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TansterDesgnZ (she/her)
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'Before you play 2 notes, learn how to play one note. And don’t play one note unless you’ve got a reason to play it.' -- Mark Hollis

Dabbler in #digitalart #graphicdesign #illustration #vectorart #digitalpainting. #T1D #insulinjunkie & watcher of carbs.
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The language in this screenshot really makes my blood boil. Jeez, such toxic and ransom-like vibes. I hope Affinity never turn into that kind of a clown show.

I had to laugh at Adobe’s 20% BF deal. Meanwhile at Affinity:
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Lately I find myself playing with the new #affinitystudio app, and this is some #lettering #graphicdesign I came up with. Hope CRT will be added to glitch gallery.

#retrodesign ##CRTgtaphics #glitchdesign #retroart #1980sdesign #designsky
Retro Logo or Ad Design in landscape orientation. - Text reads “CRT In Motion” - Colours are Neon Magentas, Oranges, Yellos, And some purple and blue mixed in as gradients in the In Motion putlines. - CRT letters a in perspective and chunky to make them look 3D and as if lying flat but levitating from the dark surface. Floating underneath are the letter outlines stacked on top of each other. - Effects applied are offset RGB aberrations, gaussian blurs, different blend modes like Add, an HSL filter where I shifted the hues a little, and a CRT image I found on Pinterest was used and set to overlay with a slight blue applied and opacity reduced to 50 percent. - I then merged all visible components to a duplicated single-layer image, set it to screen blend mode, added another gaussian blurs and reduced opacity. This increased to glow effect and vibrancy of neon colours.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I also spent the afternoon with #graphicdesign #surrealism style. Getting familiar with the new version (v3) of #affinitystudio which is free (for now).

#digitalart #photocompositing #designsky #surrealart
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Finally found some time and motivation to continue on my #TRON #conceptart piece. The Christmas 🎄 polygon is in an assembly state. Challenge is actually painting Tron’s beautiful face and his neon circuitry.
#art #artist #artshare #smArtist #artyear #digitalart #blueskyart #artsky
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Progress on environment painting. Working on the abstract polygonic Christmas tree. I struggled somewhat with this but perseverance is key. I am also starting to make blobby brush strokes to ween my brain off flat #scifi #conceptart style.
#Tron #art #artyear #artist #artshare #smArtist
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Anyhoo, back to art posting. I parked my Dia de los Muertos Skull island piece (I missed it anyways and have a full year to finish). Instead I am already thinking Christmas and my love for #Tron1982 - so hopefully I can turn this into something useful namely a #Tron themed Christmas painting. 1/2
Concept art work in progress: Tron themed environment in perspective looking up; a control tower that will have a neon/circuit/rings like Christmas tree. There will be circuit panels and a Programme with a disk in hero pose with one knee bent. Man, I love and miss the 80s. And when I was a kid I had a mighty crush on Tron. 🥰 I am still mad that with subsequent movies his story got diminished to in the end nothing, not even a mention. He’s the titular character yet Flynn Flynn Flynn. Come on! 😂 rant over.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Okay, NOW it’s finished, I promise!! 😅 The previous one looked a little empty (only a few xmas decorations on left), so I added the 🎄 on the right back corner and hanging decorations over the bar! #art #artist #artshare #artyear #smArtist #illustration #coffee #Jakarta #Djournal
“Christmas Morning at Djournal Coffee” - moody scene: Mug of latte with sugar cane and gingerbread man on a table. The view is to the bar with stools at the front and the barista work space. An info chalkboard attached to storage cupboards installed in the ceiling. From the chalkboard a few xmas decorations are hanging off a line. Lightbulbs attached to ceiling. Shelving with books, knick-knacks and xmas decorations on the left. On the right a sideboard storage cupboards with lamp and vintage radio. Way back a bigger Xmas tree. The woman barista on the left is Aulia Putri, the silhouette dude further back is one of her (majority) male colleagues.
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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A very belated Happy #LoyKrathong to those who celebrated on 5th November. I forgot to post this here on the day.

#art #artist #artshare #artyear #blueskyart #smArtist #digitalart #ลอยกระทง #digitaloilpainting
A Thai floating flower offering with candle and incense sticks held up by a pair of hands. Above floating paper lanterns . The background is a small river stream with land on either side and another 5 of those flower offerings floating in the water. Dark mountains in the very back with magenta reflections from the dramatic sky gradients (magenta to blue to dark blue)
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Amazing work! 👏🏼

Btw, we’re with 98% certainty moving to Kuala Lumpur after 6 years in Jakarta. Having been in KLCC in 2010, I am looking forward to looking at this magnificent view again. I thought it would make a nice reference image in case you need a new project 😉
A view of the Petronas Twin Towers and adjacent city skyline in Kuala Lumpur, with parts of KLCC park and its water features in the foreground
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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“The Pumpkin Master’s Visit to the Fire Castle” - 2024

Made this when I started to take learning to paint more seriously. I don’t paint this way anymore (overuse if smudge tool etc).

