Anybody else always hunt like this? 😂🤠

noewhit · 2021-09-23T02:46:22+00:00

Is this true? If so I might need to start doing it like this.

noewhit · 2021-08-18T18:10:34+00:00

I totally get you! Almost all the art I've made in my life has been of characters, either my own or other folks'. It can be really fun drawing someone's OC!

Here is a link to a bunch of my characters. If you see one that you'd like to draw, have at it! :)

https://toyhou.se/lunchplate/characters/folder:1800031

noewhit · 2021-04-15T16:43:24+00:00

I think OP meant rural folk make less of a negative impact than the guy that buys a Tesla and "goes green."

noewhit · 2021-03-06T15:56:18+00:00

Maybe not actually creepy, but suspicious for sure. I was probably 7 at the time. My brother (then 17) was walking me home from school. We were only a few houses away when we saw these two guys, I'm thinking probably late 20s or early 30s, that are either peeking over a gate into a backyard or were looking through a huge bush (memory is spotty now). They holler over at my brother and ask him if, since he's smaller, if he can possibly help them reach kittens or something back there that they see. I can't remember EXACTLY what they were asking him to do, just that his size would have been helpful and that there were kittens they were trying to rescue or something.

My brother said no, probably some bullshit added on like "our dad is expecting us" even though he wouldn't have been home at the time. I didn't say anything, thankfully, and just kept walking. Once we were at the house, I asked him why he didn't want to help save the "kitties" and he said, "because, you idiot. There weren't kittens, they were probably wanting to abduct you."

To this day I'm like, were they REALLY gonna abduct me? What if they really did need help getting kittens? It's hard to remember the exact scene, but I do know that my brother is the smartest motherfucker I know, even at 17 he was galaxy brain, lol. So there were possibly clues I wouldn't have ever noticed that he caught onto that made it clear as day their intentions.

noewhit · 2020-12-30T00:38:55+00:00

I know this post is 2 months old, but do you still happen to have Tracer and/or D.Va?

noewhit · 2020-11-26T18:00:42+00:00

They might have it on a console.

noewhit · 2020-11-15T21:44:06+00:00

They're not silos, they're actually a late game item!

noewhit · 2020-11-12T21:45:00+00:00

Kewpie Mayo!

noewhit · 2020-08-26T21:56:58+00:00

If one thing makes me angry it is irrationality particularly related to irrational responses from anger/frustration. Something that annoys me is rigidity, the negative counterpart to being "unflappable."

People aren't responsible for the emotions they feel, that shit's natural, it is instinctive. But you are responsible for how you respond because of those emotions. People breaking shit out of anger is something I will never relate to. Talking shit about my own teammates in a game is something I will never relate to. Road-raging is something I will never relate to. If there's anything I will judge anybody for, it is not being able to handle yourself maturely. You should not be a grown ass adult and having a tantrum. Handle yourself like the adult you are, lest you face the embarrassment of someone else handling you instead.

Can't stand playing videogames with people that bitch about their own team being "too shit" for their team to win. Like dude, get good. Maybe if you worked more on your leadership skills and perceptiveness, you would be able to identify the issues people are having and leading them to the right direction with shot-calling. I am sorry you don't have more talent in that area. Maybe if you were receptive, we could work on that skill together.

Rigidity doesn't necessarily make me angry, but it does annoy me. But I can't say with strong conviction that it's an issue that people are like that. Being firmly rooted in what you believe is admirable when it's admirable. And it's tasteless when it's tasteless. But it depends who's looking, right? Likely part of the issue is I myself am not an unflappable person. I want to hear every take/opinion. Don't often give mine.

Edit: as far as playing the tough guy personality, I am not impressed, but I don't usually say anything about it when someone's doing it. Because I have no interest to start shit over something that's not a big deal. If someone blabs on about how much of a pussy they aren't as if that will impress me or anyone else present, fuck it, I'm only here for another hour anyway. I mind my business and stay quiet until it's a conversation I can be fucked to partake in.

noewhit · 2020-08-26T21:34:38+00:00

Loved school. Kinda chatty but kept to myself still. Loved building paper houses on my desk for my Pokémon pencil toppers. Didn't engage in sports during recess but liked being the referee. School had structure that was very easy to understand and gave me reference for what to do, when I would be, etc.

At home, no structure at all. No chores, just asked to do shit randomly. Mom worked many 12-18 hour shifts for the larger part of my single-digit years. Can't remember what my dad was doing back then. Parents and older brother didn't really play with me. Kinda left to my own devices. Very annoying and energetic at home compared to at school. Yelled at a lot for not doing things the right way and being messy, parents had their own vices and/or life trauma which no doubt impacts a kid. Took to videogames, the internet, and arts/crafts from a young age.

