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Updated Twatter Link
Posted 4 years agoHeya all!
I've decided to update my foundering Twatter page since I'm fairly sure I was basically getting throttled into the ground on my old one.
If you want to find me on Twatter, please check me out here https://twitter.com/AberrantLynxMk2
I've decided to update my foundering Twatter page since I'm fairly sure I was basically getting throttled into the ground on my old one.
If you want to find me on Twatter, please check me out here https://twitter.com/AberrantLynxMk2
Art Fight!
Posted 4 years agoCome at me bro! https://artfight.net/~illogical-lynx
The 30 Year Old Boomer
Posted 5 years agoWell, I hit the big three-zero the other day, am I officially over the hill? There's always the nagging part of you that wonders if you should have accomplished more- everyone knows that they could be more productive, we could've finished that drawing, learned that new skill, invested in stocks or gone dating in that time we spent playing games or looking at memes. I don't think that's reasonable though, at least not to me. Part of growing up is reconising your own limitations and learning to bargain with yourself.
There are things I might have done differently with the clarity of hindsight, but I don't think I have any big regrets in my life and for that I'm pretty thankful. I've done some pretty damn awesome stuff in that time too. In the last decade I have:
-Moved into a rented private flat with friends
-Survived a magnitude 7.1 earthquake
-Volunteered with the red cross
-Built and published a first-in-the-world semiconductor device
-Fallen in love
-Graduated engineering with first class honours
-Had surgery
-Done experiments with a particle accelerator
-Spent a night in an abandoned, haunted mental asylum
-Had a gradual falling out with most of my IRL friends group
-Taught someone who had never learned how to swim
-Fired a minigun
-Sold an electron microscope picture at a charity auction
-Gone diving with a school of hammerhead sharks and with deadly sea snakes
-Got fat
-Built the fastest airsoft gun in my country
-Broken up with a partner of 7 years
-Found sunken treasure
-Stood on the edge of the crater of an erupting volcano
-Wrote a thesis and earned a PhD
-Racked up an enormous student loan
-Made friends from completely different social classes to my own
-Moved back in with parents and wasted a year and a half unemployed
-Started lifting and lost 18kgs (40lbs) in under a year
-Travelled to the US alone to apply for jobs
-Got rejected a whole lot
-Sold all my stuff and moved to the UK
-Got my first professional job
-Made a small group of awesome new online friends from all over the world
-Learned to draw lineart
-Designed a bunch of new characters
-Made accounts on FA and Twitter
-Travelled overseas to play sport
-Met some of my internet friends IRL
-Travelled to a foreign country for a date and got catfished
-Was best man at my childhood best friend's wedding
-Visited the crucifixion site of Christ and the dead sea
-Bench-pressed my bodyweight
-Went for several weeks in quarantine lockdown
-Got made redundant in the coronavirus pandemic
-Started talking to someone I hope will become very significant in my life
/me sips my 30 year old boomer can of Monster Zero Ultra.
Ten years is quite a long time and I think I've managed to fill this last ten with more good and interesting than bad. Spent my birthday in quarantine lockdown with my flatmate and while the future seems uncertain, I'm optimistic about several important things. It feels like the bases are loaded and I'm standing at the plate waiting for the referee to report on whether the game is to continue.
Anyhow, on to the bit people care about! I got some awesome gifts for my birthday that I'd highly recommend people check out here (I'll try to add any latecomers I get too!):
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36253691/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36255250/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36256614/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36264991/
There are things I might have done differently with the clarity of hindsight, but I don't think I have any big regrets in my life and for that I'm pretty thankful. I've done some pretty damn awesome stuff in that time too. In the last decade I have:
-Moved into a rented private flat with friends
-Survived a magnitude 7.1 earthquake
-Volunteered with the red cross
-Built and published a first-in-the-world semiconductor device
-Fallen in love
-Graduated engineering with first class honours
-Had surgery
-Done experiments with a particle accelerator
-Spent a night in an abandoned, haunted mental asylum
-Had a gradual falling out with most of my IRL friends group
-Taught someone who had never learned how to swim
-Fired a minigun
-Sold an electron microscope picture at a charity auction
-Gone diving with a school of hammerhead sharks and with deadly sea snakes
-Got fat
-Built the fastest airsoft gun in my country
-Broken up with a partner of 7 years
-Found sunken treasure
-Stood on the edge of the crater of an erupting volcano
-Wrote a thesis and earned a PhD
-Racked up an enormous student loan
-Made friends from completely different social classes to my own
-Moved back in with parents and wasted a year and a half unemployed
-Started lifting and lost 18kgs (40lbs) in under a year
-Travelled to the US alone to apply for jobs
-Got rejected a whole lot
-Sold all my stuff and moved to the UK
-Got my first professional job
-Made a small group of awesome new online friends from all over the world
-Learned to draw lineart
-Designed a bunch of new characters
-Made accounts on FA and Twitter
-Travelled overseas to play sport
-Met some of my internet friends IRL
-Travelled to a foreign country for a date and got catfished
-Was best man at my childhood best friend's wedding
-Visited the crucifixion site of Christ and the dead sea
-Bench-pressed my bodyweight
-Went for several weeks in quarantine lockdown
-Got made redundant in the coronavirus pandemic
-Started talking to someone I hope will become very significant in my life
/me sips my 30 year old boomer can of Monster Zero Ultra.
