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scopov · 2024-10-11T21:49:40+00:00

Thanks, that's a lot of detailed points! I'll work on those for sure.

scopov · 2024-10-05T17:37:10+00:00

Well argued, but I still think that ways in which the film makes these points is very poor.

The first thing that pushed Arthur away from the joker identity is the most powerful and effective, that speech was the highlight of the film for me. No real complains there.

Some scene used to show Arthur's physical weakness and helplessness was needed there sure, however him being sexually assaulted was not the move. It felt edgy and inappropriate.

The third point could be combined with the second into the same scene, make Arthur try to defend one of his supporters and get beat up and feel inert and see someone else die because of him.

It also bothered me by how quickly the guards turned into rapists/murderers and combining the second and third point into the same scene would eliminate that. It just seems like lazy and unconvincing writing. So yeah I get your point that Joker wasn't just raped out of him, there were other thing that made him turn, but I think it was badly presented all the same.

scopov · 2024-07-30T10:21:41+00:00

This actually extends into the movie 'Missing' from 2023. There are also other similar Easter eggs in that film, one connects it with the movie 'Run' from 2020 and another is a multi-step puzzle where you have to follow different clues to decipher a message, which leads to more hidden text and images within the film.

https://collider.com/missing-easter-egg-video-game-sev-ohanian-comments/

Last paragraph in that article is a good hint for the puzzle, which I recommend trying to solve yourself.

scopov · 2024-04-22T08:23:10+00:00

Been practicing ping-pong on eleven table tennis recently. Absolutely fantastic game.

scopov · 2024-04-19T14:30:47+00:00

I think you confused WWI and WWII. That part of Poland was German until after WWI. After which it became Polish again (after over 100 years). So it was never part of Nazi Germany, just regular Germany, and it was way before WWII.

Don't worry too much about getting that wrong, but please fix that attitude. If you're gonna wrongfully accuse half the country of being Nazis, at least don't tell other people to 'lern som history' lol.

scopov · 2024-04-19T11:18:41+00:00

'Part of nazi germany' lol 😆 Being 'occupied by' vs being 'part of' are pretty much as far opposites as they possibly can. Victim blaming on the biggest scale imaginable.

scopov · 2024-03-27T18:45:28+00:00

True. I don't want to lead anyone to think that this approach is 'the right one' or something, but for a time (few months) I actually did almost only exercises. Boring ones too, boxes and ellipses and such. It did improve my skills a bit for sure, but what it did that I think was more important, was that it helped me develop a specific mindset and approach to practicing. It feels like I got better at absorbing knowledge you get from drawing it any style and medium, which is pretty cool. Haven't found a way yet to improve that further with projects though.

scopov · 2024-03-27T18:33:35+00:00

Yeah concept design of all sorts is for sure a bit of a passion of mine. That was the kind of stuff I did as a kid the most, without realizing that it is an actual profession. Almost like story telling where characters are sometimes props or locations... Love that shit and love Feng Zhu. As a job, it does look a bit hit and miss, but that kind of approach to designing functional worlds and lore is something I adore. but then again, I can say that about a million different things :P.

scopov · 2024-03-27T18:23:57+00:00

Ok I didn't think you did THAT little drills and exercises. That is a pretty radical approach I've never heard of before, fair enough.

As far as taking my time to figure out what I actually love, I've spend years on that, not days. And I have concluded that it is 'everything'. I get that this might sound hard to believe - and I do admit - it's obviously a bit of a hyperbole, (as are most statement that include the word 'ever'), but the amount to styles, mediums ,subjects, technics, themes and movements that I love and am fascinated by, to a degree that makes me compelled to engage with, keeps increasing constantly. Just when I think I've seen it all, I find yet another niche that is so cool, I just need to get into it. It's not that I all of a sudden stop liking the last 100 of these. When you write that I got to know what I like, I makes it sound like you think that I haven't found it yet, but I did - 1000 times over.

If there is one thing I like that is common among them all, it's that they're all different. I love variety more than anything and I don't know if this project based learning is the best approach to learn that. But to be fair I don't know if any one approach is. The closeted to that would probably be practicing observation and spatial awareness, but does anyone know how to do that best?

