plastikevol

I'm jumping on the Patreon bandwagon. Check it out at: https://www.patreon.com/plastikevol I'm not the most prolific artist but pandemic-be-willing, I'll try to get new content up there every week. Just posted: FAQ: Will you stop posting to DeviantArt? No. The Patreon account will get some artwork sooner, and it will have its share of exclusives. However I'm going to still post here. I'm hoping this drives me to make more art in general, which will mean more posts here and everywhere. How frequently will you update the Patreon? I'm hoping for weekly for flat art and illustrations. It takes a lot of time and focus to make animations, I'm not willing to promise a schedule on that. What other perks come with Patreon membership? I don't know. Let me know if there's something you'd like.

If you're me that means putting Apple pencil to iPad apparently. There's more to follow here, once I decide how polished it should be before posting. I'm leaning toward just releasing it rough instead of spending two months cleaning everything. I don't know where this should go either. Its a wee bit too explicit for Youtube and DeviantArt's interface is fighting me whenever I try to upload any gifs. If this "shelter in place" thing stretches out longer there may be more of these to follow. We shall see. Stay safe out there and wash your hands.

I've been trying to make an honest to goodness animation for more than a decade. It never seemed to come together. My ideas were too extravagant. Where to start? Where was it going. I tried a half dozen animation programs, and none of them really clicked. All of them are poorly documented, and none of the controls are intuitive. I didn't enjoy freehand controls at all. They're all vector-ish illustration that automatically smooths out lines. The lack of control is infuriating. Watching the rare, precise line get smoothed into a different position is the #1 factor to making me throw up my hands and give up. Well all that stuff still holds, b