Here's a thread to share anything you write. I'm suprised one doesn't already exist. Here's a poem I wrote. I don't even like poetry, this just came to me. Sickly Beauty Girls oh girls, so lovely. Even ill ones, sickly sweet and tender; skin smoother than silk; petite yet not lacking. A sweetness that's bitter is better than one sour. A healthy demon entices less than a dying nymph. A fleshy corpse is more charming than a living skeleton. A bright smile whets the appetite, but a childish melancholy is the best taste of all.Post edited on 17th Nov 2019, 8:24am
Sometimes I like to write but they're usually cringe.
Do we have anons interested in Pixel Arts here? Show it your projects.
Anyone else get depressed when thinking about how manga and the like are made. All I can ever do is think of things I like to do in / to existing works. It makes me feel like a virus or something.I was rereading Negima and realized I'll never think of anything as cool as having an entire world spatially bound to Mars.;_;
>>553 This man speaks the truth. Don't worry too much about what you're telling, what matters is how you do it.
A little bit. I come up with stories sometimes and plenty of characters. I want to make some manga someday, I want to tell those stories even if what I make never goes beyond getting published. I just want them to be told. But drawing is exhausting for me and artists are so good at getting out so many good pictures in a short amount of time. I don't think I'll ever be able to get to that point and if I do I'll be the most tired I have ever been by the time I'm done. Still, I try to practice drawing.
>>553 This. There no reason to worry. Read more interesting stuff and eventually you will came up with something nice. Take it easy, anon!
>>552 >I was re-reading Negima I like you just from this alone. I love Negima. I started using the name Negi Springfield 10 years ago. It's one of the most enduring names I've used online. So, it goes without saying that Negima has a special place in my heart. >not using a Negima pic for your OP I'm a bit disappointed.
DIY stands for Do It Yourself; anyone into it? There's loads of dedicated wikis and forums on the subject, so I want to relate it with TC. Being hikki, neet, unnormal, social outcast or what have you, may imply that money gets tight, but free time maybe not. Doing/making it yourself instead of buying it can help the shorts meet the ends. I'll use myself as an example: I don't work, and I don't intend to anytime soon either. I love music, and I want it to sound its best, so I look to hi-fi. Hifi is expensive, but it can be made by amateur hands if you know what you want. I could invest in a $2000 amp.. or I could make one myself for $200. The money you save by making what can be made by common folk yourself can be spent on what can't be made by common folk - like computers or figurines. Hell, computers can be assembled by anyone, servers can be old, repurposed hardware, and a chassis can be whatever you want. If you're modest about your needs, even figurines can be made by hand - through clay, paper, wool, repurposed dolls and maybe open source 3D printers in the near future. Imagination is the limit, and all you need is the right material, time and a will to make it happen. The down-side is that material can be hard to find, good end-result is not guaranteed, skill can be limiting, learning process can be exhausting and there are hazards if you're not careful. I hope we can get a nice thread going if there's interest, and my hope is that we can help, motivate, share and lift up eachother and make some great stuff. I'll be sharing ideas, projects and works in due time.
>>3022 Transporting materials for something like this can be a pain in the ass, since most stuff doesn't fit in my car. I also don't really trust places like lowes/homedepot with cutting stuff for me. I had them do some 2x4s for a fishtank stand I'm building and some of those cuts were really off. They're pretty 'whatever' about it.
>>3023 The boards sat in my garage for weeks. A handyman who's been helping us remodel our garage said he works at a factory with precision equipment and could cut me out all the pieces I need. He took two of the plan sheets I made, never picked up the boards then a couple weeks latter showed up with a stack of six foot boards he cut from material even though nothing in the project is 6foot. So the guy we rent a room to offered to lend me his miter saw. With that I was able to quickly knock out most of the parts.
