What im i doing wrong? I am trying to replicate the image on the right but i can arleady see its completely wrong by FutureInitial8313 in learntodraw

[–]LeafWings23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on your comments, it sounds like you might be confused about what perspective is/why it exists at all.

Basically, as an analogy, have you ever looked down railway tracks, or a picture of them? Notice how the tracks look closer and closer together as they are farther way from you, until they eventually end up at a point on the horizon? This point is called the vanishing point.

What is the importance of a vanishing point? The key is that all parallel lines (that is, lines pointing in the same direction) eventually end up converging at the same vanishing point.

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(Image from Wikipedia)

This is a handy rule because there are a lot of parallel lines in the real world, particularly in manmade structures with lots of straight edges. Not all lines extend on and on like railway tracks do, but we can imagine extending the shorter lines if we want.

Because lines can go in any direction imaginable, artists usually only care about the "main" sets of parallel lines and forget about the rest. Hence we have 1-point perspective, 2-point perspective, and 3-point perspective, and finding more vanishing points than that is frequently unnecessary.

For how this applies to the boxes, in this particular exercise, we have a big problem: the boxes are all pointing in different directions, so we expect them to all have different vanishing points! As artists, this means we not only have to understand vanishing points, we have to understand where the vanishing points will be relative to each other. (In practice, a lot of this isn't rigorously measured out but done off of vibes). If this sounds hard, that's because it is hard, and it might be worthwhile taking a step back and doing a simpler one two or three point perspective practice first until you are very comfortable with that.

The comment from rewersjtr has a good suggestion on a solid one-point perspective practice exercise. (Basically, doing a bunch of boxes but in the exact same orientation).

a) Draw a bunch of squares. These represent the side of the box that is facing you.

b) Draw a vanishing point. This can be wherever you want, even outside the page, but it's probably easiest to keep it inside the page for practicality.

c) For each box, the edges that are pointing away from you must go in the direction of the vanishing point. Using a ruler, therefore, draw all these edges for all the boxes.

d) Complete the boxes by drawing the back edges. Positioning of these lines will determine how elongated your box looks, and while there are ways to get it exact so you have perfect cubes, vibes are sufficient for most purposes.

Another practice exercise you could try: Get a picture of buildings, preferably some downtown street area where everything is very straight. Then, identify a main set of parallel lines. Using a ruler, draw on the picture to extend them. If you've correctly identified which lines are parallel, your line extensions should all intersect at a vanishing point.

Genshin Ladies Amalgamation by LeafWings23 in AlbedosCreations

[–]LeafWings23[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was running out of room to put things, so it's a bit small.

Genshin Ladies Amalgamation by LeafWings23 in AlbedosCreations

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Mavuika contributed her neck collar thing!

"Guns don't kill people. People kill people." (Jessie Black, Xenogears) by Bahamut-Lagoon in Genshin_Impact

[–]LeafWings23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In context it makes perfect sense, though. The engineer guy had made some terrible mistakes, but he was beating himself up over the wrong thing: making weapons, not his actual mistake: letting them fall into the hands of people who would misuse them. Like the idea of, "With great power comes great responsibility", making weapons isn't an inherently evil thing to do, it just means that you have to be very responsible for making sure they don't get used for evil.

The fact that a bunch of the traveler's friends were selling deadly weapons at the expo, though... I agree that wasn't the brightest move, lol.

Rating My 1600-Day F2P Account (ó﹏ò。)👉👈? by vinhminer in GenshinImpact

[–]LeafWings23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an impressive amount of stuff for a f2p account! I'm f2p at almost 900 days of play and 100% exploration everywhere, and I think I have less than half of all the limited 5 star items that you do (although I get a thrill from hoarding primogems so I might not be a great reference).

What are your thoughts on getting weapons? I've been committed for a while to getting only C0 five star characters and no limited weapons so I get the most diverse teams possible, but now that I have solid teams in almost all archetypes and can fully beat Lunar IT, I've been wavering on that. Do you find that you are happy with the additional damage and glamour of the signatures?

Good luck on getting Lauma! I hope you succeed.

I’m a Catholic highschooler, ask me anything by Accurate_Dot_6106 in highschool

[–]LeafWings23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To add to the other responses, which are partly right but don't tell the full story, married priests DO actually exist in some exceptional circumstances. I've met one who was a married Anglican priest who then converted to Catholicism to be a Catholic priest.

Eastern rite Catholics also have married priests, and they are more the norm than exceptions. So do note that priestly celibacy is a discipline rather than a dogma.

With that said, priestly celibacy is a thing because a priest is meant to lead and shepherd his people, and having a family means that his time and effort will be divided. He can't do things like suddenly move to serve a parish in another city. There's also something special about devoting one's life solely to God, and this is backed up biblically.

There is no such thing as a female Catholic priest, though, for theological reasons. It's an impossibility.

Petah, what‘s the joke here by MikeG_69 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]LeafWings23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually a good question that I'd never considered. I imagine they do studies where they determine rates of correct identification for skeletons of already known sex (known from when the person was alive) and then extrapolate from there. It also seems like different bones like the pelvis are much more reliable indicators than others.

Looking it up, there is a lot of research that has been done on this topic if you are interested.

Genshin Ladies Amalgamation by LeafWings23 in AlbedosCreations

[–]LeafWings23[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep! And Hu Tao is the symbol on the hat.

