Not because he chose a cat for his thought experiment, but because of one thing I learnt: he sexually abused children and kept a diary about it. 🤮 Src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse Artwork source here | Continue reading
Youtube: https://youtu.be/gmmIwkvZagU Peertube: (work in progress) Here is my video review about the XPPen Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) pen display tablet. Everything about how I feel of the hardware is on the video above. This blog post here will list my method to install, scripts, and … | Continue reading
I'll be at Capitole du Libre (Toulouse / France) all weekend as a regular visitor. I am not giving a talk or workshop this year: it was a personal decision to make room for others. But if you see me at someone else's conference, I'll be happy to sign your Pepper&Carrot books whil … | Continue reading
Whooohooo! It works again! Both styluses of my XPPen Artist 24 Pro and XPPen Artist 16 Pro Gen2 styluses are now usable again on newer Linux kernels. This blog-post is a follow-up post of "How a kernel update broke my stylus... Need help!" published 10 days ago. Please read it if … | Continue reading
Continuation of my ballpoint pen training without pencil guides. | Continue reading
Continuation of my ballpoint pen training without pencil guides. | Continue reading
I'm back from the exhibition, the workshops and the signing session in Plérin, France: what an amazing trip it was! Thank you all for helping to make it such an amazing weekend. I feel 10 years younger. Photo: the signed album of @Yahiko on Mastodon , thanks for sharing the pho … | Continue reading
I'm speechless 🤯 The print at the exhibition feels so big in real. I'm super happy sitting in the corner of my illustration. Tomorrow, signing session! | Continue reading
What's the problem? In short, after a Linux kernel update (6.5.8-200.fc.x86_64 on Fedora KDE), I can't use the top button of my pen on my tablet. This is really affecting my digital painting workflow! Right-clicking on the pen is an essential part of my workflow. Right-click on a … | Continue reading
XP-Pen sent me their new Artist Pro 16 (Gen2): they were curious if I could get it to work under Gnu/Linux without their proprietary driver. Result: after a long evening of trial and error, tweaking Digimend/X11/xsetwacom, almost everything works now. Of course, the deal is that … | Continue reading
Last June, during the Saint-Brieuc signing session, the director of "Bulles à Croquer" festival proposed a big and amazing project: a Pepper&Carrot exhibition on the scale of a supermarket for the fall 2023. Of course I accepted! So over the last monthes, the Bulles à Croquer com … | Continue reading
I'm back from the vet this morning with an official adoption for Geuloush. He is a fully-grown male cat who has probably been abandoned by his former owners in the summer. We put notices around our house in search of them, but failed to get any feedback. The poor thing was starv … | Continue reading
A new digital painting, the result to a poll I posted two days ago to select a color palette. Thank you if you participated to it, the palette was a good choice! Sources and High-Resolution | Continue reading
Something that relaxes me after hours of painting or drawing is doing DIY projects. It's always very rewarding for me to hack, repair or customise existing hardware. Today I'm going to show you how I turned a cheap USB numeric keypad (also known as a numeric keypad, number pad, n … | Continue reading
This is a remake of an old sketch. A black and white sketch of Pepper, then a very young witch, in a scene where she is disgusted and discouraged after knocking over a magic cauldron almost her own size. The scene takes place afterwards, at a time when she no doubt imagines havin … | Continue reading
Visual developments for the next episode of Pepper&Carrot. Sources: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/sketchbook.html | Continue reading
Character study of the GoToSocial sloth, a future new member, when I'll be drawing the group of mascots of the Fediverse. Directly inspired by the GotoSocial logo by Anna Abramek under CC-By-Sa 4.0 license. Artwork source here | Continue reading
Last April, I left my Twitter account, but without deleting it, to keep more than 10 years of posts for archiving (tutorials, brushes, threads, etc...). I also wanted to occupy the namespace to avoid seeing an account doing impersonation. Then I uninstalled the app, stopped readi … | Continue reading
I made a new avatar generator for Peertube mascot squid-like characters. You can play with it here: → https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2023_peertube-generator/ It's a personal contribution to the Peertube-plugin-livechat (WIP, link to the plugin on the generator page). | Continue reading
I was just thinking about how the bluebird social network was rebranded, and how it now feels legitimate to give it a place in the museum of dead social networks... Source file and high resolution here | Continue reading
A picture I had in mind about the topic of Web Environment Integrity. Source here | Continue reading
Artwork source: "Mastodon mascot as postman" by David Revoy, based on the mascot of joinmastodon.org − CC-BY 4.0 Two days ago I decided to give up on my blog's commenting system. I wrote about a solution that I had tried but abandoned along the way: synchronizing comments from m … | Continue reading
I have had this blog for almost 20 years, long before social media like Youtube, Facebook and Twitter existed. For a long time, my comment system was the only way I could get feedback on what I was painting and writing. And over the years you have posted 13,007 messages on 978 po … | Continue reading
A new piece of artwork to celebrate reaching 25,000 followers on my Mastodon account. The scene is a parody of a still from "My Neighbor Totoro" by Studio Ghibli. "Source and full license here. | Continue reading