>>3024 The plan calls for the equivalent of 50 cubes across two units. I estimate I can fit 2-3 figs per cube. Only some of the dividers would be fixed in place though, so if I had a larger collection of say 6 figma based on some game/anime, then I could take a devider out and give them two cubes worth of space. There's only going to be 4 that are 3 cubes wide, but that should be good.
>>3025 Wish I had more time to work on this. I've been really taking my time and going slowly at this. Tools keep going missing too since the garage is being worked on, and materials might get tossed around, so I have to keep a lot of stuff in my room. Like everything else I'll be painting it black. Still not sure about how LED would work but I'm thinking maybe mounting a wood strip above each row to put the lights on. Also considering glass/plexiglass doors but that'd probably be pricy for something this big.
I baked a chicken thigh. I rubbed a mix of hoisin sauce/lime juice/hot sauce/sake in to it before baking. I served it over rice and added a mix of the same spices I added before baking.
>>3017 Another angle of it. It doesn't look like much, but it was extremely delicious...!
>>3018 I forgot to say that those dark things on it are salty, sun-dried tomatoes. Definitely very tasty on pizza, too...!
Looks fucking great. Good job. Can you post the recipe?
>>3005 I really enjoyed this and your proceeding posts, and the food does indeed look very tasty. Thanks for posting it!
This will be a thread for beginners to post their pictures and have people who are more experienced give them advice on how to improve. I will be posting some of my work shortly.
>>2997 Yes, that's what I did. I chose to do the exercises because they were specifically focused on things I can't do which are "out of my comfort zone." Going back and forth between exercises and studies is literally what I did. But what little I learned through exercising I was unable to put into practice. I don't know how to explain it. I'm stuck and confused.
>>2995 Thanks. I think I am going to stop drawing on tablet for a while and just do it on paper, that way I won't feel any pressure to make something presentable.
>>2999 Maybe your progress was being stifled by the medium you were using? Paper and pencil might be more natural for you. I could never stand tablets.
>>3000 No, it's an Ipad so I find it quite fine. But I find that I tend to focus more on making individual images and not so much on practising through drawing multiple sketches, there is a feeling that because it's digital it should be more polished. I think if I draw a page of scribes everyday I should improve eventually and I won't feel any pressure because nobody will ever see them.
Made any videos? Post them here!
>>2772 Didn't realise you have a Youtube Channel Your anime reviews are really comfy
I edit footage over music I find to my liking.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfgC5swITM571T-i5EmZk9w
https://youtu.be/er465reF5Xw probably could have done a better job on this one
Testing recording / uploading / stuff
Just to end the year. https://soundcloud.com/elemile/koi
piano song https://soundcloud.com/elemile/blood-moon
Piano song. https://soundcloud.com/elemile/was
Piano https://soundcloud.com/elemile/ko-iii
A thread to post your drawings. I don't see one.
>>2965 Yes, I was going for a certain pose but it did not quite work out.
I like how this one turned out, well mostly. It is still simple and crude but the basic form is there I feel, I might try to draw more advanced kinds of images next.
>>2966 fat
After a long time of being a lazy bum I finally finished the first Tohno-house comic. You can make some as well if you like and post them here. This features Kilo (the inumimi) and Tohno. Lotsa flaws, I know. I'm not a good artist.
I want to nitpick about the decision to make the panels into weird squares like that, but I suppose that it's up to the author. The art is good, however. I don't have any talent in drawing whatsoever, so I cannot participate because I'm a useless failure incapable of keeping up.
>>2783 That is a very tohno-chan like post of you.
I think 4komas would be good practice for drawing. Once I get a bit better I might try to make some.
For those of you who upload the things you make, where do you like to upload them? Aside from here, of course.
other imageboards
Danbooru, Pixiv, wizchan and here.
Youtube and tumblr.
I use medibang to draw things and it has an inbuilt uploading feature so I upload them there. I'm not good enough to upload them elsewhere, I am just uploading them there so I can use views and likes to gage the progress of my quality.
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