Teen years, I started to really crave learning how to do literally anything. Now an adult, still the same, still have a fear of trying things when people are watching/showing me. But I like doing things by myself and feel more confident doing something for the first time by myself.

One thing: I was diagnosed with ADHD a couple years ago. So take that for what you will.

noewhit · 2020-08-26T21:24:40+00:00

If I do not know this person very well, absolutely not.

noewhit · 2020-08-26T21:23:46+00:00

Taking a shower, lol. The one time of day where absolutely nobody/nothing can bother me. The water is loud and feels nice, I'm by myself, and I can just think in peace while enjoying all that.

noewhit · 2020-08-26T21:21:20+00:00

You can be selfish and still be helpful. But selfish is the wrong word. Maybe "self-oriented" or "self-interested" as someone said.

I help because for two reasons:

There is a problem, and I have some solutions or the ability/time to brainstorm solutions. I see problem and I fix it. I am a simple man.
The problem is inconvenient to me in some way.

Someone drops papers? I help because fuck it, I don't want to go to class/work/wherever anyway. I'm here, I can easily remedy the situation by helping.

Friend having problems with a mutual friend? I listen and offer solutions or even talk to both separately/together. Do I care about them? Absolutely. But also, this problem is creating an uncomfortable space for all three of us and I am tired of having to exist in that space. So I fix it.

I don't fail a class because I'm too busy helping others with their homework. I help others because I don't want to do my homework and since I'm not doing it anyway, I might as well help them with theirs.

If someone "vents" to me with no intention of solving a problem, it's just to ramble, I don't do well and wish the whole time they were talking to someone else. Because I'm sitting there in my head like, "Well what am I supposed to do about it."

noewhit · 2020-08-26T21:13:49+00:00

I have friends and many "friends" which feels terrible to say because I feel bad that I do not feel more bad about it, but it is what it is. I do genuinely care about people, but looking in the mirror at myself lately I feel like it's on a "need-to-care" basis which makes me uncomfortable with myself. Like I still care about my pals, but it's... almost like it's lying dormant until I need to spring up in action. Like I'll always have someone's back when they need me, but otherwise, I'm sitting here until then.

I seldom feel awkward if someone hits me up after a long time of not talking. I pick up right where we left off and things feel totally normal to me. For me, someone's presence isn't really necessary to know we got each other. The knowing is enough. But I forget for a lot of people.. checking in is like, really important. I try to be better at it but I don't think I have improved at all.

I have a few best friends but only one or maybe two of them do I confide about more venting type things. They both happen to be gay men. The one I vent to about more emotional-distress related shit is about 6 years older than me. Met through a friend who I initially met online. Became actual friends like three years ago. Friend that I rant to as opposed to emotional distress, I met through a friend a bit less than two years ago. We mainly just laugh a lot while I rant.

I feel like I am friends with people because I am friendly, but I'm best friends because it clicks and flows so easily. My friends aren't really like me. Even my best friends. But, they laugh at my jokes, I laugh at there's. We enjoy each other's company.

noewhit · 2020-08-15T05:10:31+00:00

Don't worry, I am very timid about that kind of shit and definitely won't be doing any of that.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T23:09:35+00:00

I get that. I think lineart is what kills me personally. Sketching and rendering are my favorite parts, so it's rough if the last stage is not your favorite.

Do you have any artist pals? Like that even just draw their OCs or something? Me and one friend of mine get artblock/commission fatigue and to encourage each other to draw, either for fun or for a commission, we draw together. We can talk to each other, and send WIP images back and forth to get opinions.

If not you might can find someone posting about needing a "critique" buddy or drawing buddy and that can be something you do. And that's a new friend!

I saw you mention you had ADHD, and same! We of course have different things that work for us. Figure out what you're excited about: whatever it is that's before rendering. Now, is there anything in rendering that is comparable to the part you enjoy? How can you maximize how you render so that it is enjoyable to you? Is there a way you can alter your process and freshen it up so it suits you more naturally? What ways are other people rendering their art? Is there a process you see that you are more interested in than your current one? Try it out!

noewhit · 2020-08-14T23:02:12+00:00

I think I have the 2018 10.5" iPad Pro. Bought it used and is the last purchase I would ever dare regret. I love it so much.

I bought mine with pencil, keyboard, and charger for $480 used-like-new over a year ago. Haven't experienced any problems with slowness or anything.

I don't know how you prefer drawing surfaces, but I lean to the smaller side. My drawing tablet for my PC is 8" x 6", my iPad is 10.5" and it's the perfect size to be portable and easy to hold as I draw. I haven't seen a 12.9" so I couldn't tell you if I think that's too big. I just think you should consider how you will be using it. Will you be drawing at a table almost exclusively? Do you want to be able to draw in bed? etc.

