Lightwork

A speedpainting inspired by Devin Townsend's 2022 music album. I'll go to his concert tomorrow in Toulouse! Lightwork Tour. I listen to his music since 2000. I can't wait! | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Tiny Fediverse Family Sketches

Long time without a blog post, but I have been active on social media. I had an issue on the website with posting new article and I fixed it this afternoon (oh, the joy of self hosting... -_-`). Anyway: I'm still penciling on the next episode of Pepper&Carrot, and this week, I di … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

My tablet history log: a listing of all the tablet I tested since 2002 (update: 2023)

Photo: Krita beta-testing session; two monitors, four Wacom tablets (2012). This article details my experience with all the graphic tablets I used since 2002. This article started a decade ago and receives constant updates and new paragraph along the years of practise (last updat … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Various hardware reviews: Photodon overlays, Cintweak keyboard trays, real bugs, and Intuos Pro.

I made a new video about improvements, modifications, and tweaks I made to my tablets: overlay sheet (Photodon), keyboard tray (Cintweak), a real bug issue under the glasses, and a too-grainy overlay surface for the Intuos Pro Large. Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/228kxHx … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Krita brushes 2023-01 bundle

Intro We are already past two weeks into the new year, and I wanted to start it with optimizing my new brushes, clean the thumbnails and remove the double. I collected this way this pack of 38 brushes. I'm sharing them today. You might find that some of these brushes are similar … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

My Neighbor Mastodon 2

A new artwork I made to celebrate 20K followers on my Mastodon profile (a parody of the famous animation "My Neighbor Totoro"). I switch this artwork under 'fan-art/fair-use' because even if I painted it from scratch, the artwork contains many element of derivation that belong to … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

The distinctive smell in the air after it rains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor ️🥰 Click on the artwork to download the 3840x2047px version (good details for printing or a wallpaper). I started this one as a sketch yesterday to test a new set of Krita brushes I made, and decided this morning to push it with eno … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Happy New Year 2023!

I wish you with this illustration strength and courage against all the "dragons" who might be on your way in 2023. Can you see the numbers in the silhouettes? I'm doing this type of illustration yearly on the blog for the new year, I have a tag with all of them since 2009 if you … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Overview of my Krita Digital Painting Workflow − end 2022

Video links: ▶ Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/6GetvC3grjMRdFooDDMe62 ▶ Youtube: https://youtu.be/kisT96h5h80 4k Wallpaper: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2022/2022-12-18_point-of-view.jpg Source of the artwork: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/artworks/a … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Point of View

(click for the full 4K resolution) I wanted to explore if I could bend my style around a bolder composition choice and stylised main shapes. Just to experiment how it could bring a modern more contemporary perfume to my style. The theme is probably obvious as we reach the end of … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Rain

A visual development concept art ☔ (click on the picture to open the 4K version) | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Greeting cards

I uploaded a new set of artworks to have greeting cards ready on my Redbubble shop. You can still get them before the 25, worldwide delivery (and I get 20% off the sale so thank you for your support!): Greeting cards on Redbubble All artworks & products If you want to print them … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

It’s decorating time!

Each year −more or less− I try to paint a Pepper&Carrot artwork for the holidays. So here is one for 2022. I'm still doing my drawing researches and studies, so I took a break this week and finished this piece. You'll see in this artwork where I am right now in my researches: I s … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

Spell of Gravity

I'm not gonna lie, I started to miss drawing these two. Click for the full resolution (and for looking at the brush work, I start to get a good economy of brush strokes). Have a good week-end! | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

The Blue Crystal

I continue my drawing training and sometimes I push the rendering of a test and finalize it, like in this one. I'm using almost no ref' to train my ability to predict color and light by imagination. Among my new skill, I'm now more confident at drawing and designing men. I can al … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

That feeling when you get a new skill.

4K picture, click to enlarge. I'm still training my brushwork and my speed to complete artwork. My goal, is to sort of bypass drawing or inking totally and draw later with the thin brush while painting. After many failed tests, this one is starting to bring together a lot of aspe … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 1 year ago

My Neighbor Mastodon

An obvious parody to celebrate 15K followers on Mastodon (it grows quickly because a lot of Twitter users joins it recently). It's a social network I love because it is made of Free/Libre software, a decentralized network, and open standards for the protocol. My account is here: … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Enjoying the Trip

4K picture posted, click to enlarge Hey, slowly but surely I'm continuing my experimentations. I filled many pages on my brainstorming (a libreoffice draw multipage ODG file) and I'm starting to get a better picture of where I'm going. I still need a little bit of time to train c … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Derivation: Motion Comic Ep.3 by Morevna

Here is a new animation from the Morevna studio. The movie was published last week and I immediately reshared it on all my social medias. But now I can take the time to write a blog-post about it, so it joins my collection of derivations. So, at first, movie time! Ytb: https://w … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

In the midst of experimentation

Hi everyone, right now it's a special time: I need to experiment and it's more like a wind that is blowing quite strongly in me. You have probably already noticed it by the latest content I shared on blog or on social medias. So I'm telling you: I'm very likely to scatter myself, … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Introduce the Dragon to the Outside World

Hey, I'm continuing the experimentation around this two characters. I also start to like these two, they also let me express a visual metaphor of what I'm living. Maybe I'm finding a simpler form of storytelling. On a technical point of view, they are super challenging with their … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Discuss with the Dragon

4K resolution available, click the picture to enlarge. SO, after the previous "Confront the Dragon", I continue my research. This time, I wanted to study a more cinematographic shot, with depth of field and again, multiple light sources (obviously a contrast of a cold and warm on … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Confront the Dragon