Ten years is quite a long time and I think I've managed to fill this last ten with more good and interesting than bad. Spent my birthday in quarantine lockdown with my flatmate and while the future seems uncertain, I'm optimistic about several important things. It feels like the bases are loaded and I'm standing at the plate waiting for the referee to report on whether the game is to continue.
Anyhow, on to the bit people care about! I got some awesome gifts for my birthday that I'd highly recommend people check out here (I'll try to add any latecomers I get too!):
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36253691/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36255250/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36256614/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36264991/
Holding a Twitter Raffle
Posted 6 years agoHello all!
So I succumbed to peer pressure and made myself a Twitter page. I'm holding a raffle there, so if you've got an account and wanna win a free picture from me, feel free to jump in!
https://twitter.com/AberrantLynx/st.....27055330287616
So I succumbed to peer pressure and made myself a Twitter page. I'm holding a raffle there, so if you've got an account and wanna win a free picture from me, feel free to jump in!
https://twitter.com/AberrantLynx/st.....27055330287616
End of Decade Address
Posted 6 years agoMerry Christmas everyone!
Well, what a year it's been, my first full year out on my own living my own life and paying my own way as a child of only 29! Figuring out exactly where I am and where I'm going in life is still a bit of a work in progress but I've been fortunate to find that even running in place has been comfortable at worst and enjoyable at best.
I've been able to travel around Europe far more than I'd ever imagined, meeting up with friends in Germany, Norway and back home in the UK. I hope I'll be able to meet with more new people in the coming year too!
Art wise, I think I've made a few important changes, not so much to the end product of my art, but to the process of how I get there- if that makes sense. I've been sketching constantly all year at an unprecedented rate, just little throwaway "scribbles" as I've dubbed them as well as an entire gallery of "stickers" for my characters. I think this has taught me a lot of very useful processes, I set up my drawings in a more logical and methodical fashion so that whatever the subject or expression I can make it work. Where previously I started on shaky ground and furiously plastered over the cracks until a picture looked good, now I can get things pretty close to right on just one or two tries.
I feel as though I haven't yet drawn one picture that combines everything I've learned onto one canvas and frankly I'm somewhat intimidated to try. However, Praise the Anger and Hell Above Water are both pictures that I was extremely proud of this year, especially given that each of them took less than a week to complete. I just need to find a subject that inspires me enough to do a full detailed scene at that level of effort.
Ideally, I'd like to get comfortable enough in my abilities to be able to start taking commissions and I think I'm approaching that point. I've been watching with great interest the sort of prices that friends and others of similar ability to myself have been listing for, so maybe that could be something I could try out in the new year.
So far, my attempts at comics this year have ended in fairly dismal failure. For reasons I haven't grasped, Kyrophon's painstakingly finished backstory comics were all staggeringly unpopular everywhere I posted them and I eventually ran out of motivation to continue it. I also have a comic my friend reforger helped me with involving Spook that is partway through linearting, but I feel I have no idea what I'm doing with it and it fills me with dread every time I open it. I'm not sure why, perhaps it's the enormous amount of work and uncertainty presented by trying to make 30-odd panels all look presentable, presumably for it to get completely panned like the Kyro one. I get told that I need to cut corners on it, but I have virtually no conception of how to do this in a consistent manner. That said, comics still seem like the best way I have to convey a narrative even if no-one else cares to read it, so I'd like to press on and see if I can get through this block.
https://twitter.com/AberrantLynx I joined Twitter this year as well, which has been... a qualified failure. The Twitter paradigm seems very much "rich get richer" and without help from established accounts to build influence, I've summarily failed to gain any foothold there. I've toyed with the idea of deleting the account since checking it seems like a waste of time, but I think I'll stick around a little longer. I have met one or two potentially interesting people through it by chance though, so it hasn't been a total wash.
