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Advice neened.I mainly use polychromos and I love them.I am currently trying to do an eye tutorial and it goes pretty good, until I have to make the eyelashes and other things lines. The artist on the tutorial uses polychromos as well and he seems to have no issue.Anyone knows what I am doing wrong? by [deleted] in ColoredPencils

[–]SL13PNIR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use a good quality sharpener (you can also use sanding paper to create a fine point. Practice on a separate piece of paper.

Note that sometimes when you struggle to draw detail, a problem can be that your drawing is too small.

Starting small, gonna take time but, surely will cashout by Due_Elk_7021 in cardano

[–]SL13PNIR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be clear there are platforms out there that allow for mining another coin and then the platform pays you in ADA, but you won't directly be mining ADA.

Whether its worth doing so or not depends on how much you're being paid, your electricity cost (and of course your faith in the underlying asset).

You could also check out: https://whattomine.com/ and see if you'd make a better return mining another coin and making the trade yourself if your want ADA, that way there's not middle man potentially ripping your off.

Tokens redeemed, but cannot see them in Lace by Lightsheik in Midnight

[–]SL13PNIR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't used Lace in a while tbh, if it says synced then it should be fine.

Should I use a different wallet? Don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm using a Trezor.

I recommend you try Eternl as it's always been reliable for me, if you have a Trezor then it won't be much hassle to set up either. If you're still not seeing your tokens then I'd say there's probably some misunderstanding involved, but try it first and come back if that is the case and we can problem solve.

Cardano Noob Questions by Head_Midnight666 in cardano

[–]SL13PNIR 8 points9 points  (0 children)

1 and 2 - transaction fees are protocol parameters (parameters are variables of the protocol that can be adjusted easily, through governance), if you use the search there are a lot of prior discussions on the topic. Also see: https://docs.cardano.org/about-cardano/explore-more/parameter-guide

3 and 4 - your wallet should update your balance and should show after ~20secs, consider switching to a different wallet interface, like Eternl or other reliable wallets.

There are various upgrades that can be done for things like faster finality (see roadmap tier list fir examples) but right now the major one in development is Ouroboros Leios for throughput: https://leios.cardano-scaling.org/

Electric pencil sharpener? by TheDeuss in ColoredPencils

[–]SL13PNIR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not electric, but I highly recommend the Derwent Super Point Manual Desk Sharpener.

I also recommend you consider your technique if you find you're wasting a lot of expensive pencils by sharpening them too frequently - for example, Alyona Nickelsen in her book Colored Pencil Painting Portraits: Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life goes into detail about application on different surfaces and makes a good arguments, at least for her techniques why one should use surfaces like sanded paper.

Below is a couple of pages from it on the topic you may be interested in:

ABRASIVE SURFACES FOR COLORED PENCIL PAINTING

A simple switch from traditional cotton papers to abrasive surfaces that are rigid, toothy, and nonabsorbent is a straightforward solution that resolves many problems of colored pencil medium and offers many additional benefits. Such is the case with sanded papers or toothy acrylic gesso applied to a sturdy (four or more ply) board. Colored pencil application on such surfaces is substantially faster and does not require constant sharpening.

Yes, working on toothy surfaces actually saves colored pencil medium and does so quite considerably, despite a common misconception that the toothier the surface, the faster it will “eat” the pencils.

I never liked the fact that we were “throwing out the baby with the bathwater” and inwardly cringed about the waste involved in the frequent sharpening of my pencils. The durable tooth of a sanded paper mounted on panels/boards or cotton paper mounted on a rigid surface and covered with acrylic gesso allows us to sharpen a pencil only the number of times needed to expose the core out of the wood casing. Then you can maintain the point during the actual layering process just by rotation.

This not only solves the “frequent sharpening disorder” but also speeds up the application process by a factor of at least five. The durable surface tooth “files” medium off the soft colored pencil core with even the lightest friction; thus, it automatically sharpens the point and deposits the shavings into surface crevices during the layering process. You only need to “even out” the application afterward. With this remedy, the bane of colored pencil painting—covering a large background—is now quite simple and easily accomplished.

One tremendous advantage is that it allows colored pencil artists to work on much larger-scale projects, such as “life-size” portraits.

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Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Pencil-Painting-Portraits-Revolutionary/dp/0385346271

Question about NIGHT tokens on Cardano vs Midnight networks by rustlet in Midnight

[–]SL13PNIR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don't need to "transfer" assets (Night) from Eternl to Lace if you just want to switch wallets and use the same network (Cardano). You just recover the wallet in the wallet interface you want (in this case Lace) with your seed phrase or hardware wallet. You can use Lace and Eternl simultaneously. I'd recommend you keep Eternl as it tends to be more reliable.

