can i figure out some way to use that as my avatar?

If you were talking to me, go ahead.
If you were talking to Mackerel and want a fractal avatar for whatever reason, I have no authority to grant you permission to use it but I'd say do it anyway.

I actually thought it was a photo of a bunch of falling sparks shot with a high-exposure camera.

@Adriaan: Liking the hands on that last page, impressive studies. I was going to say that if you're doing those as practice you might consider ditching the nice smooth shading and stick to line art so you can pump out more at a greater pace. I saw Shook mention some of the hands look a little chunky, I just think the fingers of those last two look a bit too round could just be me. Last hand's thumb looks on the short side and too round, when viewed directly the thumb has a rounded spear shape to it, and is often in the shape of a 'J' when viewed in profile.

Keep it up. If you can tackle the head and facial features as well as you can do hands, the rest of the body will be a piece of cake.

Great colours on that one Metal Chao

Thanks so much for all the advice! I did today/yesterday's (been up waay too long) in linework only, got a bunch of them out in good time.
Also spot on with what you pointed out Shook and Madmax. While the top hand was a little chubby on the ref too, too round shapes and the shading in brought it out too much in places.



And did this between watching some K-On eps


Needs more happy face.

I too can make shitty art with numbers.

Art made from mathematics? How absur-

Oh. Wait.


Obviously not mine, I am ♥♥♥♥ at art. And something like that would require a better computer than the one I have available.

Terrain generated as to look comprehensive, then rendered nicely and used as a base for photoshop funtime.

Quite different from boring fractals.

I mean, fractals can look cool and be sort of art I guess but so can anything. You do not need a particular skillset to make fractals.

This one isn't as good, the shading is a bit of a mess to be honest

Needs more ironic gamma.
do u even transform ♥♥♥♥♥♥?
lrn2render

I think what he was getting at is that terrain generation uses fractal methods.

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