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I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)
- tangenter 3mo ago[flagged]
- yjftsjthsd-h 3mo ago> 2.3.5 Straight Line > Use a ruler. Somehow, in spite of noting the unusual physicality of this approach, I was profoundly unprepared to see a physical ruler being used on a touchscreen. Nice.
- jdboyd 3mo agoWhat was your reaction to the CD then?
- yjftsjthsd-h 3mo agoAfter the ruler that's less jarring. Although the fact that it's an XP disc is hilarious.
- indrora 3mo agoI'm not sure what you expected.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3mo agoA digital/software line tool. They're drawing on a computer; I am very habituated to seeing things stay on the screen.
- AdmiralAsshat 3mo agoIs the Stanley Lieber referred to by the title someone other than the Stanley Lieber (a.k.a. "Stan Lee") of Marvel Comics fame?
- calvinmorrison 3mo agoYes
- Alien1Being 3mo agoWhen mankind comes to the final judgement, the existence of 9front will be one of the three things keeping us from destruction.... Apropos Pirkei Avot Chapter 1, Verse 2...
- stavros 3mo agoWhat's this? What's 9front? Who's Stanley Lieber? This is so confusing.
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- xelxebar 3mo ago9front is a fork of Plan 9, the operating system that runs Jurassic Park[0]. Stanley Leiber is a prominent contributor, albeit whose existence is humourously-but-seriously-maybe debated. The whole community has a post-ironic humor that is very GenZ but before GenZ was cool or even born. The Plan 9 Foundation commissions local artists for it's swag at the annual workshops. I'm guessing this article is tangentially related. I daily drive 9front, so I might be biased. [0]:https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1 https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1
- stavros 3mo agoAhh I see, thank you.
- mattmanser 3mo agoIs that gen z humour? As it reads more to me like it's Douglas Adams humour, i.e. 1980s humour. British, post-Python absurdist humour or whatever you'd call it.
- sznio 3mo agoas a gen z - same thing
- ButlerianJihad 3mo agoYou must be joking about Jurassic Park, right? The systems in Jurassic Park are clearly and obviously running IRIX on SGI workstations, and the girl character says as much when she recognizes Unix. The file system navigator app is famous from its appearance there. Plan 9 has never been portrayed as a running system in Hollywood, because it has never run any system of consequence in real life either.
- dsign 3mo agoDeeply disappointed to read it doesn't work for iconoclasts.
- kvdveer 3mo agoOr atheists for that matter. I was a bit put off by the implied hostility there, even if it was in jest. It's a risky choice to jokingly discriminate based on religion, ethnicity or political affiliation, mostly because such a joke is hard to distinguish from almost identical contexts where it isn't a joke.
- benj111 3mo agoWould the world be a better place if no one told any jokes that 'might' upset others? I'm an atheist too. I just gave a middle finger to the author and carried on reading. I haven't really delved that much onto 9front but they do have an interesting style, see for example https://9front.org/propaganda/ https://9front.org/propaganda/ yes it's probably going to rub people up the wrong way, but at least it isn't more corporate bs.
- kvdveer 3mo agoIt feels different if someone has recently been discriminated against. Jokes land differently when they are too similar to reality. That said, making edgy joking is definitely acceptable, you'll just alienate part of your audience. That's why the hollow corporate bs doesn't do it.
- jhbadger 3mo agoDo realize that the author is Czech. While being religious is the default and atheists face (mild) discrimination in places like the US, at least until the 1990s and the fall of Communism, things were reversed in (then) Czechoslovakia, with state supported atheism and religious people viewed as suspected dissidents.
- oxonia 3mo ago
- polotics 3mo agothis doesn't actually teach anything about how to draw. there is one thing about using a layer for drafting, but apart from that it is how to use this very specific piece of software if you already have some skills and techniques
- 2b3a51 3mo agoI think 'to draw' is ambiguous here. You took the phrase to mean 'some strategies and techniques for making good drawings' and the author possibly meant 'how to make marks like you would with normal painting software but working around the foibles of 9front's paint'. But then the whole thing has to be seen as whimsical.
- wetpaws 3mo ago[dead]
- rakel_rakel 3mo agoPeople creating things that didn't exist before is so refreshing, and Prahou is such an amazing artist. Making it look easy (or for the untrained eye like silly scribbles on old thinkpads) he created a whole world around his characters, and the talent and rigor is super impressing. I would recommend anyone to dive into it!
- olivierestsage 3mo agoI’ve never used 9front but I love the whole culture around it in posts like these.
- minusLik 3mo ago> Wacomized laptops with pens. > Crack the screen open and draw on it. I don't think "crack the screen open" is the best choice of words here …
- Y_Y 3mo agoThe author of this, pmjv, is also the champion of unix surrealism, which some of you may recognize and others may enjoy. https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism
- egypturnash 3mo agoI cannot help but feel like these drawing methods are more hassle than carrying around an actual sketchbook and a few pens/pencils. Whatever makes you happy, I guess; at least you're not typing shit into an image generator and saying this makes you a great artist.
- minusLik 3mo agoBut sketchbooks don't run 9front :(
- egypturnash 3mo agoOverall I feel like this is more of an advantage than a problem.
- minusLik 3mo agolol
- w-l-pid 3mo ago[dead]