Merk
@dendrobyte.bsky.social
Backend software engineer by day, artist in training by night. Jack of all trades.
Sharing: Art progress, Project Harbinger dev updates, MMA progress
YouTube: @markbacon78
Sharing: Art progress, Project Harbinger dev updates, MMA progress
YouTube: @markbacon78
‘n look at these snoozers
October 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
‘n look at these snoozers
W e l p — this morning’s progress on #100headschallenge
Noticing specific issues now, which is nice. Lesson I got from archery was just fixing one thing at a time while never losing the right mentality (in this case; each fix must be justified by proper head construction)
Noticing specific issues now, which is nice. Lesson I got from archery was just fixing one thing at a time while never losing the right mentality (in this case; each fix must be justified by proper head construction)
October 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
W e l p — this morning’s progress on #100headschallenge
Noticing specific issues now, which is nice. Lesson I got from archery was just fixing one thing at a time while never losing the right mentality (in this case; each fix must be justified by proper head construction)
Noticing specific issues now, which is nice. Lesson I got from archery was just fixing one thing at a time while never losing the right mentality (in this case; each fix must be justified by proper head construction)
Today’s #artprogress on #100headschallenge
My focus is getting better. Wanted to hit 50 tn but alas. About 7-8 mins per then i take a mental few mins to suffer lol
Finishing these by oct 11th to call it a wrap on SAC term 1. Will try from imagination at the end?
My focus is getting better. Wanted to hit 50 tn but alas. About 7-8 mins per then i take a mental few mins to suffer lol
Finishing these by oct 11th to call it a wrap on SAC term 1. Will try from imagination at the end?
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Today’s #artprogress on #100headschallenge
My focus is getting better. Wanted to hit 50 tn but alas. About 7-8 mins per then i take a mental few mins to suffer lol
Finishing these by oct 11th to call it a wrap on SAC term 1. Will try from imagination at the end?
My focus is getting better. Wanted to hit 50 tn but alas. About 7-8 mins per then i take a mental few mins to suffer lol
Finishing these by oct 11th to call it a wrap on SAC term 1. Will try from imagination at the end?
October 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Final result, finished this morning. Lots of critique for myself but these failures incentivize to pay attention more to refs and what I’d like to focus on
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Final result, finished this morning. Lots of critique for myself but these failures incentivize to pay attention more to refs and what I’d like to focus on
Some more posing problem solving. Hiding the face, working on the hand… Starting in on final today, will likely bleed over into tomorrow
September 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Some more posing problem solving. Hiding the face, working on the hand… Starting in on final today, will likely bleed over into tomorrow
problem solving on the design details
realizing the fabric will look different looking from top. despite from this angle being very difficult for me to do decently, i think im gonna try to stick with it.
realizing the fabric will look different looking from top. despite from this angle being very difficult for me to do decently, i think im gonna try to stick with it.
September 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
problem solving on the design details
realizing the fabric will look different looking from top. despite from this angle being very difficult for me to do decently, i think im gonna try to stick with it.
realizing the fabric will look different looking from top. despite from this angle being very difficult for me to do decently, i think im gonna try to stick with it.
Some more heads toward #100headschallenge
Need to do some more today. Might slightly jump focus.
Pushing past this part of the learning curve is the worst, second only to hitting a plateau
Need to do some more today. Might slightly jump focus.
Pushing past this part of the learning curve is the worst, second only to hitting a plateau
September 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Some more heads toward #100headschallenge
Need to do some more today. Might slightly jump focus.
Pushing past this part of the learning curve is the worst, second only to hitting a plateau
Need to do some more today. Might slightly jump focus.
Pushing past this part of the learning curve is the worst, second only to hitting a plateau
Three more.
Might try pen first going forward and seeing what’s off with pencil and construction after. Have inklings as to what’s off in the third one.
Might try pen first going forward and seeing what’s off with pencil and construction after. Have inklings as to what’s off in the third one.
September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Three more.
Might try pen first going forward and seeing what’s off with pencil and construction after. Have inklings as to what’s off in the third one.
Might try pen first going forward and seeing what’s off with pencil and construction after. Have inklings as to what’s off in the third one.
Started #100headschallenge 10 days ago, only on #7. Just had a difficult week but coming out of it.
Will continue on and work to persist.