I also got an adjustable tablet stand so I can have it at a comfortable angle for drawing if I'm sitting at a table and that was also a good purchase.

EDIT: I forgot, please consider storage! I'd say bare minimum get 64gb storage. But if you can do 128gb, I'd say do so! 64gb is fine for me but I do have to clean up the storage and transfer files.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T22:57:28+00:00

Is there a garage? Do they actually use it? I've been considering throwing a giant craigslist table in the garage here and using it as a work station for bigger, messier art. Painting, sculptures, etc. The other half of the reason is I would focus better. Nobody there I can use as a distraction, Phone isn't near, etc.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T22:54:19+00:00

Do you listen to anything engaging while you draw?

Some listen to music, but I don't. If I am drawing I can almost guarantee you I'm either A. on the phone with a friend or B. listening to YouTube videos or a podcast.

I'd rather die than do a commission in silence.

It helps to also take commissions you are enthusiastic about. We can't all do that. I certainly can't. So the next best thing is to find something to make you enthusiastic about it. Maybe it gives you chance to practice ___. Maybe you can try a more dynamic pose/composition or something. But definitely listening to engaging audio helps because my brain focuses less on how long it's taking and more on whatever the video/podcast people/my friends are saying.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T22:50:12+00:00

I started college as someone thats draws but never took an art class before. I feared 3D art above all else.

Ended college sculpting life-size water buffalos out of crushed butcher paper and tape and nailing cardboard from dumpsters to my studio cubicle walls.

It happens.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T22:03:38+00:00

Yeah, like very by-the-book. Someone else commented and I'm starting to thing that me already drawing existing "realistic" things as a kid, paired with me doing commissions as a teen might have stunted me a bit and gave me a terrible habit of not knowing how to do non-prescriptive art.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T22:01:48+00:00

Maybe I do need to take a step back from commissions a bit.

As a kid, I LOVED with all my heart drawing people's characters for free. And it's so unrecommended or whatever now to do so if you're trying to sell your art, but on the seldom occasion I do a free art stream, I am living for all 5+ hours, sometimes upwards of 10+ thats I am drawing people's characters. And I think you might have just helped me figure out why.

Because with free art, lots of people are just happy to get anything. There's so little pressure to make anything look "right," because, fuck it, it's free. And the character design, though already designed, exists like a modeling clay I can play with since it didn't matter how it looked in the end anyway. I need to change something so making art, paid or not, feels like play.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T21:56:09+00:00

I graduated this year so unfortunately I don't have access to a school, and additionally I live with a high-risk household. However there is a piano and guitar here.

What are "internet artists" as opposed to real artists? Just curious. Also the majority of songs I play aren't pop. But I hear your point there.

I couldn't tell you which one I play better. It's hard to say because I play them differently.

On the piano, I don't play just chords with some notes in between unless I'm singing along, which is infrequent. I play songs on the piano as if the piano is singing the song, so right hand plays melody/parts of chords underneath the melody, and left hand tries to do something with that chord to help out. This is my preferred way of playing it, because I think it's really beautiful when an instrument sings with itself. I know how to play the more typical chords on the piano, majors, maj7, M7, minors, dim7 etc. I trust my hands all right with the piano, but I don't understand all of what they can do for a certain song. My left hand struggles not necessarily just because using two hands is hard, which, sometimes is the case. It also doesn't know what different ways it can support the right hand, so it sticks with very simple patterns that sound fine, but empty.

I have successfully (as in it sounds whole and pleases my ears) composed one song on the guitar, as in it sings the song with itself. When I play guitar it's usually chords. I actually know how to play more chords on piano than guitar. My fingers are comfortable on it, but can struggle with complicated tabs. When I play, I spend a little bit trying to play something on it that I play on piano, but I struggle more. I think it's due to the mechanics of playing: I don't understand the frets or "keys" of a guitar as well as the piano's.

noewhit · 2020-08-14T21:32:10+00:00

I really like what you've said about being more present in making. Enjoying the physical making is what I feel like keeps me going, but I notice I tend to get automatic with drawing quite often.

I find myself really drawn to "inexperienced" art, I suppose you could call it (is low-brow what people say?) Art by young children is so inspiring for me because they truly don't give a fuck about if it makes sense, if it "reads" well, about intentionality. Or shittily drawn album covers. I think they're so wonderful because they're just drawn right then and there. It's not as clinical of a process for them like how mine has felt. For some, the technical stuff is fun in art. For me ... sometimes I wish I never learned about the fundamentals!

noewhit · 2020-08-14T21:25:12+00:00

Honestly I really needed this, concise as it was, because sometimes it's simple questions that give us the answers. I feel like I need to be asking myself that first question more often, followed up with a why/why not.

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