It's so good to practice perspective drawing real chairs.

Sketches from last week. Unironically this chair was the most difficult of the whole group.

Man, studying drawing with a tablet is so much more satisfying than with traditional media. The struggle that is to draw on paper and correct things almost instantly after you draw them wrong.

For the weekend friends

Quick study on Lee Van Cleef during lunch hour today.

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Man, why powerpoint master slides doesn't work well in the year 2026 of our Lord? It's so frustrating that a billionaire company as microsoft still gets things wrong after decades of no real competition at all. Text styles simply never work on master slides.

I believe this is a fight genAI will eventually lose mainly because most niches don't want to give their money to non-human stuff. It feels empty to tem the way NFTs did years ago... but that's still very far from moraly rejecting it, it seems.

One unexpected fact I'm realising is that the artists at the Master in Visual Arts program are way more tolerant to genAI than I am. At the beginning I thought it would be a group radically against it, but you see major museums in Brazil legitimizing the use of genAI in expositions. Quite sad tbh.

Easter, Ishtar and Eostre Some New Atheists have latched onto memes claiming "Easter" and its customs are stolen from paganism. But is just another case of them not checking facts?

Annual reminder that virtually every 'Easter was a pagan festival' claim online is bullshit.

historyforatheists.com/2017/04/east...

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There are so many books I still want to read and re-read in life. So little time tho. After I finish my Masters I'll dedicate some years to Cormac McCarthy. I'll re-read most Gene Wolfe stuff and get deeper into Dostoyevsky again. I also desperately need to be more literate on symbolism.

Overall, I enjoy the Into the odd reductive approach to them, but I feel somewhat incomplete in table. A scholar should be able to mechanically use their specific knowledge in favor of themselves. Maybe giving +1 in specialty knowledge test, 0 in background and -1 in every other knowledge test.

Can you recommend me some blog posts on designing better TTRPGs character stats/attributes?

I always felt some of them (intelligence, for example) were good ideas done the wrong way, mechanically.

I declare myself guilty, you honor

This is kinda Stephen King's The Stand.

⊃∪∩⪽ is back on the menu, boys

Illustration of a paperback copy of Frank Herbert's Dune. It's a 3 colour riso setup using teal, red and yellow overlapping. The title is in white with D and E mirrored and the lowercase u and n flipped. Center image is a big worm with a big blue hallucinating eye at the centre of its mouth with some rocks with Fremen Holding flags and knives in the foreground. it is particularly difficult to draw Shai Hulud without it's mouth looking like a giant butt-hole.

DUUUUUUUUUNE!

Beautiful

Brad Taste In Music Construção - Chico Buarque First Reaction YouTube video by Charles Burns

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I love watching Americans reacting to brilliant Brazilian songs for the first time on youtube. It gives me goosebumps all the time.

That was my experience. I was an absolute BotNS hater until I became it's most ferocious fan.

I've became obsessed with Gene Wolfe.

So many of my favorite SFF stories are NOT on the murder hobo spectrum.

The night land
Perdido street station
Dune
Book of the new sun
Vurt

And many others

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Which means it still needs its amount of combat focused moments and the constant feeling of defying dangers. It's just not the *main* focus anymore. Especially in fantasy genre, I wish we had less "violence is the answer" and more "violence is the question".

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I'm super into adventure but not much into combat as a center point in TTRPGs. Each day I'm more inclined to games where players have to deal with puzzles, gather clues to see the big picture and deal with tactical combat only once or twice in the whole adventure. But it needs to be an adventure.

I have so much to learn yet, but it feels good to be slowly getting somewhere new with my drawing skills. Anatomy is a pain btw.

people be saying things so definitively. like man i think it depends

i would love to be able to post more about Current TTRPG Discourse but this is my stance on almost everything

2024 Anthro Commission Two horned goats dance in a richly colored ballroom, spilling wine in their reverie

saturday night (2024)

...Nessas de portifolio generalista o cliente vai entendendo que tu é só um operador de photoshop. na cabeça dele "se eu soubesse usar photoshop eu nem contratava ninguém". O cara não consegue compreender que "não é o martelo, mas a decisão de onde, quando e quanto martelar" que faz o profissional.

É essa dinâmica de favor que eu num tenho mais idade pra digerir, hehehe. Comentei no rp do júlio que acho que isso é reforçado pelo discurso que a gente vê na faculdade que "designer não pode ter estilo e autoralidade igual artista"...

Vou falar em português pra não queimar a gente lá fora, mas os únicos clientes que me deram problemas na vida foram os brasileiros. Praticamente todos os gringos que atendi foram maravilhosos. O último me pagou o dobro como forma de agradecimento, pro cê ter ideia.

Acho que isso é reforçado pelo discurso nas faculdades de que "designer não pode ter estilo e autoralidade como artistas". Nessa de portifólio generalista o cliente é ensinado que o profissional não tem uma identidade e um jeito próprio de resolver as coisas graficamente. Que ele é só uma ferramenta