Construction is a good warmup, making sure I’m seeing what’s underneath, but going right in w pen felt (pun intended) more enjoyable.
Refs via Proko
Will continue on and work to persist.
Construction is a good warmup, making sure I’m seeing what’s underneath, but going right in w pen felt (pun intended) more enjoyable.
Refs via Proko
September 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Started #100headschallenge 10 days ago, only on #7. Just had a difficult week but coming out of it.
Will continue on and work to persist.
Construction is a good warmup, making sure I’m seeing what’s underneath, but going right in w pen felt (pun intended) more enjoyable.
Refs via Proko
Will continue on and work to persist.
Construction is a good warmup, making sure I’m seeing what’s underneath, but going right in w pen felt (pun intended) more enjoyable.
Refs via Proko
asphodel part of an illustration I'm working on. won't be great, but it'll be a representation of where I'm at.
anyway, just some drawing from reference. while ill need to lean on a pencil when i scale up to the final illustration, pen is great. just nice to build confidence
Pentel Fude Brush Pen
anyway, just some drawing from reference. while ill need to lean on a pencil when i scale up to the final illustration, pen is great. just nice to build confidence
Pentel Fude Brush Pen
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
asphodel part of an illustration I'm working on. won't be great, but it'll be a representation of where I'm at.
anyway, just some drawing from reference. while ill need to lean on a pencil when i scale up to the final illustration, pen is great. just nice to build confidence
Pentel Fude Brush Pen
anyway, just some drawing from reference. while ill need to lean on a pencil when i scale up to the final illustration, pen is great. just nice to build confidence
Pentel Fude Brush Pen
Got a nice and crappy somewhat-ui set up for the main quest presentation
All information being fetched from backend and stored well. Doing Less CSS from scratch without a UI library and suffering for it.
This is why I'm not a designer
#webdev #dailyprogress
All information being fetched from backend and stored well. Doing Less CSS from scratch without a UI library and suffering for it.
This is why I'm not a designer
#webdev #dailyprogress
November 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Got a nice and crappy somewhat-ui set up for the main quest presentation
All information being fetched from backend and stored well. Doing Less CSS from scratch without a UI library and suffering for it.
This is why I'm not a designer
#webdev #dailyprogress
All information being fetched from backend and stored well. Doing Less CSS from scratch without a UI library and suffering for it.
This is why I'm not a designer
#webdev #dailyprogress
One might say... exponential, my dear watson
November 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM
One might say... exponential, my dear watson
Made a game prototype today. Knocked the art out of the way a few weeks ago.
Parked myself at a coffee shop today and locked in for a few hours.
You can peep it here! Would take all of 30 seconds to complete haha dendrobyte.itch.io/deaths-ballad
Just a proof of concept. 3 other demos to make.
Parked myself at a coffee shop today and locked in for a few hours.
You can peep it here! Would take all of 30 seconds to complete haha dendrobyte.itch.io/deaths-ballad
Just a proof of concept. 3 other demos to make.
October 28, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Made a game prototype today. Knocked the art out of the way a few weeks ago.
Parked myself at a coffee shop today and locked in for a few hours.
You can peep it here! Would take all of 30 seconds to complete haha dendrobyte.itch.io/deaths-ballad
Just a proof of concept. 3 other demos to make.
Parked myself at a coffee shop today and locked in for a few hours.
You can peep it here! Would take all of 30 seconds to complete haha dendrobyte.itch.io/deaths-ballad
Just a proof of concept. 3 other demos to make.
Wrote up a simple get/post for Infinite Game in Flask, Django, and FastAPI last two days (speedrunning frameworks for interviews)
Flask and Fast were pretty similar in terms of getting up there, but I prefer how Flask injects and uses function params.
Django feels so over the top, akin to how I 1/
Flask and Fast were pretty similar in terms of getting up there, but I prefer how Flask injects and uses function params.
Django feels so over the top, akin to how I 1/
October 18, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Wrote up a simple get/post for Infinite Game in Flask, Django, and FastAPI last two days (speedrunning frameworks for interviews)
Flask and Fast were pretty similar in terms of getting up there, but I prefer how Flask injects and uses function params.
Django feels so over the top, akin to how I 1/
Flask and Fast were pretty similar in terms of getting up there, but I prefer how Flask injects and uses function params.
Django feels so over the top, akin to how I 1/