I Was Watching Schindler's List (one Of My Favorite Movies ), When I Had To Stop The Movie To Take Care

I was watching Schindler's List (one of my favorite movies 💖), when I had to stop the movie to take care of some business. When I came back, I noticed that I had paused it at the moment where Oskar Schindler gives his gold watch to Itzhak Stern for him to use as a bribe in order to get an elderly couple (the Perlmans) added to the list. 📝✍

This isn't only a pivotal moment in the film (and in the true story that inspired it as well 🕯️), but it also involves my favorite character (Itzhak Stern, played masterfully by Sir Ben Kingsley 👏), and some exquisite cinematography (just look at that camera work and lighting! 🎥✨) that inspired me to try to paint it in my beloved Paint Tool SAI. 🖌️

The painting took about 50 hours and was done with 1 medium/large flat brush, 1 small round/bristle brush (both with chalk texture to make them look more realistic and less "digital" 😉), and 1 very large water/blur brush (which was only used for the background, as I didn't want to blur the character so that the painting would look more traditional and less "photographic" than some of my previous works 👀).

The hardest part to paint was Itzhak's forehead and, to my great surprise, the easiest was the glasses! Which surprised me since it's the first time I've painted a realistic portrait of someone wearing them, haha. 👓🤭

I'm so happy after (finally) deciding to stop posting my art on DeviantArt! 🤟💯 It's like 5 tons of weight has been lifted off my back, as I put up with the staff's hypocrisy/greediness and the constant dogpiling of AI shills since 2022, but the way they escalated this year (4 different incidents where Help Desk's pro-AI bias made them side with the harassers over and over again 🤡) ended up making me realize that dA is no longer the place I used to call "home", but one of the biggest havens of lazy, entitled, and manipulative AI art thieves out there. 💀

As I said in dA when I announced my departure (after 12 long years where I was awarded both Seniorship and Deviousness in recognition of the work I did for the community 🙃); unlike AI shills, ARTISTS don't depend on a site or a generator to make art, and our skills accompany us wherever we go without anyone ever being able to take them away from us. Art is FREEDOM, and it will always be. ✍️💖

A site as corrupted as dA doesn't deserve to receive a single drop of traffic thanks to our art (the one they're currently exploiting in their Stability AI/LAION-powered "DreamUp" generator 🚮), and the best way to punish the staff for their greed and cruelty towards human artists is to stop posting art there as millions of artists have done since 2022. 💪🎨 Can't wait to share more art with you guys in this new stage of my artistic journey!

(There's more info about the non-stop harassment I endured for being one of the few remaining vocal anti-AI Senior Members in my last 2 dA posts, which will be deleted after a few days).

Ohh, so I was looking at my storage and found these! I originally shared them on twitter before yeeting the platform. Anyway, feel free to use! Art memes for your oc :D

New PFP, Who Dis? 👀 It's been 3 years since I last changed my profile pic, so I decided to switch the Yomi one from this 2021 Terranigma artwork, for the Tani Sanjuro (Hakuouki OC) portrait I recently posted. 👍

Both of them have the same kind of sneaky, sarcastic, cocky, know-it-all, but ultimately a jerk with a heart of gold personality, haha. 🤭 These types of characters tend to be the most fun for me to write, so seeing them in my PFP causes me to feel quite inspired to work on my stories! ✍💖

Bringing more old Hakuouki art! ⚔️🌸 I drew this quick portrait of Heisuke wearing his kendo uniform in 2018 and I still think it's one of my best drawings of him, haha. 💖

Bringing more old Hakuouki art! ⚔️🌸 I drew this traditional portrait of Souji with a couple of pens in 2017 as a gift for my sister Shimoduck and I still love how it turned out! 💖