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ygg-yiggles · 9 months

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Old Art: Inktober 2022, part 2

Continuing on from last time, here's days 16-31. Sorry it took longer to get to than I expected.

Day 16: Fowl More issues with the scanner! Why didn't I just find something to weigh down that edge? Anyway, this one was fun to draw, with a mix of various mircon pens, including brush tip ones for those big, chunky lines. The wings are... less than ideal, but I think the twisting neck of the swan turned out well. The swan is one of those animals that looks beautiful, until it's angry, and then suddenly it's terrifying, with innumerable pseudo-teeth like a mouth full of needles. As October is the month of spooky things, I leaned into that.

Day 17: Salty ...Oh come on, you were doing so well with the scanner, almost perfect in fact, but you went back to the phone camera again? Come on. The look is kind of iffy as well, just like the Crabby one featuring these same two characters. I think the weird face on the mom was intentional, though, in order to match the unintentionally weird look of her previously.

Day 18: Scrape Now there we go, there's a nice, clean scan, and an image I'm proud of. Girl in maid outfit, sharpening her cleaver thing. I think it's a girl, at least. If I recall, some degree of ambiguity was the goal. I did still screw up the hands kind of and made that arm chunkier than I wanted, but making heavy use of grey ink let me actually draw something that would read as black without being pitch black and indiscernible. The hair was drawn with an unknown blue-purple fountain pen ink. Really wish I could remember which one that was.

Day 19: Ponytail More adventures in brush-tip micron pens. This is a redraw/other angle of a character I drew just before Inktober 2022 began, but I don't think I quite captured him in the same way. His legs also ended up weirdly stubby here.

Day 20: Bluff Ahhhghhhhh, bad scan again, and it made key parts of the art blurry. Damn. I should really re-scan this one. At least the image is alright, even if one shadow is distractingly dark. I chose to shade this largely with horizontal lines mostly as an experiment, which I think worked out decently and would have worked better if I had committed even more to it. The subject here is the man from the previous day, standing on the topographic feature called a bluff. The best part of the image, I think, is the way I worked the number and prompt into the river.

Day 21: Bad Dog A grotesque, monstrous creature, vaguely canid, with no skin and spikey bits all over. Bit of hair here and there. Overall, I like it. Don't really have much else to say.

Day 22: Heist This anatomy sucks but I drew it quickly, more quickly than something that took up this much of the page normally would. Evidently, I even managed to get it to scan properly! This is not meant to be any character in particular, by the way.

Day 23: Booger You ever just sneeze out an entire slimegirl? I like several things about this, from the way I was able to give the look of transparency to how swollen the sick man's face looks. I'm sure I've drawn plenty better, but I do quite like this one, gross as it is.

Day 24: Fairy Call me old fashioned, but personally I believe fairies should be nude. Well, okay, Touhou Project fairies do really well with big poofy dresses or even american flag pattern spandex, but other than that, keep 'em naked.

Day 25: Tempting All across the Halloween-observing world (i.e. the United States and not much of anywhere else), children are asked to simply not touch a bowl full of candy, sitting out for anywhere from the day leading up to trick-or-treating to all month long. Imagine! Here, we see a child eyeing up a brass bowl full of all sorts of treats. The temptation is palpable.

Day 26: Ego Max Stirner, father of Individualist Egoism, wields an AK, wearing a shirt with torn-off sleeves, with a waifish girl clutching his chest. Need I say more?

Day 27: Snack Another kind of goofy one from a perspective sense and I could have afforded to put more pink on that pig in the front. However, I'm overall happy with the chonky dragon design. Hog after hog has gone down his gullet, and now he looks a little like one himself.

Day 28: Camp I enjoy making recurring characters that exist only for each Inktober. As it turns out the girl(?) from Scrape and the guy from Ponytail and Bluff are either an item or good friends. And hey, look, that cleaver works as an axe to gather and split firewood! I did better with the treeline here than I normally do when I try to draw such a thing. Plenty of room for improvement still. At least this one has a decent amount of color.

Day 29: Uh-Oh Due to the ancient subject matter, I chose to use entirely brown tones to give this one a sepia look. The ancients had cats, and by all accounts I've ever read, their behavior has not changed a bit throughout the entire course of the history of feline domestication. Here, we see a cat which has located a bucket of something, left carelessly on a ledge. Below, a just minding his own business is about to have a bad day. Is this scene Roman? Greek? Something else? I don't know, but it's ancient something somewhere somewhen, or maybe even pure fantasy. No matter the circumstance, no matter the time or place or plane of existence, cats will cause problems on purpose.

Day 30: Gear An amorphous creature with a gear incorporated into its body and other gear around its gaping maw. It is an uneven, asymmetric, shambling beast. One of its hands is even beginning to turn gear-like, with gear teeth on the back side of each digit. I think the best part of this piece is the mouth. Gear piece here were colored with Diamine Ancient Copper ink.

