Painted on Debian KDE 12 stable, Krita, no reference because I had the image in mind. It's an OC, for a one-shot graphic novel I started writing in 2010, The Electron Donor, and I make progress here and there on the pre-production, especially when I want to paint cyberpunk genre (rare).
that also can be arranged. Local arcade owner lets me use a cab with a PC running Bazzite in it, i can put literally anything (that can run on an i5) on it.
@wowaname i have those, too many of them because i was prototyping a PC running emulated Carnevil. I played Quake on DS and on Wii and it works surprisingly well on both, but Wii isn't really fit for an arcade environment and quake port has quite a learning curve when it comes to controls.
@wowaname it works surprisingly well if sensitivity is tweaked well enough. Prototype is made of 3 3d-printed pieces and yet seen actual use, if everything goes well i might make proper one-piece (is real) metal sheet like real arcade control panel. Biggest issue is that "mountable" trackballs generally suck, even the proper arcade ones. Lowkey wish there was scaled-up steam controller trackpads available...
@wowaname 💜 Xonotic. I used to play for years on Nexuiz servers in a clan with competition and all. I stopped before it transformed fully into Xonotic (not because of that, just no more time to play like that). I wonder if some of my small graphic contribution are still part of it (it was under a nickname). I'll check 😺
Salut David. Tu as dit que tu vas arrêter avec pepper&carrot. Si tu vas developper une nouvelle série de bd. Je trouve que le thème de cyberpunk manque des histoires positives et moins dystopiques.
@momo sans doute parce que le genre « cyberpunk » est conceptuellement dystopique, sans quoi c'est de la science fiction tout court. C'est le sens de la partie « punk » du terme. Une histoire positive serait possible en gardant le coté « cyberpunk » à condition que l'univers, lui, reste dystopique. Reste à savoir si ce mélange serait perçu comme positif.
@momo@spacefox Coucou, oui j'ai un one shot écris qui date, 2010, https://www.davidrevoy.com/article41/electron-donor mais j'aimerai bien le mettre en image. Alors ici et là, je m'amuse à avancer dans les concept-art. Là, je voulais une donneuse d'électron plus âgé, et avec plus de vécu. Oui, ce serait une nouvelle assez réconfortante mais dans un univers assez dark. La formule que SpaceFox décrit bien. Un clin d’œil aussi à la petite vendeuse d’allumettes.
@momo Oui, Blade Runner, ça m'a scotché gamin quand j'ai vue ça sur la TV. Les décors, les designs, l'ambiance. (après, ça à mal vielli surtout le role très macho). "Tears in the Rain" m'évoque simplement la dernière scène, mais j'irai voir si c'est un spin off ou un dérivé. Non, j'ai pas lu Vernor Vinge -True Names, mais idem, j'irai voir.
@momo C'est à dire que c'est pas possible de faire du Cyberpunk sans dystopie. Sinon ce n'est pas du Cyberpunk
Les composantes essentielles qui font le Cyberpunk, et pas juste « science-fiction/futuriste », le mélange technologie avancée avec une grande misère pour l'écrasante majorité de la population et quelques privilégiés dans une société contrôlée par des entreprises toutes puissantes, ça donne forcément un résultat dystopique.
@BoydStephenSmithJr Thank you, it's one of my OC. I never played the game Cyberpunk. One thing I dislike about it (and all its derivatives) is how it appropriated the whole genre 'cyberpunk' as a franchise name. It really makes impossible now to search for retro 80s or 90s cyberpunk illustration before or anything from this genre before that game. One day, I'll have to play it, to know at least when I design something if I don't reinvent a design someone else made (and much more popular).
Well, Cyberpunk 2020 (the table-top RPG) was my first introduction to the term, so I don't mind as much.
(I never played it, but I played Shadowrun which had some community overlap.)
The Edgerunners Netflix series (and that music video) are worth a watch, even if they are strongly tied to the game from CD Project Red, and not just cyberpunk in general.
