About Me

Hello, and welcome to my art blog. If you want to know more about me and my blog, this is the right spot!

Who am I?

I’m Radiant. I enjoy a slow pace with life, playing games, either video or board games variety, collecting, writing, drawing, or (trying) to play music.

Some of my dislikes are loud people (tell them to be quiet!), smokers (especially in a public area), dishonest people, and now Windows (lol). I use Arch, btw.

What are my favorite games?

For video games: Wonder Project J2, Fallout: New Vegas, Smash 64 (not Remix), Mario 3, and while not a game specifically, I enjoy rhythm games a lot, BMS, Pop'n. I also really enjoy watching Broodwar. I'm not much of a multiplayer gamer, but TF2 is fun. It's the most fun you can have online after all.

For tabletop games: Risk Legacy Season 3, Space Hulk, Munchkin Dungeon, and Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna. Root, RuneScape Kingdom, and more.

Some notable mentions: Final Fantasy 11 and Old School RuneScape, which are the only real MMOs I’ve gotten into unless you count virtual chat room games like Club Penguin as MMOs.

What are my favorite songs? Genres?

Truth be told, I’m not much of a music listener, but I enjoy jazz, all forms of it. I also enjoy metal, but not so much super heavy stuff. Salsa is also really catchy. Outside of that, it’s mostly video games and remixes/covers of those game songs. (I’m pretty lame lol).

I say all of this despite having nearly 8k songs, mainly in FLAC/WAVs. I guess it’s an addiction to collecting, but not listening. However, when I listen to music, I just press shuffle and let Winamp/Groove music do its thing.

As for some artists? I've been into Guru/Gang Starr a lot lately. Kohmi Hirose has also been someone I've been listening to. The Crusaders are kinda obscure but have interesting songs. Gypsy Kings, John Coltrane, Masayoshi Takanaka are also always a good time.

Why is this called Radiant Ink?

Radiant is a name I use often, and it's a drawing blog. Nothing too fancy.

What do you use to draw?

I use a small Wacom Intuos as my drawing tablet of choice. I don’t need a bigger surface space; I don’t feel like the lack of a screen has negatively impacted my art.

When I drew on the mouse, I used the Wick Editor, which is a great tool for animation but has some pretty decent tools for drawings, like layering, coloring, different widths, pressure-sensitive options, etc.

Now I use Krita. I’ve tried The Fire Llama but didn’t like the UI, which works. It has a lot of great brush options, and the coloring capabilities are great, too. It works out of the box for Linux and Wacom drivers.

Do you have any other social media?

Not really. I don't enjoy social media, I tend to just not use it. I technically have a blue sky that I don't use. But if you care, add me here.