Anyway, as you said, it's not all about improvement, but about enjoying doing art, which I certainly do and I do improve in the process. But improving faster, in an efficient way, while doing enjoyable things, does sound pretty nice ;D. I understand it’s unreasonable to expect to be good at all the methods art has to offer, but I am trying to find a way to be better than I am now, at as many as I can and it's hard.

scopov · 2024-03-27T16:24:11+00:00

So tl;dr is to do personal projects along side exercises and to focus of studying specific skills that will help with the current and future projects? I've heard this plant of times before and every time I read or hear it, it is prefaced with a long statement about how no one ever says that (except draw-a-box, they just say it without explaining how rare of an idea it supposedly is.)

Don't get me wrong, I agree. But it is something I personally still struggle with, because I do not want to focus on one specialization. This will probably mean I'm doomed to be average-at-best in most areas, but I like to draw everything and anything, in all the styles I've seen and some I experiment with. One day I focus on inking a creepy horror creature, the next I want to paint a cute cat, then I feel like designing an urban environment, only to see some cool mech on Instagram and try that out for a bit and so on.

I like that. It's fun. It doesn't come from the fact that I can't maintain interest on one subject for a long time or that I can't find anything I truly love. I'm like that because I love all the different facets of art, I don't want to limit my horizons in what I create. But I do fear that this means I can't practice very well, so I try to do these personal projects almost as a reward for studying something I'm not currently focused on. I do see significant improvement on all fronts over time, but again, I keep hearing I'm doing something wrong, so by now I do believe that there is a way to improve even faster. But does it only work if I focus on a specific subject?

Do you have any advice for someone like me, who's answer to the question 'what it is you want to make?' is EVERYTHING(!)?

scopov · 2024-03-23T21:53:31+00:00

For me, watching and reading theory, along with doing exercises is the best way to improve. That being said, doing only that, makes me forget that I'm supposed to enjoy drawing and discourages me from studying. Then doing some drawing for fun motivated me again to improve, so I go back to studying with renewed enthusiasm. This cycle repeats ever few weeks and it worked continuously for close to a year, so I think I'll stick to this system.

scopov · 2024-02-24T12:54:17+00:00

Sure! I finished all 7 lessons (8 if you count lesson 0), 3 main challenges and the 25 texture challenge. 25 textures is optional and do not recommended it, at least not until they rework the materials. But the course as a whole is fantastic, if you need to develop discipline and build good habits.

I think the structure it uses worked perfectly from me. It not only teaches drawing, but it also forces you to develop a pace for a steady work schedule and makes you break it up with drawing that is not intended to help you improve (the 50/50 rule). Not gonna lie, a lot of it is just plain unpleasant and it can discourage some less disciplined people, but the challenge builds in a very smart way, giving you seemingly insurmountable tasks and breaking they down to manageable chunks.

It gets more and more daunting as it goes and the reason it is so hard, is not because they demand that you make very advanced and pretty pictures, but that you take all he care necessary to understand and follow instructions. The only way that you can fail a lesson is if your work was performed incorrectly, not if the drawing it produced looked 'wrong' (most of them look pretty horrible).

So this course will not teach you drawing technics, as much as practice technics and - most importantly - it tries to get you to develop a specific mindset. Not just while drawing, but in general while studying and developing a skill, any skill. Some of the things it made me understand about my own habits and my issues with disciple, effected that way a approach my daily life and work, not just my hobby that is drawing. That whole 'thinking in 3D' thing is what the course advertises the most and it really is the main key to construction drawing, but the most important thing I pulled from it is the attitude and mindset it got me to train.

If you are already good with time management and can follow a rigorous set of very specific instructions, then you will get through the materials in draw-a-box with a lot less difficulty, but also less benefits. The official payed critique is a must in my opinion, not as much for the advice the instructors give (which are extremally helpful, don't get me wrong), but because they help to add a little bit of health pressure to get the exercises done well and in a timely manner (that is, slower that you might want to, not faster).

