Chinua White

@blkmkt

2D Generalist/Pixel Artist + Black Gamedev. He/Him. Mask Wearer (Flo Mask Pro) 🚫 NO AI. [ Common tags: #oc #pixel | NSFW: @escapeclaus.art ] Contact: business@blkmkt.net He is everywhere, doing everything.

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Chinua White@blkmkt· Apr 26

That PS9 is coming any day now!

Still from a promotional Playstation controller depicting a futuristic gamer holding the PlayStation 9, a palm sized glass orb with a "PS9" label.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Apr 23

I keep a list of visual art fundamentals on whiteboards nearby and when I'm studying, I focus on one at a time. I study by copying the drawings in a reference book from observation, then trying to draw them again from memory on another page. I draw with what I learned, & note what I can't remember.

A table labeled "Art Fundamentals", separating fundamental skills in visual art into two rows: Drawing Skills and Painting Skills. The drawing skills listed are: Proportion & Placement, Form & Construction, Perspective, Anatomy, Gesture, and Composition. The painting skills listed are: Value and Color Theory.

A scan of an open pocket sketchbook filled with anatomical sketches of the hamstrings isolated from the rest of the leg muscles. Notes label the individual hamstrings as flexors of the thigh, comprising the Semitendonus, Semimembranous and Biceps Femoris. Further writing summarizes the hamstrings as a group of muscles on the back of the upper leg and thigh. They are UNDER the GLUTES. On the left page, the artist attempts to recount the muscle groups of the upper leg from memory, and writes a reminder to himself to try the same drawings again with reference. The final note lists which issues the artist is having specifically when drawing from imagination as far as anatomy is concerned. The artist couldn't remember the hip structure, needed to memorize basic muscle groups listed on the page and needed to practice controlling proportions when drawing as well.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Apr 20

Which mask are you using for your CPAP? I use a full face mask at the moment, specifically the AirFit F30i. I used to use the Nasal N30i mask but I try switching mask types whenever sleeping doesn't go well for me.

Product photo of a Resmed AirSense 10 CPAP machine and its user, an elderly person wearing a Resmed AirFit F30i mask attached with a heated hose at the top of his head. The mask assembly consists of a silicone mask and tubing attached from a port at the top of the head and covering the entire mouth and bottom of the nose, secured to the user with a magnet mounted fabric headgear on the back of the head. This demo photo depicts a couple preparing for bed, with the CPAP user seated upright and reading, with his bed partner already asleep.

Product photo of the AirFit N30i Cpap Mask system, worn by a user sleeping on her side with a sleeping partner, meant to demonstrate the quietness of its operation. The user is wearing a nasal cpap mask that fits over her nose, with silicone tubing extending to a port at the top of her head, which leads to a CPAP machine that is not shown in the photo.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Dec 17

Switching to NSFW streaming for now. Here are some screenshots of what I managed to get going during the SFW portion of the stream. Still streaming for a while. See you there! www.picarto.tv/blkmkt

Exploratory sketches of an original character, Gainsboro Gray. He is a living scarecrow with an elderly, tall and gangly appearance. His mouth is sewn shut, and he has a crude metal replacement in place of his nose. His left arm is always trapped in a metal cylinder of some kind. His design is still in progress, with this page of sketches showing him stirring a caldron, holding a potion, and leaning against a wall.

Futher exploratory sketches of an OC, Gainsboro Gray. He is an evil, elderly living scarecrow with hunched over and off-kilter posture. These sketches show ways he might stand, hunched over at the back and weighed down by a huge metal cylinder that traps his left hand and forearm. Written notes accompany the sketches, with the artist making note of how successful each sketch attempt was.

A screenshot of a page of character sketches. These are the artist's original characters, in varying stages of sketchiness. The sketches are sectioned in grey boundaries, with logos in the lower quadrant of four of them. The named characters with logos are "Claus leSable, Apparition, Rabid and Pok". The sketch page has empty spots for the remaining 5 characters, whose logos are still being designed. The sketch page is arranged the same way a good-neutral-evil character chart is arranged.