@BoydStephenSmithJr I entered the genre with BladeRunner the movie as a young kid (diffused on TV), then playing Syndicate (DOS/Win95), then yes: ShadowRun table top RPG. I loved the game, played maybe three times, no huge campaign unfortunately (we quickly moved to "In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas" a French RPG and it was too much fun to stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Nomine_Satanis/Magna_Veritas , very "Constantine" ). I also like to think FF7 Midgard area as in my cyberpunk inspirations 💙
Yeah, cyberpunk, to me, is very much an 80's and 90's thing with Willaim Gibson and Bruce Sterling writing on the subjects, among many others. As well as some movies and tv shows, Shadowrun, GITS, and so much more.
Of course, Gibson and others annouced the genre dead in the late 90's because real world tech exceeded what they wrote about in many ways. So Cyberpunk the game is almost retrofutureist nostalgic and yet dominates the genre.
@Johns_priv Thank you, I'll post later the timelapse to leave no doubt about it.
Yes, it's one of my OC and I have her in mind since more than a decade for a novel I wrote. I made many attempts in the past and sketches to depict her. My skill nowadays allows me to be a bit more closer to what I have in mind, but I still think something is a bit off, and not totally as I imagine her. I'll keep working on this character. One day she'll be ready for the graphic novel 😊
It reminds me of some character but I can't put my finger on it. I'm getting a bit of Kaneda (Akira anime movie) with the melancholy of a cyberpunk character and the yellow jacket I'm guessing a homage to Kill Bill.
@Johns_priv Thank you. Same, the more I flesh out this character, the more I feel she has something I already saw somewhere. I'll find it. Maybe from Masamune Shirow, Apple Seed, Ghost in the Shell, etc.
@Johns_priv "One day she'll be ready for the graphic novel" was what I was hoping to read from you in this thread! :heart_fire: Love that picture and would like to know more about that character.
Electron Donor! I love it. Always excited for more in that universe.
So glad that my instantly thinking of that older painting was justified, and not a case of Boss Baby syndrome. (Guy who has only seen one painting by David Revoy of a girl in a yellow jacket: "Getting a lot of 'Electron Donor' vibes from this.")
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davidrevoy
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📦 Source: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2025-05-05_A-Drink-Alone_by-David-Revoy.html
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Painted on Debian KDE 12 stable, Krita, no reference because I had the image in mind. It's an OC, for a one-shot graphic novel I started writing in 2010, The Electron Donor, and I make progress here and there on the pre-production, especially when I want to paint cyberpunk genre (rare).
313 ★hj@shigusegubu.club
tuxracer arcade cab huh, that can be arranged ★
davidrevoy
@hj We need a TUXArcade one with TuxRacer, TuxKart and Super Tux. :blobaww: 🕹️
2 ★hj@shigusegubu.club
that also can be arranged. Local arcade owner lets me use a cab with a PC running Bazzite in it, i can put literally anything (that can run on an i5) on it.
davidrevoy
@hj Oh nice! Playing TuxRacer with arcade control must be super fun.
★hj@shigusegubu.club
the real goal would be to put tuxcart on one of those though
image.webp 🖼️ 8f0bb0f63fb25800.webp ★
wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com
@hj i never tried tuxracer but super tux kart underwhelmed me because i was comparing it so much to mkwii
wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com
@hj as long as we have a xonotic cabinet in the other corner ★
hj@shigusegubu.club
@wowaname i have a prototype control panel for playing FPSes on a real (modern) arcade cab, it's heavily inspired by quake arcade cab. Dunno how playable it would be for xonotic but anything with simple control scheme like quake and doom should be good enough (except for weapon switch maybe)
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image.webp 🖼️ 448869f36da27528.webp 🖼️ c569ded5de9719ce.webp 🖼️ 7ffa218de9355491.webp ★
wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com
@hj hot. i was thinking along the lines of the wiimote gun casing lol ★
hj@shigusegubu.club
@wowaname i have those, too many of them because i was prototyping a PC running emulated Carnevil. I played Quake on DS and on Wii and it works surprisingly well on both, but Wii isn't really fit for an arcade environment and quake port has quite a learning curve when it comes to controls.
davidrevoy
@hj @wowaname Oh oh, aiming with a trackball? If I saw an arcade machine with that, I would certainly try it out of curiosity for sure.
