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Vandal
@tanaroc.bsky.social
(He/Any...figuring it out)
Graphic artist looking for work. Mostly album art and book layout, but I do a bit of everything.

PFP: Walking wrecked robot with glowing innards.

Banner: Elaborately painted Gundam with a cat obscuring three sides of the frame.
My Mercenaries Kickstarter came in. I'm ready for some Blåhatech.

I desperately need Catalyst and HBS to figure out the licensing issue keeping the Bull Shark from having an official mini and record sheet...
July 30, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild. The brushed steel aesthetic looks better on my dishwasher.
July 10, 2024 at 4:32 PM
This is your brain on sotn.io.
March 10, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Why is it never the artifact stealing Christofascists that get taken down? I'm not actually super interested in the answer.
www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03...
March 6, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Needed a drying rack and had a bunch of cardboard left over from an IKEA shelf. Look ma, no measurements!
February 16, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Having seen this, I post a robot.
February 16, 2024 at 4:25 AM
Finished my take on Grant Abbitt's Dungeon Door tutorial. It was more time consuming than the other's I've worked on, but I really like the results. Pointiness-based procedural textures are fantastic. I do wish he had taken the tutorial all the way to the lighting stage, though.
February 15, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Everything Everywhere All At Once is as good as the hype. Holy shit.
February 15, 2024 at 2:15 AM
The coloring begins! I'm digging this method of procedural colors for a couple reasons:
1) My brief foray into UV unwrapping wasn't great (room for improvement, for sure).
2) Using the sharpness modifier and gradients feels a lot like using washes and edge highlighting on minis.
#b3d
February 14, 2024 at 5:57 PM
8v8 classic BattleTech, tonight, on 4 adjacent hex maps. Finally taken this over-embellishes over-washed Griffin for a spin.
February 11, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Part 1 of Grant Abbit's "Dungeon Door" tutorial done. Need to put it down for a bit to work on a different project but so far I'm really happy with it. I definitely overcomplicated it by sketching out ram horns and a latch/padlock rather than just a ring handle. (This is my third Blender tutorial).
February 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
We're about half way into Color Out of Space and it is way less campy than I expected from an HP Lovecraft movie starring Nicolas Cage with special guest Tommy Chong.
January 28, 2024 at 4:40 AM
When I say I got that dog in me this is the dog in question
January 27, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Artorias the Abysswalker from the Dark Souls board game for @spockle.bsky.social.
January 27, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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Anything piloted by a human that needs some reaction speed, and be flexible in use, makes sense with a human body plan. Our brains literally have a billion years of evolution to be good at piloting this body config and no others.
Everything else is either more mental overhead, or less flexible.
[darryl walks up to the mic; clears throat]

It makes no sense for giant robots to be human-shaped
January 24, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Prescient of Bubblegum Crisis (1987) to call the #1 threat to public safety "boomers."
January 16, 2024 at 7:10 PM
I wish I wasn't addicted to HoloCure. There's lots of other games I want to play. But between it, Vampire Survivors, and Death Must Die, I find it hard to let there be a bullet heaven game on Steam for which I haven't collected ALL of the achievements.
January 16, 2024 at 1:33 PM
I grew up on these streets
January 16, 2024 at 1:18 PM
I understand the importance for brevity in our bios, but how else will I let people know I'm a graphic artist looking for work, a music loving radical left agnostic egg who plays games and paints miniatures, AND properly describe my PFP and banner since we can't give them alt text?
January 13, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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I read about this in the middle of the night, and went to see if it was real…

I present- Christian ouija board! For only £44 you can talk directly to Jesus!
Some people didn’t like the idea though…
January 13, 2024 at 10:24 AM
And now for something completely different.
January 12, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2024?
December 29, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Embrace your inner cozycore holiday gremlin. Mix egg nog in your hot chocolate. Nog chocolate rules.
December 26, 2023 at 3:33 AM
Current progress on my first round of mechs meant to have a place in canon BattleTech. Just locked the paint in with a coat of future polish. Next step is black and brown wash, matte varnish, gloss for the windshields, then basing.
December 24, 2023 at 8:22 AM
Sometimes I forget how bright this 20+ year old pot of Citadel Mithril Silver is. Grey Death camo done with two layers of Army Painter Gravelord Grey Speed paint 1.0 over Ash Grey primer. Next will be some Tin Bitz and something bright for the canopy glass, red details, future polish, then washes.
December 24, 2023 at 12:03 AM