Motherly Advice of the Day
"Get your ass in the car and draw you some booty!"

Mom knows I can be such a mormon when it comes to doing things morally so it comes to no surprise when I said I had an account on Furaffinity for 11 years and rarely got views because I do clean art, she tell me to go draw some booty and boobs. You got to love her.

But in all seriousness, I am quite deviant and more so then I was in the past. But can someone be too audacious? I learn since being on here, the trials that the community can have can have a direct effect on you despite your anticipation. I was kind to others, I gave out of whim because it makes me happy, and I wasn't mean to anyone...but despite my efforts, I lost friends here because of being divergent and I never really forgave the community because of it. It's why I'm so skeptical of letting my fiancee on. Prejudice can over write your individuality out of fear and hatred and I've always question about my safety when at home, you have those that shoot paintballs at your house while flying a confederate flag at the back of their truck, letting you know you're not entirely welcome. This can go with nearly EVERY COMMUNITY I've joined. Things suddenly go off topic real hard when finding details about you that's really isn't their concern (a facebook decease before there was facebook). And it's as simple as being a christian and lo' and behold, they think your very reason for being there is to convert them to Jesus, or having a cartoon animal drawing for your icon and you're out to hump their pets. This no longer become the topic the community revolves around, it's now about what YOU are? And I tell them all the same answer. I am an unique diverse individual. I share this world with you as you do. Apparently this isn't the right answer and I'm promptly ostracized. This is a common place since school and up to having access to the internet. All I can do is remain as I am and don't lose heart when you don't fit their definition of life style. Let you do you and them do them. If the environment becomes intolerable, just dust your feet and keep on.

I hate digressing like this, and it's usually not my idea to do so. I like to talk about games, biology, and animals, not 20 questions of "All your answers are wrong despite you knowing more than me". I learn about others by talking to others, not by judging them and learning from 2nd hand hash.

Back to the REAL topic at hand. I'm learning a lot about making brushes on MyPaint, and I can say I could be as bold as DELETING ALL BRUSHES and create what works for ME....just not too soon til I master it, but not before sending a text to David Revoy about how sick he did the Owl Princess drawing and I like to know how he goes about how he just create brushes on the flow. Comes to find out, it's a basic practice when using MyPaint, it just not discussed as heavily for any basic user to benefit from it.

See, when you get a paint program, you learn from other applications that you have to work with what you have in the tool box. Paint? Check! Pencil? Check! Eraser..okey! Let's GO! But it isn't like that at all and the sexy open canvas program goes deeper than leonard dicaprio in inception. You can BUILD brushes to work the way you want! It can create perfect leaves on a stroke. It can throw down grass. Change colours depending on direction, pressure, or speed. It can be a dual tool like a blue pencil when drawing lightly, and an ink pen when putting pressure on the tablet. It can be a blurring tool, or a shader that turns lighter when putting pressure down. I can go on and the possibility is limited to your imagination! I had this free opensource software for years and I NEVER dug in. How can I? When you look at it, it is as minimalistic you can get. But if I did, I would probably never upgrade my tablet PC to ubuntu so my pen's pressure could work so it maybe a boon that I didn't.

So I expect to use MyPaint a LOT for Dimarsh project til I'm brave enough to make deep fervent love to Krita.

I'm getting better at drawing notes! It may not sound much to anyone, but I always though my note taking since growing up in school is tasteless, bland, and taught that way to begin with. If sketchnoting didn't exist now, I would had come up with it eventually by incorporating infography and comic style art. Now my notebooks look like exotic tomes from philosophers, wiccans, and herbalist. I love it! Not quite Voynich yet but I am studying hard on typography, and language structures from hangul, kanji, chengyu, program scripting and arabic. And minimalistic pictures..that's important too. This I can put into any of my work as creating a game design document, gamebooks and bestiaries.

I think sketchnoting should be taught in conjunction with graphical outlines. It helps students to have a visual aid and representation of their lessons in class and have something long lasting to look back to when they leave. Imagine going to school then coming home with scrapbooks of all the interesting things you've learned like a professor doing field study on nature. School should be engaging and fun, something that should be naturally grown, and be compassion about FIRST, rather than forged and disciplined. Making sure the staff is open to the idea rather than mandated into practices. To teach is something that's in the heart, and a passion to do. If you're there's shoving paper and homework in kid's throats and walking home with a paycheck, teaching is NOT a job for you. (I had my share of being yelled at for not understanding what they teach which shouldn't be a problem, and I wasn't being a brat about it either).

I haven't been uploading anything on here because I'm doing more traditional drawing than digital. Sketching and drawing characters of Dimarsh, biology notes, and outlines for my comic, and gamebook. But I may make a folder for my practice artwork with digital drawings. *shrugs*

Here's my send off. Be a warrior of life. Never limit yourself for comformism.