Anyhow, I guess that's the end of the 2010's as well? Where was I in 2010? I suppose partway through my undergraduate degree. A lot has changed since then but a lot has stayed the same. In all honesty, I have no idea where I'll be in another decade, but only time will tell. I hope everyone reading this had an enjoyable Christmas and all the best for the new year and new decade!
Well, what a year it's been, my first full year out on my own living my own life and paying my own way as a child of only 29! Figuring out exactly where I am and where I'm going in life is still a bit of a work in progress but I've been fortunate to find that even running in place has been comfortable at worst and enjoyable at best.
I've been able to travel around Europe far more than I'd ever imagined, meeting up with friends in Germany, Norway and back home in the UK. I hope I'll be able to meet with more new people in the coming year too!
Art wise, I think I've made a few important changes, not so much to the end product of my art, but to the process of how I get there- if that makes sense. I've been sketching constantly all year at an unprecedented rate, just little throwaway "scribbles" as I've dubbed them as well as an entire gallery of "stickers" for my characters. I think this has taught me a lot of very useful processes, I set up my drawings in a more logical and methodical fashion so that whatever the subject or expression I can make it work. Where previously I started on shaky ground and furiously plastered over the cracks until a picture looked good, now I can get things pretty close to right on just one or two tries.
I feel as though I haven't yet drawn one picture that combines everything I've learned onto one canvas and frankly I'm somewhat intimidated to try. However, Praise the Anger and Hell Above Water are both pictures that I was extremely proud of this year, especially given that each of them took less than a week to complete. I just need to find a subject that inspires me enough to do a full detailed scene at that level of effort.
Ideally, I'd like to get comfortable enough in my abilities to be able to start taking commissions and I think I'm approaching that point. I've been watching with great interest the sort of prices that friends and others of similar ability to myself have been listing for, so maybe that could be something I could try out in the new year.
So far, my attempts at comics this year have ended in fairly dismal failure. For reasons I haven't grasped, Kyrophon's painstakingly finished backstory comics were all staggeringly unpopular everywhere I posted them and I eventually ran out of motivation to continue it. I also have a comic my friend reforger helped me with involving Spook that is partway through linearting, but I feel I have no idea what I'm doing with it and it fills me with dread every time I open it. I'm not sure why, perhaps it's the enormous amount of work and uncertainty presented by trying to make 30-odd panels all look presentable, presumably for it to get completely panned like the Kyro one. I get told that I need to cut corners on it, but I have virtually no conception of how to do this in a consistent manner. That said, comics still seem like the best way I have to convey a narrative even if no-one else cares to read it, so I'd like to press on and see if I can get through this block.
https://twitter.com/AberrantLynx I joined Twitter this year as well, which has been... a qualified failure. The Twitter paradigm seems very much "rich get richer" and without help from established accounts to build influence, I've summarily failed to gain any foothold there. I've toyed with the idea of deleting the account since checking it seems like a waste of time, but I think I'll stick around a little longer. I have met one or two potentially interesting people through it by chance though, so it hasn't been a total wash.
Anyhow, I guess that's the end of the 2010's as well? Where was I in 2010? I suppose partway through my undergraduate degree. A lot has changed since then but a lot has stayed the same. In all honesty, I have no idea where I'll be in another decade, but only time will tell. I hope everyone reading this had an enjoyable Christmas and all the best for the new year and new decade!
End of Year Address
Posted 7 years agoHello all. It's been a while and now seemed as good a time as any to update my journal.
2018's been a helluva year for me, everything has changed completely. I've moved alone to the opposite corner of the world and begun a new phase of my life with a real job and a proper routine. So far things have been going as well as I feel I reasonably could have hoped for: the job is comfortable, finances are secure and I've not run into any serious problems with accommodation or travel.
I have been homesick to an extent, there's a lot I miss from back in New Zealand although I guess I had a long time before I left to dissociate myself from that life so it hasn't been that bad. I'm not the most social person in the world and I make friends rather slowly IRL, so I've been really grateful for my online friends who have largely kept me from dying of loneliness. Now that I'm in the relevant half of the world, I managed to also arrange a meetup with two good online friends, Steinwill and Reforger in London and this was definitely a huge highlight of this year. I'm really looking forward to meeting up with them again, as well as with a couple of other internet folks in the coming year.
Art wise, things have also changed a lot. I've adopted a completely new style which I think is lower finish quality but significantly faster. With the ability to iterate faster, I think I've come off a five-year skill plateau and made some significant improvements in anatomy and especially facial expressions. These improvements have contributed to an unprecedented motivation streak for my artwork that I was sure wouldn't last but has persisted all year. I basically haven't played video games or watched TV/films all year because I've been too busy drawing. I've made six new characters that I'm very pleased with and I think I've really refined my general ability to approach drawing new types of species. I also started writing Kyrophon's backstory as a comic, something that would have been absolutely absurd for me to even consider a year or two ago. There are still large gaps in my ability, but I've closed more in the last 6 months than I have in the previous 5 years combined.
