frooxie

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by frooxie 13y ago
I'm not saying it's not! Learning to copy line drawings accurately can be fun and being able to do so is an important foundational skill. I'm just saying there's more to drawing than copying things you see.
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by frooxie 13y ago
It's not a perfect book, but there's definitely much more to it than just "Follow these three steps to draw exactly this cartoon animal in this exact pose". The very first exercise is to take an actual egg, draw construc
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by frooxie 13y ago
As a professional illustrator, I disagree with you. Have you read the Preston Blair books? They start with general lessons on how to think about and construct any shape in 3d, and I haven't seen a book with better examples of using lin
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by frooxie 13y ago
I've spent decades learning them but I still want to improve.
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by frooxie 13y ago
I'm not seeing much disagreement here. Yes, it's typical for a beginner to draw from their (deficient) internal model of whatever they're drawing — a beginner drawing a face will typically put the eyes at the top of the head
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by frooxie 13y ago
From what I can tell, Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain teaches you to draw things you already see, which is nice, and can help you impress your mom if you practise a bit, but as far as drawing ability goes, being a human copy machin
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by frooxie 13y ago
Drawing outside the panel is a standard method in comics when you want to add extra impact or a 3d effect to a panel. For example: http://siguealconejoblanco.es/comics/wp-content/uploads/2013...
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by frooxie 13y ago
I got as far as the Polaroid pictures before I closed the window with an annoyed sigh and went here, hoping that someone had described what the app (or whatever it was) did. Then I read your comment, which was the most upvoted one, and had
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by frooxie 13y ago
If I never ever see one of those headlines again, it will be too soon.
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by frooxie 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle
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by frooxie 13y ago
Can you recommend any book or instructional movie that analyzes good (or bad) storytelling in film?
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by frooxie 13y ago
> scholar-gentry We prefer to be called "Eloi-American".
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by frooxie 13y ago
I'm not going to argue for a genetic preference for lipstick and nail polish, but in the case of trucks and dolls, that could plausibly be based on differing genetic preferences for, say, Large Moving Things vs Human Interaction, or so
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by frooxie 13y ago
Cool! I've used the Sumea skin for about 15 years and I'd like to keep it, so I'm glad that I can use it with other music players.
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by frooxie 13y ago
The Nexus 5 started at $780 in Norway. I'm pretty envious of the US prices.
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by frooxie 13y ago
$179 in the US means that it'll probably sell for around $400 in Northern Europe. At least, someone in Norway wrote that the $350 Nexus 5 was marked up to $780 (the Swedish price seems to have gone down to $600 from $660).
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by frooxie 13y ago
Spider-Man has been doing basically this since the 60's!
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by frooxie 13y ago
There's a greenish halo around it, but it's very subtle.
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by frooxie 13y ago
Well, I didn't know that a smoothie was worse than the fruit it's made of. (Not that I drink smoothies anyway.)
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by frooxie 13y ago
Does anyone know how good the Kindle translation dictionaries are (e.g. Spanish-English, French-English, etc, dictionaries that you can bring up by selecting a word)? Sony apparently has the reputation for having the best dictionaries, but
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by frooxie 13y ago
I also post self-deprecating comments, but you're probably a lot better at it than I am.
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by frooxie 13y ago
In the weirder corners of superherodom there are people like Arm Fall Off Boy, who can detach his arms and use them as clubs. But my favorite among the weirder superheroes is Dogwelder, who fights crime by welding dead dogs to criminals. Fr
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by frooxie 13y ago
Box is a character from Alpha Flight: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_%28comics%29
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by frooxie 13y ago
I'll be 40 next year and I'm in better shape than ever; I'm as slim as when I was 16 but I can lift 3x as much weight. I'm sure that my hair will start turning grey and falling off any decade now, but so far I have no ag
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by frooxie 13y ago
The best one I've heard of, from Ken Demarest: Back on Wing Commander 1 we were getting an exception from our EMM386 memory manager when we exited the game. We'd clear the screen and a single line would print out, something like &
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by frooxie 13y ago
I've used the car/fridge comparison before, but when I think about it, I'm actually excited to get a new fridge (my current one is too small), and I'm not sure I'll ever want a car. I suppose cars have their uses, but they're expensive, dan
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by frooxie 13y ago
It's possible to solve it entirely "within" the box.
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by frooxie 14y ago
> it's not like they function any less well than people without Aspergers Some do. Some people have more severe symptoms; I read an autobiography by an author with Aspergers where she describes being completely overwhelmed by loud noise
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by frooxie 14y ago
It's the worst launch show I've ever seen, by far. Corny, tacky, misogynist, and not a single line anyone said sounded natural.
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by frooxie 14y ago
> Poor people have less clutter What? This is about poor people having MORE clutter, not less.

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