Croweykid's Wunderkammer

Can you illustrate my book?

"Croweykid, I have some ideas. I'm trying not to use AI, cos I want to be a conscientious pro-human sort and also when I make AI art it usually looks crummy and generic anyway."

Yeah, I totally can, if what you want is something cartoonish or sketchy. What you see in the projects listed is what I enjoy doing and what I'm mostly pretty good at. Obv, if I mess up a piece I did, I'll redo it. And I think the project/media rankings are useful because you can tell what I currently consider failure/heinous error vs success/something I'm actually am proud of.
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Back in the day, I contributed to the illustrations for a math text book. Once again, I can barely believe they accepted this, but I am so happy they did. Because I was thinking, this is what I'd want to see if I was reading a math text book. It would be such a little pick me up. Just the slightest acknowledgement of our shared humanity.

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Back in the day, I contributed to the illustrations for a math text book. God you can almost taste the bread. Honestly, I cry a little tear of joy when I look at this, because it's totally vector and scalable.

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Back in the day, I contributed to the illustrations for a math text book. Listen. I made an Adobe Illustrator vector bean brush, a tomato brush, a rice brush, and a lettuce brush for this project. Just in case you ever need those. You know who to call.

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Back in the day, I contributed to the illustrations for a math text book. This berry juice went too hard for acceptance as the final product, because we were working from a style sheet so all the artists' illustrations would match up, but my heart still belongs to this maximalist juice box design.

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Okay, so not THAT worried. Oh god, let's bring back some of that apex predator alpha male protein-swigging essence, cos you can't do a homie dirty giving him a torture hobbit tragi-face. You know what's funny, I drew him sharp cos that's his psyche, but not actually his features - his features are quite round & smooth.

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WOW. Then I REALLY overcorrected and went full Joffrey. This is a DISASTER. WTF AM I GOING TO DO?! I could undo, but let's tai chi this Bob Ross style! No going back! Only forward! The only way out is through! The darkest light is before the dawn! I can salvage this drawing!

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LOOK. It's nothing a horizontal flip can't solve, ok?? whew. thank god he looks a little rugged again. Hey, this is shaping up to resemble him, actually... But now I'm wondering what I was thinking with this color scheme & background. I totally just leapt headlong into the whole thing without planning. Is this even a good image or composition? I'm just lying here gazing at homie having a lil drink on the porch & didn't for one moment stop to think about framing or anything. As usual, classic Monk style, zoomed in on a handful of planes & features and built outward from that without much consideration of the macrocosm of image composition.

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This was a hard fought battle for arguably not much. I really went through some dark nights of the soul trying to make this image into something. Why did it still come out so mediocre? Seems like it's taken a really long time but I'm still not convinced it's done. But then again, sometimes you just need to leave things alone for a bit. Maybe someday, I'll see a direction to better this. Honestly, I think my greatest frustration is that it's 2D CG and there was no ability to properly texture or layer in a corporeal way. I wanted to have some grit on this page, and it's just a shiny flat screen. Procreate's a great tool, but I want my hands dirty if I'm trying to make someone feel. ...hang on, that came out wrong.

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Eye & Brain Stat Icons

Eye & Brain Stat Icons

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For how smart you are vs how free masonic? Idk. They were game icons I was working on for Eudaemonia. I'm joking about the "free masonic" stat. I think that was supposed to represent "observation".

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Z3 Style Study -Manga style

Z3 Style Study -Manga style

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I'm calling this "Manga" style because I can't remember who I was looking at when finding aspirational manga references, and I know this doesn't resemble any of the usual suspects I'd be enticed by - Maki Murakami, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Alichino, David Mack, Frank Miller, Tatsuyuki Tanaka, Jinjo Ito...?

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This was actually for a client. I guess I shouldn't sound so incredulous. They really liked it. I am using too many adverbs. Of course they did. I am legitimate. I am beginning to think what separates great artists from nobodies is how straight of a face you can keep. Look, I mean that. I don't think this is bad. I actually love it. It's very dear to my heart. I'm just never not surprised when someone else agrees. And I see a lot of art out there that's so bad, and people bought it, and people keep using it, and clearly they think that's okay, and I see 'real artists' selling stuff that's absolute nonsense, and other things that are just boring, and they seem to be making a living this way without necessarily being someone's niece or nephew, but. It's always funny to me when I make everyone into monkeys and the people involved don't mind. Takes a rare kind of good humor. I don't mean to roast the clients, but my conscious mind isn't ever doing this; it's my deranged id that takes over and makes art, so god knows what's going to come of it. It's a really unsafe process!!! :O Trying to turn weaponized auto-cartoons into someone's commercial asset is not a sure bet.

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Owlicious Forest of Secrets

Owlicious Forest of Secrets

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Some of the titles I gave things in my 20s were autismo af. Real home school culture laid bear for all the internet to see. In some cases, those are still unapologetically the names. For some of us, rizz is a lifelong cultivation. But these names remain canonical for a pre-glow-up socially abysmal inner child.

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