Random thoughts... - by Tocky
Tocky on 11/1/2023 at 05:00
I'm getting better at drawing my wife.
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/aZl7bia.jpgI fixed the wolf hand with an eraser to contrast muscle shading since I took this pic. I keep picking at it.
Hit Deity on 11/1/2023 at 05:41
Oh wow, yeah, you are. That looks really good.
Anarchic Fox on 11/1/2023 at 08:52
Hands are really tough to draw right, but you managed it.
Tocky on 11/1/2023 at 15:54
Hands are murder. There is still something off about the hand on the right. I need to pull in the pointer finger a bit. Not the right diminishing perspective. The light in the eye on the right needs to come up. For that matter the corner of that eye should come down and extend. I wanted that slightly squinty look on that side, but I don't know... it's so almost right as is. Other artists get things right on the first try and quick too. I think I'm going to have to keep the slow go do over thing and maybe for life.
There are so many details that don't even show up in pictures taken for some reason. I need whiter paper. It was a lark in passing when I picked up the pad and pencils and now I understand the limitations. I also understand my own. I wear down the eraser as much as the lead. I can't wait to get that eraser that shaves down to a point. There is even a way an artist can use colored pencils on sandpaper. I love this guy because he talks about what he is doing in depth as he is doing it. The blending is so much easier he says than on regular paper.
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https://youtu.be/ouLxM7JNjJE)
Can I do it? I'm scared. Must plunge ahead. Then only way to do anything. Aaaaaaaaahhh obsession.
BTW I appreciate the encouragement. It's tough to push yourself to start the next one without seeing much improvement. So, off the cliff and build wings on the way down, as Bradbury said.
Qooper on 28/1/2023 at 21:41
I like your drawings Tocky, especially the one with the skelly. Even though it has a body, its expression reminds me of Morte from Planescape: Torment.
I'm glad there's a 'Random thoughts' -thread, because I feel like writing some random thoughts. It's a bit of an 'eye of the storm' -kind of moment. I'm really tired and I have a little bit of time to just let my thoughts sprawl. I find it really difficult to enjoy games or stories at the moment, but there's one thing that keeps popping into my mind again and again: I've still yet to find the lost city of Anodunos. I've been to the ice world itself, and in fact all the eight worlds accessible through the crystal at the basement of Castle British, but I've yet to finish the game. I finished UW1 for the first time some years ago. Maybe this year I'll finish UW2.
In the ice caves, there IS a lost city somewhere, isn't there?
demagogue on 29/1/2023 at 03:39
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Starker on 29/1/2023 at 04:05
Just got the strongest flashback to English literature classes. All that's missing is a middle-aged lady loudly and energetically going over it line-by-line and explaining what it means.
This one feels more suited to the times we are in, though:
Quote:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
demagogue on 29/1/2023 at 04:28
Falcons and tides sure, but no ice caves... :sweat:
Qooper on 30/1/2023 at 13:40
Kubla Khan, eerily fitting. I'll embark into the ice caves in a week, after the Global Game Jam. I'll let you know if I find the lost city of Anodunos.
Tocky on 30/1/2023 at 16:41
Quote Posted by Qooper
I like your drawings Tocky, especially the one with the skelly. Even though it has a body, its expression reminds me of Morte from Planescape: Torment.
In the ice caves, there IS a lost city somewhere, isn't there?
I'm sorry but I don't know Planescape or UW1. Is that Ultima? I haven't played those. I know Kubla Khan, which is as dense as Poe's prose, elegant and as removed from today's language as a parasol stroll down a boardwalk.
I get in those states where I don't enjoy my pursuits and have to change them for others for a time. Good luck with Anodunos. I once took five years to finish Omicron because of a game glitch that caused me to only have use of my service revolver. I quit thinking I could never defeat the end boss with such a puny weapon then revisited and found I could hide between rocks and fire enough to win.