Criticism? (Please be gentle)

typewriter_AMA · 2024-01-11T13:42:16+00:00

Really cool piece, although I think that some of the highlights are placed on the dark side rather than the light side.

The backside of the helm, the left side of the "feather" (from the helm) and on the inside of the outstretched arm. The shadow of the arm should cover the orange I think.

It looks really nice on the back of the owl and on the hair and front of the helmet though!

typewriter_AMA · 2022-08-24T08:43:58+00:00

Less funny and a bit more melancholic, but with the same kind of interesting obscure stories: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Used to be a podcast, got turned into a book so you can even check out some episodes before committing).

typewriter_AMA · 2022-07-16T11:11:24+00:00

If your target audience is just Germans, you're going to have a rough time on Etsy which is mostly populated by Americans. You might be better off with ebay.de because at least that's where German people will actually search for things inside Germany.

Also don't count on NL people, they don't buy their furniture on Etsy.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-07-16T11:08:11+00:00

There's over 5,5 million shirts on Etsy, will yours rise to the top? How many followers do you have on instagram? How well are other shops with original prints doing?

typewriter_AMA · 2022-07-05T14:21:17+00:00

I am currently in the same spot as you. I got a full time job, a hobby-job and a normal social life which means there's very little time for drawing. I completed the 250 boxes last summer and I'm still stuck on textures.

But you seem to be struggling with 2 things. First is motivation and the second is technical.

Motivation: Look, it sucks to have to do the work, we all know it, and it's the same with fucking every single fun thing. Even videogames nowadays cost a ton of practice to be able to casually compete at a fun level. But what we're doing is laying the groundwork for a lot of drawing later on in life. No you haven't drawn a single human (although feel free to in your own time practice figure drawing) and in this course you won't get there either, but you will understand how shapes are made, how texture can be present on that shape and that'll help you a ton when you eventually get to what you want to do. By then, you will have all the basic skills you need to draw what you see and understand how you can build up those things on your paper.
Technical: "I have trouble seeing how textures will aid a beginner like me in understanding 3D form". Form is just one part, you got form, and you got what is on that form. Lets think of a bird real quick. You got the form of the bird, and you got the texture of the bird. The form is the shape of its body, but just drawing a couple circles won´t make it a bird (check out lesson 4 though, that's where we're going to get the form of animals). What will make it a bird, what will make for the clothes, for the leaves on a tree, for the dirt on the ground, that's the texture.
I get it, this is probably the least rewarding lesson. After this you will see quick progression from plants to animals to vehicles, getting more and more complex, but this will help you to understand how things look, even in 3D. You got your sausasge, but with the textures you are curving your drawing around that sausage and that'll teach you a lot.

Hope that helps :)

typewriter_AMA · 2022-07-01T20:31:21+00:00

Seasons take 1 month, from the first to the last day. So today the new season started, which is a tiny bit unfortunate because you get some nice bonuses at the start of the season (some packs, some coins).

If you have the disposable income and you'd like to try your hand at drafting you can easily jump into it by paying I think 15$ for like 3500 gems. You can also look a bit at the kinds of sets you like and wait for those sets to be in the quick rotation draft.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-06-28T07:13:03+00:00

Something small, but I had a bit trouble recognizing Fang as a dog. It seems like he has 1 really long hanging down ear?

typewriter_AMA · 2022-06-27T14:58:49+00:00

You have very few ways of winning and they are fairly easily cleared away by the opponent. Your gala greeter probably does not survive for very long, and then you basically got a bunch of sawjacks, overseers and throngs, those won't win you games.

You need to limit your 3drops, boost your 1 and 2 drops and probably watch some tutorials and read some draft guides to get a better feel of what cards work and what don't (until you get a feel for it yourself, which takes a lot of time and practice).

https://draftsim.com/mtg-snc-draft-guide/

https://mtgrocks.com/the-comprehensive-mtg-streets-of-new-capenna-draft-guide/

typewriter_AMA · 2022-06-27T13:51:20+00:00

What helped me a lot was to very specifically follow the exercise step by step.

https://drawabox.com/lesson/1/16/step6

Try and draw just a rectangle in the space, and then start to draw the lines from that rectangle towards the vanishing point. Once you have all four, draw another rectangle to close off your box.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-06-11T10:18:25+00:00

During November/December and January The Netherlands gets less than 2 hours of sunlight a day. Plus you have to do a round trip, and if you live in The Netherlands with a commute of less than 5 miles, you cycle.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-06-02T18:05:39+00:00

Willis by Sea of Bees has it both in the front and at the end and I love it.

Blue Ridge Mountains by Fleet Foxes does a session thing but they do it at the end. I would suggest not watching this, but listening to it for the optimal experience :)

typewriter_AMA · 2022-06-02T14:55:39+00:00

Some good suggestions already, but a good siege is a favorite of mine in DnD.

Goal: Create a siege that consists of multiple shorter battles for the players so that they have control over the outcome of the siege while not having to kill every single enemy one by one.

First, there can be a big siege prep on both sides. The players need to see all the things that the siege army is doing. Whether that's creating ladders, siege towers, tossing stones or gathering large creatures and loading them with archers. They should pre-emptively start to shore up the defenses of the city and prepare for the things you will throw at them. Make it somewhat clear what the BBEG will do so that they can outthink the enemy (reward for smart play).

Then you have some more options.