Thanks again to @brettmakesgames@mastodon.gamedev.place for organising it, and (many) thanks to all the participants. Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/fo4Udw77tSYaQQhXrpP7Y3 Ytb: https://youtu.be/1AsvqyofhWA peppercarrot #gamejam #indiegames #godot #creativecommons | Continue reading
"Cool, which AI did you use for this?", "his work is definitely AI", "this is AI art and I find it disheartening"... Here is a sample of the comments I am getting more and more about my art. And this is not fine. In a world where now legions of AIartists are invading platforms li … | Continue reading
Note: This article is not sponsored. I bought this hardware with my own money. It's also 2019 hardware, so you won't be able to buy it new anyway. This blog post is a technical companion to the video I released last month: "My solution for Mobile digital-painting on GNU/Linux" Yo … | Continue reading
I am very pleased to have a new print publication from Pepper&Carrot to show you today. It's the Norwegian Nynorsk version from the publisher Outland Forlag. This book is the result of a long collaboration between the publisher and the historical translators and maintainers of Pe … | Continue reading
I'll do signing sessions for my comic books during the festival "Bulles à Croquer" of Saint-Brieuc on the 8 and 9 July. I'm also honored the festival organized a Pepper&Carrot exhibition this year. The entrance is free and you'll find many other authors and activities. I hope I'l … | Continue reading
3 days left before the Pepper&Carrot game jam starts! It's hosted by Brett Chalupa here: → https://itch.io/jam/pepper-carrot-jam Good luck to the 17 participants who already joined, and because I cannot wait to see the results, I colored a sketch with Pepper and Carrot playing a … | Continue reading
Watch it on: Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/oU74hKW7xGuAfVjrL4Kkoi Youtube: https://youtu.be/bIJ0yYDOHrw I just posted a new video with my solutions for mobile digital painting on GNU/Linux! It's not sponsored, about a refurbished 5 y/o hardware, and relatively low b … | Continue reading
I had a very good time last year at the Geek Faëries Festival 2022 and I published an article about it, so I'm very happy to announce I'll be part of the 2023 event. The Festival will take place from 2 to 4 June 2023, at the Castle of Selles-sur-Cher, France. It's the castle you … | Continue reading
Finished a piece I've been working on during my warm-up time. | Continue reading
A speedpainting I made this morning to test the amazing new impasto brush made by Emilm for Krita on https://krita-artists.org/t/rotating-light-brushtips-wip/64930 | Continue reading
Hey, I'm back home after 10 days at the Réunion des Communs, an event hosted at the library of Saint-Joseph on the Réunion island. The Réunion island is a French island, located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 600km/400mi east of the island of Madagascar. The event was about a … | Continue reading
Hi! I just posted a new Pepper&Carrot episode on peppercarrot website: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomic/ep38_The-Healer.html Have a good read ! (I'll add more infos in the comments later) | Continue reading
️ In May, I'll be on the Réunion island for signing sessions, conferences, and workshops! All info: https://communs.cemea-reunion.org/ | Continue reading
Here is a WIP webcomic panel of the future episode 38 of Pepper&Carrot "The Healer". It takes shape! The release will be next week, and the beta is now ready for translation. 🤩 I'll be full-time painting until the release; each panel requires at least 3 to 4h of paint-ove … | Continue reading
Hey, from now on, I'll be totally inactive on Twitter. I'll leave my account 'as is' with a link to this article in the most recent Twitt. I'll not close or delete my account to prevent bad intentioned users to recreate fake accounts in my name and impersonate me. But that's all. … | Continue reading
A photo of me during while signing at Trolls & Legendes 2023 Festival, in Mons Belgium - Photo CC-By 4.0 Steph Vesch. I'm back after a weekend of signing sessions at the "Trolls et Légendes" Festival in Belgium. I drew on more than 50 books, met amazing people, and it gave me a l … | Continue reading
Three panels without text, a visual sample of a scene as 'speedpainted' on the Apha-FR step of episode 38, page 1 Here is a quick blog post to announce an important milestone on the production of episode 38: yesterday, I posted on our collaborative tool a work in progress version … | Continue reading
Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are pleased to announce a joint partnership to develop the Pepper&Carrot Cinematic Universe. The two companies announced this unprecedented partnership over a gala dinner celebrating this historic event. "It's truly remarkable" said David Zaslav, … | Continue reading
Save Point − A concept-art demo from the digital painting class I taught, sources and high resolution on Pepper&Carrot Misc gallery I gave courses for Activdesign, a French CG school teaching design, video-game and web-dev. It's a school using Free/Libre software, that's so cool! … | Continue reading
Achievement unlocked: we found with the Pepper&Carrot community Fa BD Comic, the publisher of the worst derivations of Pepper&Carrot made so far. Unfortunately, the product's are published under my name and also in the name of artists who sent fan-arts of Pepper&Carrot... That's … | Continue reading
Here is a new illustration to announce I'll be the 8 and 9 April in Mons, Belgium, for signing sessions at the festival Trolls & Légendes. Looking forward to meeting many of you! | Continue reading
Disclaimer: None of the panel you'll see here are 'final'. I'm still in the process. Also, "spoiler alert" obviously.. Hey, I'm doing a pause today to share with you where I am in process of the production of Episode 38 and also look back in the mirror of what happened so far sin … | Continue reading