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Game artist-turned manager with a solo dev fantasy slowly building up tech chops. Former city dweller trying my hands at RL Stardew Valley.
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Love it when we catch a river barge on our morning walk.

Town Of Zoz indie game official announcement today! So happy to finally share. Please Check us out and spread the word! 🔪🍄

Husband put up the feeder yesterday and these 2 bird buddies immediately showed up. Thought the big red one seemed surprisingly patient with “the adolescent one” before i realized it might be a lady friend.

I loved painting this chubby Moonkin for the Divination card for Hearthstone's Emerald Dream set :)

Picked through new batch of home grown bean sprouts. Should do this more often, so easy and sparks joy.

41st birthday! I remember feeling a little sad when hitting 30, but gotta say I’m already super enjoying this new decade where I’m finally fully embracing giving less of an eff every year instead of being a self conscious youth. Feel free to ask any questions or share any wisdom related to aging up!

Got our 16 blocks of Minecraft dirt delivered. Time to build that non existent core strength 🎉😬

Foraged more wild onion bulbs to add to the marinating bag. They are really tasty!

RL Stardew Valley, as we jokingly called it, felt super real today as we realized the long, super early "grass" poking out all over the place are wild onions. All I could think off is that "Livin' Off the Land" Television message about spring onions. (photos in thread)

Spent today starting even more seeds I might not find room to transplant later and putting together 4 more flower beds. Now just need a few dry days so I can finally get some garden soil.

Week one. Was away and came back to a nice surprise. Most of the seeds have sprouted or are beginning to poke out, with a handful of zucchini’s already probably too big for these boxes!

Hoping to start the gardening operations in our stardew valley.

Totally random doodle while chatting with friends during sketch hangout.

Signature card art for The Scavenger's Will card in Hearthstone. I don't do space stuff much in spite of having been a huge Starcraft fan growing up, so this was a fun one to paint. (Digital)

Boss watching the downpour. Arkansas winter is very wet!

Good news: I beat KDC1 and have finally started KDC2 today. ??? news: having just spent 50ish hours in 1, seeing the new take on Henry & Hans in 2 is really throwing me off. Hope I get over it soon. The facial animations especially will be hard, probably went into uncanny valley a bit for me.

I am determined to beat the original Kingdom Come: Deliverance without purely rushing through the remaining 45% of the story. Wish me luck and steel my will against getting tempted by bandit camps and locked chests.

Friend started down the prompt list now that he’s over this year’s super bad flu, so here we go again. #2 “Witch + Ghost”. Want to paint this at some point, probably trying gauche again after many years.

Bought and downloaded the sequel but 1. I really want to finish the first game before playing the sequel 2. I have the personality type that causes me to play sandbox games I like for 4-10x the typical playthough length without getting even close to beating main questline. Probably need help

Sketch night doodle. Was planning to go to bed early but a friend said "let's draw sexy vampires" which sounded fun, and suddenly it's now past 11 PM :\

I have worked as a middle management in a big corp for almost 3 years now. The funny thing is even though I’m as antisocial/anti establishment as many other artists, the part of me curious about how humanity works finds some of the rituals as fascinating as they can be sometimes maddening.

Putting trees on hold for a bit since a friend needed a sketch buddy to do a month-long mini monster sketch challenge. We opted to just start whenever he’s ready instead of waiting for beginning of month. Here’s me shaking off the rust, griffin hydra.

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

Today‘s tree. Tried to do different textures for different leaves, definitely needed a smaller brush pen or just regular ink pen.

Today’s tree: the beautiful blue spruce in front of mom’s house.

Today’s tree. Drawn while looking outside of a window towards the river.

Lunch sketch group sketch. Someone was troll enough to start the prompt train with "2025". This is far less conscise of a thought than the Tesla truck image though.

Tree for today. Ref photo taken early last year on the way into Estes Park.

Tree #7, ref photo taken by the river bank at our new place last summer.

Tree #6. Ref photo was taken last week when we were visiting one of the sculpture gardens in Loveland.

If you've enjoyed Cryptmaster, please consider sharing the news. Despite an IGF award, a 95% Steam rating and a free demo, the game has gone mostly unnoticed by both press and players. It's not just a typing game and there may still be people out there who would enjoy it!

Tree #5. Ref photo taken yesterday from RMNP near Cub’s Lake trailhead. It was beautiful but bitter cold!

Tree #4, outside of mom’s living room window in a neighbor’s yard.