A screenshot of a digital sketch page. The page shows a feminine, muscular figure in a grim reaper style cloak, face obscured, speaking to an imp that is cowering on the ground. Text reads: "The body is DEAD. We claim what's ours." The imp, Pok (Neutral) is crawling to safety with a scowl, inching away from a classic orb bomb that has been sliced in half. The figure making demands is holding a very large scythe in the exposed hand.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Sep 10

Promotional image for Lipton Ice Tea, featuring Kermit the Frog enjoying a tea and minding his business.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Apr 17

My workhorse Cintiq has been shattered. I'm going to be taking commissions to allay the costs to repair it if possible - Likely traditional, though I can still do digital character illustrations for the moment. Details to come on my NSFW account first, then here when I figure out what to do.

Photo of a Wacom Cintiq 24HD Touch with a shattered screen

Chinua White@blkmkt· Dec 1

From the Archives: #oc #gamedev #pixel #furry Longtime followers will recognize Rabid, Heyew & BLK MLK. I made these sprites for an RPG I was working on with @storyofsomewheres.com & a small cohort of friends from 2003 until its cancellation in 2009. This project is how I learned to make pixel art!

A grid of 9 pixel animations of Rabid, a feminine anthropomorphic bunny. 8 of the animations are run cycles showcasing what she looks like running in cardinal and ordinal directions, and the center animation shows her standing posture in each of those directions.

A grid of 9 pixel animations of Heyew, a balloon shaped fellow with free floating feet and a prominent, bulbed antenna. 8 of the animations are run cycles showcasing what he looks like running in cardinal and ordinal directions, and the center animation shows him standing in each of those directions.

A pixel animation of BLK MLK, a businessman with exaggerated shoulder pads, wild red hair, huge nose and bright glasses. The animation showcases how he looks from cardinal and ordinal facing directions; he is holding a suitcase in one hand that stays consistent in all 8 facing directions.

An animation of a monster "Everybody's Football" with the appearance of a regulation football merged with an American football. The mass of sport balls has a pained face with misaligned teeth and wings colored to match each kind of football they are attached to. It has mandibles at its bottom side, one of which has been torn off, leaving a mass of flesh that flops with each flap of its wings.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Nov 23

You're welcome to join my Oekaki, or better yet, use the one at the Relaunch URL to test out what the software is like. The way you choose in the Relaunch version is to select your drawing Tool, set the height and width of your new canvas and check the Save Playback button if you want a timelapse.

Screenshot snippet of the tool chooser used in the POTI-board Oekaki board software. The Width and Height are left at their 300px defaults, but the drawing tool is set to Tegaki, with the Save Playback option ticked. If the user presses Paint, a Tegaki web applet will open at the specified resolution to draw on.

Screenshot of the Tegaki web applet. It showcases the small selection of drawing and color picking layering and zooming tools the applet provides. There is a thin bar of options at the top including an Export button for safety saving artwork to your local machine, a Finish button for uploading to the oekaki board Tegaki is running on, Pressure Sensitivity toggles and a toggle for preserving transparency when drawing.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Nov 22

Back Catalog: Assorted Notable works from my past. I'll continue to update this with other illustrations that folks might recognize me for. [ #art | #oekaki | #vector ]

An oekaki illustration depicting the player's party from Kingdom Hearts on guard against an army of approaching Heartless. The illustration replaces Sora with Barrett Wallace of Final Fantasy 7's party dressed in an ill fitting parody of Sora's costume. Barrett's signature machine gun arm is replaced with a forearm sized Keyblade, and he is ready for battle.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Nov 12

Looks like #pinksea is still a little rough around the edges, but I am absolutely loving what I'm seeing so far. I only lost one comment drawing so far - I was unable to submit it and had to give up and save it locally! Looking forward to Oekakis being well loved again. [ #blkmkt.oc | #oekaki ]

Oekaki bust of the artist's mascot seen from behind, waving to an artist on Pinksea. Text reads "Hello hello!"

An oekaki sketch of the artist's mascot dressed as a cowboy with a wheat stem in his mouth. He is tipping his hat and saying "howdy" in a cowboy font.