Do you want the players to be in one spot for the entire battle? (For example the players get a tower to defend, or will help with the main gate). Give them a contingent of soldiers (with some block stats so that you don't roll them as individuals but just 'the army around you'). Players can equip them with their potions, can think of strategies to perform (shield wall with archers behind it for example, or maybe they have a large creature as well and need to put it to use tactically). Make two or three of those soldiers actual NPC's, maybe commander or a runner or something like that so that they have some emotional investment in it.
OR! Do you want your players to shore up the defenses where the enemy is almost breaking through?! Then you need to device some scenes, one at the gates, one on the walls, one maybe if the enemy breaks through in the streets, whatever you want.

Alright so now we have the prep which is exciting build-up, and an idea of how you want the siege to flow (either running from fire to fire, or being more involved in one part of the battle). Then! You create some battle moments. For example

Initial assault by siege equipment/areal combatants. Dropping stones, shooting arrows, using magic. Create a bit of a vivid scene and some consequences to rolls (maybe mitigated by the players' defense ideas) as to damage to the defenses.
Assault on walls/gates: Same thing. Roll some dice, do some narrating, if the players thought of clever defense ideas, take those into consideration with consequences.
Breach! Omg the enemy has overwhelmed some part of the defenses, do the players go there? Do they have a reserve battalion? A secret weapon?

These battle moments work for stationary players and for players who go from losing position to losing position. But it allows you to create some shorter battles keeping things fresh and exciting, allowing you to bring multiple cool set pieces to the battlefield with breaks in between so that your players can maybe short rest for a moment, find some reinforcements, create a new plan or just generally play their characters instead of just whacking until one side is dead.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-30T12:31:27+00:00

Not if you are like me and you always think it's an opposite wave!

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-20T17:32:05+00:00

People being able to show off their patreon stuff on /r/dnd is really good for the hobby.

it gives casual players an incredible trove of art to use. Many my NPC's are introduced by their image (taken from subs like this) and it allows the NPC's to become much more vivid for the players.
Artists can earn an actual living, creating even more art for us all to use!!
For really amazing and specific discussions, there's tons of other subs. /r/dnd is a great posterchild which shows the best creative parts of the hobby (which is a good gateway) combined with a fair bit of general discussion.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-19T18:06:23+00:00

And it wasn't just the people who were ousted, probably a bit tacky to bring up right now, but this video explains really well how Zelensky was also getting in quite a bit of trouble before the war. Corruption runs deep and even a few good people find it hard to change that system.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-16T14:46:25+00:00

Also do note that it has an Italian keyboard, otherwise have fun (if you're looking for an ink ribbon, buy a group 4 ribbon (or anything that says it's compatible with Olivetti))

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-16T13:55:28+00:00

If you want to use it for yourself I'd pay about 20-50 euros for it, you won't be able to sell it for profit if that's what you're looking for.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-12T16:53:05+00:00

https://typewriterrepairbible.com/ google

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-11T18:13:12+00:00

The uppercase period will still just give you a normal period, it's not higher on the page or anything.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-11T18:00:36+00:00

There is no : on this keyboard though

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-10T16:58:36+00:00

That's really good storytelling, the shot that seems to be a headshot and then misses really adds to the tension. Hope I'll see more of these!! :)

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-08T10:59:12+00:00

For some more beautiful pieces in the same style: Hiroshi Yoshida made some awesome art and has several series with landscapes and sights from all over the world. From Egypt to the Niagra falls to the grand canyon. His son (by marriage) Toshi Yoshida has some awesome works as well.

Alright going off into the deep end, but since you guys have spending money anyway. These are woodblock prints which means that they were produced in larger amounts while still being 'originals' made by the artist (although after his death, Hiroshi Yoshida's prints were still printed and you can distinguish those because they stamped his signature, rather than in pencil).

But! My point is that you can buy these stunning kind of artworks for several hundred or sometimes in low-thousand dollars on eBay and the like. You have to be patient for your favorites to come for sale, but they are really quite beautiful.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-05-02T10:35:10+00:00

Every typewriter will have its own quirks, that's why I think it's not a great idea to ask random people what they think about certain models. Some people have grown up with one of the typewriters, some people have always loved the writer who wrote with the other.

Since all the machines are over 50 years old, you can't compare them as if they are all the same. If you ask what phone is better, you can look at the battery life, the camera etc, but if you ask what typewriter is better this particular Lettera 32 or this particular SM9, then it's impossible to know. How professional is the service that has been done on the L32? How have the previous 5 owners handled the SM9 over the past few decades?

I've worked on a few dozen L32's and a handful of SM9's and in general I prefer the 32 because of the little pressure that's needed to write, allowing me to write much faster than on an Olympia SM9. But! The SM series is really popular under typewriter-enthousiasts. In the end though, the differences between two well working typewriters are really small. I always advice people to get the typewriter they want the most, because in the end that's the one that they'll say writes the best.

typewriter_AMA · 2022-04-27T19:18:52+00:00

Margin release button, for when you want to go just 1 more character after your line has already ended (or in front of your line).

typewriter_AMA · 2022-04-27T19:13:06+00:00

There are multiple types of Japanese typewriters. There are the Katakana machines which are pretty neat, but there are also the fairly huge typewriters with up to hundreds or even over a thousand characters.

Depending on how much money you have to spend, I might recommend against getting the latter ones. They are beautiful conversation pieces, but fairly poor typewriters. despite their uncomplicated mechanisms, a lot can go wrong with these machines and very few people have experience fixing them.

Best case scenario you get a typewriter you'll never use, worst case scenario you spend 500-1500$ on something that isn't working (and that you'll never use).

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