2 ★hj@shigusegubu.club
@wowaname it works surprisingly well if sensitivity is tweaked well enough. Prototype is made of 3 3d-printed pieces and yet seen actual use, if everything goes well i might make proper one-piece (is real) metal sheet like real arcade control panel. Biggest issue is that "mountable" trackballs generally suck, even the proper arcade ones. Lowkey wish there was scaled-up steam controller trackpads available...
dat@social.g33ky.de
@hj @wowaname works okay-ish
played a couple rounds UT2K4 on mine
not good enough for decent scores, but way better than touchpad or gamepad ★
wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com
@hj i play it on desktop with a trackman marble so it definitely seems intuitive enough ★
davidrevoy
@wowaname 💜 Xonotic. I used to play for years on Nexuiz servers in a clan with competition and all. I stopped before it transformed fully into Xonotic (not because of that, just no more time to play like that). I wonder if some of my small graphic contribution are still part of it (it was under a nickname). I'll check 😺
@hj
3 ★wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com
@hj the one xonotic dev i follow on here is cool. didn't know you also contributed, nice :3 ★
wowaname@freesoftwareextremist.com
@hj she's gonna need a bigger drink than that
DrJLecter@queer.party
I appreciate her not looking lonely and left behind, but simply deep in thought 🥰
★AAMfP@fosstodon.org
★Very much like the Bride... Kill Bill. ❤️
skobkin@gts.skobk.in
★We need a crossover.
sindarina@ngmx.com
Awesome work, as always 😄😻🧡
★momo@floss.social
Salut David. Tu as dit que tu vas arrêter avec pepper&carrot. Si tu vas developper une nouvelle série de bd. Je trouve que le thème de cyberpunk manque des histoires positives et moins dystopiques.
Le dessin me plaît.
★spacefox@mastodon.spacefox.fr
@momo sans doute parce que le genre « cyberpunk » est conceptuellement dystopique, sans quoi c'est de la science fiction tout court. C'est le sens de la partie « punk » du terme.
★Une histoire positive serait possible en gardant le coté « cyberpunk » à condition que l'univers, lui, reste dystopique. Reste à savoir si ce mélange serait perçu comme positif.
momo@floss.social
@spacefox Merci pour tes pensées. Très bien formulés.
★davidrevoy
@momo @spacefox Coucou, oui j'ai un one shot écris qui date, 2010, https://www.davidrevoy.com/article41/electron-donor mais j'aimerai bien le mettre en image.
★Alors ici et là, je m'amuse à avancer dans les concept-art. Là, je voulais une donneuse d'électron plus âgé, et avec plus de vécu.
Oui, ce serait une nouvelle assez réconfortante mais dans un univers assez dark. La formule que SpaceFox décrit bien. Un clin d’œil aussi à la petite vendeuse d’allumettes.
momo@floss.social
@spacefox Çe dessin me rappelle de "Tears in rain" de Blade Runner.
Est-ce que tu as lu "Vernor Vinge -True Names"?
Me plaît aussi la formule de SpaceFox.
davidrevoy
@momo Oui, Blade Runner, ça m'a scotché gamin quand j'ai vue ça sur la TV. Les décors, les designs, l'ambiance. (après, ça à mal vielli surtout le role très macho).
"Tears in the Rain" m'évoque simplement la dernière scène, mais j'irai voir si c'est un spin off ou un dérivé. Non, j'ai pas lu Vernor Vinge -True Names, mais idem, j'irai voir.
@spacefox
momo@floss.social
@spacefox
Oui la role de Rick Deckard est très macho. 😢 Je déteste comment il traîte Rachael Tyrell.
