Monday morning rolls along and I still have no job. I'm going to look for a job right after this short rant. This pic I drew that is so-so. It shows how amateur I am at drawing. I will list the ways that I lack in drawing:
- Characters do not look like real people. Read more »
Below is an early draft of an essay on the United Nations. The final draft will have a lot of works cited. This picture was drawn a long time ago. I think it was February of last year when I was writing the end to JF. I started out with the shape of a weasel and then made it stand up belly exposed. Then I drew a bunch of words around it. Not very interesting, is it? Well, what else can I say? You don't need a real-life model to make a good drawing. I've only seen a real-life picture of a weasel a few times and this is the product. Just think about what the weasel does rather than what the weasel looks like. The weasel runs along the ground, belly hugging the ground, really. It is very acrobatic, though, being able to capture prey much larger than itself.
I got my CPU and mobo, hooray! It works like a dream! I copied my stuff from my Windows 2000 backup computer using NTFS 4 DOS, a sweet little program that you can get from Winternals Software. You probably don't know that Windows 98 can only read FAT16 and FAT32, and not NTFS, which is the file system for Windows NT, 2000, and XP. So anyone who has problems like I do and has a Win 98 and a Win NT/2000/XP computer, get the NTFS for DOS. It works just like good ol' DOS. ^_^ Read what I wrote last night below. But I'll tell you a bit about this image... Or not, I kinda forget. I think I was just trying to draw something rather than nothing. So I threw this and that together, really. The jpeg version is a low quality version from the actual scan. The PNG version has all the grainyiness of the paper deleted out using a simple magic wand tool. Don't leave home without it. ^_^ The trick is to mess with the tolerance. If you put the tolerance around 5, it won't get enough garbage. If you put it up at 25, you'll delete half of the lightly drawn image (like the knees there). So if you do it right, it'll be just perfect and you'll get this. It's small and it detailed. What else can I say? It's a fair drawing, but it has my normal traits: no consistency, no realism, hair is messy, and body looks abnormal. Since my computer is back online, I'm going to phase out the drawings and replace with sweet computer renderings. ^_^
Making of JF # 195
