Mind Pilot III (2021).
I also did one where it's a woman piloting the Mothership, and she's in like a trance state and seems to be doing fine.
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@ravachol@social.vivaldi.net
mastodon 4.7.3+vivaldimodProgrammer, Scifi/Fantasy artist in the Ligne Claire tradition, based in Sweden.
Founder of kew, an open-source music player:
https://kewplayer.com
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The Alien Fortress (2024).
I was trying to make a movie scene with this one, it's 16:9. Our heroes have arrived at the mysterious castle, where the highlights of the adventure will take place. There's no real point to these things, but I wanted to be a comics artist when I was a kid, and long story short, I decided to just do imaginary singular panels from all the stories that could have been.
Woman on Bench (2023)
This is me trying to do something completely different. What do you think? Some people really liked it. An artist said it was really great and insisted I paint this one for real, said it wasn't hard to do, so I bought all the stuff, and.....didn't do it. I made a test face, that's it. I'm just not a painter, I like drawing. In ink.
And I never drew in this style ever again.
#art #mastoart #digitalArt #portrait #painting
Lost Sci-Fi Movie Themes (2024).
Made this cover for Jenova 7, great guy and also a fan of Moebius! He's a film scholar and watched hundreds of hours of B-movies to pick the samples for this Sci-Fi themed trip hop album.
For sale here:
https://jenova7.bandcamp.com/album/lost-sci-fi-movie-themes
#Sciencefiction #scifi #retrofuturism #triphop
kew 4.1, has been released.
kew is an offline terminal music player, with gapless playback, a library explorer, search, privacy and a bunch of other things. Free, open source and written in C, so it's ultra fast.
kew is popular on Linux and now for the first time it's available for Windows.
kew 4.1 adds:
Cross-fade (both on-demand and automatic).
More cool visualizer modes (press v).
Auto-resume.
Custom layouts.
More info here:
https://github.com/ravachol/kew
https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew
Windows installer here:
https://github.com/ravachol/kew/releases/tag/v4.1.4
kew is for local music files like .flac and .mp3.
I also get a chance to show you my cover for Jenova 7 a little bit better.
Portrait of Jonna (2019)
Why are women so beautiful? I can see they spent a lot of time and effort on this.
#drawing #artists #ink #inkdrawing #art
Today, May the 4th, we are releasing the terminal music player kew 4.0 "Love is gonna save us edition" for Linux, macOS, Android (Termux) and FreeBSD.
New in this version:
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New playback pipeline with improved performance and latency (built on miniaudio)
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Real-time ASCII visualizations (via Chroma)
Free, open source, no tracking, no ads, completely offline
Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql5ZKeaX2MQ
More info:
https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew
https://github.com/ravachol/kew
#music #savemusic #opensource #linux #macos #freeBSD #android #termux
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kew update. There was a problem with the installer yesterday. The problem was that it didn't work.
It now works! I hope!
kew is an offline terminal music player, with gapless playback, a library explorer, search, privacy and a bunch of other things. Free, open source and written in C, so it's ultra fast.
Windows installer here:
https://github.com/ravachol/kew/releases/latest
The official kew website is now online:
https://kewplayer.com
I recommend reading the testimonials, amazing and funny.
And also downloading the app, of course.
#music #opensource #oss #linux #macos #windows #freebsd #software #freesoftware
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Wow, they all got it. This is proof God or gods exist. This wouldn't have happened to anyone else on their big day. Mercury was here.
Mind Pilot II (2021).
This is one of my weirdest images, but funny to me. I pretend I'm drawing panels from all the comics I would have made if I had chosen to do a real comics career.
So the idea here is that this guy is piloting a huge spaceship, where everybody is frozen and he is kept awake somehow, and controlling it all with his mind. And of course it's absolute hell but he has to do it, and he has to endure it, and he has been doing it for years and years. Sometimes I feel like that.
Btw, there was an installer problem in the windows kew installer before that should be fixed now. Sorry about that, we just ported this thing from Linux to WIndows and everything is different.
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I changed from mastoart.social because I kept getting censored there. Too heavy-handed for me. But I don't know if Vivaldi Social is a good place?
Does it matter?
Does anyone have any recommendation for a good place I do scifi/fantasy art and programming.
I have changed server to:
@ravachol@social.vivaldi.net
More posts are available here:
@ravachol@mastoart.social
This is the AI post that got censored:
"AI is Here (2022)
When OpenAI was about to release DALL-E, it's image generation program, I and a few other artists were asked to provide feedback for it. I started asking the AI to draw itself and draw cyborgs and things like that.
When I got to this image, my skin crawled, because I felt as if I was standing face to face with this new creature for the first time. It was an epic moment for me."
It might be the first time someone asked AI to draw itself.
I also have artists friends who have done some pretty incredible and elaborate art with AI, that took a lot of work to do, and are stunning, but they are afraid to show it anywhere because of all the haters.
It's a complex issue and these are still early days.
@diiccix@mementomori.social @heinragas@mublog.nl I'm gonna post the image. I can do that now. I'm gonna do it!!!!!
kew 4.2.0 is out.
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better mouse support. Added a scrollbar and you can click on songs and albums to play / enqueue them. middle mouse for immediate play.
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windows: images are no longer small
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windows: fixed a bug where it would quit if you maximized the window.
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much faster seek on very long mp3s
https://kewplayer.com/download.htm
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Mars, study (2026).
#art #mastoart #illustration #drawing #mythology #roman #romanempire #pagan #antiquity
Woman on Bench (2026).
Inks on paper.
I finally painted it. I realized I could just paint it in inks and not have to deal with acrylics. I can't make it look the same as the digital one this way, but I think it turned ok anyway.
I haven't been able to take myself seriously as a fine artist, because my intellectual level when it comes to art is sub par. I know proper artists that if they knew the true extent of my intellectual level relating to art, they would just laugh and laug. Tears ok? Tears rolling down their face.
These are the type of people who will study several branches of science, anthropology, sociology, architecture, history and archeology, and then draw a stick figure licking a lollipop. And everyone will just ooh and aah. And I mean, rightly so because there's a lot of work behind it, and they can properly explain how the lollipop ties everything in the universe together.
I'm just not the same type of machine. I just like to draw spontaneously most of the time, and see what my subconscious can surprise me with.
(This relates to an older post).
#art #mastoart #painting #artistsonMastodon