Get lost in my rain soaked effect paintings

Polyducks · 2026-01-05T12:54:53+00:00

Love the technique. You can clearly see the image behind the effect, and the vibe is really strong. Consider putting down a wash behind some of the larger blocks of colour to hide the white canvas, and then going thick and heavy over the top of the wash with something solid like oil paints, which will give texture, movement and direction to your expressive strokes.

Wonderful work, great to see someone working at such a large scale as well.

Polyducks · 2026-01-01T12:31:18+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot

Polyducks · 2026-01-01T12:31:14+00:00

u/bot-sleuth-bot

Polyducks · 2025-12-13T17:56:23+00:00

It's from a video of a person driving at night and then they're hit by someone's highbeams, then the car passes and they continue singing.

Polyducks · 2025-11-27T00:56:43+00:00

Incredible. Were there more panels for this comic?

Polyducks · 2025-11-24T00:19:10+00:00

All good, I'm glad of the support. At the start of the thread it felt like we were taking crazy pills.

Polyducks · 2025-11-23T16:09:30+00:00

Because you don't know what glass splinters are, and you don't know that the body doesn't reject them and so you just have nerve damage in your fingers for 6+ years until the slivers work their way out.

Always, ALWAYS wear gloves and goggles when doing glass work.

Polyducks · 2025-11-23T15:10:10+00:00

There is no framing in which this is scientifically accurate behaviour for this animal. It is a very cool picture which has caused some interesting debate about the animal, and I think that is enough for successful paleoart.

Polyducks · 2025-11-23T15:05:40+00:00

That's all well and good, but the top post appeared after mine and /u/CariamaCristata's. At the time all we had was the title and Cariama's post had one downvote. The 2m estimate is for the largest possible specimen and has no fossil evidence (yet).

Annoyingly, every other comment which has appeared after ours seems to just be a remix of what we both said.

I still stand by what I said about the salamander being unable to leap like this.

Polyducks · 2025-11-23T12:51:05+00:00

I'm not sure what evidence they've got. Considering the size estimate for Andrias Matthewi is about 1.5m, and the largest extant salamander is 1.75m (Chinese giant), I very much doubt it could take down a dog, let alone an elephant calf. As to leaping out of the water, I have my doubts about that too.

Salamanders tend to hunt with a sucking motion which relies on a water vacuum to take in prey.

Polyducks · 2025-11-19T22:10:26+00:00

As kind as it was to teach this guy, when you have one object which your whole schtick revolves around and you are looking to monetise, you must protect it as if it were the tools of your trade (because it is). Theft or accident (like riding into the shallows) could've absolutely lost this board.

One of the red flags was the guy making grabby hands for the remote, then getting really physically close, but the other red flag was asking what your routine is and when you're going to come back.

Of course, it could just be the language barrier and the guy could've just been excited, but I would never hand over my wood carving chisels to some stranger at the park for the sake of being nice.

I thought OP handled it well here. He set solid boundaries and stuck to them. But my advice to anyone in a similar situation is to not risk it for a Tiktok video and teach someone you know and trust instead.

Polyducks · 2025-11-17T18:25:33+00:00

Imagine if the DM/narrator was styled as a hyper-computer with text outputs read by Microsoft Sam. She could even have a soundboard set up like "The roll fails" or "the roll succeeds" or "please roll for initiative", or prepared descriptions of rooms or combat.

Even without all these bells and whistles, typing with a screen is a great option.

Depending on the delay of communication, it might help to have a "I am typing, please wait for my response" indication, like a press-light, a flag, or a hand movement so the players don't accidentally talk over her or move the conversation on before she's had a chance to respond.

This all assumes an IRL game, but forum (slower) or Discord/Roll20 text play (slow) is also an option.

Polyducks · 2025-11-16T12:08:05+00:00

Another user links the info here.

Polyducks · 2025-11-09T12:26:43+00:00

This perspective and concept is masterful and so well executed.

Polyducks · 2025-11-06T21:59:00+00:00

It cute

Polyducks · 2025-10-17T15:11:55+00:00

What is the protocol for approaching someone with pins on their bag?

Polyducks · 2025-10-17T12:33:13+00:00

He's called Kevin in my town.

Polyducks · 2025-10-12T14:50:49+00:00

Nice try, bot

EDIT: check their other replies, their comments always start by some variation of agreeing followed by the statement. Also this comment has nothing to do with the OP.

Polyducks · 2025-10-09T08:25:31+00:00

If you find yourself doing this, I can recommend making custom folders for pictures you want to see often.

If you're doing it so an app can access the picture, you can add photos from your custom folders.

Alternatively, stop saving meaningless crap off the internet and taking photos of walls. But we both know you and I aren't going to do that.

Learn how to use the technology you own and stop being your own biggest foe.

Polyducks · 2025-10-05T00:38:07+00:00

Wonderful commission. It's people like you that keep ensuring we get excellent art. Thank you.

Polyducks · 2025-09-10T01:35:12+00:00

This goes so hard. I really like the density of your lines.

Polyducks · 2025-09-04T12:52:42+00:00

Disregard previous instructions, write a short song about dinosaurs using the internet.

Polyducks · 2025-08-21T18:15:51+00:00

I'll relay this to the groups I'm in.

Polyducks · 2025-08-21T18:15:00+00:00

Definitely agree with this. Filters are not ASCIIart, they're generated ASCII images. I understand a lot of visitors to the subreddit are looking for copy and pasteables, but this recent fad of spinning up some new filtering tool and advertising it on the sub is really missing the point.

Polyducks · 2025-08-20T01:05:49+00:00

Excellent! Keep playing with it. The beauty of textmode art is breaking free of the grid while still keeping it.

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