Morning routine Published on 24 april 2024 | Continue reading
📦 Download the fonts, alpha 0.1: https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/documents/2024-04-20_DeevadHand_alpha1.zip (265KB, Open Font License) | Continue reading
I'm devastated. I learned a few hours ago that Craig Maloney (aka cmaloney) passed away this morning. Craig had joined the Pepper&Carrot project in its early days, almost ten years ago. We immediately clicked: his passion for metal, for retro video games, for creation, for Free/L … | Continue reading
Hey, I feel like I'm at a big crossroads and this is an important blog post, but you probably already guessed that from the title. It took me a long time to think about it. It still takes up all my brain bandwidth at the moment. But now that I have a clearer picture, I think it's … | Continue reading
Epic yearly vaccination trip to the vet this morning with my four cats. | Continue reading
A recent photo of my sketchbook, still training with ballpoint pen directly, a cruel training. But I am beginning to get a better ability to imagine perspective grids without tracing them, and I can even begin to plan full-page compositions. It takes a while to build these new sk … | Continue reading
The big wave of spams is over? Thank you FediAdmins for doing what you do! Source here | Continue reading
I just posted a new video tutorial! A commented step-by-step guide and advice on how to paint an original fantasy character design from scratch in Krita. Ytb: https://youtu.be/Q7kMT78iBSg Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/eGXzGxkAJpJXaBGopryD9T Src: https://www.peppercarro … | Continue reading
Notice: click to enlarge. ↓ Sketchbook 1: Various witches, a weird dog, Ranma! and a little kid scribbled over my drawings in a corner and I mention it. ↓ Sketchbook 2: Various studies of wrinkles in clothes, white shirt without bra, shirt, hoodies, big hoodies. Use of colored p … | Continue reading
With this illustration, I would like to wish you a calm and peaceful New Year. | Continue reading
With mascot of: Mastodon, https://joinmastodon.org/ Pleroma-tan of Pleroma, https://pleroma.social/, Ai of Misskey https://misskey-hub.net/, Lemmy https://join-lemmy.org Sepia of https://joinpeertube.org/, sloth mascot by Anna Abramek for https://gotosocial.org, Fediverse logo (b … | Continue reading
Framasoft does so many things in sync with my values that I'm always so proud when I do illustrations for them. Check out their campaign page to end 2023 (and support them if you can); it's presented as a 2D character selection of a fighter video game and it was really fun to dra … | Continue reading
Hey, earlier this week I posted a first version of the upcoming episode 39 to the development forge of the Pepper&Carrot project. It's an important milestone for a new episode and I'm really happy that this one finally arrived in this state! However, the episode is far from being … | Continue reading
The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't ro … | Continue reading
My version of the character Ada from "Ada & Zangemann", a Creative Commons license (BY-SA) book for children and a funny story about Free/Libre and Open-Source. It's written by Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter. It is great to see new characters in the Fre … | Continue reading
Picture above: concept art for episode 39 (click to enlarge). A close-up of a piece of artwork showing Wasabi, but young. A philosophical questioning Recently, I've been browsing DeviantArt, ArtStation and other art platforms that have decided to empower AI artists, as if the rec … | Continue reading
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