Day 30 31: Farm Oops. This one was rough because I was busy all day and couldn't think of the perfect thing to draw for the entire day up until the evening, when I suddenly chose to embark on a pumpkin field... Or a jack-o-lantern field, rather. They're naturally like that, at least on Halloween. For something I rushed at the end of the day, I honestly don't think it looks half bad, and I'm glad I actually made it full color, even if the coloring is sloppy. Not that any other days were much less sloppy. And yes, I did write 30 there instead of 31. I didn't notice until the next morning. Here, I've put a transparent white square and a yellow numeral "1" on top of it, to correct the day while retaining a legacy of my error

...And that's all. I'll be participating in Inktober again this year, but that's not for a few more months. Stay tuned until then, as I'll be posting newer art as well as more compilations and commentary on my older work, including previous years of Inktober. And, thanks for reading.

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amypca · 4 years

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PHOT202: Maitha Demithan.

About -

Maitha Demithan is an artist based in Dubai. Her first drawings were sketched in the sand, which formed an appreciation for colour, texture, line and shadow. Maitha’s work has appeared in various exhibitions including her solo show ‘Mutajadid’ (Tashkeel, 2014), which included experimental installations and new media pieces, as well as in ‘Documentation’ (Tashkeel, 2009) where her first scanned self-portraits appeared and ‘Across the Gulf’ (Brisbane Biennial, 2009). Other group shows include ‘Emerge’ (Venice, 2011), ‘Emirati Vision’ (Berlin, 2009) and ‘Biladi’ at the UAE Pavilion, EXPO 2010 Shanghai.

Demithan has used scanography both with human and animal subjects, including falcons and owls, and she often reflects on themes of family and animal-human relationships in her work. She shares her approach to image-making: “I let the process of scanning and drawing in the presence of the living being – be it human or animal – define the portrait and the outcome. The outcomes are difficult to categorize or express as the interactions between the ‘sitters’ and between the ‘sitters’ and myself create the moments I wish to capture. These often hold an emotional quality.”

The dream-like scanned images have a dramatic focal field, in which the in-contact surface of the subject quickly fades to black, and the subjects’ eyes are usually closed, distancing their inner thoughts from the viewer.

Despite the large-scale finished products, Demithan actually works with a desktop-sized A4 scanner. She takes up to 100 images and then digitally layers and stitches them together, playing with the combination of different focal points and textures to create a printable collage.

My thoughts -

In my eyes these images are beautiful, not only do they hold a great amount of emotional value but also because everything from the lighting to the colouring bursts out at the audience making amazing new substance in each photograph. How I think this relates to my own work is the raw potential that the story's hold, the image of these people shines their identity and make you question their life storys which is something I strive toward in my own imagery, to be able to connect the person to their surroundings and life.

LINKS:

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/06/portraits-by-maitha-demithan/

https://www.maithademithan.com/about

https://www.maithademithan.com/

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freeze-lancer-blog · 6 years

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Samsung Galaxy S8 Disadvantages

Samsung's new S series flagships have captured the heart and Attention of many smartphone fans. But before getting too enthusiastic, it has some serious defects. After looking for the new Galaxy S8 and S8+ for me personally, here are some reasons why I think you should think twice before buying either device.

Easily broken fingerprint magnets There's no Denying that the Galaxy S8 is a lovely looking Device with exceptional build quality. The curved design of the S8 is striking and contemporary, and also the option to place glass on both sides certainly adds to the elegant effects. However, there are three problems with this, in my own estimation. First of all, glass is brittle, even Gorilla Glass 5.

From the autumn Evaluation below, you will see How the S8+ keeps Early in the autumn test, at two minutes into the video, the glass onto the rear of this S8+ fractures, whereas the iPhone 7 Plus' back looks almost completely unscathed. While the phone is still functional, it is possible to say good bye to Samsung's perfect aesthetic.

If you think you can just repair the phone easily when it Cracks along with your issues will be solved, you're dead wrong. They discovered that both glass panels have been kept in place by powerful adhesive, which makes it difficult to replace internal components (like the non-removable battery) in addition to the glass (particularly on the front, which might ruin the display).

You will find a Couple of different reasons why a Glass-backed S8 might not have been the ideal option. This draws attention away from the gorgeous layout, especially on the rear of the black version. I really don't know about you, but I don't need my phone looking continuously smudged and dirty.

And there is 1 Last reason I don't think the glass rear Was a fantastic idea: the phone case. The huge majority of people I know use phone instances. Samsung has produced a beautiful device, but it's expensive and delicate - and anybody who cares about their phone will opt to cover it with a case to protect it. So, why make a glass back that individuals will hardly ever see and adore the attractiveness? Off the trade of making it more fragile just isn't worthwhile to mepersonally, even in the event you get wireless charging capacity, especially given that these phones are tough to repair.

