Mini-Rants Thread

How people could draw scenes so realistic is beyond me!


Wish I could draw like this!!! Even a supposed to be simple chibi character took me +2 hours just to get a rough result.
*Sigh!*

 

that looks raytraced rather than hand drawn.

 

I really don't understand how it's achieved. Those kind of 'soft' texture images looks realistic, and is use in games as backdrop. I know there's at least 1 program that allows easy use to achieve such result using their pre-provided tiles for indoor scenes, but not outdoors. Or I can simply take a free to use image from the net. But it doesn't quench my curiosity. E.g. which color palette they use (RGBA, CMYK, etc.) Not to mention, I can't always make compromises to settle with an image that doesn't fulfill my need. Then again, I suck at drawing to begin with. I know the principles of drawing; prespective, mixing color, shadings, etc. learnt those in lower to mid grade, but that's so long ago, and I haven't drawn anything until recently. Yet, back then, I suck at drawing as I am still at present. Nothing has changed. If only there's a program that enables me to convert a photograph to such imagery quality.

 

Shit! I didn't realize Wacom Pen nib wears out damn fast. Been trying to find trimmer line as cheaper alternative, so far fruitless. All lawn stores in town conveniently out of stock at the same time, and none can tell me when they'll re-stock. Original nibs cost over 9USD@5pcs, that's excluding the 15USD to commute 2x3 hours to the city.

 

Yay! I finally found it, although I had to fly 2 hours to a neighbouring country and that too still requires me to comb 15 stores! Imagine 5 pcs of 1" original nibs would cost USD8, a 6m spool merely cost USD6, go ahead and calculate how much I could save! PS: The travelling and lodging expenses wasn't on me!!!

 

Living mere few kilometres from a military air strip, right under their flight path can be so annoying. Been hearing them fly numerous Hercules planes, Sukhoi planes, and Puma helicopters for the past 48 hours non-stop at such low altitude! They're probably conducting military exercise, but for goodness sake, the sound pollution from their fly passes every few minutes is freaking unbearable! No wonder the Osakans demands Futenma MCAS moved out.

 

As childish as this maybe, it took me a month to draw these. If anyone recalled me mentioning about working on chibi Naruto characters back on Dec 29th 2015. Had to re-do so many time, that's because I suck at drawing.. Sadly it didn't make the cut during selection. So I thought, might as well I showcase it here for nostalgic reason.

 

It was good you didn't. Had you fell and knock the back of your head, you'd probably be in a coma, paralysed, or dead. Not to mention, there maybe some opportunist whom will rob you instead of help. You know your mom still needs you regardless she says it or not.

I lost a very dear dog last night, thus why I wasn't around till late. She died of cervix cancer around 8 P.M. She was fat, and loves eating. Although her overweight condition at the end was more due to her illness than body fat. Every night she sleeps next to me, and every morning she'd offer a hand shake, and would remind me of her feeding time. I was there when she came into this world, and was by her side up to her departure. She was 1 of 2 dogs that's emotionally very close to me, my other 3 are less intimate. Despite the sadness of losing her, it's a consolation to know her suffering been lifted by God. Now I'm left with 4.

 

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He must have find it fun to pester you.

 

You don't get to dictate how your life story unfolds as you live through it. It's been written for you before you were even born. You're simply living through what's been written for you and making them happen from prologue to epilogue. (Credit : Me - the one who typed all these. )

 

My fucking telecommunication provider is a pain in the ass! I haven't been able to use it since yesterday afternoon. Damn network downed after heavy storm from server side. So now I can't access the internet via the network, can't watch cable tv, and can't use the land line. All 3 requires the damn network! Made report yesterday afternoon. Today already re-complain 3x! Call center can't find out if field technician is working on it or napping on the job. But it's about to rain again, and I doubt they'd work under the rain. Feels like a flipped turtle without my network access.