I'm still continuing my research and I had to do a test to stress my new method even more. My stress test: I had to paint visual effects (fire), night ambiance, fog, a foreground/middleground/background, a perspective system, etc... And because I'm doing all of that in a larger p … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Fanart Arale, Dr. Slump

A fanart of the little girl robot Arale Norimaki, main character of the Japanese manga series Dr. Slump (Japanese: Dr.スランプ) written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama from 1980 to 1984. I have all the manga at home and I had a lot of fun painting this one. This artwork was also he … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Signing Session in November 2022: Brive and Toulouse

Hey, I'm happy to announce two signing session dates in November: Foire du Livre de Brive • Saturday 5 November (afternoon) • Sunday 6 November (morning and afternoon) I'll be in the "Espace des trois provinces", the part dedicated to comics in this festival. More info: http://ww … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

painting study

A workflow experimentation that turned ok. I'm trying to capture a feeling of nostalgic (J)RPG, like a mix of old Zelda, Secret of Mana, but also series like Record of Lodoss War, all of that mixed with the high fantasy I also loved at that time, D&D, Magic the Gathering, DragonL … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Anatomy studies

So I am into a period of doing anatomy studies with for main purpose trying to get better at articulating the body on (digital) paper. My motivation: easing the drawing process on the future episode and feel more confident to start drawing lessons on my video channel. On the last … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Wikipe-tan

A remake in my style of the original character by Kasuga for the unofficial mascot of Wikipedia, a Krita artwork licensed under the CC-By-Sa-2.5, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic. Wikipe-tan reads and edits the Wikipe-tan page on a transparent neon retro-futur … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Pepper&Carrot (heavy) derivation: the case of the succesful Bulgarian book publishing by Prikazka-Igra

The publisher Prikazka-igra just ended their crowd-funding campaign for publishing their Bulgarian translation of Pepper&Carrot. It was a success with over 1700 books sold. Congratulation to them! Now their campaign is over you can still buy a copy: it's just now a bit more expen … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Portrait studies: The Feminist Five.

A contribution to Wikipedia (pages without pictures), I discovered it thanks to the French initiative Les Sans Images. It was difficult but a good training: I had to not copy the photos but derivate a lot from them so the portraits could be under libre license. I'll upload them l … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Sara, the OpenGameArt mascot

... but in my style. The references (under) and my remake (on top). Click to enlarge and see the brush work. While doing a long commission for the next campaign of Framasoft, I'm still playing at the evening with doing these remakes of free and libre culture characters. I'm not s … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Pleroma-tan

Hey, here is the mascot of https://pleroma.social/ named Pleroma-tan. Users of Pleroma asked me to draw her in my style long long time ago and it was sleeping in a dusty 'someday' folder. I wanted to test new brushes on a character and I remembered of her. So, this is a Pleroma ' … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Tifa Lockhart fan-art

A fan-art portrait of the video game character Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 (design of the Remake), the portrait is done imitating pencil portrait, using the newest brush bundle from Ramon Miranda. This work is a fan-art of a fictive video game character property of Square … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Tutorial: an Illustration from A to Z with Krita

Youtube: https://youtu.be/uYdEkOyFUn8 Peertube: Soon on the channel. And here is the long 1h22min Krita video tutorial fully commented as I promised on the last blog post with the artwork. It's a real full lenght course suited to beginners, but also advanced digital painters. It … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Kiki

🪷Kiki (the Krita’s mascot), but in my style. It's the topic of the contest of the monthly Krita-Artist art contest. That's also for my future mega tutorial for this summer. I recorded it this week; commenting everything and I'm right now derushing 6h of talk and screenrec … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

August in Boston

For everyone in or near Boston (USA), I'll be around at the end of the month (30/31 August)! If you have any ideas about the organisation of a meeting, a signing session, a pleinair sketch group, or a Krita workshop, contact me. It's first time I'll visit US! ☺️ | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

A gift from Wacom

Just received a gift: a Intuos Pro Large from Wacom. They plan to reuse on their blog some of my illustrations/tutorials (eg. on tablet ergonomics). They wanted to thanks me because all my content was already available for free on my blog under Creative Commons CC-By ☺️ So cool! … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Episode 37: The Tears of the Phoenix

Hi! I just posted a new Pepper&Carrot episode on peppercarrot website: https://www.peppercarrot.com/xx/webcomic/ep37_The-Tears-of-the-Phoenix.html Have a good read ! (I'll add more infos in the comments later) | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Episode 37 Production report, part 2.

Screenshot: Krita, a sneak peek into the upcoming Pepper&Carrot episode. Since my last report about episode 37 published back in April here: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article906/ep37-production-report-style , my opinion changed. What happened? So, everything started fine when ap … | Continue reading


@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Fedora 36 KDE Spin for digital painting workstation: reasons, post-install guide

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@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Proprietary social media are shaping the future of Pepper & Carrot

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@davidrevoy.com | 2 years ago

Dream Cats NFT: don't buy them

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@davidrevoy.com | 3 years ago

Ergonomic of Graphics Tablets

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@davidrevoy.com | 4 years ago

Kubuntu Linux 20.04 for a digital painting workstation

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@davidrevoy.com | 4 years ago

Kubuntu Linux 19.10 for a digital painting workstation: Reasons, Install guide

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@davidrevoy.com | 4 years ago

A 100% FLOSS workflow for self-publishing Pepper and Carrot

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@davidrevoy.com | 4 years ago

Making a big high quality comic book using only FLOSS from scratch

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@davidrevoy.com | 5 years ago

Building Krita on Linux for cats

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@davidrevoy.com | 6 years ago