Duck Photos #1
I take a lot of photos of ducks! Today I was hoping to dig up the first ducks-in-trees photos I ever took but I couldn’t find them 🙁
Anyhow, here’s a pair of wood duck parents and their well-sheltered young. Taken in August 2010.
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Dogs Playing Poker
Or not.
Scribble from EVAC tonight.
Lucky
Well, supposedly DecemBlog has started and I’ve yet to put anything up for it! Tonight I have assessment on a bunch of art pieces from throughout the term so I’ll be pretty much calling those artworks ‘done’ whether I like it or not. And then maybe they’ll make their way here 🙂
In the mean time, here’s a find I made yesterday. It’s been two years since I found my last four-leafed clover but on the way home yesterday I found two. And another two two-leaved clovers that appeared to be legitimately short one leaf. It feels good to get my average back on track.
Mah Jong Scoring
In an effort in getting my head around the scoring rules of Japanese Mah Jong (which are generally more restrictive than the rules I’m accustomed to playing with) I’ve been putting together a few scoring sheets. Here’s one, listing the Yaku (valid winning hands). It’s a simplified table comprised of the information from Wikipedia’s page designed to fit on one A4 page.
Excel crashed part way through me formatting this and although it auto-recovered the file, when I saved that auto-recovered file over the old one it corrupted it! Argh. At least I had an older branched version of the file saved so I didn’t have to start over from scratch.
Epic Swords (Guest Post #5 from Connell Wood)
No comic #4 yet, but! Here’s an arts I have come up with for a competition.
I had to draw an “epic” sword for a videogame (yes, that word is completely ruined now, but not my choice). To start with I thought:
well, we’ve gotten swords that are guns now, how can I take that further? And then thought that perhaps I could combine it with a mode of transport…
But it kept looking somewhat silly, with the airship looking least dumb, but… well, it looked too much like way too many other fictional airships and spaceships.
And then, an idea!
Pity I spelled poisonous wrong 🙁
Guest Post #2 by Connell Wood
Says Connell, "Sigh.... toilet humor already. OH WELL."
Blagofest
somethingsomething there was going to be content here but just got home from a meeting thing. Have a picture instead. Explanation forthcoming maybe.
Textures!
An in-class exercise. Wouldn’t really call it that successful but hey, it was fun to do!
The idea was to use textures to help sell the idea of depth. Making all the textures was super fun!
‘Wings – Background Draft
What on earth possessed me to put the horizon line on a slant? It just looks rather odd.
Anyone know whether it’s possible to mark points outside the drawing area in Photoshop? I had to work on the image quite small as I was concerned about memory and wanted my vanishing points to remain visible. I ended up using grid lines to mark my vanishing points but because I had the canvas on a rotation it was quite awkward.
Obviously the answer is just that I should have a perfectly horizontal horizon line…
Anyway, here’s the draft. Might go back again and rethink yet…
Pink buildings? Yeargh, I'm getting out of here!