For anyone curious, photoshop (among six other adobe products) have been rebuilt as open source programs under the label artcraft. They’re easy enough to find online right now for those curious.

A lot of people including me really dislike photoshop for their skeezy renewal and cancelation fees (which were never a thing for many years), so it might be a good cheap alternative for those that have always wanted to try it… and depending on how quickly adobe reacts it may not be available forever.

The...

I beat end of abyss on ps5 and I wanted to talk about it a little! (Spoilers!)

I’ve been waiting for it since it was announced at the game awards/summer game festival (I can’t remember, it’s been a while)…

I’ve been enjoying these shorter titles that don’t take forever to complete- and other players aren’t there to ruin the immersion. Reanimal is another example (maybe I’ll write on that one later, too).

The environment and monsters were really exciting, the vibe of a little exploring...

The frontman of Venom, Cronos passed away today. They’re one of the most influential bands in the genre so I thought I’d pay some respects with one of my favourite songs by them.

Weird fossil

Last summer there was a fossilized centrum of a vertebra my girlfriend had found when I drug her out to hunt for fossils. I’ve contacted the Royal Tyrell museum of Alberta with photos and they don’t have an answer for what it came from, it’s quite strange.

In their words: A couple of the palaeontologists thought it was from a marine reptile, probably plesiosaur. However, their marine reptile expert does not think it is plesiosaur and thought it was fish or dinosaur. The dinosaur...

Just a few random thoughts

-I didn’t get as much art done this month as I’d like and I’m worried about October because it’s usually a pretty busy month for me (plus end of abyss is coming out this week and I’ve been waiting forever for it)

-silent hill townfall looks really cool, particularly the giant monster in the fog that drops bodies everywhere, but it doesn’t really capture me enough to buy it sadly. i Was hoping there would be more enemy variation.

-people are becoming so combative or...

Newmonsterelection.com

There’s currently an open vote for who Godzilla fights next in a new Japanese short film.

They’re all new monsters and they’re all pretty fun! They all remind me of ultra-kaiju. It’s a toss up between Gigasecto and Candyroy for

Me (:

Let me know who you think is coolest!

Post about last nights nightmare, forgive me for grammar and spelling mistakes as I’m still half asleep writing this in the dark.

There was this weird group of grimy redneck folks that burned electric and copper wires in bonfires to get high… they would steal them from businesses and yards from a nearby town, but their hallucinations and visions were always flashing images of pulsating, nondescript veiny organs, blood and membranes. The dream had a heavy focus on the wires they wanted, the copper...

cyberspace, do you paint miniatures?

What is your favourite Warhammer 40k army?

I have tyranids painted in the style

of the 3rd edition codex cover by Adrien Smith. The hormagaunts from the same edition are my favourite models.

“Hope” movie thoughts + blizzcon

Wandered in to see the South Korean movie “hope” this afternoon. (Spoilers ahead!)

I loved the first small chunk of the movie. A clumsy cop was chasing around some kind of unknown monster through a small countryside town. The destroyed alley set pieces, deaths by flying objects and gore were really cool… There was a lot of mystery and chaos- it really built up tension in a grounded way that felt unique and fun… but unfortunately after the introduction of the first...

Couldn’t sleep last night because there was a schizophrenic woman having a mental health emergency/acute psychosis for a few hours outside of my apartment window a few metres down. Non-emergency wouldn’t show up for her… I understand the affliction well enough but her pained wails, growling and murmuring was still disturbing enough to keep me awake unfortunately.

I’ve been feeling a bit out of it lately. I’ve been completely burned out from the gym despite not going as often as I should. I’ve worked out...

I beat dragons dogma II last month (not 100% complete yet!) and wanted to talk about it a little + some art related stuff

I honestly didn’t know anything about the game at all, but at a book-off near my home in Hibarigaoka I had found Jun Suemi’s artbook “198511-199806 Gen art” and I was instantly in love. He’s grown as one of my most favourite artists ever. His compositions, colours and brush strokes capture an era of pop culture that I hope to capture myself one day. Through this book (and...

Here’s a Mitsume-kozō I painted for a yokai art exhibit for the San Diego Japanese friendship gardens and museum.

It’s available for viewing at the Inamori Pavilion- and it’ll also be shown during their Yokai parade on Halloween/Oct 31st.

Check it out on my Instagram HERE<—

Thoughts and processes for cyberspace only:

I knew I wanted to do a a three eyed character similar to a Kawanabe Kyōsai painting from the edo...

thanks Starbucks (ᵕ・ᴗ・)

I have a package coming with the worst company on the planet… so I’ve got to hold off on work and the gym to make sure I can personally greet them at the door. (Otherwise they won’t make an effort to deliver it).

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

While I wait I just wanted to post about Masaaki Nakayama.

As a teenager I found myself scrounging for every little piece of Japanese horror I could find after being introduced to ju-on here in Canada. Gyo and Uzumaki by Junji Ito had only been translated by fans online...

I just finished the novel “there is no antimemetics division”, a horror sci-fi written by a fellow with the username QNTM, who writes short form stories including some of the “SCP” files online.

• So I have to ask cyberspace, what is your favourite horror media online specifically? Please share.

It had a lot of the hallmarks of internet “creepypastas” (a moniker I don’t really like using, lol). It had some fun imagery and ideas but the very end of the book was pretty over-the-top and...

RIP Tim Curry

Does anyone here use procreate?

I can’t see myself owning an iPad at the moment, but to those that do- how would you compare it to other art programs?

I believe they’ve acknowledged work on a desktop version. I’d be interested in testing it on windows. Some of their brush textures are extremely realistic.

I’d love to hear all of your thoughts and criticisms.

Does anyone know or read heavy metal magazine?

It feels like it’s going through some kind of renaissance right now. The stories, covers and art features are all very provocative and thoughtful. If you ever wanted to jump into something new, now is definitely the moment.

There was a time in the past not super long ago when it felt like every cover was just some random painted woman for sex appeal. I never looked through the books because it felt so uncreative and lame at face value. I likely...

Two questions for cyberspace:

1.what’s your favourite novel?

2.Does anyone here use goodreads?

I like to keep track of everything I’ve read but I get so embarrassed reading my own reviews later… so I just rate them out of five now. Maybe I’ll write critiques on novels here because it feels more casual. (×_×;)

Leave your profile in the comments or add me

—> www.goodreads.com/user/show/203741274

I’m always looking for new weird books, so...

I got a rendezook in battlefield 6 tonight. I don’t know if anyone knows what that is, but it was insanely difficult and took so many tries.

Ironically, I found the game really interesting because of how grounded it felt compared to call of duty (which I never really got into). I had always wanted to play a more realistic, modern military game and it definitely scratches that itch. i usually spend my time playing either attack jet or on the ground as support. I’ve noticed the game has some glaring...