B2J: Low Priority
A classmate, through undisclosed means, laid her hands upon a number of USPS shipping labels and asked of some of her peers that they do a doodle or drawing or what-have-you on one and return it to her. So here's my little contribution. Without realizing I was doing it, I made my forms complementary to the USPS eagle.
B22: Pretty Common, Alright
Drawing the Swigert Commons at PNCA in-class. I'm ambivalent about this one. My rendering/execution I find utterly boring, but I'm happy enough with the composition. It's kind of an interesting place in there, if you can find a decent spot to sit. Fountain pen and brush-pen for the filled-in bits in the ceiling.
By the by, "that's so technical!" is not an awesome compliment. Think about it. Would you ever tell a chef that? "My goodness! You're so good at reading the lines on a measuring cup and slicing cheese evenly!" The implication is that the food tastes like shit but you've got to find something nice to say so you compliment the guy on his fine motor skills and visual acuity.
By the by, "that's so technical!" is not an awesome compliment. Think about it. Would you ever tell a chef that? "My goodness! You're so good at reading the lines on a measuring cup and slicing cheese evenly!" The implication is that the food tastes like shit but you've got to find something nice to say so you compliment the guy on his fine motor skills and visual acuity.
B1V: A Do-dad.
I don't even know what this little thing is, but I drew it. One of innumerable visual treasures from Kurt Hollomon's bottomless basket o' tchotchkes.
Brush-pens are funny. It's a brush, but it doesn't feel like a brush -- the water-soluble ink flows differently than india ink, and the barrel is all fat (I suppose this is normal on bamboo-handled brushes, but I ink with a skinny little #2 usually). In general, my brush-handling skills need improvement, but it's even harder to get a handle on the brush-pen.
Brush-pens are funny. It's a brush, but it doesn't feel like a brush -- the water-soluble ink flows differently than india ink, and the barrel is all fat (I suppose this is normal on bamboo-handled brushes, but I ink with a skinny little #2 usually). In general, my brush-handling skills need improvement, but it's even harder to get a handle on the brush-pen.
B1U: Laborious!
One of the problems I run into working digitally is that because I'm forced to draw inside a windowed-off part of the piece all the time, I end up falling in love with details, then zooming back to see that they simply do not work in the larger context. This illustration that I've just finished tonight was a case of that happening over, and over, and over again. And, no surprise, it took five times as long as it likely would have had I done the whole thing on paper.
It's He-Man and Teela, for cereal:geek. I'm depicting the scene at the end of "The Problem With Power" where He-Man carries Teela off into the sunset, ostensibly because she may be injured after a positronic bomb blast, but we all know he's doing it just because he wants to.
Once the drawing was done and sent, I set about playing with colours, as I so often do. And, more specifically, I set about fine-tuning my make-it-look-just-like-an-old-comics-page technique. A detail follows. I think I'm gettin' pretty close.
A full-view of the comic-coloured image can be seen over at my deviantART page.
It's He-Man and Teela, for cereal:geek. I'm depicting the scene at the end of "The Problem With Power" where He-Man carries Teela off into the sunset, ostensibly because she may be injured after a positronic bomb blast, but we all know he's doing it just because he wants to.
Once the drawing was done and sent, I set about playing with colours, as I so often do. And, more specifically, I set about fine-tuning my make-it-look-just-like-an-old-comics-page technique. A detail follows. I think I'm gettin' pretty close.
B1S: My, My, The Time Do Fly
Time to get this blog crackin' again! Rather than write at length about my love of old computers and my trials at MOS 6502 assembly coding, from this point on this is going to be an illustration/drawing/art blog. I gave some consideration to starting an entirely new blog for this purpose, but I decided the old Bruised Terrestrial was really the place it wanted to go. So!
To start: a picture. I lovingly roughed this out in pencil on a nice, heavy piece of paper with the intention of rendering it in ink, but as I laid the first brushstrokes I realized this was absolutely the wrong paper for that purpose: luscious, toothy, beautiful... and horrifyingly bleedy paper -- a near-fatal mistake. But it had to get done, and so I went after it with 6B and 8B pencil, which gets pretty close to black, and here we have it. A worthwhile exercise, albeit a tedious one.
There are two other pictures in this series which I may or may not post at a later date.
That's a start, right? Yep, it is. Good job, Adam. Welcome back! I now leave you, and busy myself with congratulatory pats on my own back.
To start: a picture. I lovingly roughed this out in pencil on a nice, heavy piece of paper with the intention of rendering it in ink, but as I laid the first brushstrokes I realized this was absolutely the wrong paper for that purpose: luscious, toothy, beautiful... and horrifyingly bleedy paper -- a near-fatal mistake. But it had to get done, and so I went after it with 6B and 8B pencil, which gets pretty close to black, and here we have it. A worthwhile exercise, albeit a tedious one.