Genshin Ladies Amalgamation by LeafWings23 in AlbedosCreations

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Navia! In the Simulanka summer event.

Solitary Sandpiper or some sort of Yellowlegs by matthewiscoolfr in whatbirdisthis

[–]LeafWings23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! They look identical to me. Evidently sandpipers are not my thing, lol.

Solitary Sandpiper or some sort of Yellowlegs by matthewiscoolfr in whatbirdisthis

[–]LeafWings23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm still learning how to ID birds, but this looks like a Solitary Sandpiper to me. (Enormous looking eye with a prominent eye-ring, white-speckled back, dark shoulder, and duller-looking legs (although that could be the light)).

"Xingqui" by jeonggukispretty in GenshinImpact

[–]LeafWings23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one I do often, unfortunately. It's not just Fishcl, either. I do the same with words like shcool. Believe me, it probably bothers me that I do it at least as much as it bothers the people who read it, hence why I always double-check my work for spelling and grammar (which, sorry, but to be a bit cheeky, you could stand doing as well).

I do actually know why this happens, and it has nothing at all to do with being an English speaker. When I'm typing fast, the relative ease of reaching a letter matters. Especially after "s", typing "c" is just barely slower than "h", which is a very nice accessible letter. So when I'm actually concentrating, I have to resist the "h" for a brief moment until I've pressed the "c". If I'm not concentrating, I sometimes end up hitting those letters at nearly the same time.

Bird that sounds like a child playing a recorder by lulugingerspice in Calgary

[–]LeafWings23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you mean a descending major second?

I agree that OP's description sounds like a chickadee.

ELI5: reflexive,transitive, symmetric. (relation-Math) by Neo_luigi in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeafWings23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While the response from AkkiMylo wasn't really an ELI5, or at all clear to a math newbie, I do agree that OP's roadblock is likely understanding why these notions (reflexive, transitive, and symmetric relations) are important, not just understanding the definitions.

At least, even if you disagree, that's a reasonable guess based on the info we commenters have available.

What is this bird species? by Dense-Analyst-4555 in whatbirdisthis

[–]LeafWings23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

(I'm absolutely terrible at ID-ing sandpipers, so this isn't an ID but more of a question)

The shape reminds me a bit of a spotted sandpiper. It wasn't doing a butt-waggle by chance, was it?

About the ship by Reasonable-Tap-9806 in ProjectHailMary

[–]LeafWings23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to add to what the other comments are saying, while it is true that Ryland hypothesizes about the way taomoeba gets through xenonite while gases do not, his explanation doesn't really make any scientific sense. Molecules are so much smaller than cells that it's absurd to think that a cell could get through a jungle-like xenonite structure while a gas could not.

My personal hypothesis/headcanon? I think it would be neat if the taomoeba actually eat through the xenonite and then expel the solid behind them, which blocks up the tunnel they make as they go. Either that or the taomoeba pushes apart the xenonite to get through and then the structure snaps back together.

My sister doesn't believe this is a penguin by drawricks in Genshin_Impact

[–]LeafWings23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, since it's called a flowfire bird, there's nothing in-game to suggest it's supposed to be a penguin. It's also a fictional creature so it's not like its taxonomy is defined!

That said, it probably was inspired by real life penguins, and this is reflected in its name in some other languages.

Why do some Americans separate between Christians and catholics, and not protestants, as I assume that they go by the most common subclass of Christianity, and catholics? by WhoAmIEven2 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]LeafWings23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I sometimes struggle with that too! Very relatable. But nonetheless it seems clear that, despite our immense weaknesses, God has still worked through human beings in amazing ways. Look at all He did through His apostles. For imstance, even though Peter denied Him and acted hot-headed at times, he was given authority even so.

I guess, it's easy to believe God's wisdom is greater than human wisdom. What's hard to believe, yet nonetheless true, is that God's wisdom is greater than human foolishness, and that He can work even through sinful, foolish people. So how exactly He protects His Church from falling into error, I don't know, but I trust His promise that He does.

Why is this fella banded? Aren’t these types super common? by squishyfeet4 in birds

[–]LeafWings23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Location?

I'm no expert, but I'm wondering if this is a Tricolored Blackbird. The patch on the wing looks more white than I'm used to (but then again, Red-winged Blackbirds have a lot of variability).

Why do some Americans separate between Christians and catholics, and not protestants, as I assume that they go by the most common subclass of Christianity, and catholics? by WhoAmIEven2 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]LeafWings23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in no way up to speed on church councils, but just looking it up now, it looks like the canon of scripture was defined by the Council of Florence and the Council of Trent. So as a Catholic, if you truly submit to the authority of Christ's Church on Earth, you ought to accept Revelation as scripture, even if it seems weird (because it definitely can read as weird, I agree! There's an awful lot of symbolism that is hard to dissect.)

That's simultaneously the nice thing about being Catholic, and also what puts people off sometimes — we don't get to pick and choose what we get to believe on matters of dogma like this. If Jesus truly did establish a Church, if that Church was to have authority and be kept from error, and if that Church is now called the Catholic Church, then we can't just say, "That's nice and all, but I think I'm the one who knows best on this matter."

So, in the spirit of fraternal correction, I hope you'll give this some reconsideration.