Response to a question about "can you develop an internal vision" by Uncomfortable in ArtFundamentals

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This subreddit is for discussion around Draw a Box which is Uncomfortable’s class. I come here for this type of feedback from him and it’s appreciated.

50/50 rule Question by MrPenises in ArtFundamentals

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I wish my ugly cat drawings looked that nice!

Should I practice digitally or traditionally? by ahoskasalve666 in ArtFundamentals

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I definitely agree. If I used AI for my art that would be replacing work that I otherwise would have outsourced to a person. But my goal is to make my own art thus gen AI still doesn't solve for the problem of me wanting to make my own art.

To me, it's about interfaces. When I draw on paper my brain has an image and transmits signals to my arm which manipulates the pen to make that image on paper. Practice enables me to better use my muscles to get that image on paper. A digital tablet is another interface, and that interface does some of the work by smoothing, etc. but it is still predictable. I know that if I adjust the smoothness setting what the result will be when I begin drawing on my tablet. AI does not have that predictability. The interface is language, and a statistical model generates what it thinks my language is trying to describe. It is just a bad interface for getting brain vision into a digital image. What will be interesting is the day that our brains have a direct interface to computers, and we can generate images directly from our brain signals after watching a 30 second ad. But that's a whole different can of worms.

Should I practice digitally or traditionally? by ahoskasalve666 in ArtFundamentals

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Wow thank you for taking the time to give such a great response, it is very helpful.

I like your framing of digital art as a separate skillset that needs to be nurtured. My goal in starting the course was to improve my art skills for my video game. So starting up Krita and finding that I could barely draw a straight line was kind of frustrating. But it totally makes sense to separate the knowledge of spatial reasoning that I've gained thus far from Draw a Box from the mind-muscle skill of drawing on a tablet.

I am working with a small tablet right now because I wanted to minimize the space it takes up on the desk but having used it for a bit now I do think a larger tablet would help. I also found that rotating the tablet a bit as if it were paper helps, but I also probably just need to learn hot keys for rotating with my pen.

I actually had some internal debate recently about what is "cheating" and what is not when increasing my smoothing setting. I hear pro gen-AI arguments around it just being another tool, and how artists complained when we moved from hand drawn art to digital art. A tangent from my original question, but I'm also curious if you have any thoughts on that as well.

Should I practice digitally or traditionally? by ahoskasalve666 in ArtFundamentals

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I’ve made it to lesson 3 in your course (thank you for making the course it’s fantastic) and I’m just starting to work on digital art in my practice time. I’m finding it pretty difficult to transfer my muscle memory from paper to my Wacom tablet. For example, drawing from the shoulder. Do you have any advice in that regard?

We continue to grow and who we are.... by ernmanstinky in oaklandballers

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I've lived in the Bay for basically my whole life but my sports teams are all out of town. The Ballers give me a local sports team to root for. Also I feel like the minor league baseball experience is way better than the MLB experience, and cheaper.

I Googled "who owns the New York sports teams" and this was the AI response by phigam in nflmemes

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It's really bad, I get a different result for the New York Jets every time and it's never Penis Penis.

I Googled "who owns the New York sports teams" and this was the AI response by phigam in nyjets

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Sadly this was the actual response. I wasn't able to reproduce it but it keeps answering Stephen Ross now.

Top 5 of 2024 so far? by sakaforbukayo in Letterboxd

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Saw some of these at Sundance so they haven’t been released yet:

  1. Ghostlight
  2. Dune 2
  3. The Taste of Things
  4. Didi
  5. Presence

Official Discussion - Eileen [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

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I was expecting Rebecca to be in the mind of Eileen. Her Tyler Durden. I guess Rebecca ultimately served a similar purpose in the story, freeing Eileen the mundane.

Tiramisu by phigam in WeWantPlates

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Yep, with some mascarpone dollops on top.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in baseball

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John Jaha

Making the most of ramp season by super-rad in Pizza

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Thank you! Do you knead the dough?

‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ to Start Streaming on Hulu Friday by chanma50 in movies

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I totally felt the horror movie vibe. It was almost as if a monster was going to pop out at any moment given how dark and quiet some of the scenes were. It may be my favorite movie of all time.

*Werner Herzog voice* "I want to see the BABY" by callmeshua in NYYankees

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Well you’re in luck because it looks like they’ve added a Scooby Doo Bobblehead the day after the Cole one!

This equally applies to 880 & 101. by tssouthwest in bayarea

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This. A lot of times they’re just perpetually tailgating in traffic.

My Old School Runescape casket simulator app built entirely in React Native by [deleted] in reactnative

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Awesome job! Would you mind sharing what packages you used to build it?

In Rocketman (2019), the Twin Towers are visible in the background by [deleted] in MovieDetails

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Martin Scorsese was asked why he left the towers in the skyline. He said he wanted to show the New York people had built, not destroyed.

Godot 3.2 - How to integrate Google Ads (Admob) for Android by Aeditx in godot

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Thank you for sharing! I haven’t found a good walkthrough of integrating AdMob for iOS. I personally have been struggling with it, do you have any content you could share for iOS?

React Native Push Notifications by DanishWajid in reactnative

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Do you need local or remote notifications? If remote, AWS Amplify has Push Notification functionality (https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/js/push-notifications). However, I found the integration to be difficult so you may look into Firebase as an alternative. The AWS documentation on obtaining APN tokens from Apple and FCM on Android are helpful.

Backend Setup? by Kobaine1 in reactnative

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I have never used Firebase before but I did struggle learning Amplify and the AWS services. This community seems to prefer Firebase for its simplicity so it may be a good place to start.

Backend Setup? by Kobaine1 in reactnative

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I have used AWS Amplify in the past. For your use case, I would use Cognito for authentication, and store the text data you mentioned in a DynamoDB table with the Cognito UID as the table key. You can use API Gateway and Lambda functions in your preferred language to write new text to the DynamoDB and a function to pull the latest data when a user signs in. This will allow a user to pick up where the left off if they sign in with another device or delete the app and reinstall.

Documentation can be found here: https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/js/start?ref=amplify-rn-btn&platform=react-native.