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What I was playing with/distracting myself with during a picarto stream: trying to get the basics of my head layout from a reference photo down in my small sketchpad. Yes, I'm *still* working towards that self portrait. Maybe I should just grab a 9.5"x11" and just do it finally. Comment 'I don't want to be RDJ' is due to the first try having some resemblance to RDJ, which was not my intent. If my mom is to be believed (she is an artist after all) I more closely resemble Wesley from A Princess Bride.
Photo includes part of my mother's art desk I have on loan until she has a place to fit it, and some newsprint I played with some months ago and leave as a padding for whatever else, and yes my laptop from which I was watching
Feretta's picarto stream.
Photo includes part of my mother's art desk I have on loan until she has a place to fit it, and some newsprint I played with some months ago and leave as a padding for whatever else, and yes my laptop from which I was watching
Feretta's picarto stream.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Portraits
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 721px
File Size 284.2 kB
It's a similar chassis to an ENVY, but actually it's a Pavilion 17-f001dx. Please forgive the sudden urge to wall-of-text, but you may find it interesting:
The AMD A8 branding might be taken as a little deceptive, that's a 'low-power' (15 Watt) SoC fabbed at TSMC, same fabrication plant AMD uses for their GPUs; it used to be A8 and above was reserved for their higher power parts fabbed at GlobalFoundries, the company AMD birthed as it downsized some years ago, but in their favor AMD managed to squeeze enough performance out it to put it in the same class as prior A8 processors. As a side note: It took some wrangling (and two way blackmailing) to get Intel to 'allow' them to spin off their foundries, but ultimately they got Intel to relent, and that allowed AMD to make processors anywhere they pleased. It was this deal that lead them to win contracts with Sony and Microsoft for their game consoles, as they could now place CPUs right along side their relatively high power GPUs by using the same fabrication tech for both.
As for the laptop itself: The samsung harddrive HP put in it is trash. It's surreal to go to the task manager and see read/write response times get as high as whole minute... measured in milliseconds. It got better after a clean install of Windows, but it still misbehaves and gets incredibly unresponsive every now and then. The harddrive and memory are not directly accessible; the whole thing needs to be disassembled and motherboard removed in order to get to them, so I've only elected to try (and fail) to have a Microcenter technician install faster memory. It takes up to 1866MHz DDR3, but the only memory at that speed available at my nearby Microcenter uses intel's XMP protocol which could not be read on P.O.S.T., so I had relatively pricey 1866MHz memory stuck running at 1333MHz with no configuration options to set the timings manually. I returned that memory and had RAM from a prior laptop installed, but as of mixed voltages (one stick is 1.3V and the other is 1.5V, and the processor is designed for 1.3V memory) my memory is downclocked again. At that point I've chosen to have more somewhat slower memory (the default for both sticks is 1600MHz) until I can afford and find a proper highspeed set. For whatever reason I'm willing to tolerate the poor harddrive responsiveness more.
The AMD A8 branding might be taken as a little deceptive, that's a 'low-power' (15 Watt) SoC fabbed at TSMC, same fabrication plant AMD uses for their GPUs; it used to be A8 and above was reserved for their higher power parts fabbed at GlobalFoundries, the company AMD birthed as it downsized some years ago, but in their favor AMD managed to squeeze enough performance out it to put it in the same class as prior A8 processors. As a side note: It took some wrangling (and two way blackmailing) to get Intel to 'allow' them to spin off their foundries, but ultimately they got Intel to relent, and that allowed AMD to make processors anywhere they pleased. It was this deal that lead them to win contracts with Sony and Microsoft for their game consoles, as they could now place CPUs right along side their relatively high power GPUs by using the same fabrication tech for both.
As for the laptop itself: The samsung harddrive HP put in it is trash. It's surreal to go to the task manager and see read/write response times get as high as whole minute... measured in milliseconds. It got better after a clean install of Windows, but it still misbehaves and gets incredibly unresponsive every now and then. The harddrive and memory are not directly accessible; the whole thing needs to be disassembled and motherboard removed in order to get to them, so I've only elected to try (and fail) to have a Microcenter technician install faster memory. It takes up to 1866MHz DDR3, but the only memory at that speed available at my nearby Microcenter uses intel's XMP protocol which could not be read on P.O.S.T., so I had relatively pricey 1866MHz memory stuck running at 1333MHz with no configuration options to set the timings manually. I returned that memory and had RAM from a prior laptop installed, but as of mixed voltages (one stick is 1.3V and the other is 1.5V, and the processor is designed for 1.3V memory) my memory is downclocked again. At that point I've chosen to have more somewhat slower memory (the default for both sticks is 1600MHz) until I can afford and find a proper highspeed set. For whatever reason I'm willing to tolerate the poor harddrive responsiveness more.
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