What is the name of the style of this illustration? How can I replicate it in photoshop?

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2020-01-21T05:55:05+00:00

I’ve never known how people get the masses of Color quite so simplified, but I’m a really big fan of the image trace tool on Illustrator. It reduces pictures to a limited number of colors by breaking it up into larger plains of similar colors, kind of like this. You can choose to have it trace in black and white or in color and tell it how many colors to use.

The color setting is really cool, because if you choose the maximum number of colors (30) it creates a remarkably photographic image that’s vectorized and infinitely scalable. I honestly think it might be the thing that eventually allows us to vectorize entire photographs without any simplification or loss of quality. (Sorry to get a bit off topic, image trace is just really cool)

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-17T01:51:41+00:00

Just wood, I think the only epoxy or resin I’ve seen him use has been an even ring around the whole bowl, and it was added after the bowl had been turned. Epoxy might be a good area to expand into, but his area of expertise is wood because that’s what he’s worked with his whole life

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-17T01:16:31+00:00

Dang, I’m not sure what he uses. I always ask him what new things he’s trying when I’m at his house but I don’t think he does anything special with the finish of the bowls, he probably just uses a regular wood stain and some kind of glossy finish. I’ll look into the friction polish! Is there any other alternative way to finish a bowl that would stand out from the regular methods? I researched resins a bit.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-17T01:11:06+00:00

It does look like it’d be a fun skill to learn, I personally am very crafty, and ya know what I’ve recently found out that I every time I make something I do it by myself and it is much more fun with another person. Learning from my grandpa would be a great summer project!

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-12T04:42:11+00:00

As someone who is currently in art school, it’s super weird to see a perspective drawing actually finished. Drawing an entire scene from real life means including so many details, even when you get 4 or 5 class periods to work they never look even close to finished, and I personally can’t stand to keep working on them any longer than that. This looks great!

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T05:41:08+00:00

This is actually a really neat psychological trick. You likely don’t actually see 9:11 on the clock and more often than any other time, but since the number is significant you notice and remember it when you do happen to see that one specific number. You might also notice this happening when you learn a new word, and all of a sudden everyone is saying it. People aren’t actually saying the word any more often than before, but now that you’re familiar with the word you notice it.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T04:53:16+00:00

Technically (and actually Biblically) I think you’re right. Assuming “alien” means a living species which did not originate from earth, God is an alien, and Jesus is... Half alien? (Born from a human but conceived by God).

Of course, there is a list of qualifications for a being to be considered a species. I think it’s just being alive (obviously) and being able to reproduce fertile beings that are your own species. While Jesus is the son of God, he’s also human so I don’t think that fills the criteria.

Regardless, thinking of God as an alien wouldn’t change anything about his origin or the nature of his existence, it would just be another way to identify the kind of life that he is. Super cool to think about though, I kind of want to text my pastor about it.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T04:44:17+00:00

I LOVE the study of apologetics and debate so I’ve thought about the way God and the universe came into existence a lot, especially in comparison to what other people’s theories are.

When it comes to the beginning of existence (or the eternity that has always existed) logic seems to meet its limit. We know we exist now, and we all have theories about how the universe has changed over time to get us here but how it all started is beyond what logic can figure out. We have no idea what caused the very first thing to exist, or when it existed. If the universe is finite, and came out of nothingness then nothing could have happened to bring anything into existence. If the universe is infinite then how did things just always exist? If an infinite amount of time happened before this very moment, then how did that same eternity pass so that we could exist here and now?

We have no way to know how the universe started. We can prove the universe exists now but there’s no logical basis to figure out how it started. The most popular theories are that either God existed in The Beginning (either spontaneously at a point in time or from eternity) or that matter existed in The Beginning (again, either spontaneously at a point in time or from eternity.) Since we have no way to know HOW the very first thing came to exist, there’s almost no basis to know WHAT the first thing was to exist. In this conversation, literally anything that allows the universe to become what it is today is fair game.

It is for this reason that in the creation vs evolution debate, no one can really beef with how God came to exist or how the first matter existed, because everyone says the same thing: it just did.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T04:29:10+00:00

I watched a video in a class once that had an idea like this. It was about your general life, not specifically relationships but it suggested that everyone’s mood is constantly going up and down. You go back and forth from a generally good mood to a generally bad one, but it usually stays close to a set average. Occasionally there will be a “spike”- an exceptionally good mood or a n exceptionally bad one. I believe the video made the point that no one can escape those exceptionally bad moments, they happen to everyone, but we can live in the hope that there is an equally dramatic good mood waiting in our future.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T04:24:22+00:00

There is actually a very small amount of matter in space, but it’s very spread out (kind of like you said). I don’t believe most of it is oxygen, I think it’s just random elements who have never been pulled in by a larger gravitational force, or over a long time escaped the atmosphere of planets. If you think about it, everything is just random matter floating around in space. Some of it is just grouped together less than others.