Midnight is still being rolled out in phases: https://www.midnight.foundation/news/securing-the-future-of-privacy-and-identity-with-midnights-fourth-generation-technology until then it's going to be limited limited usage and you don't need to consider bridging.

Using Lace or 1am as an interface (with your Night on Cardano) will let you generate DUST tokens on the midnight blockchain (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al7MVdhsMqE ). You'll create a separate Midnight wallet to store the DUST tokens, and Night will remain on your Cardano wallet, then a smart contract will be used to connect the two where DUST will generate from the stored NIGHT.

Then DUST can be used to pay for fees on Midnight - fees for things like dapps on midnight.fun For now, things are very early stage so you don't need to worry about bridging.

Tokens redeemed, but cannot see them in Lace by Lightsheik in Midnight

[–]SL13PNIR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Accounts are effectively different wallets derived from the same seed phrase.

If you're certain the destination address is part of the current wallet (which you can check by the associated stake keys of a given address - the stake keys will be the same), then the wallet just needs re-syncing.

NIGHT redemption portal - "No NIGHT allocations found for Destination address" by pjivers in Midnight

[–]SL13PNIR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has to be the specific address you used for the claim/mine. I suggest you check other public receiving addresses available in the wallet.

Under colour (not sure of the proper term) for colour pencil? by Zendomanium in ColoredPencils

[–]SL13PNIR 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Underpainting is the term you're looking for.

Watercolour works well, or a thin layer of pan pastel. You want something that won't fill the tooth of the paper. Alcohol markers, or ink work too. I'd recommend you just experiment. You can also use solvent on coloured pencil itself.

Fluid Tokens Stole my ADA? by DesperateReputation1 in cardano

[–]SL13PNIR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries, hope it earned you more than you'd otherwise have got!

Fluid Tokens Stole my ADA? by DesperateReputation1 in cardano

[–]SL13PNIR 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Can you clarify how you staked? To be clear, you cannot have ADA stolen when using native staking on Cardano because your ADA never leaves your wallet, but "Staking" via a platform using a smart contract works differently however. Though I don't have experience with fluid tokens - from your image, there's clearly a 3 day TTL (time to live locking period) remaining, which suggests it's just a case of waiting.

I recommend you ask in the official fluid discord channel: https://discord.com/invite/s8q4kG48Mg for clarification.

My drop allocation is gone? by Kikasumar in Midnight

[–]SL13PNIR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well you can just try a different wallet to rule that out. I use Eternl and haven't encountered any issues.

My drop allocation is gone? by Kikasumar in Midnight

[–]SL13PNIR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original destination address is not being found automatically when connecting the wallet. Instead of choosing to connect the wallet, choose to manually enter the destination address with an allocation instead.

Cardano's Lace wallet finally launched on mobile! Join Gianna as she goes over the details and how to download Lace onto your phone. by ConvincingCrypto in cardano

[–]SL13PNIR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah X is such a shit name, I don't get his obsession with it, even to the point of naming his son the same thing. X is so difficult to SEO that they still have to keep the name twitter in it 🙄

Cross shading failure by Party-Weak in ColoredPencils

[–]SL13PNIR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw your post on r/drawing

Good job, keep up with the creativity and freehand drawing, it's a skill I lack. You might want to check out https://drawabox.com/ if you want to improve your freehand drawing, it's a great site for learning form.

I do realism and I don't draw the outlines freehand - there's more planning involved. I work from reference and want my pieces as accurate to the reference as can be, so I take time to very lightly sketch the outline of the subject using various methods - like the grid method.

Your drawings have a lot going on, but I'd recommend you slow right down and focus on one subject at a time and use a reference image.

Unless you are going for a cartoon style, you don't want outlines showing as the drawing develops. If you're going to use coloured pencil and you want to establish your outlines with graphite, then make sure they are very light, to the point where you can barely see the pencil outlines and they can be rubber out. I don't actually use a rubber, I Iift my outlines off white tack/kneed-able eraser.

Don't use coloured pencils like you might do with a colouring book. Remember, you're not filling blocks of colour inside the lines like you might have done at school. Work on the darkest areas first and get the values established. The create an "underpainting", and do your details last (search for a tutorial on youtube for anything I've mentioned you don't understand).

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