A Visit With Future Me

Peggy
August 8, 2024

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“Visit your perfect, wise, future self,” the guided mediation said. And I got this.

The next morning I decided to doodle the image in Illustrator. And then a little voice in my head suggested doodling it again in Moho, the animation program I’ve been playing with lately. I did. And then I set it up for animation, put a little breathing cycle on it, and started playing with various rendering effects. I spent about three hours here but once I get the hang of this thing it’ll probably be more like a half hour to do a little “living photo” cycle like this again, and that’s pretty cool.

Selvs

Peggy
January 2, 2017

Today I discovered that iOS Photos thinks I am six people.

Mostly it thinks I’m this lady.

But sometimes it thinks I’m this woman. And damn I like being her a lot more. She’s hot.

2017 goals: Make Photos think I’m that lady more than a mere 1/7 of the time.

BEHOLD MY HOTNESS

Peggy
December 29, 2015

um yeah looks like this I’M A SEXY VECTOR QUEEN thing is happening I guess

i feel so self-indulgent

still dunno if i’m gonna actually make this the front of the site

Self-Portrait As Metron

Peggy
August 25, 2014

I made a very informative post on a webcomics forum, which resulted in another regular joking that he was going to start referring to me as Cerebro. X-Men are alright, but I’d rather be one of the New Gods…

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Peggy
July 4, 2014

Self-portrait as dragon, on the occasion of turning forty-three tomorrow. About two hours of work.

The background is a bunch of ‘abstract techy-looking junk’ brushes, with varying amounts of blur applied. I like how it turned out; I may have to do more of that.

reference selfie

Peggy
January 29, 2014

Animgif compilation of reference shots for #witchsonaweek.

Tools: iPhone, GorillaPod for iPhone, and the no-longer-available-on-the-app-store SnappyCam. Clamp it to a lamp, dial its speed down, and go.

(Apple hired the dude who wrote SnappyCam, which is mostly about taking super high-res burst mode shots – he did some serious magic in his compression code to save a lot more data than normal. It just so happens that he also lets you dial the speed down as far as 1 photo/hr. 2/sec is GREAT for taking a rapid flurry of reference selfies.)

I highly recommend the combination of your phone, the phone Gorillapod, and an app that can do auto-selfies for when you need some quick ref. It won’t help much if your body is strikingly different from what you’re drawing, but it’s quick and easy. Especially when you can use the front-facing camera and actually see your shots as they happen.

Before I got Snappycam, I used either Genius or Camera+; one of those two offers both timed self-shots and repeating timer, but annoyingly won’t go any faster than 5s/shot, so it’s kinda tedious. Now that I have Snappycam, I didn’t bother with either of those two when I chose my new app loadout after losing my old phone.

(PS: The wand is clear plastic, with a bunch of glittery stars and beads suspended in some kind of liquid inside of it. It is also the wand I use when I do serious magjickq’n stuff. Hand-turned ash with crystals embedded in it? Bah. I’m a chaos witch, and using something like that would mean I was starting to take this stuff entirely too seriously.)