Samsung's attempt at AI falls short

Samsung Appears to enjoy duplicating Google's attempts when It comes to programs, and the results are not superior, Creating things like Samsung Internet and S Voice, the maker has been offering pointless and not as useful options to inventory Android programs for a very long time. And today, along with all the other Samsung bloatware, the business is hoping to induce Bixby on its own users.

Feature-wise, and much worse, voice activation will not be available in the US until sometime "following this Spring". This means you might get the Bixby equal of the timeless Google Now cards, but you won't be able to use voice commands, a central feature, until a time after the device is made available on April 21. Virtual home button, but it is not quite as convenient to start since Bixby - and this was obviously intentional. For to Bixby, you may use the dedicated hardware button only under the quantity rocker - that Samsung has gone out of how to stop users from remapping to trigger Google Assistant or any other purposes. Heaven forbid that users wish to use the hardware button to access the sole fully operational AI assistant installed on their phone instead of Samsung's own as pristine one. Some bloatware, but Bixby was especially poorly implemented for a high-end apparatus. Clients are left with a dedicated button intended to support them to utilize an AI assistant that doesn't do the job entirely yet. Considering that Bixby has been advertised as such a fundamental selling point of the S8, it is sure to be a disappointed in its current condition. You can find better value elsewhere

Why buy the New Samsung flagship when you might find that a Better worth? Together with the latest Xiaomi Mi 6, you receive the same beauty (and fragility) because the S8+, but with better specs for half of the price.

The just Announced Xiaomi Mi 6 gets exactly the same On the other hand, the Mi 6 provides more: 12 MP dual cameras, a much larger 3,350 mAh battery plus a considerably lower cost - around half of the price. It's just $420 in comparison to $1,017 (converted into US Dollars). The only drawback in my mind is that it provides less screen real estate: 5.15 inches, as opposed to 6 GB S8+ screen's 6.2 inches. Whatever the circumstance, the Mi 6 really is a great looking device, using curved glass on front and back like the S8, blending the type of its Mi 5 predecessor with that of the Galaxy S7.

Same older camera

The Galaxy The fad of late has been double cameras. LG's maximum Up-to-date flagship includes a dual 13 MP rear camera, the iPhone 7 Plus includes one, the aforementioned Xiaomi Mi 6 has, and tons of others do as well. The S8 features the same 12 MP sensors and double pixel technology that the Galaxy S7 has.

On Samsung's Charge, there have been a few little Improvements into the front and software camera. The front camera was upgraded from 5 to 8 MP, and the camera program now uses multi-frame processing - automatically taking a number of shots and mixing them into one, hopefully enhanced, outcome.

Awkward fingerprint scanner placement

Among the most common knocks from the Galaxy S8 is the Positioning of the fingerprint scanner. If you are utilized to swiping your finger over the home button, then you're searching for a change - for the worse. Since the physical house button of the S7 has evaporated, the fingerprint scanner has migrated to the rear of the device.

As Opposed to Placing the button toward the Center on the Back (like on the LG G6), in which it may be easily attained, Samsung has put it just with all the camera. If you're using your mobile phone with your right hand just like most people do, then you will need to reach your index finger throughout the camera to utilize it - meaning you'll be sporadically your camera lens while feeling around to the fingerprint scanner.

The Ideal Placement alternative, which Samsung might not Have been able to scramble together before the initiation of the S8, is to place the scanner below the glass on the front. There were rumors of sourcing from Synaptics to this, but it could still happen about the Note 8.

In short: The Gorgeous glass back could decode, the The more Bixby encounter falls short and Samsung has regrettably decided to Hang on the camera of their former generation. If you Are Thinking about Flaws and adjust your expectations before you spend your hard earned Money, or consider a much better value phone like the Xiaomi Mi 6.

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misael10100 · 6 years

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Why to not buy SAMSUNG GALAXY S8

Samsung's Brand New S series flagships have captured the heart and Care of several smartphone fans. However, before getting too enthusiastic, it has some critical defects. After looking for the newest Galaxy S8 and S8+ for me personally, here are some reasons why I think you ought to think twice before purchasing either device.

Glass Backs are

There is no Denying the Galaxy S8 is a beautiful looking Apparatus with superior build quality. The curved design of the S8 is striking and modern, as well as the choice to put glass on either side increases the elegant effects. However, there are three problems with this, in my estimation.

In the fall Test below, you will see How the S8+ retains Early in the autumn test, at two minutes into the video, the glass on the rear of this S8+ cracks, whereas the iPhone 7 Plus' back appears almost entirely unscathed. While the telephone is still functional, you can say good bye to Samsung's perfect aesthetic.

