Tag Archives: art

(not so) recent sketchbook drawings

Posted on August 16, 2022 by devon

Finally! A sketchbook I enjoy filling and which is shaping out really great so far.

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Exploring somnol.net’s Old Banners

Posted on July 15, 2022 by bulb

We like to redesign our sites from time to time, and earlier this year, the top-level domain got its turn. The previous design came in the spring of 2020 and featured a rotating crop of big, toony banners at the top of each page that would show up either year-round or seasonally.

While we gave up on that site design, we’re still very fond of the banners. Obviously, they’re no longer featured on the top-level site. That’s a lot of art and a lot of work going to waste! While we’d like to reuse them in another design, for now, this post will have to do.

Being a longtime reader of the Video Game Critic, I decided to take a page out of his book (or off his site, maybe?) and not just write up a bit on my thoughts on each banner, but get the people who made them to tell their stories about each one.

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beach redux

Posted on June 20, 2022 by devon

Rambling about two Pink Cats. Bonus inside.

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The First Proper Somnol Art Collab!

Posted on April 14, 2022 by mariteaux

I lined something dcb drew! Lining is fun. Continue reading →

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Angel Girls

Posted on April 12, 2022 by caby

Caby art and their sketches! Continue reading →

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Fun with Clip Studio

Posted on March 27, 2022 by devon

Digital finally makes sense to me and rambling about recent pieces.

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Back to Basics: 2021 in Review

Posted on December 25, 2021 by bulb

I couldn’t write a traditional year recap for this year because it just hasn’t been a traditional year for Somnolescent. I can’t lay out four seasons of what we all did together–too much has changed, my mind’s elsewhere, I’m ready to do something different and simpler, right now and next year.

Here’s what we’re doing instead: I’ve gone back through the old recaps, picked one thing per person I liked, and I’ll ramble about it some. Art highlights follow, as always, then I’ll talk about what exactly has changed and what the gameplan for Somnolescent in 2022 is. Less to write, less for you to read.

Oh, and Caby drew my favorite thing in the world for the occasion. Let’s review! Continue reading →

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A forgotten era

Posted on June 17, 2021 by devon

Rambling about forgotten illustrators from turn of the millennium. Continue reading →

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How Do the Somnolians Organize Their Desktops?

Posted on June 10, 2021 by bulb

We at Somnolescent love old desktops. Not the fresh, factory Windows installs all the retrocomputing channels show off, but lived-in little portraits of someone else’s workspace from long, long ago. Whether it be DeviantART submissions showing off someone’s new, custom wallpaper or classic speedpaints with desktops and MSN Messenger windows incidentally in the background, we love seeing them and we post them in our Discords all the time.

The gradual move back to our chunky old PCs got us thinking about our own desktops and how they stack up to the workspaces of old, and honestly, to each other’s. As such, have a compilation of screenshots and a whole bunch of rambles about how we get around our machines and how we keep things organized (or not). Click the images for full-sized, lossless screenshots if you wanna peek at all our icons. Continue reading →

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11/30 – The Bulb’s Last Stand (of 2020!)

Posted on November 30, 2020 by bulb

We’re getting real close to the end of 2020 here, lads, and suffice it to say, Somnolescent is going out with a bang. I mean, what don’t we have to show off? New sites, another story, things brewing for ages finally released, infrastructural improvements, blog posts! It’s a goddamn clearinghouse of material–that I will now recap for your pleasure. Continue reading →

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