The why, I’d guess is: her Pottermore additions Pretty sure her response was terrible as well. I don’t feel like looking into that one though, don’t want to deal with sifting through the anti-trans rhetoric, right now.

As much as I hate being reminded of hoow long ago those times were, the problem with this for me is when I’m searching for stuff like The Eagles or Fleetwood Mac, so I start something like this and get like Nirvana or NIN. Like yeah sure, classic now, but not the mood I wanted when starting that. Is there a different category? No, same one. We need a different word for these two different ages. Oldies was helpful when I wanted 50s stuff growing up, why are we lumping it all into one?

As you can tell this has been bugging me a lot lately. Kind of funny since I was a child in the 90s, so I should be used to these mixing due to the radio.

Amazing little devices. I stuck rockbox on mine, made it even better! I should dig that thing out and see if it still works.

Of course! I hope it helps.

Writing it all out is a reminder to myself, as well. I get that feeling about colours and painting, as a mainly pencil and ink artist. I’m not sure it ever really goes away, there’s always some people further along in their art journey. I try to look at it as inspiration, something to work towards. Still somewhat jealous though haha

Find something you want to draw, then try and draw it. Remember the coordination from eye to hand is something learned, so nothing will look the same at first.

If you post this drawing, and the original belongs to someone else (photo, comic, movie, other artwork), make sure you credit and say it’s a study of the original.

When you post, it can help to take constructive criticism. Learn how to recognize when it’s actually constructive vs someone being rude. Sometimes they will sound like each other, but what you’re looking for is the stuff that will actually help you grow.

Check out artists on YouTube (some I can think of right now SamDoesArt, pikat, Proko, Scott Christian Sava) many will have good tips. Scott, I, especially, appreciate as he will show how he’s bad with some mediums, or that he messes things up and had to fix things, or just plain never finishes a work.

If it’s people or animals, you want to draw, try gesture drawing, where you draw the form of a figure without the details. I’ve always liked Line of Action’s timed tools.

If you want to draw stylized, find what you like about a work, and try it. Still learn realism to understand form and how to stylize it, but have fun, too.

Understand that everyone learns art differently, what works for someone might not for you. Like drawing daily can be great, but just drawing at all, even better. Maybe tossing down some colour then finding shapes helps, maybe following exact tutorials helps wou learn how to get a specific brush stroke you’re looking for.

Finally, it sucks, but it’s literally. Just. Practice. Practice. Practice. Even when you look at something you’ve done, and it stinks, remember it was a learning opportunity, and no one has to see it. If you can figure out what is wrong, go practice drawing a bunch of different versions of those parts, see how they work, the shapes that make them up.

Sorry if this is long, I, personally, don’t give myself enough time to art anymore, and am not an amazing artist, but I love seeing people get started. Hope everything makes sense

Heck yeah! I watch this one every once in awhile, as I managed to get the DVDs back in the day. Always loved the imaginative deaths, the emotional hits, and how much they made me really like every character somehow.

Still never prepared for some deaths, honestly. The bagel chopper one still makes me cringe.

No problem! Hopefully, the game is just as fun for you when you get to it!

It’s really fun, I have barely touched anything else, and really could go for multiple hours, if I let myself. A couple times, I’ve gotten my butt kicked really bad multiple times in a row, that’s usually when I stop for the day haha Either I do better when I get some sleep (or food or whatever), or I can stand the grind to make sure I’m levelled enough.

I think my only complaint is the voice acting. It has an odd feeling to it, everyone in the game has this cadence to their lines that sound somewhat awkward. Kind of curious as to what they were going for, it’s not the worst I’ve ever heard, more just makes me start thinking about the work behind it more haha

I have too many games on the go (Blue Prince, Sea of Stars, Guild Wars 2, Grounded, way more, cause I get sidetracked) So, I decided to add Lies of P in there, since it was on PS+.

I’m not usually one for Souls-likes, but dang, the setting, style, and story in this one grabbed me. Playing on their medium setting is just the right amount of difficulty for me. I like some challenge, so I tried the hardest one, but am terrible at pattern recognition on bosses, so I’ll just live with it. I don’t have much time to enjoy the story, before I have classes in the autumn, anyway.

I know maybe it isn’t obvious without the thumbnail, and if that’s small enough, it looks enough like him, but this is a 22 mins skit.

Totally agree with you, otherwise!