If You Believe you can just repair the phone easily when it Cracks and your problems will be solved, you are dead wrong. They discovered that both glass panels have been kept in place by powerful adhesive, which makes it hard to replace inner components (like the non-removable battery) as well as the glass (especially on the front, which might ruin the screen).

You'll Find a Couple of different reasons why a Glass-backed S8 may not have been the best choice. This draws attention away from the stunning design, especially on the back of the black version. I truly don't know about you, but I don't want my phone appearing continuously smudged and dirty.

And there is 1 Last reason I don't think the glass back Was a fantastic idea: the telephone case. The huge majority of people I know use telephone instances. Samsung has generated a beautiful device, but it's delicate and expensive - and anyone who cares about their phone will opt to cover it with a case to protect it. So, why create a glass back which individuals will hardly ever see and adore the attractiveness? Off the trade of which makes it more brittle just is not worthwhile to me, even in the event that you get wireless charging capacity, especially since these phones are difficult to repair.

Samsung's attempt at AI falls short

Samsung Appears to enjoy duplicating Google's attempts when It comes to programs, and the outcomes aren't superior, Creating things like Samsung Internet and S Voice, the manufacturer has been supplying pointless and much less useful options to stock Android programs for a lengthy time. And now, in addition to all the additional Samsung bloatware, the company is hoping to force Bixby on its own users.

This usually means that you might get the Bixby equivalent of the timeless Google Now cards, however you won't have the ability to use voice commands, a fundamental feature, until a time after the device is made on April 21. Virtual home button, however it is not as convenient to start since Bixby - and this was clearly intentional. For to Bixby, you can use the dedicated hardware button only under the volume rocker - which Samsung has gone out of how to prevent users from remapping to trigger Google Assistant or any other functions. Heaven forbid that users wish to utilize the hardware button to access the only fully functional AI helper installed on their phone rather than Samsung's own as pristine one. Nearly all Smartphones on the market include at least Some bloatware, but Bixby was particularly poorly implemented for a high-end apparatus. Clients are left with a dedicated button meant to encourage them to utilize an AI assistant that doesn't work entirely yet. Since Bixby has been advertised as such a central selling point of the S8, it is guaranteed to be a disappointed in its existing condition.

Why purchase the New Samsung flagship if you might find that a Better worth?

The only Announced Xiaomi Mi 6 gets exactly the same Snapdragon 835 chip as the S8 and S8+, as it comes in a version with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage - just like the South Korean-exclusive version of this S8+ together with 6 GB of RAM. On the other hand, the Mi 6 provides even more: 12 MP dual cameras, a much bigger 3,350 mAh battery and a significantly lower price tag - around half of the price. It's just $420 compared to $1,017 (converted into US Dollars). The only drawback in my head is that it offers less screen real estate: 5.15 inches, as opposed to 6 GB S8+ screen's 6.2 inches. Whatever the circumstance, the Mi 6 really is a great looking device, with curved glass on the front and rear like the S8, mixing the type of its own Mi 5 predecessor with that of the Galaxy S7.

Same old camera

The Galaxy The trend of late has been dual cameras. LG's maximum Up-to-date flagship has a double 13 MP back camera, the iPhone 7 Plus comprises one, the above Xiaomi Mi 6 includes, and plenty of others do as well. The S8 features the exact same 12 MP sensors and double pixel technologies that the Galaxy S7 has.

On Samsung's Charge, there were some little Improvements to the front and software camera. The front camera was updated from 5 to 8 MP, along with the camera program now uses multi-frame processing - mechanically taking multiple shots and combining them into one, ideally enhanced, result.

Awkward fingerprint scanner positioning

Among the most common knocks from the Galaxy S8 is that the Positioning of the fingerprint scanner. If you're used to swiping your finger over the house button, then you're searching for a change - for the worse. Since the physical home button of the S7 has vanished, the fingerprint scanner has migrated to the back of the device.

As Opposed to Placing the button toward the middle on the Back (such as on the LG G6), where it may be easily attained, Samsung has put it just beside the camera. If you are using your mobile phone with your right hand just like most people do, then you will need to accomplish your index finger throughout the camera to use it meaning you'll be sporadically your camera lens constantly while feeling around for the fingerprint scanner. On the larger S8+, you nearly cannot get to the scanner without using both hands on.

The Ideal Placement alternative, which Samsung may not Have been able to scramble together prior to the initiation of the S8, would be to set the scanner below the glass to the front. There were rumors of sourcing from Synaptics to this, but hopefully, it might still happen about the Note 8.

In summary: The Gorgeous glass back could decode, the The more Bixby encounter falls short and Samsung has sadly determined to Hang onto the camera of their prior generation. If you Are Thinking about Weaknesses and adjust your expectations so before you spend your hard earned Money, or think about a much better value phone such as the Xiaomi Mi 6.

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