BallShapedMan

Point of view after being gutted by Shard.

Powers & Abilities: Neural Overclock: Kiera can process information at inhuman speeds, anticipate movements in combat, and react in fractions of a second.

Cognitive Hacking: With eye contact or through direct interfaces, she can disrupt other cybernetic systems—locking doors, disabling implants, or rewriting security protocols.

Data Phantom: By physically touching a digital device, she can "ghost" into its systems, moving through cyberspace in a spectral form.

Shard Constructs: The AI fragment can manifest temporary hard-light structures (shields, blades, pathways) for offense or defense.

Overdrive State: For brief moments, Kiera can fully sync with the Shard AI, becoming a glowing, crystalline avatar of pure data energy—but extended use risks frying her neural implants or corrupting her humanity.

When you lose a game of the floor is lava, with yourself.

These are the images I think I had the biggest breakthroughs of the year. I'd love to see what you have to share!

These are based on my own challenges with my art and the many limitations I feel I have.

1. First drawing in my challenge to draw at least 5 days a week for the year, a good baseline of my skills as they were for about a decade with little progress.

2. Just drawing without a plan, or an idea. Just putting digital ink to paper and see where it goes. This is the first thing I've drawn in a decade I felt really proud of.

3. I've always loved super detailed texture in art but was never able to do it. I decided to give it a go, I used references for the first time since high school. I used an old penny for the colors and photos of metal for the patterns and went at it.

4. I really felt confident that I could actually use a photo as a reference for the first time in my life. It's a photo my wife and I took on a trip to Yellowstone. I'm still impressed with how it turned out, I had no idea I could do this.

5. Used a photo my Mom took as the reference, and challenged myself to only use brushes I've never used before. Up to this point I only used the basic brushes and I was positive this would be trash. To my shock it looks like the photograph (with a robotic inclusion).

6. My last breakthrough, using the brushes that intimidated me the most. The oil brushes seem so cool and freak me the hell out. But it turned out pretty good. Also used a reference as I can't draw people realistically without them.

This is an exercise using only oil paint brushes and a single layer, instead of relying heavily on layers of different transparencies, more standard brushes, and blending modes, to get the desired effect.

I found it rather intimidating to do, and rewarding. I relied heavily on references for this, I can't draw lifelike figures without them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23724729

My dad says he's never replaced the battery in it. We saw this in a home video and laughed when we found the still uses it 40 years later.

For testing:

My dad says he's never replaced the battery in it. We saw this in a home video and laughed when we found the still uses it 40 years later.

For testing:

...after talking to insurance companies all damn day!

The lantern’s glow is barely reaching me, but its light presses against the silence so thick I can feel it crawling into my ears, smothering every breath and every heartbeat. As the hooded figure turns, I realize the lantern isn’t casting light—it’s swallowing sound, and it’s hungry.

I didn't say banana?

My third attempt at a Yokai. So many cool ones to pick from.

Source: https://yokai.com/jorougumo/

The more you know.