I doodle a lot, and when I actually sit down to practice drawing a specific thing I can improve at it relatively quickly, only problem is I can almost never concentrate long enough, so I have never come close to approaching photorealism. Got any tips for that besides chug meth adderall and practice? Don't know if this counts, but I've also taken to writing stuff down in cursive because I felt like improving my penmanship for the hell of it and I really enjoy writing down swear words and vulgar thoughts in fancy letters.

>>157 It's hard for me to recommend ways of improving patience since it came naturally to me. I could sit down and fold a large piece of fucking paper for 7 hours if that says anything about my patience for these things. Don't take my word for it since this is just conjecture on my part but I think that gradually increasing the time you spend on something maybe a good start. If it's photorealism you're after then find something you really wanna draw, in my case, I drew animals a shit ton, and start drawing 3 hours per session for a few days. Do this for a whole project (one small in scale so you're not drawing for 2 weeks) and then on the next project add an hour or so more per session. You can spread projects out however you please but it's best to not take a whole day off a single project since you might lose the motivation to continue (unless you're working on a really big project which you have enough motivation for to be sure that you will complete it). As for penmanship, it might help if you're doing more cartoonish/anime art but there aren't actually a whole lot of lines in photorealistic art and so if that's your goal then I don't see any point in using it as practice for that. If you enjoy doing that though there's no reason to stop so continue if you find it fun. Since it's good for these threads to have some OC would you perhaps be comfortable in posting some of these doodles?

>>158 >7h its not that much i can sit watching a fucking train video for 4h, in fact even more (its just better to not overdo this)

the recent thing i did is a blueprint for some sort of computational economy its only a blueprint but its already soviet-union tier, tho its in a no way copy of soviet shit, it just have similarities it doesn't have fine details, because fuck them, they're by definition so complex that cannot be computed or even analyzed instead there are few different things 1. resource-based: every product has resources, usually the constant amount (or at least minimum amount) 2. approximation / evaluation / classes: things that can be produced simply get analyzed and typified (kind of like in SU, but instead here they're not centralized), for every thing (whats not superb complex) theres a model that describes very roughly from what it was made and which resources it contains theres a class for a (minimal) typical thing (like typical truck, or complex things like blast furnace) thats used for (automatic) calculation/planning. its very approximate (think of minecraft graphics) but it allows you to compute this, instead of saying something like: durr that another steel pipe has 10 more atoms in it, every atom costs money, sorry the price is different now lol, every pipe has different price due to imperfections 3. prices are recommended minimal values for elements/things/items, they can be adjusted by the seller (ie not fixed) 4. work can be evaluated either 5. production / resource chains can be evaluated (you automatically get absolute price of a thing of any complexity, as long as its built from models) 6. (voxel/3d) models can be directly composed from material "bits" (voxels of resources) currently there are only two major problems: - cannot calculate transportation cost (its an important cost but in my fantasy economy it even can be rejected, if too complex, or approximated really roughly) - complex things like R&D / art / lawyers cannot be evaluated thus its considered non-essential example how a simple truck model can be evaluated: https://bin.disroot.org/?bff4e9987082f4da#5Xa2DxtAB1a5XpEVRMLgE8f2qFoHKpFZbFDLMnxQswW9 (in the engine this is actually done more automatically) one "bit" unit is 10cm x 10cm x 10cm block (like a voxel) is it gommie? no it isn't, there is no central planning, no fixed prices and everything is decentralized to some point it is also relatively simple

>>163 It may not be much for patient people but I was responding to an anon who needed to work on his ability to focus and be patient and so the example fit. I could probably fold origami for much longer than that since I never really felt burned out after a fold, even the very long ones. Also what you are describing is a more passive patience while I'm describing a more active patience. There's a pretty big difference in the kind of skills needed to simply wait for or watch something happen and those needed to continuously work at something for a very long period of time. Though I do agree that being good at one makes it more likely that you will have an easier time being good at the other.

>>165 i agree train videos are just special and normies usually freaking when they think how long and boring they're, still those videos have millions of views on youtube including the most boring :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAqpy6MB6cE

I dont really have hobbies, guess my brain is too fried from videogames. I would like to get into architecture/minecraft in real life and agriculture, but I cant really go out and practice with no car and my mom monitoring my movements. Reminds me about that interesting website thread /tower/ had, it had some cool links

I spent a lot of time growing up trying various DIY projects. I took a special interest in making homemade guns like potato gun, crossbow, air gun or match gun. Not much success, but I had a lot of fun playing with them. Almost lost an eye trying to catch an arrow I shot to sky, blew my eardrum trying to listen closely to the potato gun or got my shit kicked in because I fired the pototo gun at my dad's neck. Me and a friend kickstarted my class to play with match guns which burned everything. Fortunately no one snitched. Now I wish I wasnt so lazy and had dived deep into computer. I have no fucking clue what dudes over at /tech/ are talking about most of the time.

>>166 Reminds me of how normalfaggots are freaking out about the quarantine and going nuts. Without 24/7 stimuli it seems that they simply cannot operate.

>>176 It's unfortunate since Lynxchan doesn't allow you to block posts based on word filters like jschan does. You can only replace words which doesn't feel like a good solution for normalnigger and cuckchan lingo. So for now people will just need to shame robots for their use of retarded terminology I guess.

>>177 That will have to suffice for now. It shouldn't be to bad since we only get a few posts per day around here anyway.

>>158 >gradually increasing the time you spend on something maybe a good start This may sound retarded, but I genuinely never thought of that, sounds like a good idea. 3 hour sessions doesn't seem so bad either, when I actually sit down and concentrate that amount of time is nothing, though in the span of 7 hours I'd have to get up to piss or something and I'd lose concentration. I'll probably begin removing myself from any nearby distractions. >As for penmanship, it might help if you're doing more cartoonish/anime art but there aren't actually a whole lot of lines in photorealistic art and so if that's your goal then I don't see any point in using it as practice for that The penmanship is unrelated to the drawing (at least I didn't intend to connect the two), I seem to be improving just fine with that, or at least my cursive is legible now when just a couple of days ago it looked like toddler scribbles on a wall. >Since it's good for these threads to have some OC would you perhaps be comfortable in posting some of these doodles? I don't have a scanner, or even a goyphone, and all my autism drawings are on a sketchpad, sorry. Though maybe I should pick up a drawpad and do some requests here. Even if my art is deviantart tier it might be god for a laugh.

>>170 >but I cant really go out and practice with no car and my mom monitoring my movements Is getting a plant trough out of the question for you? You don't need a fuckhuge yard for something like that, and you can get smaller ones that'll fit on a windowsill if you don't have a yard at all so you can just grow a couple of herbs or something to at least get a feel for what you're doing.

>>181 We have a backyard garden which i sometimes help with. Its alright but the space is taken up by herbs and salad plants and the like. I want to try something "mass production"-ish, like a few rows of potatoes or onions. I think i should research things that would make moms cooking nicer

>>177 Just replace them with offensive words and red text them.

>>185 Seems a little obnoxious to me. I'll consider doing something but the derailment when retards respond to themselves confused over why their words were replaced is almost as annoying as the words themselves. Being able to just block people from posting with the words was a much cleaner solution. As that other anon said it's a minor issue.

>>186 The red text should alert everyone of normalnigger presence immediately since we all know how much they hate using racial slur. Replacing "normies" with "LYNCHING TRANNY NORMALNIGGERS" should piss them off and make them post another reply like "lol wut i didnt type that" and then ben his ass for everyone to see.

>>189 there's barely any posters tho chances are none of them are new doubt this will change either

>>191 There's a /v/ now, so you'd better up your game boy.

Any anons want to post any OC? We haven't had any in a long time now and I feel like this is an appropriate thread. Even a screenshot from a game would be nice, really anything works as long as it is hobby related It might bring some more life to the board.

>>204 i can shitpost various things but none is interesting imo its mostly experiments like picrel this isn't art just byproducts :\

>>204 I want to post some riff but you have to wait until I have a better guitar.

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Here's an okayish drawing I did a year ago on a shitty drawing tablet I borrowed from someone. I lost the complete work after my PC temporarily bricked but I managed to recover this.

I've been making little pen sketches of varying quality varying as in different levels of shit on a stack of index cards I found laying around, it's pretty therapeutic and helps pass the time while I'm backing up files.

OP here, gonna try an attempt at a drawfag some time in the future (as in not soon). Anybody got something they want to see? I'm not terribly good but with some somewhat cheaty tools I can probably dish something out. I might just draw whatever I want in spite of what is said. That's not to say I'm not going to consider drawing what I see requested. I might also lose motivation and randomly stop but if that happens I'll just post the unfinished results I might post some examples of some half assed shit I made later as proof that I am somewhat competent at drawing. Don't expect much though.

>>248 do you still draw or did you give up? looks decent

>>454 What if you make an unfinished drawing and we just keep building on top of it over time? Does that sound like a fun idea or is it just gay? I'll probably join in with my own drawings regardless, I have a 2 in 1 laptop that I need an excuse to use because it just collects dust otherwise.

>>455 I made the OP so as to not be a broken record, I draw sometimes but I've gotten bored of it. I had a much more complete version of that one but as I said my PC temporarily bricked, which is a shame. >>456 If I end up making something unfinished you guys can do what you wish with it. Might be fun.

I have metric tons of manuals and shit /tg/ related but no friends The few who have agreed to play with me over the years usually dropped the games in 1-2 Days in and the idea of playing over the internets with random people who may or may not be normgroids and also me having a irregular schedule/motivation have led me to say "Fuck It" and start playing solo campaigns, i track all shit on a .txt file and play out the encounters on Maptool, currently playing a Sandbox campaign where i play as a random Outlaw in a Fantasy setting, i havenĀ“t been playing in a while though, but since its all recorded in my .txt files i just have to grab my dice and get on with it at any time

Ghost Mayoker >gameplay https://invidio.us/watch?v=GGOBVr7yWqQ >link https://matatabi-yasiki.blogspot.com/2013/09/ghost-mayoker.html

>>460 https://anonfiles.com/Hcy36437ob/dhinameptor_zip

>>460 >>461 That's some entertaining software. You the one who made it?

>>463 No it's Onisan Numba 2.

Alright update on the drawing thing. I'm going to try my hand at digital art and try to make some sort of practice piece. Photoshop piracy isn't just a single file replacement anymore so I'm going to have to take some time with this

>>465 >Photoshop why would you want to use that Over-Bloated piece of junk with a shit UI, aren't there really any better alternatives, i know that Paint.net is Limited in comparison to both Gimp and Photoshop, but still i'd rather use that than any of those 2 Hot pieces of Garbage

I remember one anon here playing electric guitar as well, post some riffs dude.

Does anyone here play touhou?

>>468 I've been wanting to play them. You got a reccomendation for where and how to start?

>>468 I'm stuck on the fourth one

>>470 Do you play it in public?

>>470 Hey I asked you a question answer me.

>>459 At that point you may as well just pick up DOS and Amiga WRPGs. You will get the same experience with less self management. I'm looking for a hobby that doesn't consume anything. Like card tricks or Yo-yos. Something I can buy one and just improve upon over and over. I don't want it to be digital though.

>>472 No, why?

I like playing guitar. Sometimes I would cuddle my guitar in my sleep. I love my 6 string. You should play an instrument too robot, it's so much fun. I love the sound of an emotional bend, make me hit the table every time. Struck a chord right into my cock. God I love guitar. Fuck ukelele however, those fags can die. I like synth bend too, even if it's just digital

I decided to get into drawing last month and I'm completely demoralized by now for some reason. It's patience probably, or my lack of it, that is giving me these ideas. Sometimes it feels like I'm not improving in any shape or form, or that my previous drawings were better than the last ones. Yes I'm practising a new exercise with each drawing or at least do two if I don't think the previous one came out nicely, but results just don't feel right despite being a thing I could sink time into.

>>476 For drawing peoples' heads look up videos on the Loomis method if you haven't already, it really does help a lot. Do you ever have issues with deciding what to draw? I'll be at work and think of a bunch of shit I want to draw, then forget it all as soon as I walk through my door and all the inspiration just fucking dies while I'm trying to remember what I wanted to draw earlier in the day. Can't wait to get fired again so I can go back to being a NEET for a little while.

>>476 been there, done that, i ended up giving up because i realized i don't give half a shit about actual drawing, i just wanted to make OC renditions of my Waifu, this is the point where you will figure out if you really want to do it or not, that being said Drawing tutorials in general from actual Academies to Books are fucked beyond recognition and are either because of Conflicting information or because there's a parallel between Art and Sucking Dick, so you are probably better off with going balls to the wall on the Meatgrinder and do it till you get stuff right, wich while taking longer at the very least you won't be second guessing your ass about what approach you should take because every manual tells you something completely different and ashures you that the others are wrong

>>477 >Do you ever have issues with deciding what to draw? I mostly try with photos of musicians but since I was on a bad mood I wanted to try with serial killers, that was the best three quarter view picture I could find. >For drawing peoples' heads look up videos on the Loomis method if you haven't already I'm practising drawing by observation right now following the beginner books from /ic/, apparently loomis comes later since that is applied when you're imagining stuff and can properly apply what you see on paper >>478 >been there, done that, i ended up giving up because i realized i don't give half a shit about actual drawing I have my doubts, I've been pondering about getting into arts since I left highschool, but I knew that if I went there I wouldn't get a single good job. Now I dropped out of college four times and haven't made any progress in life, and I also know art schools seem to be complete post-modernist garbage filled with mind warfare, so it's not like I'm in any different position. I guess the quarantine gave me time and peace enough to try at it again, since I did made an attempt to get into drawfagging a year ago, which went unsuccessful.

>>476 >demoralized Why would you be? At least you're doing something. Some people don't even tap into the potential they may have, produce nothing and only consume, they don't use the talents they may have and just waste their lives without being anyhow efficient, they are not even doing what they truly want to do. You're not on that path, so just keep going.

>>476 Please tell me that image is 2nd hand and you weren't on cuckchan /pol/ in current fucking year

>>481 This, ban him.

>>481 As an aside, that file specifically is from last week

>>481 >>482 Would be shitty if he did lurk enough to save a picture from there, but his posts don't have the same lack of quality you'd see from an average cuckchan shitpost. I'd say calling him a massive faggot would be enough, as he actually contributed to the thread somewhat, better than 4 off-topic sage posts did.

If you save an image from cuckchan change the fucking filename so we don't have to deal with this derailing every god damn time, as long as you aren't making cuckchan tier posts then nobody will be the wiser.

>>484 Nah I should just stop posting here

>>204 made this last week

>>476 These things take time. Just keep trying and think of the big picture, like months or even a few years ahead. You may not improve every single day but every hour of practice adds up.

>>488 I think that anon is gone by now.

Just wrote some lines for my rap song Nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger Fuck nigger Nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger Fuck all niggers.

>>490 Try writing a nigger novel

>>491 at first i Laughed, now i want to cry because he's absolutley Right, this Plane is dominated by niggers, niggers with White skin that pretend to be something other than a Materialistic Greedy Psychopathic Hypocritical nigger that believe themselves to be "progressive" and "Humanitarian" they will call the Ancients barbaric for wishind the blood of the Heretic and the Wicked to be spilled, ignoring that they themselves wish for the Blood of anyhting that doesn't follow their False Gods and worships their Greed and Wickedness, of nigger niggers that are incapable of Thought, Creation, and can only Mutilate destroy and Covet the things of Others, a nigger world ruled by hebrew niggers, puppetmaster of the Psychopathic masses, black hearted psychopaths, fucking sick fucks, they just Take and Take and Take, and don't really care, how can you cover in such a way?, how can you unironically Wish to Take something away from someone and to destroy it, not only that but to Revile on the fact that you have Destroyed and Stolen the Good, im not a pacifist, but Warriors of the Past, Knights, Samurai, the Ascetic Warrior in general, fought for Supra-Human Values, and for things beyond, he Destroyed not with the Satanic Drive to anihilate and Taint everything like this fucking Lunatic, Deranged psychopaths, they Destroyed because they knew that Creation is preceded by Destruction, they Uprooted the Evil to Build the Good on top of it, but these people are straight up Satanic, horrid fiends, they just wan't to Destroy Everything, and Consume, they want to Anihilate Everything Good pure and Holy so that once no Good remains, Evil becomes Good by necessity, these sick fucks, they make me want to Cry, they make me want to Vomit, this Plane is Hell, and im Trapped in it

Is guitar anon still here? Can you post some more of your playthrough?

I started making scale models of planes a few months ago, fucked up a few of them but overall I'm happy with the results. The last one that i made was a Dora, pic related, which came out decently enough. Right now I'm painting a garage kit of my waifu so I'm not making anything at the moment

>>494 print a jew and put it under the wheel.

It would be cool if someone here could play an instrument and make it a weekly thing to upload his play-through. Maybe we can make a band and produce OC.

>>494 Doesn't look panel lined to me. It really improves a kit when you do it. I'm also a model maker but I've gone heavily towards miniatures lately. Ended up buyign a 3D printer because everything is going to shit. Don't have to give companies money for models if I can print them myself.

>>497 I did not panel line it, looking at reference photos it does not look very realistic unless the aircraft is very weathered, i just used some oils for stains and tried to replicate faded paint by airbrushing slightly lighter base colors. But anyway how good are 3d printed miniatures? I'm thinking of buying a printer sooner or later.

godot shmup proto its not really "unfinished" but some kind of test ground for shmup with 3d graphics even a simple scene like that is hard to set up to look good/proper (or playable) the code exists only for moving ship but there are also 3 enemies, theres no code for them

I've gotten an interest in mycology recently. I find those organisms to be fascinating, especially how to they tend to find a little niche to thrive in. Currently I'm collecting one specimen of every new mushroom I find, I take a spore print, I try to determine the species (using 2, 3 books and an online mushroom identifier to cross reference), then I dry them and put them in a small mason jar, with their spore print. It's quite challenging but also it feels rewarding.