There are two other pictures in this series which I may or may not post at a later date.
That's a start, right? Yep, it is. Good job, Adam. Welcome back! I now leave you, and busy myself with congratulatory pats on my own back.
A2F: What a piece of junk!
Borrowing from Luke Skywalker, there.
I was browsing around Staples today, as I just love a good meander around office supply shops, and saw a Staedtler lead-holder with some leads and an eraser for a decent price. I put down my $10 and decided to give it a shot as I've been meaning to get a hold of a 2mm lead holder for a while, and the Staedtler 780, from what I'd read, is sorta the industry standard. Arriving back home, I opened 'er up and started the test-drive.
This is the cheapest piece-of-crap pencil I've ever laid hands on. Honestly, it looks like something you'd buy at a 99¢ store. Where the end of the plastic barrel meets the grip/collar, things are not flush and the edge is sharp -- the farthest thing from comfortable; and the metal grip/collar is textured such that it's actually more slippery than it would be if they'd left it smooth. The push-button cap, which functions as a sharpener when removed, is so tightly fitted to the barrel that I have to remove it with my teeth. As though this weren't insult enough, the lead that Staedtler has included in the package is lousy, inconsistent, and scratchy.
My mistake seems to have been a lack of scrutiny over the packaging, as the pencil turns-out to be a Staedtler 980, not a 780. I'm sure it's no coincidence that they're made to look the same. To be fair, the package does say "Technical Pencil Value Pack", and whenever you see the word 'value' on a piece of merchandise, you can be sure it's cheap shit. Thus, there's little justification for outrage, or even mild shock. I was going to just grab a new 0.9mm Pentel Sharp today, before I saw the Staedtler and changed my mind. That'll teach me to impulse-buy.
While I'm still a bit grumpy that I dropped ten perfectly good dollars on this turd, it does hold lead, and that's all it really needs to do; but it's a little like paying five bucks for a shot of decent scotch and having it served to you in a Dixie cup. This set should retail for $4.99, not $9.99. The good news is that after a few wraps of electricians' tape, the pencil provides a more-or-less a comfortable drawing experience.
I was browsing around Staples today, as I just love a good meander around office supply shops, and saw a Staedtler lead-holder with some leads and an eraser for a decent price. I put down my $10 and decided to give it a shot as I've been meaning to get a hold of a 2mm lead holder for a while, and the Staedtler 780, from what I'd read, is sorta the industry standard. Arriving back home, I opened 'er up and started the test-drive.
This is the cheapest piece-of-crap pencil I've ever laid hands on. Honestly, it looks like something you'd buy at a 99¢ store. Where the end of the plastic barrel meets the grip/collar, things are not flush and the edge is sharp -- the farthest thing from comfortable; and the metal grip/collar is textured such that it's actually more slippery than it would be if they'd left it smooth. The push-button cap, which functions as a sharpener when removed, is so tightly fitted to the barrel that I have to remove it with my teeth. As though this weren't insult enough, the lead that Staedtler has included in the package is lousy, inconsistent, and scratchy.
While I'm still a bit grumpy that I dropped ten perfectly good dollars on this turd, it does hold lead, and that's all it really needs to do; but it's a little like paying five bucks for a shot of decent scotch and having it served to you in a Dixie cup. This set should retail for $4.99, not $9.99. The good news is that after a few wraps of electricians' tape, the pencil provides a more-or-less a comfortable drawing experience.
A2B: It can't be denied.
After my daily GIMP crash (no biggie, only lost about five minutes today) I decided to do a quick Google poll.
While the phrase "Photoshop sucks" returns about 19,500 hits and "GIMP sucks" only returns about 14,300, to arrive at the conclusion that Photoshop does indeed suck more than The GIMP would be premature. For, the results of the phrase with the addition of an intensifier are strongly the opposite. "Photoshop fucking sucks" yields only 7 hits, while "GIMP fucking sucks" yields a much more impressive 79.
Now that I'm fairly sure it's not just me, time to get back to work.
While the phrase "Photoshop sucks" returns about 19,500 hits and "GIMP sucks" only returns about 14,300, to arrive at the conclusion that Photoshop does indeed suck more than The GIMP would be premature. For, the results of the phrase with the addition of an intensifier are strongly the opposite. "Photoshop fucking sucks" yields only 7 hits, while "GIMP fucking sucks" yields a much more impressive 79.
Now that I'm fairly sure it's not just me, time to get back to work.
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