#working_while_ill

033 // ~ Wow! It’s Made! No.2: “A Tree In 2,023 Steps!”

I captured this from the redo stack of a tree I drew recently as a technique study, and I thought that I might also post a capture of the creation of it. I hope you find this kind of thing as mesmerizing as I do.

Start to finish, it took maybe three hours to do. Slow, but I am becoming better at it, I think.

As if you had missed it, the name is a reference to the plentiful and very useful, if slightly frustrating, tutorial images available online that offer you a lesson on drawing something in six or eight steps, which tend to leave out some critical leap or structure that tells you exactly how to get the details the way you need them (it tends to be around the fourth or fifth). Instead of that, I would like to offer you the complete process, directly from my edit history, from vacant workspace to signed product. Confounding step? Miss something? Need a bit of interpolation? Go back to the exact moment where it happened and study the result in this fun, 108-second animated image, uncluttered by explanations, descriptions, or frame numbers! Tell your friends!

The tree has ten colours, plus a transparency value. 1,971 of the GIF's 2,023 frames are of its construction, and the remainder are just me being fancy, plus a bit of LICEcap being a nuisance at the end.

Anyway, this has been a good week for neither my game nor my health, so I am afraid there is not much to see here. Hopefully, there will be more to see next time.

024 // ~ Wow! It’s Made! No.1: “Part of ???’s House”

So my health has not fully recovered and there are a couple of other projects I have going on. This is fine, I suppose, since things are improving. I did want to give you something, though, since it has been a while, and this is it! I have started working on the buildings of Matan Village, and this is one of them (or a part of one of them). This is a home! People will live in it! I will not tell you whose home it is just yet, because I want to keep a couple of surprises for later (and also it could change depending on whether or not I think of something better in the interim). Seedbird shown for scale. Obviously, I have not entirely finished it yet.

Anyway, there will only be a short post for this week (unless I get around to writing another-- unlikely, m’fraid), and I will tell you about my side projects later, because I do not have the time just at this moment (it involves Tkinter again).

023 // Loose Images No.6: Jeremiah Journey

Too sick for details this time. I would have liked this to be done sooner but there were just so many problems...

I hope you enjoy watching Celia’s round-trip adventure here. The technically significant part is that the whole thing is automated save for walking to the tree and telling Celia when to descend the ladder.

I am not well this morning and it may impact my productivity this coming week, so the next post may not be as flashy.

As promised, my health failed and I did not recover as I should have liked to. There will be no post for the week of April third. This week does not look good, either.