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Is there any Deviant following my journal living around Brussels?

Join me on Sunday 20 September 2015 at 13h30 in front the Museum of Natural Sciences ; I'll spend my afternoon inside sketching minerals, shells, dinosaur skeletons (the museum is famous for having the largest Dinosaur Gallery in Europe! it looks really good on their website ). We can form a little sketching group inside, and meet each other. We can share feedback, tips, and improve after a good afternoon. I'll personally work on my shape vocabulary to sketch better fantasy creatures and environments. Beginners, students, hobbyist or professionals are welcome!

More info, and official blog thread :
www.davidrevoy.com/article266/…

My open webcomic, www.peppercarrot.com got a new website, and it's now online !  

Check the three long making-of of episode 3, 4 and 5 under 'webcomic' ; the fan-arts gallery, and a fully illustrated 'Philosophy' page.
Pages are also now faster, and I can host the 1GB of 'Sources' directly.

I also cleaned my blog : www.davidrevoy.com/blog , tagging all 300 articles licenses so now you can search content by license, or software. (eg: www.davidrevoy.com/tag/cc-by )
Feel free to send any feedback about it if you meet a problem or see an easy improvement.

Challenge now: finish to draw long episode #6  'Potion challenge' , answer all emails and finish freelance artworks.

On my recent 'move cleaning' , I decided to release my full Chaos&Evolutions DVD to the public for free on Youtube. So, to not post every chapter separated, I remixed all the main lessons into a 1h30 epic-to-render HD video ( in Kdenlive ). I also did cut, merge, etc...  The tool used ( Gimp-painter 2.6 ) on the video is outdated , but the core course is still ok and the DVD wasn't about the tool anyway. Any digital painting software ( Krita, Mypaint, SAI, Photoshop , etc... )  should work for it. Those basic and simple lessons will feet beginners in research of more self discipline and a structured workflow about the act of painting using layers and digital tools as a global concept.  For more advanced user ; the content might be too simplistic and I'm ready to receive rants about it too. Maybe one day I'll do a Chaos&Evolutions² for advanced hard-core technics and skill , but only when my technic will be more more advanced, I still work on it   >

More infos, full dynamic menu on the video description ( under the video )  on the Youtube video page youtu.be/WOcvarqm4G0 . Feel free to share and comment.
Thanks to all who purchased by the past the real DVD & thanks for watching ( and obviously , thx Youtube for hosting this 1h30 HD file ).

[ picture : I'm moving soon, and while I'm cleaning, I found in the bottom of my bookshelves my old software licenses.  I took a quick photo on the ground to keep a souvenir. ]

"What lead you to use FLOSS ( free/libre open-source software ) on ? ... are you poor ? utopic ? or ignorant about Pro softwares? ..."

(^_^; )  ...
It's in fact a really frequented-asked-question I get, over and over.
I thought writing a blog post about it could explain it, at least make my life easier in the future when someone ask.
A sensible topic... And you, why are you using mostly open-source ?

Read the detailed blog post here

I'll offer as a volunteer a free workshop with many art tips at the Libre Graphic Meeting 2013 in Madrid.
Any Deviant watcher from Spain or around ? The workshop will be in english.

Experienced or beginner are welcome, with or without Krita on . Feel free to come to discover, share, practise.
More infos about the workshop content, place, etc... on my blog www.davidrevoy.com/article166/…