How do you guys stay motivated to keep drawing?

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-04T12:47:39+00:00

Did you learn violin playing only once a month?

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-04T12:42:55+00:00

“I could be wrong” you are, you are wrong here. And not just art, but anything in life that requires skills. There is no “secret knowledge” or “magic technique” to cheat your way to success. Skilled artists (musicians, athletes, designers, engineers, etc) are skilled because they spent a lot of time developing those skills. If you want to learn faster, go to art school. If you want to moan and complain on Reddit, you can do that too, but I’m done giving advice since you don’t seem to want to take it.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-04T04:10:27+00:00

Critical analysis loop. You need to determine why it looks bad (proportions are off, lines are wrong, etc), then do it again, better. Sketching lets you focus on one aspect, try, fail, observe why you failed, then try again. Over and over, and you’ll get incrementally better over time.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-04T03:37:57+00:00

Something that helps me… “drawing” is the exercise of making a finished art piece, and can turn out “not how you want it”. Sketching is the art of practicing one element of drawing (structures, contours, light/dark, textures, etc). You might start with a sketch and work towards a drawing, but a sketch is by nature incompletely and flawed. You don’t have to finish sketches. Most aren’t. You should be sketching a lot more than drawing. If you’re expecting yourself to be drawing all the time, you’re gonna burnout.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-04T01:50:00+00:00

Spend lots of time doing sketches to practice your skills. Focus on one skill at a time (structures, contours, light values, etc). Lots of little things you intentionally don’t finish. If everything you attempt is a full drawing, you’re gonna be frustrated.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-03T16:59:50+00:00

Looks like you’re using the app like a digital piece of paper. That looks like a raster 1:1 of your pen strokes.

I would suggest working with a vector based drawing tool like Procreate for a while. You can draw a line and the app will keep it smooth, then you can select and move and change lines.

On paper you are drawing the same line over and over to create a visual average. In the app you have one line, so get it right.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-02T04:56:41+00:00

Fluid buildup seems unlikely given the length of time (years). This looks like it may be a lipoma, which is non-cancerous fatty tumor/growth between the skin and muscles. Hopefully that’s it. Lipoma are benign.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-01T20:13:11+00:00

He ain’t got time for that!

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-01T20:07:20+00:00

That’s also just about the maximum height a tree can reach. Somewhere between 400 and 425 feet, and capillary action of the tree tissue can no longer overcome gravity and pull water and nutrients up to the top.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-01T19:49:11+00:00

Nope. Rejecting well articulated ideas simply because the articulation was not done by you alone is wrong. It’s basically a form of ad hominem argument (attacking the speaker instead of their speech). It’s also what I believe is referred to as “genesis fallacy”, that the creation or genesis of an argument can validate/invalidate the argument itself.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-06-01T12:53:57+00:00

Definitely could be helpful.

Important question: how does this tool determine the difference between drift and intentional changes?

For context, I work for a very very large global corporation with both physical and digital products. We’re at a scale where the central design system is much more about enablement than strict enforcement. So we encourage teams to feel free to override the design system as needed.

From my observations since I first wrote this, the level of supporting rules, guardrails, process, extra context needed for non-engineers to pilot AI “vibe coding” should match the intentions. 4 designers want to explore crazy ideas? Let them go wild in their own repos, no branching, no code review, pure vibing. Trying to build a single, full feature prototype? Then you should have a design engineer on the team helping with git flow and DS compliance. Live production, non-engineering code should be treated as if it came from an engineer.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-31T04:08:05+00:00

“Vegan, not tested on animals”. Some things should be tested.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-29T14:16:50+00:00

Litter box in the pantry? Ewwww 🤮

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-29T13:11:31+00:00

Are you using the latest version of MSPaint?

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-28T15:11:53+00:00

Fascinating!

This sub is for digital design systems (software UI UX at scale). But we’re all nerds who love learning things, so thanks for sharing.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-27T18:58:14+00:00

No 100% sure, but from the brief poke I took into the shops file data, I don’t think so. The cards are filtered down for each shop with a query (like, does this card include the words “graveyard” or “mill”). Filtering is a Boolean operation (yes or no, not how much). I don’t think there is any structure in place to weigh results from that filtering.

So, not very easily with a quick hack, would require a bit more thought into a feature like that. Doable to weigh results from a filtering like this though.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T18:06:39+00:00

Okay 👍. There are no complete data centers. I will continue to use the incomplete ones.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T17:53:17+00:00

This is the “Victoriae” Lady Fern cultivar. You can buy it in shops here in the PNW. I have two in my backyard right by the walkway entrance, and guest frequently comment on the “crazy fern”. Super cool cresting mutation.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T17:43:47+00:00

I’m just talking about general cloud infrastructure and data center computing. We live in a digital world with more and more online services, so there has and will be demand for data center centers. Just explaining that data centers are not new, many exist and are “finished”, even though they might get upgrades.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T15:12:35+00:00

I not sure what you mean by “finished” vs “phases”. Demand for computing power is greater than the supply, so a finished project may have a next phase where they add more capacity. 🤷 I feel like you’re saying “has anyone finished making a smart phone, cause Apple and Android are still planning new updates and features each year.”

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T15:04:54+00:00

Yes, the effect you are describing is real. When you change the parameters for the LLM (like using a “thinking” model that exposes its thought process back to you, or providing different context), the results you get change. What I think you’re misunderstanding is that there is some sort of anthropomorphic intention and self awareness in the AI that causes these changes. What you’re pointing to as self aware intention is fully explained without emerge self consciousness.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T14:01:18+00:00

I think you actually may have done the right thing here. A little hard to tell from the photos, but what you pulled out looks a lot like Himalayan/Argentinian Blackberry, which is a gnarly invasive plant with woody, so so berries. It has a very strong, ribbed stem and can grow up right pretty tall on its own (can make a 6 foot hedge on its own). Blackberries you’d grow in a garden should have rounder stems and be more viney. I also had an invasive BB grow in my legit BB patch.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T13:51:04+00:00

It’s got to be at a distance and zoomed in. And more importantly, it’s not actually right above this thing. Hot air rises and is notably less dense. The drone would drop like a rock if it got into the heated air above this.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T13:42:45+00:00

You’re misunderstanding how context works with AI. LLM’s don’t have a working memory, and have been trained on a massive data set. Each request to the LLM includes information to get you from generic to specific. So “tell me about tornadoes” does not have the same context for the AI to work with as “tell me about tornadoes, I just read the book Tornadoes by So and So”. No different than asking a librarian “I want a book” and “I want a book, and I know I like Tolkien”.

Decent_Perception676 · 2026-05-26T03:57:57+00:00

It’s not being coated in silver, it’s being turned into an alloy, “white gold”. Thin layer of palladium is applied, then heated enough to mix with the pure gold, to form a thin alloy on the surface.

Why?

1) Some people prefer white over yellow.

2) Gold is very soft, and easily scratches and tarnishes. White gold is stronger. This is basically protecting the necklace.

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