★devnull@mamot.fr
@momo C'est à dire que c'est pas possible de faire du Cyberpunk sans dystopie. Sinon ce n'est pas du Cyberpunk
Les composantes essentielles qui font le Cyberpunk, et pas juste « science-fiction/futuriste », le mélange technologie avancée avec une grande misère pour l'écrasante majorité de la population et quelques privilégiés dans une société contrôlée par des entreprises toutes puissantes, ça donne forcément un résultat dystopique.
Le Cyberpunk est intrinsèquement politique.
lykrast@eldritch.cafe
:neocat_aww: :neocat_pleading:
★knuppelbeer@mastodon.social
beautiful 🤩
★Digitual@mastodon.ml
it cant be
davidrevoy
@Digitual it can't be what? 😅
Digitual@mastodon.ml
When a beatiful girl like this sits alone in a bar) in any case, she would have been company.
★davidrevoy
@Digitual 😅 ha! I understand now.
★x_cli@infosec.exchange
★"meditating" is a word for having one or two too many 😁
savewestpark@mastodon.social
maverick604@mastodon.social
This captures my emotions completely from 1997-2025. 👏
★savewestpark@mastodon.social
BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io
Is this the character from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnnbP7pCIvQ or an OC? The jacket also reminds be of David's (Mom's) jacket.
Either way, you brought joy to the world.
I think it's time for them to finish that shot, and get into sniping position to take the shot they were hired for. :)
davidrevoy
@BoydStephenSmithJr Thank you, it's one of my OC. I never played the game Cyberpunk. One thing I dislike about it (and all its derivatives) is how it appropriated the whole genre 'cyberpunk' as a franchise name. It really makes impossible now to search for retro 80s or 90s cyberpunk illustration before or anything from this genre before that game.
5 ★One day, I'll have to play it, to know at least when I design something if I don't reinvent a design someone else made (and much more popular).
BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io
Well, Cyberpunk 2020 (the table-top RPG) was my first introduction to the term, so I don't mind as much.
(I never played it, but I played Shadowrun which had some community overlap.)
The Edgerunners Netflix series (and that music video) are worth a watch, even if they are strongly tied to the game from CD Project Red, and not just cyberpunk in general.
davidrevoy
@BoydStephenSmithJr I entered the genre with BladeRunner the movie as a young kid (diffused on TV), then playing Syndicate (DOS/Win95), then yes: ShadowRun table top RPG. I loved the game, played maybe three times, no huge campaign unfortunately (we quickly moved to "In Nomine Satanis/Magna Veritas" a French RPG and it was too much fun to stop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Nomine_Satanis/Magna_Veritas , very "Constantine" ).
3 ★I also like to think FF7 Midgard area as in my cyberpunk inspirations 💙
InkySchwartz@mastodon.social
@BoydStephenSmithJr
Yeah, cyberpunk, to me, is very much an 80's and 90's thing with Willaim Gibson and Bruce Sterling writing on the subjects, among many others. As well as some movies and tv shows, Shadowrun, GITS, and so much more.
Of course, Gibson and others annouced the genre dead in the late 90's because real world tech exceeded what they wrote about in many ways. So Cyberpunk the game is almost retrofutureist nostalgic and yet dominates the genre.
Sigh.
Stomata@social.linux.pizza
well that was unexpected 😅
davidrevoy
@Stomata unexpected? As in making an illustration for once in cyberpunk genre? True, that's rare coming from my usual production.
Stomata@social.linux.pizza
well i wanted to say its kinda rare from you.
Johns_priv@mastodon.social
Simply stunning, and the fact that I know that coming from you isn't AI generated is just *chef's kiss*
★davidrevoy
@Johns_priv Thank you, I'll post later the timelapse to leave no doubt about it.
