captainluna – Lunamatic

Batty Langley Lodge

View of Castletown House estate from an ornate window on the gothic facade of the Batty Langley Lodge.

Spent a few days at the Batty Langley Lodge in the grounds of the Castletown House estate. Highly recommend it, they even provided firewood! Glass of mead on a cozy armchair by the fire, after a day of walking in the woods, fantastic.

Knitted Stars

White and cream knitted stars, dozens and dozens of them

Knitted stars for a special occasion. Used the Stjärna pattern by Karolina Eckerdal.

#inktober2016

Thirty ink drawings on yellow sticky notes

Had a go of Inktober 2016, with a Rotring pen and a stack of sticky notes. Couldn’t stick the smudging to switched to a reliable black ballpoint towards the end. Missed a day due to travel.

Subject matter is the usual mixture of visual puns, autobiographical moments and nightmare fuel.

Fox’s Lunch

The first page of Fox's Lunch, a text game. The main character is thinking about his belly.

Spent the day at an interactive fiction workshop, mentored by Charlene Putney, and made this Twine game called Fox’s Lunch.

Lavender Harvest

A brown and white cat coiled up in a brown basket, exactly the right size

Hey, look at all this help I got harvesting the lavender this year.

Bunch of Bananas

Bananas, whole, peeled and just the banana skin, all rendered in CSS

Bananas, each in one element CSS. Assets for Forest Frenemies (still in alpha). Have a go here: https://jsbin.com/jojigur/edit?css,output

Bluebird

The fox excitedly points towards a robin! The bird informs him that he's not a robin, he's a bluebird. The fox looks ashamed and says he's colour blind.

So, I’ve been chugging away with my experimental “CSS illustration as comic” project for a while now, and posting .png outputs of the results on forestfrenemies.wordpress.com. Today there is a new character, who is definitely not a robin.

At this point I have prepared about five pretty sturdy characters, (fox, rabbit, bluebird, wolf and bear), with a variety of modular facial expressions and postures. Creating a new panel without any new content only takes about half an hour or so, which is pretty handy. Scaling is lovely and clean, and every time I add a new element, it can be stashed away for reuse later, saving more time in the future.

If you’d like to play around with the CSS on this page, here it is on jsbin: https://jsbin.com/roride/42/edit?css,output. It’s pretty scruffy and not cross-browser compatible right now, so consider yourself warned.

Ah, Don’t Be Wriggling!

The caterpillar cried, 'Closer!', and the ladybird obliged, picking it up and zooming over to the lonesome child. 'Ah, don't be wriggling', she said, because the caterpillar was always a ball of nervous energy.

Page 4 of my comic, which only took a hundred years. Passive-aggressive invertebrates to the rescue!

Ogre Factory

loads of little ogres in different shades of gross ogre green

Made an ogre factory while practicing JavaScript. Code is ugly and erratic, like these ogres.

But it was fun.

Terrible Shed

terrible digital painting of a shed

Look at this terrible shed. Or rather, the shed itself is okay, but this rendering of it is pretty bad.