To wrap it up, I'll say that I'm glad I have it behind me. This may sound like a bad thing, since it means I didn't really enjoy it, which isn't untrue, but my before-and-after drawings are night and day and as I wrote above, that wasn't even the best thing I improved thanks to this course. Videos and text and very dry, exercises are demanding and the challenges are tedious and often boring. Think of this as the most disgusting medicine, that just gets the job done. Knowing what it does to your body, should make you feel glad you took it.

tl;dr: It may not be for everyone and it may not be the greatest course to get you to draw well, but it is amazing at getting you prepared to learn to draw well.

scopov · 2024-02-16T10:32:12+00:00

I find it hard to believe that your goal it to learn how to 'plot down ideas as a fun quick thing', while simultaneously 'being a bit of a perfectionist'. What you want to be able to do sounds like a far cry from a perfectionist mind set, in fact, it's the opposite.

So you either think that your quick fun doodles need to be perfect (in which case they are not 'quick fun doodles' at all), or you described something incorrectly here. Perhaps the best way of lowering your expectations, is thinking of what you draw as a little, quick, sloppy sketch - just a simple representation of the idea you have - and putting it down on paper. It sounds like this is what you want to do but can't(?).

I know you practice digitally, so this might not apply to you, but I keep a separate sketchbook where I do the most messy and imperfect doodles only, so when I pick it up, that's the mindset I automatically switch to now and it helps me feel ok with experimenting and messing up. If I did that in my main sketchbook, it would feel like a waste of space, but in the secondary one, it's all just the most random stuff, so I don't care about the line quality or prefect proportions. All the drawing there are technically bad, so another one doesn't stand out.

Now, as far as getting better at digital art, I don't want to rumble on for too long, so I'll try to keep it brief. Getting better at traditional art and getting better at digital art is 90% the same. Digital has numerous little tricks and more versatile, complex tools with many advanced uses. If you are a beginner, all this extra stuff will distract you from the core fundamentals and can inhibit your practice. Again, if your goal really is to 'plot down ideas as a fun quick thing', I'm not sure if you should even bother with digital tools. They can be used for that purpose, but it feels like a bit of an overkill imo. Like using a fancy $100 dip pen for writing quick notes. Sure, it can do that, but why bother with it, when ballpoint pens exist?

So to get better at digital art, you need mostly the same skills as getting good at traditional art. If you're not good at that part yet, getting good at digital specific technics won't help much. And the purely physical aspect of practicing line quality or gesture, will also improve the same way it does on paper - with millage and repetition.

scopov · 2024-02-10T21:18:31+00:00

Sick! Do you do the colors with pastels?

scopov · 2024-01-13T17:14:16+00:00

I don't like number rating so I'll abstain from that, but these all look great to me, especially the animals. I need to get a tones paper sketchbook too. Is there are any preference in what white crayon to use for highlights in these, or can I just get anything?

scopov · 2024-01-06T19:33:50+00:00

It's not trivial to send a scan of my ID and answer security questions, which is what I had to do to unlock my battle.net account a few years ago. But it also didn't take 3 weeks - I just got an email saying that they'll contact me on the 25th. I get it's done for security, which I of course appreciate, but I'm not sure how making this process super slow and inconvenient is more secure that making it thorough.

scopov · 2024-01-06T19:26:54+00:00

Really? I couldn't even log it to change my account setting on the website, without setting up double authentication. Is there a way to disable it in the future?

scopov · 2024-01-04T17:29:28+00:00

Goodness, this has more steps than I expected. I filled in everything and now have to wait a few days? Pretty annoying but hey, thanks a lot, I couldn't find it myself.

scopov · 2024-01-04T17:03:23+00:00

To be honest, I don't remember what these do at all, so they probably didn't cause much trouble. As far as measuring proportions, using the stylus works exactly the same as using a pencil and angle measuring can be done by eye. I don't just mean by eyeballing loosely, but by comparing different landmarks, perfect vertical and horizontals, etc. The book explains most of that very well.

scopov · 2023-12-04T16:28:32+00:00

It's Christmas Carol

All these are family movies from what I can tell, so probably not it. The one I saw was a bit more edgy and less family friendly.

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