2025 in Art
Everything I painted, etc. in 2025
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Writing a bit about everything, but mostly art related stuff.
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Favorite albums of 2025
It's the time of the year, to share my top 5 favorite albums of 2025, meaning, only albums released in 2025. You can see my top 5 of 2024 here. 1 - Apple of my eye - NEMOPHILA Like I said on my...
HEAVYPAINT is still awesome
I still don't understand how good HEAVYPAINT is
New site design
If you are reading this blog post via your browser of choice, you might notice that things are a bit different here. After probably more than I want to admit, I finally released my new site's desi...
Japanese immersion - Options for Sentence Mining
Three sentence mining options
Rebelle 8: Early Access
I was living under a rock, because I totally missed the note about Rebelle 8's early access being today! I got my copy with 50% off (if you own Rebelle 7 you can too), but I couldn't test it in de...
My dad's coffee trees
My dad planted a few coffee trees the other day, and they are growing already! 😄 Even though I'm not drinking coffee anymore, I still love the smell of coffee!
Design Cinema YT channel
The amount of amazing content you can find about entertainment design and concept art on Feng Zhu's YT channel is surreal! I've been learning quite a lot. Just today I rewatched Episode 111 - Wha...
Haphazard life
Long time no post. Lately I've been absent here, not for any particular reason, I was just busy thinking about my life in general. I've been struggling these past few months to find clarity and d...
Takamatsu & Awaji Island
A little over a month ago, on a Sunday morning, I left Okayama for Takamatsu, the capital of Kagawa, the smallest prefecture in Japan which is located in Shikoku, the smallest island of Japan's 4 m...
Okayama
Just some visual records of my brief stay in Okayama
Shirakawa-go
Snow everywhere!
Kanazawa
Apparently one of the rainiest cities in all of Japan
KOIAI and snow
A break for another show, and what a show it was!
3 days of adventures out there
Written and visual records from the coast of the Seto Inland Sea and its surroundings
NEMOPHILA - Apple of my eye release tour - Hiroshima
Show report
Miyajima
A friendly island ⛩️
Hiroshima
Inexplicable
About 30h or so sleeping until arriving in Japan
Back again in the land of the rising sun
Feeling slow
Exactly the way it’s supposed to be
(Re)learning ZBrush
Since ZBrush for iPad release last year, I was willing to dig into ZBrush again. I learned some basic ZBrush back in 2022/23 but never actually take it seriously. Until now. So, over the past week...
2024 in Art
Everything I painted, etc. in 2024
Japanese lessons - week 09 and 10
Some notes from week 06, 07, and 08.
Favorite albums of 2024
Last year I posted about my favorite musics of 2023, but it was more broad, not focusing only on 2023 releases. This year, I'm doing that! Here are my favorite albums of 2024. 1 - Born Again - B...
Sketchbooks sketchbooks!
Proko is showcasing some artist's sketchbooks and it's an absolute joy to watch! Two of my favorite artists (Eliza Ivanova and Peter Han) are featured in this serie: This next one is from Kazone ...
Zen Brush 3
Not to be confused with ZBrush
Japanese lessons - week 06, 07 and 08
Some notes from week 06, 07, and 08.
It's been a while
Painting portraits is so much fun!
Japanese lessons - week 04 and 05
Some notes from week 04 and 05.
How I'm studying Japanese in 2024
Resources I'm using to learn Japanese
Somewhat lost in thought
I've been struggling a lot lately, trying to find myself again. Ever since I decided to try switching career, it's been tough fights after tough fights, every single day. Currently I'm on this cro...
Japanese lessons - week 03
Some notes from week 03. いる (to be; there is/are; to have) for living things Example: * 猫がいます。(I have a cat/there's a cat) ある (to be; there is/are; to have) for non-living things Example:...
Yesterweek #28
Yet another week went by, and it's Monday again. Currently a bit sick, some cold/flu started to annoy me over the weekend, and that sucks, but it could be way worse. Studying Japanese has been an...
Japanese lessons - week 02
Some notes from week 02. I want... 欲しい (ほしい) is an I-adjective. Example: 私は新しいMacBook Proが欲しいです。(I want a new MacBook Pro) I want to... たい form. To conjugate a verb to たい form, drop the ます ...
Yesterweek #27
The past two weeks went by super fast, I guess that's what happens when you are distracted doing things that matter. So, last week my Japanese class started and as per usual, it was amazing! And I...
Back to Japanese lessons - some notes
Earlier this year I took two Japanese courses (102 and 103) at NihongoDekita, and I had a blast! The way they teach really resonates with me. After taking these two courses, I could continue to 10...
Yesterweek #26
Super late week notes, I know. It's almost another week. I wasn't going to write anything this week but I figured, well, who cares. The process of creating a concept art portfolio is way harder th...
Yesterweek #25
This week, the rain didn't last as long as the previous one. But that's ok, I guess. Officially, spring started today here at the Southern Hemisphere, even though the cold weather was long gone al...
"Stop wasting time drawing perspective"
This video from Conceptual Ink Academy shows a simple approach to deal with perspective. Instead of starting with a vanishing point and all the guidelines, Kingston and Nia recommend to first star...
Yesterweek #24
I'm glad it's raining. It's been raining since Yesterday, and it feels nice. It's been a while since we last had this kinda of rain, so, again, I'm glad it's raining! This past week was tough. Wea...
Tiffanie Mang & Zac Retz breaking down a painting
Two of my favorite painters; Tiffanie Mang and Zac Retz teamed up to break down a painting from Arkhip Kuindzhi, the results you can watch below: You can learn so much from these two, and I really...
ZBrush for iPad: first impressions
Today ZBrush for iPad was finally released. I’m still testing it and re-learning how to use ZBrush, but here are my first impressions anyway. For context I’m using an iPad Pro M2 with 8GB RAM and ...
Yesterweek #23
Howdy! It's been a while since I last posted a logweek, or a weeklog, or as I call it; a Yesterweek. I'm not gonna reset the counter though, so this is Yesterweek #23. Well, let's see. It was a h...
Figure Drawing Course
I've been digging S. Michael Hampton's Introduction to Figure Construction course at Proko.com, and it's been a really nice experience! Michael has a ton a free material over at his YouTube channe...
ZBrush for iPad
September 10th, that’s the date that Maxon will release ZBrush for iPad, and I gotta say, I’m really excited for this one. Though I’m not super familiar with ZBrush in general, I had so much fun us...
AI is not our future
So nice to see the official stance of Procreate regarding the BS that is generative """"AI"""". We’re here for the humans. We’re not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jew...
Halide Process Zero
Yesterday, the makers o Halide announced a new update with a new feature called Process Zero. Basically it strips out all the photo processing Apple is doing behind the scenes, so you can shot pho...
Music connects people
It's been about a year since I started exploring the Japanese Metal and Rock scene. It was not my intention at all to embark on this journey, but like a lot of things in life, unexpected stuff some...
Winter Blue Sky
Today on my morning walk I was thinking how we take so many things for granted. It was weird in a way. I was remembering how I realized how music is important to me, just last year. No joking, eve...
Droplets of hope
Stark is the Sky When the Rain is falling Never I will understand What's like to be loving In the deepest of the night The aeon is nothing When the beauty is hid In the crispy moonlight Thy wind s...