Random thoughts... - by Tocky
Tocky on 22/9/2022 at 03:23
I was at the station filling up on the card so I just stick the hose in and go sit under the air in the cab. Shit it's still hot here. And I start thinking about my birthday, not my recent one but my first, and how hot it must have been the summer I was born, how hard it must have been on Mom, the old black and white photos of those days, the song that was number one that summer, took a while to remember what it was... Chubby Checkers "Let's Twist Again", at least I think it was. Don't know why thoughts just start sometimes.
Then the pump kicked off so I went to hang it up and punch the button before the jittery electronics took the option away and I would have to go inside and wait in a long line for the receipt. Please have paper, please have paper, great it has paper, and I tear it off and look at the number. $61.61... holy fuck. Repeated just to rub it in? I was born in 61. I went in anyway and bought a couple of lotto tickets. I mean, if ever I'm going to have any influence over numbers today is the day right?
Also I need to get by and see Mom.
Tocky on 7/10/2022 at 02:13
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You climb these 203 steps to the top. Reminds me of a nautilus cross-section. There is a word for this. Anyone know what it is? This pattern repeated in nature? Anyway...
It's called a fibonacci sequence. Some help you folks are. What is the use of having smarty pants friends when you don't help me remember stuff?
Tocky on 27/11/2022 at 06:05
My girls made the evening news again! The Baldwin family was well represented. Even Dustin came skating by in the green pullover camo just before they came on. I'm a bit surprised they put Sam on after saying she worried about broken bones. Man I got a good looking family though. And southern? Lord chile that accent was kicking.
Not kin to that birthday girl that first came on.
[video=youtube_share;cPiSFz3zRhk]https://youtu.be/cPiSFz3zRhk[/video]
mxleader on 27/11/2022 at 09:15
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My girls made the evening news again! The Baldwin family was well represented.
Baldwin family? Maybe we are related....
Tocky on 27/11/2022 at 17:29
I just know they mix well with Calfee.
Hit Deity on 8/1/2023 at 15:49
It's way better than anything I have ever, or could, do. I especially like the first one of the trees and the moon.
I have tried to draw over the years, but never really been satisfied with anything. Certain simple things tended to look ok, but anything like animals or human faces.. just ugh!
Keep at it, because you are correct: most people get better the more they practice it. Unfortunately, I have much further to go.. :(
Tocky on 8/1/2023 at 19:55
It's tedious. It was all fine to do in high school when I had read ahead and was bored but now it takes real time. I guess it's no worse than playing a game. And you get lost in it. I fixed the slightly off hat by making it seem she is on the verge of taking it off... or putting it on (done pissed off the wrong woman). It was then that I realized I had the bones in my skeleton hand backwards.
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/7KhyeMv.jpgOne thing I can do well is to copy a photo. I can gauge size and is this cheekbone in line with that one as it is in the photo. This is one hanging on my Livingroom wall.
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/qAUbhpk.jpgI think I captured the love and that is hard to do. I would complain about pencil and paper as a medium but I've seen people do absolute wonders with it.
Hit Deity on 8/1/2023 at 20:58
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You climb these 203 steps to the top. Reminds me of a nautilus cross-section. There is a word for this. Anyone know what it is? This pattern repeated in nature? Anyway...
Of course! The Fibonacci Spiral, or Fibonacci Sequence... also related to the Golden Spiral, or Golden Ratio. Did you know that the band tool did a song called "Lateralus" that's heavily influenced by that sequence, not only in the lyrics, but in the timing of the music?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOHkeH2VaE0)
Much improvement on the witch picture.. good job! Almost brings to my mind a little "tip of the hat" kind of gesture and then she's about to burn you to a crisp or something!! :laff:
{PS: I see now that you already answered the 'sequence' question a while back. Oh well, I had already typed it up before I saw your answer, so I'm leaving it.}
Tocky on 9/1/2023 at 15:22
I'm familiar with Lateralus though I've not heard it in a while and did not know that was a base for it. Tool is always doing very hypnotic music so it would make sense.
I picture the witch saying, "do you like your nuts fried or roasted?" Not sure what to do next. Some landscape of a cabin at the foot of the Rockies or my wife in chainmail. I need practice on cars. My daughter is really good at doing them in watercolor. Skies the limit, I guess. That and time.
Edit: I decided to look online to see what others were doing and not many are doing it the way I am with lighter and heavier strokes of a pencil. Most are using charcoal pencil and cotton swabs, Q tips, and fingers to smudge. They also have this cool eraser pencil that has eraser where the lead usually is, a white wax pencil, and a white gel pen. Lots of little tricks too. The white wax goes on first and the other atop it to work a backwards effect.