My art! I’ll also provide feedback to other artists too. I love giving advice and watching them improve! 😃
🚫 No AI is used in my process. I upload progress pictures here!
I like the biblically accurate angel chain.
Thank you so much! I have fond memories of that one because it’s one of my first ever drawings that I’ve uploaded to social media. Can’t believe a year’s gone by already!
Hi Color! :D - typo
Beannnsss!! Lol I loved that goodie video, so cool seeing your process and watching a character come to life! Thanks for sharing, I love your style
Hi there typo! I’m glad someone remembers my old username hehe! 😃
Thank you so much! I might do more of those in the future and no problem! I’m glad you love my style, honestly comments like this just make my day! There will be a lot more to come!!
- Reading and writing. Philosophy, history, literature.
- Journaling !journaling@sh.itjust.works (that’s not self-promo, that’s legit share of useful info)
- Cinema.
- Cooking.
- Being bald, speaking English with a terrible French accent ;)
Any advice for getting started with journalling? It’s been recommended to me but it’s not something I’ve ever really done before.
Any advice for getting started with journalling? It’s been recommended to me but it’s not something I’ve ever really done before.
It’s excellent advice (that’s coming from a 50+ years old dude, so you know) as a journal can help you a lot in many various ways (memories of events, putting some order in your thoughts, facing personal difficulties,…).
How to do it depends a lot of things like what are your existing habits (do yo write already, or not much? There is no right or wrong answer but a need for shorter than longer wirting sessions for example), what you want to do with your journal (memories, pretty pages, thinking self-reflecting assistant,…) and even who you are as a person but as a general rule:
- Keep it as simple as you can,
- Be fine with your journal not being perfect, and with you not looking perfect in it either.
- Be ok with making breaks. I’ve been journaling for almost 50 years and I’ve been not journaling some times for a few years. That’s OK. A journal is a tool, like a hammer is and would be surprised if I told you and I don’t carry my hammer everywhere I go and don’t use it all day long? ;)
All you need to start is a decent pen (aka something you find pleasant to write with and that will not tire your hand too fast), a cheap but decent notebook or an easy to use app, if you’re more interested in digital (an app you can quickly open and start writing in), some calm spot where you can wit and write and some time (not much). I shared some advice here, but there are other tidbits spread in the other discussions too. The idea is simply to remove as much friction as possible between you and actually writing in your journal. Be it analog or digital. It doesn’t matter how and with what tool you want to journal.
Also, be fine with making mistakes and with writing some real stupid shit. We all do. I constantly do. That’s legit part of a journal… it’s not a novel, or an essay. It’s not a work of art. It’s notes to your (future) self.
Related to making mistakes: not worrying about being judged helps a lot.
It’s ok do do mistakes. In fact, it’s even an essential part of learning anything (that is worth learning, I mean). We all learn through trial and error, by experimenting. So, be happy to experiment freely (aka as stupidly or as daringly as you want) in you journal, because it is yours and no one else. What anyone else may think of it should not matter the slightest.If you want to discuss more about starting and keeping at it, you’re welcome to join. We’ve gotten quite a few new members those last weeks but we’re still real short on people sharing content which, in my opinion, includes beginner questions and doubts about starting a journal, and how to journal. The invitation is open to anyone else, obviously: !journaling@sh.itjust.works
I really enjoy sharing my knowledge of writing, academia, law, literature, and history. I am a complete dumbass in many ways, but it’s because I put all my points into those topics on the character making screen before start.
I cannot remember what 7x8 equals for sure, but I am a wizard at helping students sort out what colleges to apply to, how to write their essays to best present themselves to universities, and then what school they should go to once they are accepted. I can make teenagers love Dante and Shakespeare, Homer and Twain. I have a stupidly deep knowledge of London…ok, too much sharing, I will stop!
Lifting weights!
Becoming stronger has such a powerful positive effect on people’s lives. One of the world’s strongest men right now, Mitchell Hooper, is a professional exercise physiologist. He teaches elderly patients how to deadlift, progressing them from whatever point they are capable of initially. Many patients can barely bend over to begin with, but little by little, the practice of resistance training restores their mobility, alleviates their pain, and improves their quality of life in countless other ways.
Literally their bones will get stronger, and their balance will improve, thus reducing the likelihood and severity of falls. Which is a huge killer as you get older.
What’s cool is that anyone at any age has a ton of benefits to reap. But I think everyone generally understands a 20 year old can go hard in the gym and get results. Far fewer people in their 40s, 60s, and even 80s consider getting started which is a shame because getting started at those ages can TRANSFORM your life
Machining, informally as a primer to my coworkers. We have a mill and a lathe at our shop and not very many folks know how to use them or what they can do. I’m mostly self taught so I try to impart some baseline theory and explicit safety warnings while hopefully imparting a small amount of what I find so compelling about the process of machining.
Of course half the time I go through the shpiel, everyone seems excited and then they have to drill a shit ton of holes and realize that machining isn’t magic and sometimes it’s boring. But every once in a while someone gets an inkling of how cool it is so it’s worth it.
Music and food, core necessities of life.
Astronomy. I’m a merit badge counselor. But every time I set up in my yard I invite friends and neighbors.
Genealogy. I’m working on trees for several friends. I’d like to do it for money, but the pay isn’t there.
Programming, using technology, security, and music (making and critical listening)… oh and cocktails I guess too
Game design!
Life, dating, philosophy, helping others understand themselves better, saying the truth in a positive and constructive way to others.
Of course all with consent and being equitable.
I have aphantasia and autism and have zero imagination, so I have a extremely high pattern recognition and ability to see things around me for exactly what they are, Its incredibly hard to live with. But at least I have helped others see things they didn’t ever realize existed or understood.
History. It’s so much more interesting than school would have you think.
Yeah, I never learned about the great molasses flood in high school. You’d think stuff like that would be taught.
I’m not sure where I’d heard of this (likely a podcast), but I recognized it before I looked it up and found the wikipedia entry. Thanks for the reminder.
I love helping people build their own PC. I love building them myself, so helping others is just as fun.
I used to love doing this too, until I realised that helping someone build a PC is the same as signing them up for a lifetime of tech support for free.
“I bought a new printer and plugged it in and it’s not working? Why doesn’t it work? You built the PC, it’s your fault.”
“My ISP told me I need a new wifi router, so I plugged in the new one they sent, now my PC doesn’t have any internet. You built the PC, why doesn’t it work?”
“My colleague told me I need to upgrade my antivirus so I got a Norton subscription, I installed it and now I can’t receive any emails. Come and fix it, you built the PC.”
All 3 of these are real experiences I’ve had. There are countless more. These days I say “I’d love to help you build a PC, but it’s been 15 years since I’ve used windows, I don’t really know how to install it or set it up or use it. I’d be happy to build a PC with a Linux based OS for you.” By that time they’re already finding someone else.
Haha. I basically do the same thing. I tell them I can help build the PC for them, and install Windows, but I have no idea how Windows works. Last Windows I used was Windows XP.
Do language lessons count?
Math, physics, and to a lesser extent, software engineering.
I got degrees in math and physics in college. I love talking about counterintuitive concepts in math and things that are just way outside everyday life, like transfinite numbers and very large dimensional vector spaces.
My favorite parts of physics to talk about are general relativity and the weirder parts of quantum mechanics.
My day job is software engineering, so I can also help people get started learning to program, and then the next level of building a solid, maintainable software project. It’s more “productive” in the traditional sense, so it’s satisfying to help people be more productive, but when it’s just free time to shoot the shit, talking about math and science are way more fun.
Systems engineering applied to business theory