Oekaki sketch of three original characters looking at something from behind a wall. In front, the artist's SFW mascot. In the middle distance, towering over the other two, the artist's NSFW mascot. Behind him, the smallest character readies an unlit classic spherical bomb.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Oct 28

I use my sketchbooks to think, so the pages are often too chaotic and messy to show. Here are a random selection of OC artworks I was trying to figure out recently. I use my pocket sketchbooks more often, so I'll post some of that stuff in the future. [ #art | #oc | #blkmkt.oc ]

A digital sketch page featuring four rough sketches of a short, feminine winged imp wearing a hoop skirt and oversized cap with a spike coming out of its top. The sketches are rough and focus on gestures and expressions.

A page of rough digital sketches of a masculine variant of the same imp from the previous image. He is tall and thin with an emphasized rib cage, large, gloved hands and a tail that ends in an American style power plug. He is wearing a horned helmet that forms most of a torus pointed above his head, like a croissant. There is an inset copy of a previous sketch of the same character at the bottom of the frame.

A page of digital sketches; three variants of the same imp character with different designs for a neutral, masculine and feminine gender presentation from left to right. On the furthest right the male variant is sketched again, chewing on a stick of wheat and assuming a wide stance like he is in a quick draw duel. His horned helmet and large ears give him a steer like appearance and he is drawn pretending to be a cowboy.

An in-progress layout sketch featuring three original characters walking to the left. This drawing was intended to be a character lineup showcasing 9 original characters, one for each spot in a character-alignment chart. This sketch is in an early state, showing three of the taller characters that will be in the drawing. In the front, a nude statue figure with an Moai-like head. In the center, an anthropomorphic rabbit woman with a puffy dewlap and single large curl on her head. In the back, an anthropomorphic toad man wearing a jeweled crown and carrying a scepter, dressed in a Christmas elf style puffy pant, curled shoes with bells on them and tights.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Sep 9

Good day! I'm Chinua. I was blkmkt on Cohost (for SFW art) and I'll post again for my NSFW account, @escapeclaus.art. I'm rebuilding my presence online; I make pixel art, illustrations, and eventually I'll get back to streaming art and gamedev stuff. You folks should also check out @penbee.art!

MS Paint Oekaki parody illustration featuring the Kingdom Hearts party of Donald Duck, Goofy and Barret Wallace dressed as Sora. They are surrounded by Heartless in silhouette and are looking offscreen, stage right.

A selection of monster illustrations from a game project the artist was involved in, to showcase the artist's typical illustration style.
Monsters include a twisted, elongated phantom, a crab with a diver's helmet for a shell, a caterpillar dressed as an oil baron, a creature with a prominent, exposed skull with its lower body obscured by fluid, stretching its arms from below, a vampire like figure made of laundry items, a zombie trash collector, a ghost in the shape of a little girl carrying a striped axe, a zombie bird and a one eyed monster with giant teeth and giant work boots.

MS Paint Vista Default Palette Oekaki illustration featuring Terry from the DS game Contact in his thief outfit. He is sidling against an old stone wall, brandishing a knife and trying to avoid being seen by a plain brown cow. That one's dangerous!

Character sheet of the artist's SFW Mascot, Apparition. This page includes two other OCs, the artist's NSFW mascot Claus leSable and Apparition's 'roommate' Pok. Claus is a nude living statue and Pok is a blue imp with a mushroom cap hat. Text reads: "Apparition: Frequently mistaken for a genie" "Coworkers: [Apparition] Wears gear to stay Safe for Work. Claus leSable - recently discovered deity of Lust is never safe at or for work" "Roommates: Former inhabitants of the same body. Pok, the voice of sabotage. Lived in 'Host' and told him to burn things"

Chinua White@blkmkt· Oct 22

When they were available, I'd use something like the Abilitations AbiliGrip and cut a small slice in the center hole where it would touch the stylus side switch. Any foam hand grip works, but these came in a nice shape for this purpose!

Product photo of the Abilitations AbiliGrip, a cylindrical grip for pencils and other thin objects.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Aug 7

Hello! I'm Chinua, an artist and gamedev. My illustrations are character focused, with lots of monster designs and a high-contrast coloring style. I also do pixel art, typography/logo design and generally focus on game assets.

A character turnaround including a front view, side view, prop and two head shots. Commissioned during a stream.

