Mike Dragon

I didn't take my meds last night, I am feeling meh and low-energy and I shall draw a special and meaningful landscape using Krita. Might do more stuff too but mainly it should be this landscape on Krita. Will also talk about some things.

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

After much deliberation, I have finally decided to make use of the free time I THINK I have this afternoon to livestream the Chill Art Sunday. I was debating whether to to do a Chill ART Sunday or Chill GAME Sunday, but art won the fight. Today's CAS should go live on Twitch/Picarto shortly at its usual time.

Follow me to catch it!
https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

I haven't been able to stream for a long while (a whole month, almost) and won't be able to for another while, but today is an exception and I am going to check out how bad GIMP still is after they released another major (I think it was major) update to the program. I might work on more stuff too.

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

The job I am currently working has made it nearly impossible for me to livestream. At least until I can organize and figure out and manage it, but today is an exception. As such, since I have the time and have been craving streaming again, there will be a Chill Art Sunday in a while today! If the weather allows for it...

Follow me on Twitch/Picarto to catch it!
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt
https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

I've already missed one stream this week and will have to miss another this Sunday and likely next week as well. Hell, likely for the rest of January. I pray it won't be long, but until further notice, I am forced to suspend all of my livestreams.

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

The new year has started looking rather good, didn't it!? And I am here with the first Chill Art Sunday of 2026, so come with me and let's art and chill!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

They stole the game I bought, so I copied their sequel. And ironically, on the day I did so, they returned what they had stole from me and millions more. Join me now for some racing with a game I haven't played before! Also, f#@% Epic Games!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

Me: I'm just going to make a quick and short stream before 2025 ends to fix a little thing I made then head off.

Also me:

Most people surely are busy with their families today, as it is New Year's eve, but I'm trying to squeeze in one final livestream before the year ends anyway. So if you can and would like to, join me now for some chilling. I'm making some tweaks on a thing or two!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

The deed is done. They forced me to do this...

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/ 1 PM EST (probably. Maybe.)

With less than a handful of days left for the new year to arrive, I invite you for one last art stream on this year. 2025's last Chill Art Sunday begins now!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

It's been too long. I really should be done with this game by now, but for several different reasons I missed several livestreams. I apologize and ask you to join me on this really hot Saturday for part 6 of Albion!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

I made my Linux distro green. I like green. :3

I won't write a text inviting you to watch today's stream, this time. Instead I'll just show you this really short video: https://youtu.be/wCj1ZfApGYA

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

Last week we checked out how possible it is for me to make my art on Linux and I was left quite impressed by the results (although heavily disappointed that Krita cannot make use of my Photoshop brushes ;-; )! Today I am going one step further and making actual use of those programs I tried last Sunday. Come and check the results with me!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

Coming up on the next Chill Art Sunday: Pog, but derg! And an actual test drive of a couple new tools.

So pog me on Twitch to derg it!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

Curious. I just saw the hour on a digital clock through a mirror at random, and the mirrored display read: "MA 10:20" (02:10 AM). For some reason I immediately thought of Matthew 10:20, so I checked it: "...for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you." I like it.

Last Sunday I tried some Linux programs to see if I can make my art on Linux yet and I was very happy to find that yes! It's now possible! For Paint, I have KolourPaint and Pinta. For CorelDRAW!, I have Inkscape. And for Photoshop, I have Krita, and I loved it! except...

I got very saddened and disappointed to find out that Krita cannot make use of my Photoshop brushes. It does have some wonderful brushes, but my PS brushes collection is fantastic, I dare say. It's stuff I collected for close to two decades. I'm not ready to abandon them. I have some very specific brushes for some very specific kinds of effects, a glorious dragon scales brush set (made by the wonderful SeaSaltShrimp) that I just started learning how to use (to great effect!) and some other brush packs that can no longer be found for download anywhere.

The little of Krita that I got to try out on last Sunday's Chill Art Sunday left me very impressed, but without my brushes, let Photoshop go on a possible/likely migration from Windows to Linux is not really an option as of yet. And although I can run Photoshop on Linux through Wine, the program's performance is awful and there is 0 pen pressure support, which makes using Photoshop on Linux an impossible and unbearable task.

I wish Krita can offer full .abr support in the future (the near this future, the better). But until then, I need to stick with Photoshop on Windows. ;-;

P.S: No. GIMP is not an option. It is alwful. I tried it in depth many times over the years, even the latest version, both off and on-stream and I only managed to prove time and time again that it is a terrible piece of software and that it does not serve as a replacement for Photoshop. It can't even do some of the simplest tasks Photoshop can! Don't make me prove it yet again. Because I will if I have to! And I can! To hell with GIMP!

GIMP Chill Art Sunday 1:

Today's Chill Art Sunday is highly experimental and may contain crashes. Today we are venturing into lands beyond our Windows, where free and open source Penguins reign supreme!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/
https://www.picarto.tv/MikeDragonArt

Going into the wilderness on part 5 of our Albion playthrough, to the sound of the most annoying crickets species right outside my window.

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

On some good (although irrelevant) news... The next Chill Art Sunday might be hosted from Penguinland.

Follow me on Twitch to catch it!

https://www.twitch.tv/mike_dragon/

And just like that, out of the blue, I have just been fired from my job.

Here's another demo of one of my FREE game controller overlays for OBS Studio, which you can download from my KoFi shop, as well as other different controllers: https://ko-fi.com/mikedragon/shop

Video:

Me yesterday: I'll see you tomorrow on the Chill Art Sunday!

Me today when it was time to stream the Chill Art Sunday: