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Well, this week, I struggled. I was hitting my stride by the end of Week 1, when I could see myself really improve, and improve fast, even past the point where I had to go back to work after a vacation and couldn't spend the best part (quality- and quantity-wise) of my day drawing anymore. But lately, I've struggled. I missed one day, was very late another, and the artworks for days 13 and 14 have not been as good as the ones before.
I do think I'm still learning new things, though. Today, I looked at the models' legs and realized that the thickness of body parts in a drawings is perceived differently the more you manage to get all the twists and curves in. A leg of even width would look like a colossal log, but a proper twisty leg that is objectively wider will create an illusion of depth that allows it to be seen as more realistically proportioned. That sort of thing.
So I will just keep powering through until the 31st.
I do think I'm still learning new things, though. Today, I looked at the models' legs and realized that the thickness of body parts in a drawings is perceived differently the more you manage to get all the twists and curves in. A leg of even width would look like a colossal log, but a proper twisty leg that is objectively wider will create an illusion of depth that allows it to be seen as more realistically proportioned. That sort of thing.
So I will just keep powering through until the 31st.
Commissions, continued
I have now delivered all but one of the latest batch of commissions. Well done, me! I will have room to do more commissioned work in April. Please check the Commissions Price Sheet for more information and terms:
FAWM over, back to drawing
I've successfully completed February Album Writing Month and will now focus on drawing again. I'll be traveling to Portugal without my laptop and without any musical instruments but with my iPad and Apple Pencil. First priorities will be a new Greyfriar's Isle story and unblocking myself from what is holding me back with the ongoing Tess Durban story. I wrote two punk-ish songs during FAWM and by coincidence, my brother posted the only punk song from my The Hooded Crow days, written by me and recorded for our first demo in 1994. As with many of these songs, there was a long time when I didn't want to listen to it. But it turns out that writing new songs is not just a way to express myself, create new things and be part of a community, it's also an ongoing dialog with myself. So writing "Enshittified" last summer, and "In the face of the Eschaton" and "The Planet Spins" this February, has made me listen to my older writing with different ears. The Reinder Dijkhuis Punk Album would
Glaze, and things that AI can't do
The other day, I ran a number of old drawings through Glaze and found that my pencil art from several years ago takes it amazingly well. The header image conveniently focuses on a section of the image where you can see the Glaze artefacts, but only just. Compared to black-and-white and flat-colored images, where the artefacts are painfully obvious, these scanned traditional works with random greyscale tones and paper textures are good at hiding the tell-tale signs that the image has been processed through anti-AI technology. So I'm going to experiment a little more, with watercolors as well as more pencil artworks, and if the results are consistent, I will just go back to traditional art full-time. I know that DeviantArt has an opt-out for AI training on images posted here, and I expect them to respect that opt-out, at least for the time being. But it's easier for me to have one canonical version of every image that I post everywhere, so that's why I've only been posting Glazed
The Hooded Crow - Ravine, and FAWM
It's that time of the year again. I'm doing February Album Writing Month! You can follow my progress via https://write.fawm.org/@reinderd until the FAWM website goes into hibernation again. So far, I'm at three songs written, which means I'm on track but can't afford to slack off (yesterday, I slacked off, a bit). Meanwhile, my brother continues his regular releases of demo tracks, studio recordings and outtakes of our former band The Hooded Crow with one of my favorites and one of the tracks I'd selected as a model for the songwriting project I'd chosen for this year's FAWM: Michel Bouma's composition "Ravine" from 1994, featured on our second demo. Here it is: The Hooded Crow - Ravine It was about time we got to rock out again! Sometimes, a guy just wants a big dumb riffy rocker, and "Ravine" delivers that, but it also has enough movement in it to keep things interesting beyond that. And it's a joy to play! I should know because I still play it frequently.
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Keep powering... keep powering... let only sickness and moving hold you back!
Its for a good cause!
Its for a good cause!