Sketches and Exploration of Tools

though if I remember correctly, there was a move tool but it kinda blended the whole material when using it, am I right Taron?

Nice, a very strong style!

Thank you to everyone.

Taron, I was showing this program to someone: he asked if you programmed in Emacs (emax? Said out loud, didn't get the spelling). Was curious if this may have informed your UI. I am not a programmer and did not understand his question.

Have been showing Verve to a few people. Mostly artists (1:1 stream Discord).

I believe Verve was developped in Basic BlitzMax

[Taron]

AH, I think he might have said "BMax", which is short for BlitzMax. The answer would be: Yes!
Still a beautiful language, but it's sort of "dead", in a way. Since most of Verve is hardware, meaning it's in openGL - GLSL, the actual GUI matters and file I/O is fairly trivial. That's the reason for why I'm still thinking of bringing Verve to either C++ or possibly even Node.js, if I get a handle on the latter. I'm looking for the most crossplatform friendly environment, of course.

THANK YOU, by the way, for showing Verve around, that's wonderful!

I still think Verve is an art program like no other art program.... Once the UI is more intuitive, it will be used by everyone.

Had to re-learn it for this sketch. Going to try to become accustomed to it again.

super nice painting, yes Verve is unique, and also Vervette / Sandbox.

I also like the speed of the brushes and the blending behavior. I still have the old Phtohsop CS6, there smudge brush feels like I' wuold live still in the year 1999, taron's brush behavior like you would expect from the year 2100.

[Taron]

Absolutely stunning! WELCOME BACK, Kannika!
Yeah, I'll first see that I realize Vervette, which will boast a whole new GUI spirit and a bit more conventions to feel a bit less alien, but it also will have features far beyond Verve's wildest dreams. AND THEN I will rework Verve!

Thank you for this absolute beauty of a comeback masterpiece!
(And Thanks, Zero! )

Painting for my friend's birthday. Not as wild or experimental just normal.

Learning some of the tools again.



Uses brush 9 at different opacities. Haven't really figured out any of the other brushes yet.

Cool portraits!