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clevermanka) wrote2021-04-08 10:01 am
clevermanka) wrote2021-04-08 10:01 am
Thursday
Shaggy Bai Yu. Death grip on those noodles. More noodles. FIFTY-NINE CENTIMETERS??? This sweet short film was linked in another one of Bai Yu's birthday tweets. Harper's photoshoot vlog.
Fanart: 🔥Kunwei kiss🔥 Bai Yu birthday wishes.
This week's dump on cm.net.
I taped the quadrants of portrait together yesterday and even though it was only 4:15, I called it a day because god that part of the process is so stressful. You have to make sure each piece lines up just perfectly--or as perfectly as possible, anyway, since inevitably the paper warps what with all the shit I glue down on it, not to mention the layers of paint--and then make sure it stays in place as the tape goes down.
This is another time it's real helpful to do this in a group setting. Someone else can hold the paper for you. I've only done one other portrait with the edges exactly flush. It's how I learned to do it, but once I started doing them on my own, I printed the base images with a slight overlap (maybe an eighth of an inch) so there was a little more forgiveness. But I couldn't figure out how to do that in the basic MS photo editor (and as I mentioned, I gave up on GIMP ages ago) so I had to do it the old way and ughhhhh I hated it.
Definitely not doing another one of these until I can print it out with that overlap because it's a less stressful process and also results in a sturdier artwork. I'm kinda terrified to move this one around much right now so I'm gonna stabilize it with strips of something thin (maybe some newsprint) glued to the back of the seams. If nobody else wants this piece, I'll probably mount it to a canvas but I can't do that until it's scanned.
(fun side note: I mailed the Mycroft portrait to Belgium rolled up in a tube and I was so worried about it being hardened into a coil when it arrived I emailed Indy a whole treatise on how to uncurl it without damage)
From the completely opposite side of my personal interests, I started this as a comment onnaye's post about fight scenes but it got out of hand so I'm putting it here.
I love fight scenes. The five and a half minute single-take fight scene from Daredevil is the only part of the show I ever watched, but I've watched it so many times. From the blocking to the acting to the lighting and cinematography it's excellent. Thinking about people designing the choreography, teaching it, learning it, performing it--ngngnngngng, all of it's so cool. I'm also fond of the John Wick movies for obvious reasons.
Sometimes I wonder if I'd seen more wushu movies when I was young I'd have been inclined to go into stunt fighting or at least taking martial arts classes. With rare exception, American fight scenes in the 70s and 80s were hardly inspiring and it wasn't something ~girls~ were encouraged to do anyway except for men's titillation (ugh). I didn't even hear about Jackie Chan until I was in college, though, and I'm pretty sure there wasn't a single dojo in the town where I grew up. I loved physical fighting, and play-fought with any friend who'd go for it with me.
I kinda wanted to be in a fight scene for the Renfest human combat chess match that I was in for a few years, but I never got tapped to do one.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Ahhhhh I love it.
Sad side note: when I packed up the last of my stuff from McKitterick's he'd set out a pair of sparring gloves that weren't mine and I couldn't find mine but no way was I going to ask him where they might be so bye bye my cute little padded grappling gloves. Ah, well, not like I'm gonna be sparring with anyone again anytime soon. Transience! The impermanence of being!
Only vaguely related to the above but I wanna end this on a smile: Scrolling through my Flickr to find that photo, I ran across a pic of me and a few of my fellow brothel-members posing with royalty at Renfest on the one day of the run we had off. The KC public schools bus in kids to attend the faire on Columbus Day (ugh for so many reasons) and obviously we weren't an appropriate street act to be wandering around with a bunch of teenagers. Some of us would go out in civvies, drink out of plastic cups, and mock the poor souls who had to suffer through the day. Good times. God I love that picture. 😂
And now it's time to get back to work on the portrait. *girds loins*
Fanart: 🔥Kunwei kiss🔥 Bai Yu birthday wishes.
This week's dump on cm.net.
I taped the quadrants of portrait together yesterday and even though it was only 4:15, I called it a day because god that part of the process is so stressful. You have to make sure each piece lines up just perfectly--or as perfectly as possible, anyway, since inevitably the paper warps what with all the shit I glue down on it, not to mention the layers of paint--and then make sure it stays in place as the tape goes down.
This is another time it's real helpful to do this in a group setting. Someone else can hold the paper for you. I've only done one other portrait with the edges exactly flush. It's how I learned to do it, but once I started doing them on my own, I printed the base images with a slight overlap (maybe an eighth of an inch) so there was a little more forgiveness. But I couldn't figure out how to do that in the basic MS photo editor (and as I mentioned, I gave up on GIMP ages ago) so I had to do it the old way and ughhhhh I hated it.
Definitely not doing another one of these until I can print it out with that overlap because it's a less stressful process and also results in a sturdier artwork. I'm kinda terrified to move this one around much right now so I'm gonna stabilize it with strips of something thin (maybe some newsprint) glued to the back of the seams. If nobody else wants this piece, I'll probably mount it to a canvas but I can't do that until it's scanned.
(fun side note: I mailed the Mycroft portrait to Belgium rolled up in a tube and I was so worried about it being hardened into a coil when it arrived I emailed Indy a whole treatise on how to uncurl it without damage)
From the completely opposite side of my personal interests, I started this as a comment on
naye's post about fight scenes but it got out of hand so I'm putting it here. I love fight scenes. The five and a half minute single-take fight scene from Daredevil is the only part of the show I ever watched, but I've watched it so many times. From the blocking to the acting to the lighting and cinematography it's excellent. Thinking about people designing the choreography, teaching it, learning it, performing it--ngngnngngng, all of it's so cool. I'm also fond of the John Wick movies for obvious reasons.
Sometimes I wonder if I'd seen more wushu movies when I was young I'd have been inclined to go into stunt fighting or at least taking martial arts classes. With rare exception, American fight scenes in the 70s and 80s were hardly inspiring and it wasn't something ~girls~ were encouraged to do anyway except for men's titillation (ugh). I didn't even hear about Jackie Chan until I was in college, though, and I'm pretty sure there wasn't a single dojo in the town where I grew up. I loved physical fighting, and play-fought with any friend who'd go for it with me.
I kinda wanted to be in a fight scene for the Renfest human combat chess match that I was in for a few years, but I never got tapped to do one.
Fight! Fight! Fight! Ahhhhh I love it.
Sad side note: when I packed up the last of my stuff from McKitterick's he'd set out a pair of sparring gloves that weren't mine and I couldn't find mine but no way was I going to ask him where they might be so bye bye my cute little padded grappling gloves. Ah, well, not like I'm gonna be sparring with anyone again anytime soon. Transience! The impermanence of being!
Only vaguely related to the above but I wanna end this on a smile: Scrolling through my Flickr to find that photo, I ran across a pic of me and a few of my fellow brothel-members posing with royalty at Renfest on the one day of the run we had off. The KC public schools bus in kids to attend the faire on Columbus Day (ugh for so many reasons) and obviously we weren't an appropriate street act to be wandering around with a bunch of teenagers. Some of us would go out in civvies, drink out of plastic cups, and mock the poor souls who had to suffer through the day. Good times. God I love that picture. 😂
And now it's time to get back to work on the portrait. *girds loins*