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I don't know if I'm the kind of "artist" you're interested in, but I've been making a bunch of silly drawings and posting them lately. Some people seem to enjoy them. I've also written a fair amount of music but I generally don't share that. I used to want to be a game developer and ended up getting good at programming, so-so at music, and basically hated everything I tried to make as far as graphics went.
Recently though, I've found it incredibly liberating to allow myself to make "bad" art -- to not be too concerned with the quality and just concentrate on having fun trying to express an idea however I can.
This has mostly taken the form of "MS Paint"-like drawings that I've posted to !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz (and occasionally other communities). Usually I make them with KolourPaint. Sometimes I also use the GIMP or my own custom software.
I think my own overall personal favorite, so far, is "Sock Trek". I posted it back in 2023 from kbin (RIP) to Otter's sockpuppetsociety community, I think:
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Probably the best of my recent silly drawings in terms of technique is this one in response to "An expressive window suffering from / enjoying the weather":
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The most popular (based on upvotes) seems to be my response to "E.T. (the alien) eating an unreasonable quantity of free samples at costco":
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I've occasionally made some other things that might be interesting to look at, like this hypnotic color spiral animation (first 90 seconds) from a program I wrote to experiment with graphics techniques a few years ago -- https://files.catbox.moe/8y6d0n.mp4 -- and a number of custom composites from anime screenshots.
Haha I love the sock characters! At first I thought they were worms on a string. They're cute! You mention wanting to get into game development, which is cool! Got a particular genre or engine that you want to go for?
I used to use Game Maker waaaay back in the day -- starting from when Mark Overmars had it hosted on his university website (before the .nl site even) and checked out of that community sometime after YoYo Games took over -- which was... 18 years ago!?
I wrote a substantial amount of C++ code with GLFW and occasionally other libraries for many hobby projects over the years. I lost a lot of enthusiasm when Unity became popular, and at some point after that I realized that games are mostly art projects, and I was more interested in the tech side of it.
These days I mostly write Python and JavaScript with the occasional bit of C++ (or whatever is needed) for work. Sometimes that work gets visual, but a lot of it is webdev.
If I ever get back into gamedev, it'll be indie dev to scratch a personal itch -- most likely with my own code rather than an off-the-shelf engine.
I'm glad you enjoyed my characters. :-)