I'm a little apprehensive about my relative lack of long-term plans. I'm almost 30 and I worry a little that perhaps I should have more of my life in order than I do. Every now and then, the existential dread creeps in. Nothing is perfect yet, but across the board, things are all moving in the right direction. I think that's about as much as I could reasonably ask for, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Anyhow, that's all from me for now. Thanks again to all my internet friends for their support and encouragement this year. Hope you all have a relaxing break and all the best for 2019!
A toast to absent friends!
2018's been a helluva year for me, everything has changed completely. I've moved alone to the opposite corner of the world and begun a new phase of my life with a real job and a proper routine. So far things have been going as well as I feel I reasonably could have hoped for: the job is comfortable, finances are secure and I've not run into any serious problems with accommodation or travel.
I have been homesick to an extent, there's a lot I miss from back in New Zealand although I guess I had a long time before I left to dissociate myself from that life so it hasn't been that bad. I'm not the most social person in the world and I make friends rather slowly IRL, so I've been really grateful for my online friends who have largely kept me from dying of loneliness. Now that I'm in the relevant half of the world, I managed to also arrange a meetup with two good online friends, Steinwill and Reforger in London and this was definitely a huge highlight of this year. I'm really looking forward to meeting up with them again, as well as with a couple of other internet folks in the coming year.
Art wise, things have also changed a lot. I've adopted a completely new style which I think is lower finish quality but significantly faster. With the ability to iterate faster, I think I've come off a five-year skill plateau and made some significant improvements in anatomy and especially facial expressions. These improvements have contributed to an unprecedented motivation streak for my artwork that I was sure wouldn't last but has persisted all year. I basically haven't played video games or watched TV/films all year because I've been too busy drawing. I've made six new characters that I'm very pleased with and I think I've really refined my general ability to approach drawing new types of species. I also started writing Kyrophon's backstory as a comic, something that would have been absolutely absurd for me to even consider a year or two ago. There are still large gaps in my ability, but I've closed more in the last 6 months than I have in the previous 5 years combined.
I'm a little apprehensive about my relative lack of long-term plans. I'm almost 30 and I worry a little that perhaps I should have more of my life in order than I do. Every now and then, the existential dread creeps in. Nothing is perfect yet, but across the board, things are all moving in the right direction. I think that's about as much as I could reasonably ask for, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Anyhow, that's all from me for now. Thanks again to all my internet friends for their support and encouragement this year. Hope you all have a relaxing break and all the best for 2019!
A toast to absent friends!
NEET No Longer
Posted 7 years agoSo after selling up all of my stuff in New Zealand and moving 19,000km's around the world to England, I've finally been successful in finding a job in my field. I've signed on as a research scientist at a well-known company, starting next week. After such a long time at university, it's both exciting and scary to be going into my first professional job.
I'm equal parts excited and anxious. It's an amazing relief to finally have some overall direction in my life, but I'm a little daunted by the fact that this means I have to stop procrastinating and take responsibility for completely rebuilding myself in a country where I know virtually no-one. I also really hope this doesn't obliterate all my time and motivation for drawing. Said motivation has been running red hot the past few months and I'd like to continue forward with it.
My hours seem pretty standard and I do most of my artwork in the evenings, but no more staying up stupid late I presume haha
At least they're gonna pay me pretty well, so I might have some spare money for frivolous stuff like commissions. :D
I'm equal parts excited and anxious. It's an amazing relief to finally have some overall direction in my life, but I'm a little daunted by the fact that this means I have to stop procrastinating and take responsibility for completely rebuilding myself in a country where I know virtually no-one. I also really hope this doesn't obliterate all my time and motivation for drawing. Said motivation has been running red hot the past few months and I'd like to continue forward with it.
My hours seem pretty standard and I do most of my artwork in the evenings, but no more staying up stupid late I presume haha
At least they're gonna pay me pretty well, so I might have some spare money for frivolous stuff like commissions. :D
Hello World
Posted 7 years agoHello world!
Long time deviantArt user here. Some of my friends finally convinced me to make an account over here.
I'm going to start migrating everything above a certain standard over in chronological order, so for a while it will just be my old stuff and eventually I'll get around to my newer work.
Feel free to tag along for the ride.
Long time deviantArt user here. Some of my friends finally convinced me to make an account over here.
I'm going to start migrating everything above a certain standard over in chronological order, so for a while it will just be my old stuff and eventually I'll get around to my newer work.
Feel free to tag along for the ride.