A pixel sprite of an anthropomorphic Corgi mad scientist character, commissioned during a stream.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Aug 6

From the Archives: #oc #furry Rabid's young adulthood got awkward when she developed a deep crush on the Grim Spector of Death. Her behavior during that time earned her a restraining order, & with it, Deathlessness. Her adventures with Heyew has made her a new woman; still a really weird one though!

Rabid and Heyew take a quick sandwich break. Heyew's transforming tentacle comes in handy for menial tasks of all kinds!

Various doodles of Rabid. She carries a lead pipe as her weapon of choice, and is not above a bunny suit for special occasions. Cute, but redundant.

Apparition and Rabid seem to be in this embarrassing situation every easter. Perhaps both of them should leave the bunny suit home next year!

Assorted sketches of Rabid. She loves, she cries, she bulks up if you get her mad enough...

Chinua White@blkmkt· Aug 6

From the Archives: #oc #gamedev Artwork of one of my OC's, "Rabid the Radioactive Birthday Bunny" & her occasional adventuring buddy, Heyew. I have been working on little descriptive illustrations of my 9 main OCs. I'll try to get them in sooner or later! Heyew is @storyofsomewheres.com's OC!

Heyew & Rabid share a bit of a strange friendship...
This four panel sequence has a reluctant Heyew sit with Rabid to receive her wisdom on romance.

Rabid is full of advice of dubious quality. She makes a twisting motion to explain to her buddy how much "any lady loves the skeletal grip of the reaper." Do not take any advice from Rabid.

Heyew is never sure how much there is to learn from Rabid. More than you'd think; less than you'd hope.

Things to know about Rabid:
- Incredible Strength
- Penchant for Violence
- Loves Combat Sports & Poetry
- Glows in the dark
- Socially Maladjusted
- Do not bully, she *will* cry

Chinua White@blkmkt· Jul 3

From the Archives: "I slide every picture of Rouge the Bat I encounter to my girlfriend like she's J. Jonah Jameson. Peter Parker getting his job to subscribe to his OnlyFans is pretty smart."

Editor Quill T. Bee demands pictures of Rouge.

"Photos of Rouge? Easy Money! Haha, SCORE!"

Chinua White@blkmkt· Jul 2

I stream, hopefully more regularly in the future, my illustration, animation & other works on Picarto. https://picarto.tv/blkmkt I begin my streams with a drawing drill, usually 100 hands, 100 feet (inked traditionally) & 100 figures (drawn digitally), then go from there. I'd love to see you there!

A clear, dark evening reveals a headstone in some obscure part of the woods. The epitaph reads: "THE DEAD DO NOT TROUBLE THE LIVING"...

Suddenly! A hand shoots from the ground, grasping for life, or something resembling it!

A face glowers in the dark, freshly disturbed from a long sleep. The moon glows bright, and his eyes glow with it...

I... think he might be stuck.
The Sketch Stream with BLK MKT returns soon!

Chinua White@blkmkt· Jul 2

Introducing: Apparition! He/Him True Neutral Alignment He wished to live on through his art but can't remember what he's good at. His lack of focus makes him mediocre at almost anything he attempts, but his persistence makes him mediocre at almost everything there is. He's my (SFW) art mascot!

Character sheet of the artist's SFW Mascot, Apparition. The sheet focuses on bust shots of different emotions. Text reads: "Apparition: Ain't his name, but gotta call him something"

Character sheet of the artist's SFW Mascot, Apparition. The sheet focuses on design details. Text reads (from left to right): "Apparition: He wished to live on through his work" "Introducing 'Host' - his final tether to the living world -- where his host goes, he follows!" "Flexes like muscle, Rests like Fat, Drapes like fabric" "Always wears split cuffs" "His living body was a black man" "Four point beard and thick eyebrows" "All else can change to taste"

Apparition - the man of a couple of faces.
A quick overview of Apparition's usual build and color scheme.
If you caught Apparition in a Pokéball, he'd be a ghost type.
If he was eaten by Kirby, he would yield a Ghost ability.
His character alignment is Neutral.

Chinua White@blkmkt· Jul 2

I'm Chinua, an artist and gamedev. I teach other artists how to use the tools they have, and previously taught school age students to use the 3DS to make art and music. Work has kept me busy, but I'll be active again. See you soon!