Thanks Taron!
Yup, the moods were so important. Kermit, in the punk piece is stressed and full of dread about society so he feels anxious and rebellious; drab, muted and dark. I waited a few months for one of my daughters to draw up punk Kermit as she demanded I didn't use AI, but she had no time, so I got the Verve itch and first sketched him in pencil and filled the scan in, in Verve and worked it from there. I painted the background in around it. So Kermit neither has ears or hair, yet... interesting.
When I first started with Verve I used to stack many layers like a Photoshop image and was frustrated how Verve couln't magically grow GPU ram for more layers
but I've been painting everything on one layer for a while now, except for cases where a (+) layer with low opacity does cool things - and there's some true freedom in painting in the same space.
Shoegaze and dream pop music is so peaceful and uplifting. Everything must glow and wanted to use the "sweet" palette with a cyan 'key light', the morning sun is a glowing tungsten filament-like light and the ambient light is supposed to be magenta. But this was a happy Kermit inside a dreamscape of ice cream fields. No evil, no dark, all is morning-glowy-light.
And in both I see dozens of pieces I missed, messed up proportions and coulda, woulda, shoulda have done it regrets, which creates artistic anxiety that has to be alleviated by more fluidy Verve therapy. Good God Taron! Verve is a addictive drug for neurodivergent artists.
Thu Apr 06, 2023 4:10 am 
TWO YEARS!?! I haven't posted anything in nearly two years?! Wha?
Great tunes to jam out to when Va-Ververating.
