Arts Page - Technical
Intro
Welcome on the technical infos regarding to arts.
I love many things like playing instruments, making videos and also drawing silly things. Here's what i use in details.
Drawing & Graphics
Pen & paper were my first love, i learned to draw by myself, then i got caught in manga style. And got tired of it before beginning my first diploma. I had mechanical pens in school, because it was more precise so, i basically ever drawn with it. I still draw with it. When i was 12 years old i got a pen tablet, so i also learned to use it. I still got it and work with it. Then i got an iPad Pro as gift in 2021. I use both.
Here a list of software i've known along the way and few details.
for drawing purposes
| Software used | Status | Details |
| GIMP | ✅ | I used it as drawing software a long time ago, was pretty much one of the first i used after MS Paint. Nowdays i use it for post-processing. |
| Krita | ✅ | I began to use Krita from the first stable release. I always use it as complement to MyPaint |
| MS Paint (winXP) | 🧽 | Because i know it so well, and i love the simplicity of it. I still use it as complement to Aseprite |
| Procreate | ✅ | The only drawing app on iPad. Got it as gift. but I paid for the pencil. |
| Mypaint | ✅ | The best drawing software ever made. I use it since 21/10/2012. |
extended list of software
Also here the other software that falls in Graphics theme
| Software used | Status | Details |
| Inkscape | ✅ | I try my best at replacing what i learn in class. And i try hard because i love vector graphics |
| Adobe Illustrator | 🧽 | I really know the whereabouts of it because it was taught in class. (the real deal). I still use it when i being frustrated with Inkscape workflow. |
| Aseprite | ✅ | I hope you really like the little buttons of this website because i've made them with Aseprite. I bought it because i wanted to discover and try pixel art and pixel art animations. I use it only with that purpose. |
| Adobe InDesign | 🧽 | I love publishing stuff, i love to make documents and that's how i first learn to make paper documents. And it was also a core software of my studies. I still have it but i try my best to replace it. |
| Scribus | 🧽 | A replacement for InDesign with a totally different workflow |
| Autodesk Sketchbook | 🧽 | The 2nd must have app for iPad, the sketchbook. |
| Blender | ✅ | Because 3D was my 2nd love in graphics. I love sculpting and rig my little stuff. But i've lost some of my passion. But Blender brought it back. |
| Nomad Sculpt | ✅ | The 3D sculpting app for iPad. I love it. It helps with Blender. |
used: ✅
installed: 🧽
I used to have drawing and painting classes in my studies. I've learned a lot from books too. I really like to drawing creatures and characters in digital painting and i really enjoy painting landscapes, portrait and mostly surfaces details on traditionnal painting (surfaces because of my studies, i enjoyed it so much). When i was younger i had a DeviantART. I did unpaid commissions in my early twitter days. I also still have a outdated Tumblr blog with only unfinished drawings. All the exemples used here are from this blog.
Video
I can do this too. I don't do much but i've learned to use Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effect when i was in uni and before that i loved to use Windows Movie Maker with super edgy songs. Nowdays i've used Shotcut, DaVinci, VSDC, newer versions of Premiere Pro and my endgame is KDEnLive. I love it so much, i want to do more videos to use it more.
Streaming is another activity i also do. i talked a little of some details of it in Roulette under the tag "streaming, owncast". I also have a twitch channel but i'm not streaming on it often. I stream from my Owncast Server. Owncast is basically a FOSS live video and web chat server for use with any broadcast software such as OBS.
I usually record of few gaming sessions, did few speed painting/drawing vids, or making little musical edits with weird mashup videos. I know to make videos with the software but i don't do much of IRL videos. I found a cool Peertube instance to show y'all my videos. Peertube is basically a Federated FOSS youtube.
⚠️ I have a backlog because i have to import my videos to Peertube.
Links
Music
I love playing music even if i'm not very good at it. I have a tiny bit of musical education but clearly not enough to read sheet music and i never been in a music school.
quite sad, i know. I mostly learn by seeing and listen people playing and for some i bought books
| Instruments | Details |
| Recorder Flute | It was the basic school instrument but i really loved it after being taught in school |
| Bass Guitar | Fell in love with it, and got one as a gift. A Ibanez Jumpstart because all the japanese players in the rock groups i always listened when i was younger had Ibanez basses, i still got it and play it weekly. I also bought second hand a Aria Pro II bass. |
| Clarinet | Because i love oboe sound i wanted to learn something near and with a cheap entry point. I got myself a Clarineo a C clarinet in PVC for kids. And i suck at it, as many beginners i have hard time with the embouchure. I really love it but i don't play it weekly. |
| Modular Synthesizer & MIDI Keyboard |
I know few things about modular synthesizers. I use the MIDI Keyboard as interface but not always. I really enjoy plug cables and wait. |
| Electric Guitar | Beginner that's too attached to bass and make silly comments that only bass player do. |
More about it
You can find me playing Rocksmith on live and cool modular synth video around
Other forms of art
I take few pictures, with 2 analog cameras: Canon EOS 1000, Konica Pop.
I didn't talked about my wild passion about printing, i do linocut, stamps and some light bookbinding.
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