robotthepirate wrote:Thursday: Rubbish shift at work but then came home and indulged my only true sporting love: Baseball.
It is ridiculous trying to follow a sport that is only ever played when you should be asleep and on tv stations you don't get. I was watching the little simulation ESPN have on their website. It was rubbish yet amazing at the same time, my love of the sport is absolutely irrational. I need to find an online radio station that commentates on the games.
I didn't know anyone in the UK cared about baseball. Have you tried MLB.tv? I think they have both live streaming and archived footage of all the games, although you have to pay an annual fee to access it. They also have an app that lets you watch games on your smartphone, which is kinda nice sometimes.
Baseball's probably my favorite thing to watch while I'm drawing since it's interesting enough to be stimulating, but at the same time, slow-paced enough as to not be distracting.
"Seems like the only comics that would be good to this person are super action crazy lines, mega poses!"
LibertyCabbage wrote:Do they actually have wild ones like that out there, or did some idiot let his pet get loose?
Nope, totally a wild one. The apartment complex I live at is right next to a small bit of bushland so it's not unusual, though certainly the biggest I've seen here so far.
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Well, the tropical storm (Andrea) didn't give my area a direct hit, so that's good news. I did get a lot of rain and some wind, though.
Also, I realized that if we were still having the Comic Cookouts at the traditional time (early June), I would have been caught in the rain delays at Tampa. Incidentally, the LiveDraw thing makes me wonder if we can have an event where we draw sketches for each other, maybe do a webcam meet. A lot of the cookout time was spent on the forums and drawing sketches even back in the day. Too bad we don't have the party games. It's not quite a cookout, but hopefully better than nothing.
Maybe call 2012 an anomaly and set this activity for late July, two years after the last event?
I've been playing around with other drawing styles lately, even though I should be focusing on getting other stuff done, it's been fun.
Did some Disney sketches and was a little disappointed at first when I couldn't get the faces quite matching, then I looked on dArt and saw much worse out there. Actually dArt has been good for my art self-esteem lately, not just by comparing my art to worse but also because I can look at more popular or "impressive" pieces and pick out the errors (many of which I'm guilty of myself), it's just cheered me up to know how far I've come in just a few years both in knowledge and abilities, even if I still have a long way to go.
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"Your service is to the story and to the characters. Fuck the audience and fuck your own whims." - Yeahduff
Dragonkingdoms wrote:Incidentally, the LiveDraw thing makes me wonder if we can have an event where we draw sketches for each other, maybe do a webcam meet. A lot of the cookout time was spent on the forums and drawing sketches even back in the day. Too bad we don't have the party games. It's not quite a cookout, but hopefully better than nothing.
I feel like the LiveDraws are covering the "meetup" aspect well enough for now. This just ain't the CG of yesteryear no more where a real-life thing would be feasible. Probably the most realistic option in that sense would be to coordinate something based around a large comic convention.
robotthepirate wrote:Sub-Consensus! It works! My comic actually works!
Woo-hoo! I'm glad you finally got it to work right considering that it seems to have been a headache for you to set up.
"Seems like the only comics that would be good to this person are super action crazy lines, mega poses!"
and that's exciting to me