#art #artober #halloween #artist #smArtist #artshare #pumpkin #spooky #conceptart
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Quote your art with fire on 🔥
A firy phoenix rising from the ash pits that has entrapped people/souls. Their silhouettes reaching out to the phoenix in hopes to be saved.
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Fiiiinally, I am calling this one finished. I actually started this around a year ago, but then lost interest/energy, because detail everywhere. I have since followed Angrymikko’s art tutorials and learned about more expressive paintings, … 1/2
#art #artshare #artist #illustration #coffee #jakarta
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Console is pretty much done now.
AI - 0 points
Human - 100 points

It may take a while, especially with other projects and obligations taking priority but I feel quite accomplished already. Just a little worried that using perspective tool with distort this quite a bit.

#art #artist #artshare
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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“Take me to the edge” playlist cover art. Quick and easy one. And not sure I like this one. 👉🏼ALT

#art #artist #graphicdesign #albumart #vinylart #artshare #blueskyart #smArtist #type #textlayout #layout
Square playlist cover design consisting of: - mostly type: “Take me to the” header on top and bird’s eye 3D type “Edge” at the bottom. -Two feet standing on the word “Edge” laid out like the top of a cliff, whereas the “Edge” type above is warped to make it look like an abyss/drop. - off the centre are rays in off-black and magenta. In fact, these are the only two colours in the main design, except for the logos. It feels unfinished though, and I might work on it a little more, or maybe not. It was a fast and lazy one after all.
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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We went to Bandung, West Java (Sunda), Indonesia for a few days. One of the places we visited was Galeri Seomardja at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). ITB is like the Cambridge/Oxford of Indonesia.

These were my favourite paintings.The first landscape image has dynamic brush strokes,which I love.
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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There you are, good Sir!
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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QRT with bird art please!
October 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Maybe this set against a Beng Beng Bar

(I can’t confirm, as I have not tried it. My partner swears by it though!)
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Fantastic! I love that. Is there a movement of artists/ designers that basically rework slop? If so, I’d like to be part of it.

Currently working on illustrating for playlist cover art making an actual retro spaceship console from a slop example. (I am actually nearly done with the console).
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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PSA:

If you experience thus #YoutubeDown issue whereby videos your selected don’t play, try restarting your device. Seems like the world (incl myself) seems to have forgotten about the no1 troubleshoot. (Thanks to OH for reminding me!). Try it and I hope it helps.
Screenshot of two news headlines about issue of Youtube not playing videos. YT seemingly down for hundreds of thousands or millions (?) worldwide. Tip: Restart your device and see if that does the trick. Seems a side-effect of AI is we forget about finding or using tried/tested solutions.
October 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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With that said, I did like TRON Legacy when it came out and still enjoy the visuals. So much so, that I attempted bridging Classic TRON and TL in this Christmas poster/card. I would like to paint something akin to classic Tron this time. Not sure Ares red visuals inspire me as much. 1/2
Christmas e-poster card based of the TRON franchise: - Neon turquoise title reads “merry christmas” - Starry background - neon christmas tree in turquoise, yellow, pink; inside itTron and Yori with Tron’s disk floating up the communication beam -foreground has light cycle in style of Tron Legacy in yellow racing from right to left across the grid. Away from the neon 2023 towards the neon 2022, as if wanting to travel back in time to the superior, better, classic TRON movie. 🤭😜
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Sitting at DJournal Coffee by the bar working on another WIP for Dia De Los Muertos/ Day if the Dead. (👉🏼ALT)

#art #artist #artshare #smArtist #digitalart #conceptart #landscapeart #blueskyart #WIP
Sitting at DJournal Coffee by the bar working on another WIP. This one shows dusk sky (what else is new?) some mountains and rolling hills in BG and path currently lit up with torches towards a big skull rock that will be decorated in paintings for Dia De Los Muertos/ Day if the Dead. Will I be able to sneak in some Mezcal? 😅
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I found a platform where I can watch an 80s scifi drama show called Starman starring Robert Hays, C.B. Barnes and Michael Cavanaugh. Unlike other shows from that era, this is still very watchable and is WOKE AF! I live it and Hays is a gem of an actor. #scifi #1980sscifi #1980sdrama #starman 1/2
October 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Thank you so much Paul. In fact, I was initially struggling with the values a lot, caused by a composition error: the moon was way too big (see below).

Something still feels somewhat off in the final piece. Does it look to you like the tree leaves are still lit too much thus from the wrong angle?
October 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Happy Chuseok/ Mooncake Harvest Mid-Autumn Festival! 추석축하합니다!

Made in Procreate.

#art #digitalart #artist #artshare #smArtist #blueskyart #추석 #chuseok #seollal #mooncakefestival
Procreate night-sky landscape painting: -tree on the left and a little brown bunny sitting in front of its root on a grassy patch of land with an edge; it’s looking up to the moon. -moon in starry sky is big with the silhouette of another rabbit standing on a stool holding a big pestle, a big mortar in front of it. It’s pounding rice cake as per the legend. - Mid/background is mountains with moonlight bouncing off of it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM