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Okay, after much (or rather no) arm twisting by @joseph , I’m going to put a thread here chronicling my hopeful re-entry into artwork, 2d and otherwise. Blender stuff will remain in my Blendoodles thread ( Blendoodles by KDLynch )
So, if you’re not into non-blendery stuff, please ignore or mute this topic. 
I used to do a lot of artwork, mostly mixed-media. But that was 20+ years ago. Life and work and marriage and kids, grandkids, and myriad other things have since taken over, putting all the old hobbies on the backburner. or the shed. or some distant storage unit one has forgotten about. 
A year or so ago, I started to dip one solitary pinky toe back in, as I was asked to come up with some backdrops for a children’s theatre play, an adaptation of The Hobbit. I had an old wacom tablet from years and year prior, but since it used a serial cable, and didn’t want to play nice with a usb>serial adapter, i bought a graphics tablet. Much easier to see what you’re drawing, where you are drawing. Unfortunately, it did not have tilt support. So here’s my foray into using that tablet for those Hobbit backdrops:
there were a few other images i used as well (mainly mirkwood), but they were screen rips of the animated Hobbit movie; i did not have time to complete those before showtime. >whistles innocently<
The images were projected, and using some coding between my lighting software and the projection software, i was able to flip or fade between these images when needed. For instance, flashing between the 2nd and 3rd images in time with the lights (and thunder sounds) to create the storm before Bilbo & co. first run into the trolls, or fading in the sunrise near the end of the troll scene.
A couple of shows since, we had assets from the production company that I was able to tweak for adjustments to their plays. Only one other show did I go all out to create backdrops for, a Neil Diamond tribute act. However, those are fully animated, and not sure just how to upload those to here to show.
Well, fast forward to today. I ordered a new graphics tablet, this time .with. tilt. and hopefully this thread will serve as a motivator for me to actually use it, and not have it collect as much dust as the previous.
I’ve spent some time this morning scanning old artwork as well, stuff that hasn’t been sold or thrown-out or whathaveyou, from the early to mid 90s, back when i was doing art far more regularly. I may be sharing some of those as I clean them up. I still need to decide what, if anything, I will do with the remainder. Many have NSFW elements, those will not be posted here, other than perhaps links if I create a site for them.
Another form of art I’ve worked on is music. And again, there’s been long gaps between briefly productive moments. The latest bits, over a couple years ago now, can be found on my Soundcloud, if you are interested. ( https://soundcloud.com/kdlynch/tracks )
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