Yes, it's one of my OC and I have her in mind since more than a decade for a novel I wrote. I made many attempts in the past and sketches to depict her. My skill nowadays allows me to be a bit more closer to what I have in mind, but I still think something is a bit off, and not totally as I imagine her. I'll keep working on this character. One day she'll be ready for the graphic novel 😊
Johns_priv@mastodon.social
It reminds me of some character but I can't put my finger on it.
I'm getting a bit of Kaneda (Akira anime movie) with the melancholy of a cyberpunk character and the yellow jacket I'm guessing a homage to Kill Bill.
I love it :D
davidrevoy
@Johns_priv Thank you. Same, the more I flesh out this character, the more I feel she has something I already saw somewhere. I'll find it. Maybe from Masamune Shirow, Apple Seed, Ghost in the Shell, etc.
TauPan@mastodon.social
@Johns_priv "One day she'll be ready for the graphic novel" was what I was hoping to read from you in this thread! :heart_fire: Love that picture and would like to know more about that character.
★wiknin@mastodon.cloud
Love this ❤️
★nartagnan@mstdn.fr
★J'adore cette image.
Merci !
Visionaire@mastodon.social
Pepper in the modern era 😌
★amberage@eldritch.cafe
that looks amazing!!
★ij@nerdculture.de
"What a week..." - "It's Tuesday...."
★davidrevoy
@ij Perfect 👍
jak@defcon.social
your cyberpunk rocks! Looking forward for this graphic novel to be done :-)
★davidrevoy
@jak Thank you!
ivor@ivor.org
that is just amazing to see. I love all the little corrections and adjustments at the end
★401matthall@mastodon.xyz
REALLY enjoyed seeing the progression of this piece!
Love the result!
★yrdael@mastodon.art
Superbe !
★AinsleyLowbeer@mastodon.social
I bet that drink kicks ass.
★fell@ma.fellr.net
I really like this one. It's really impressive how you had the pose and facial expression locked in instantly.
★FrankHghTwr@meow.social
Pfffahahaaha At... the exact.. midpoint... I'M NOT ALONE!
🖼️ 768ffe2c5c082525.png ★FrankHghTwr@meow.social
Credit: https://bsky.app/profile/stepsoversnails.bsky.social/post/3le3lkylcok2s
davidrevoy
@FrankHghTwr All...the...time. Even if I know my proportions. It's a curse! 🤣
3 ★ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org
★Wow just wow.
bobjonkman@mastodon.sdf.org
Has that "Captain, it's Wednesday!" vibe.
★davidrevoy
@bobjonkman Hehe, true.
− What a year, huh.
5 ★− But, it's only May...
Linebyline@mastoart.social
Electron Donor! I love it. Always excited for more in that universe.
So glad that my instantly thinking of that older painting was justified, and not a case of Boss Baby syndrome. (Guy who has only seen one painting by David Revoy of a girl in a yellow jacket: "Getting a lot of 'Electron Donor' vibes from this.")
★marctapages
okeucébo 🤩
★airwhale@beige.party
Cheers!
(Lovely image, great work on that.)
★emilion@infosec.exchange
Awesome. How much time it took?
davidrevoy
@emilion Around 6h I think.
★stux@mstdn.social
oahh! :cheers:
★constancies@metalhead.club
this is gorgeous !!
★Arapalla@mastodon.social
Yeah, with nobody else
You know when I drink alone
I prefer to be by myself
timnolli@convo.casa
"A customer in the background is a cyborg petting a cat." - I love it 😊
★timnolli@convo.casa
she also reminds me a little bit of Ramona Flowers
★Trabendo@piaille.fr
new transition goal just dropped 😳
★TeflonTrout@beige.party
... Is that a Tuxcart machine in the background? Baller
davidrevoy
@TeflonTrout Yes, TuxKart or TuxRacer, or maybe an all in one Tux machine playing both, and Super Tux too. 🐧
★Dofain@mastodon.social
@breadly I don't mind drinking alone but don't put the umbrella in my drink and I'm chaos incarnated...
★adatm@pixelfed.social
J'adore ;) ★
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