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ESO Anniversary event
This time I’m still on time with the event post as it is still going! Recently I wrote a post about the Jester Festival in Elder Scrolls Online. Soon after that short (one week) event ended – another one has started and this time the event is longer – the Anniversary event runs between April 4 and April 16, so there is still several days to have some fun with it and get bonus quests rewards. As with the previous ESO event – you join this one by “buying” and using a free quest starting item from the Crown Store (“Featured” tab). As I said in the last event post – I’m not really a fan of such event joining mechanics – it’s very unintuitive. After you obtain the event quest starting item, Jubilee Cake Voucher, you’ll be able to join the event by using it. As its description says…
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Testing new Mijello Peel-off palette
First art post after a long while! I really missed it. As some of you may know – one of my favourite traditional art media is acrylic paints. Just like any other paints you have to have a place to keep and mix this medium while painting – a palette. Most of the traditional artists I know paint either with oils or watercolours, so many things about acrylics I have to discover on my own, including what palette is the best for acrylics and which one I like the most. The first palette I was using was a cheap watercolor plastic palette, the kind you can buy in supermarkets (and I believe that’s where I got mine) with round-ish shape, recesses for paints and a hole for a thumb. It was way too small for my needs so using it was a constant struggle and I was told by my…
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ESO Jester Festival
I’m a little bit late with the post since the Jester Festival has already ended, but it was my first Elder Scrolls Online event, so I’d still like to write about it. To join the event you have to “purchase” a free item in Crown Store. As the new event started and it’s the same drill I’m guessing it the usual way of joining the events and I have to say it’s definitely not intuitive. If the event is free I should be able to start it without visiting the store – it’s honestly the last place I’d look for the quest starter and I would still be wondering how to join the event if I didn’t have helpful guildies. When the quest starting item is obtained and used – it gives a quest that sends you to a Jester Queen in Vulkher Guard who then after a short conversation…
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ESO – First(ish) impressions
Wait, is it Easter already? Happy Easter everyone! I hope this holiday’s time is passing in a nice atmosphere for you all, no matter what you believe in. I got an early Easter gift in a form of my first patron on Patreon and it made me really happy. To celebrate it I didn’t only draw my ESO Dunmer girl chibi being happy but also made 2 drawing process recordings! But this posn’t wasn’t meant to be about it, so I’ll share those some other time. Easter is of course a religious holiday but no one (at least in Poland) can deny the fact that we also get some free time because of it. And thanks to this free time I’m finally able to write about my first(ish) Elder Scrolls Online impressions. First of all, let me tell you this, it may be about another game but it’s still relevant: when I…
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Bless Dev Talk #02
I wanted so much to write this post sooner but unfortunately I was busy with painting (deadlines are one of the worst things ever). I really couldn’t wait to finally express my thoughts on the last Bless dev talk in which the developer explains what was the most important factor while designing and accepting the final concepts for mobs and zones – the Bless world in general. I always say how immersive game world is very imortant for me (so loading screens between zones is a BIG no, sorry GW2 and B&S). That’s why I was reading the new Bless Dev Talk with my mouth opening wider and wider because the things that are discussed there are exactly what I look for in games’ worlds. Not just a design that looks awesome, which is always welcome, of course, but, what is more important, “does it make any sense”. As a geologist…
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Bless, ESO and BDO news
The passing week was full of big and exciting news in many games! In the post I’ll focus on 3 MMOs – Bless, Elder Scrolls Online and Black Desert Online. Bless Online – The publisher announced the Global Steam Early Access will become a thing in May. Also in May they’ll give us a possibility to buy founder packs and all the goodies. The prices are not stated yet though (but supposedly they will be announced soon as well). The Bless Online website also have been updated and sections like News, Media (you can find videos, wallpapers and fansite kits there) have been added. They’ve added an official Wiki with tons of articles about Bless lore, history, races and all the interesting informations. Also the Emissary program has started – if you want to affiliate with Bless and help them building community of positive people (either in Social Media or…
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ESO it is
And so it happened that after years of playing Rift (why i decided to play something else is a topic for another post here) i reached a point i needed a new MMO to play. The thing is, I’m picky. There are things that I’m looking for in games, and there are things that put me off. For example – Asian MMOs may be fun, but for me they’ve always been too flashy and too… console-like. Not to mention the squeaky anime-like voices of female characters. As I said, it might be fun, it’s just not what I prefer. I want to get consumed by the game for the time of playing, forget where I really am. Squeaky voices don’t help in it, neither do rainbow vivid colours on everything and visible attack lines while fighting. That’s why now when I was looking for something fun to play I considered…
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Kurecolor markers colour chart
I do hope this blog will not be a one-post blog but I barely got any time to do anything besides work, sleep and painting.But! I’m really glad because finally I managed to make a Kurecolor colour chart. I’m gradually trying to make colour charts of all markers I have and some of them are really easy to find (like tons of Copic colour charts) or this Pro-/Brush Marker colour chart (it’s awesome!). Unlike Kuretake Clean Color, a blank Kuretake Kurecolor chart is (almost?) nonexistent on the Internet so I wanted to make my own one for a while now and today finally I made it 🙂 It’s just edited colour chart from Kuretake website but still – it’s something. The image below is only a preview of the chart. To download the full version right click THIS LINK and choose “save target element as…”. It’s a png fine with…
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Markers testing
*coughs* First things first and since this is my first post here I feel obligated to say “hi”. So – Hi 😉 But seriously – I felt this strong need to get a place where I’d be able to write and post freely whatever I want, since on my website i only want to post finished art and places like Facebook Page, tumblr or Instagram are not good for long posts. So here I am and for a good start I have some art markers tests/short review. They are not big tests of huge amount of markers but still it’s something I did and someone may need it. Like I could in the future when I forget everything but shhhh.
