2023-02-26🌱

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📅 Created Date: February 26, 2023

Doing commission

Sketches

- Suisei fanart, been enjoying her music recently
- hand study, I'm starting to see the strong relation of constructive and gesture drawing
  - without construction, it's really hard to visualize the position of any given curves in space
  - without gesture, it turns into blocky, stiff and unappealing shape
  - the point is to draw gestural curve but still aware of its nearest constructive equivalent.
- this week's Abstract Scribble🌱
- the green part is a new discovery for me! Turns out rounded losange shape and low density (flow in photoshop) can create that kind of pleasing gradual falloff. I used ellipse shape before.
- from that line of thinking, I also discovered that star shape produces a much stronger falloff. Potentially useful for lighting "laser" effect
- This might deserve its own page: Gradation effect of brush shape with low density🌱

Mangaplus new manga
- https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/titles/100228
- I really love his realization when looking at his past artworks. Really strong and emotional page.
- The bits about his personality worsened after facing shaming and failure is incredibly spot on. That kind of stuffs is just soul crushing
- However, I don't like how his practice is just a montage, kinda feels like his success comes too easily.
I'm an avid shounen jump reader but its release schedule is always after I write a blog entry.

I just added a 35" TV to my desk setup. Color is all wrong as it is a consumer grade TV, but it is useful for non-color reference.
I added a page Seeds Storage as a collection of short ideas that I want to expand.
RSS feed is a nightmare to manage. If I want it to be useful I might have to do some more setup
Recently I found Artifact, a newsreader app by Instagram founders.
- It is similar to Google News For you tab but I think it's more user friendly. There should be more categories though.
That said, one of the goal for this year is to limit passive input so I won't put that much time into newsreader, just enough so I don't miss out anything important (FOMO screaming)
On the topic of passive inspiration, I should unfollow all repost ("aesthetic") page that don't give credit to the original source.
- I should also use Pinterest with extreme discretion, try to find the source when I add them to my library

I want to put neco's art here again this week but let's not do that
https://weibo.com/5349593661/Mul6Uo6do
- this artwork and process by chongzhen_085
- As mentioned last week, Macro Rendering🌱 is occupying my mind now so I really like artist who manage it well~
- the big folds on the sleeves, the smooth transition of the hair. Big shapes, surrounded by smaller shapes, there are tapering quality in every shapes too.