Expository Doodles

Fox-Deco This is the most estate-sale rummage thing I've ever produced. It's a screenshot of my Firefox "New Page" screen. It started with the Pixel art Google them by someone who is credited only as "Mitchel". Then I duckduckgo web searched for "licence-free Dark Deco Cityscape" so I'd get images that looked like something from "Batman: The Animated Series". I found a gold-and-black and shifted the color in Krita to match Mitchel's them color. I love the result! Look at all the flashy progams, apps, and websites I use so regularly I'be pinned them to my default browser's Start Page.. 🤭  

An Inaugural Blogpost of Todd Wesley Hellems  Good-bye Deviant Art After Deviant Art bots falsely flagged an image in my Gallery, the bots suspended my account. So, fuck Deviant Art! I'm going to share my art via Blogger. I'm going to have to look elsewhere for the artists I followed and admired but I look forward to the challenge of the search. This image is "Maravilha Gêmeos" or "Wonder Twins". A very white friend of mine called "Jason Kiss" (awesome name) made a joke about he and I being like twins of opposite alignments. I tend to take a lighter approach to my social commentary and humor whereas Jason is MUCH darker. In skin-tone, I'm rather a walnut shade of brown while Jason is Hungarian, nearly Nordic Ivory. Oh, the irony.  He and I also don't like clowns.  This image formed immediately in my mind. It represents our version of the super goofy "form of-shape of" incantation of DC's Wonder Twins and their fist bumping. Ja...