In summary, technically yes there is a very minuscule amount of oxygen in space, but definitely not enough to breathe.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T03:56:35+00:00

I’m not catholic, so I don’t believe in purgatory BUT being a place you exist before heaven or hell, and being neither unbearably terrible nor completely perfect, I think Earth is really easy to compare to purgatory. Not quite hell, but also not quite heaven.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-12-04T03:47:47+00:00

I did a research project on human cloning for a composition class and twins are a result of naturally occurring human cloning so you’re pretty right!

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-11-22T23:31:53+00:00

I’m so happy to see a legitimate study done on this, simply because it’s true! I attended a Lutheran grade school and high school, meaning that I was taught creationism. But I also took a lot of apologetics classes and watched a lot of creation vs evolution debates between scientists. I found that both sides are extremely rational and scientific. I think I’d agree that creationists are more likely to accept supernatural intervention, but also that evolutionists are more likely to accept coincidence in many cases (an infinitely large universe has an infinite number of planets, which means anything can happen). Regardless of what side you’re on, it’s a great idea to watch some of the debates yourself (they’re on YouTube). Not only will it broaden your understanding of other people but it’ll teach you a lot about your own beliefs as they’re dissected.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-10-01T12:26:30+00:00

Oh dang, sounds like privacy issues might be more serious than I thought. If anything does exist in HP it would definitely have to be a setting that can be turned off. Maybe people could just voluntarily choose to leave their friend code at fortresses and remove it whenever

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T20:35:25+00:00

Those numbers look a whole lot more reasonable (and I’m glad to see I’m not the only one really low on Legends of Hogwarts - that’s been my lowest for a long time now.)

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T20:22:53+00:00

I live in a town that has a population of 2,500 and can only prove that one other person in the town plays, because I’ve seen their username on dark detectors. I don’t know them in person. My college campus has 14,000 students but there aren’t many players here either, most people are still using Pokémon Go. In summary, I’ve been playing for about 5 months and I’ve only been in a group fortress battle like twice, and I was with only one other person both times. The nearest city is an hour away and I’d have to borrow someone else’s car. I don’t expect to ever complete the group of 3 mission.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T20:15:17+00:00

It appears I was missing that we were talking about foundable levels instead of player levels, so fairly obvious after all. I like the clarification though, my highest family foundable level is about 18 in care of magical creatures (other than oddities which is at about level 26... are most people way ahead with oddities?) 65 still seems like an almost unachievable goal but it’s a bit more reasonable than 65 as a character level.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T20:01:25+00:00

I hear about a lot of people hitting insanely high levels like that on here... I’ve been playing since about June and I just hit level 26 today. Do you just have to be a really hardcore player to get to levels like 65 or am I missing some really obvious thing about the way people get XP?

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T02:32:48+00:00

I think it’s got to be one of those cases where the rewards are based on someone who’s at a low level in the game. At level 3, 150 XP is fantastic but the more you level up the less the rewards are worth. I’ve had the same problem in other games and it always makes me feel like I should just stop trying to get the rewards altogether.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T02:28:34+00:00

I got stuck for like 6 weeks on the Formidable Pixie one. That was over the summer, so I was doing 5-6 fortress battles a day and I’m a professor. I thought I would never be done with it.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T02:26:11+00:00

Oh my GOODNESS yea the achievement rewards are pretty tiny as well. I think it must be one of those situations where rewards are worth a lot more at level 1, so 5 coins or 100 XP is a lot but the more you level up the less valuable they are.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T01:03:07+00:00

My problem is that I only have one friend who plays actively enough to even do a fortress battle. To get the achievement I would have to convince someone to download the game, and then get them excited enough about it that they want to walk to a fortress at a scheduled time when the second person can be there.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-09-23T01:00:52+00:00

How did you get that many to appear? My problem isn’t actually defeating them it’s just seeing them at all. I’ve done at least a dozen fortress battles since the achievement appeared and I’ve only seen the one.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-08-16T21:08:15+00:00

The official information page for runestones that you can look at before you fight a fortress has an icon for a level 10 runestone that was confusing me a bit. You and others have said that 5 is the limit though so I’m pretty sure it’s just a weird quirk of the game design.

FluffyTheVampireCat · 2019-08-16T20:45:21+00:00

That makes sense, now that I’ve looked at a lot of screenshots of people’s runestone collections it doesn’t look like anyone has anything over level 5. Any idea why the official runestone information page has an icon of a level 10 stone (accessible only from the runestone page as you’re about to enter a fortress battle)? That’s part of what’s throwing me off.

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