pixels cramés.

Est-ce le seul moyen de rendre compte d’une lumière éblouissantes ?

Morinor

@davidrevoy HOLD UP since when is there a built in recorder in krita HOLY SHIT i wish i knew that earlier

David Revoy

💎 The Blue Crystal

I continue my drawing training and sometimes I push the rendering of a test and finalize it, like in this one.
I'm using almost no ref' to train my ability to predict color and light by imagination. Among my new skill, I'm now more confident at drawing and designing men. I can also better predict overexposed light areas and strong sunlight. It feels great to do progress.

#krita #MastoArt
#dragon #fantasyart #digitalart
#CritiqueWanted

💎 The Blue Crystal

I continue my drawing training and sometimes I push the rendering of a test and finalize it, like in this one.
I'm using almost no ref' to train my ability to predict color and light by imagination. Among my new skill, I'm now more confident at drawing and designing men. I can also better predict overexposed light areas and strong sunlight. It feels great to do progress.

A digital painting illustration in a fantasy setting. The scene happens in what&#39;s seams to be an abandonned temple that has a pond of water. Many plants and tress invaded this temple, and the scene feels like in the middle of a very sunny jungle. A young blond boy with a colorful trouser sit on the edge of the water pond, he has a large blue crystal piece in one of his hand. It&#39;s glowing. The magical object attracts a dragon from the deep of the pond. His massive blue head justs get out of the water. His eyes has a blue glow of the same color than the crystal. The dragon and the object looks somehow connected.
David Revoy

Process:

Made with #krita built-in Recorder.

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Prof_PJ

@davidrevoy Excellent work in progress. Processus créatif que je vais montrer à mes élèves pour leur prouver que l'esquisse est utile avant tout 😅

Benoît B.

@davidrevoy

Oh, very (very) nice!

1. We can see all pentimenti (which is über cool to appreciate your work: helmet, hammer, shadow, hazelnut, etc.)
2. how long dit it take in real life?

Atkelar

@davidrevoy TIL that Krita has a record timelapse feature... Not that I need it, but I wonder how many else have no clue... @karpour and @yamavu ?

David Revoy

Sunday volunteer work: a mascot WIP research for @forgejo, a community-run fork of Gitea.

#krita #MastoArt #ccby
#gitea #git #forgejo

Digital painting of a cute squirel cartoony character as a blacksmith with thick gloves, pliers and hammer. She forges an acorn. She wear steam-punk glasses.
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DELETED

@davidrevoy En omettant l'équipement, elle a un air d'Happy Tree Friends :D
Sans leur destinée gore, j'espère :D

Vraiment joli !

David Revoy

4K version of the artwork posted earlier today: davidrevoy.com/data/images/blo

License: Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 (CC-By)

Process:
The Sketch VS The Final

Step 1. Blocking shapes (no details).
Digital painting with a painterly brushwork of a young woman with red hair and an armor. She stands in the middle of a landscape with a large black sword on her shoulder. Her expression is relaxed, she closes her eyes. The weather is cloudy, and the temperature of colors and saturation was designed to feel like an overcast light from a celtic land.
Step 2. Final.
Digital painting with a painterly brushwork of a young woman with red hair and an armor. She stands in the middle of a landscape with a large black sword on her shoulder. Her expression is relaxed, she closes her eyes. The weather is cloudy, and the temperature of colors and saturation was designed to feel like an overcast light from a celtic land.
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Green With Enby

@davidrevoy I've been interested in exploring different ways of sketching or planning artworks lately. Did you do a contour/line sketch before this, or did you just go right into blocking in areas of colour? I'd be very interested in the process you went through for this sketch, and any tips for people looking to sketch this way!

bakaniko

Why did I asked for a selfying duck ? I should have asked you a red head sword woman ! 😍

David Revoy

That feeling when you get a new skill.

I'm still training my brushwork and my speed to complete artwork. After many failed tests, this one is starting to bring together a lot of aspects that I like. A good reason to share it with you. I hope you'll like it.

#CritiqueWanted #krita
#MastoArt #fantasyart

Digital painting with a painterly brushwork of a young woman with red hair and an armor. She stands in the middle of a landscape with a large black sword on her shoulder. Her expression is relaxed, she closes her eyes. The weather is cloudy, and the temperature of colors and saturation was designed to feel like an overcast light from a celtic land.
License is mentioned: Creative Commons Attribution, and Date (2022-11-24) along the signature.
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Sco :progress: :flag_mm:

@davidrevoy She looks great. Great pose, and i love the facial expression.

Only complaint is in the background. I love the basic structure of the scenery. But the colors are a bit cloudy, and mix into one'another. And backgrounds can be an afterthought to the subject. But this scenery is almost perfect. Just a bit blury on the colors.

David Revoy

A gift from #CapitolesDuLibre organisators: many stickers and goodies themed Pepper&Carrot! 😍 I resditribute them for free on my signing session booth, so have a quick visit to grab a bunch of them today.
I signed non stop yesterday, book 1, 2, 3 are already out of stock 😆. Today, I'll sign and draw on your comics as much as I can, at least until the door of the event are closed.

A photo of my table at Capitole du Libre 2022, with the French book 1,2,3 and 4, stickers, goodies, my laptop with stickers on it.
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JCF 🍻 🎸 🇨🇵 💻🐧

@davidrevoy
Ce fut trop loin pour moi mais
OMG! Je pense que je vais te commander des stickers pour mes louloutes !!!

😁👍

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