Artisitc Merits

Petty, it's fucking criminal that you don't have good paper and pencils at hand. Get some. Now.

Hurry down to that nice bookshop not too far from the ferry, and while you're there, check if they still have the mugs with Dinna fash yersel and keep yer heid cause we thought we didn't have time to go back and get one and thought we'd find the same ones elsewhere, but no. It's been a year, and she still talks about that mug.

And you need one of thise soft squishy eraser/rubbers for highlights and stuff. Paper, pencils and squishy thing. And maybe a mug... I'll never hear the end of it if she doesn't get a mug. And you'll never hear the end of it if you don't get better drawing supplies.

Wait, was there a forumshire moot in Scotshobbitland we didn't hear about?

No, but it was pretty darn close!

More details.

Was going to make an Epic Forumshire Tale about it, but I don't seem to find the time to get started. And my family gets a bit cranky when I try to ignore them for a few hours.

Petty, it's fucking criminal that you don't have good paper and pencils at hand. Get some. Now. - Amarie

{{ OK, thats you, Norc, my Better Half, my Maw and my boss all said variations of the same thing with more or less swearing. You are all trying to tell me something arent you? Why are lasses so inscrutable?!


there a forumshire moot in Scotshobbitland we didn't hear about?- Halfy

An unfortunate combination of timing, work and Amarie's odd insistence of visiting the east coast (which is a bit like Fjordianland if it was a lot bleaker, greyer, duller and somehow even colder Why she would choose to go there instead of the wonder sof the west coast is beyond me! They dont even wear proper kilts or drink anywhere near enough buckie over there! )

check if they still have the mugs with Dinna fash yersel and keep yer heid - Amarie

I will be down tomorrow, I'll have a look }}

{{ Been a while since did I did some computer art, so here you go. }}

I like that

{{ After another long break some more computer art. }}

getting close to hard to tell from a photo.

ooh I missed these, great stuff I like both equally.

A murder took place in that cottage

Haha, would be nice to put something sinister but not immediately apparent in there.

{{ Cant remember if I put these up before, probably, but was nosing through some old art work of mine and these are my two favourite Doctor Who themed pictures out of them. }}

very atmospheric Petty.

{{ Thanks Figg, that's the main reason I liked them too.
However looking at the 2nd one it seems to be a straight render out the with no post work done on it, which I dont always do but I felt this one would benefit from it.
So I didnt do anything too drastic, I darkened it a little and brought up the contrast a bit. Then I masked the foreground and to compensate for it so I didnt lose in the dark the bits of undergrowtrh greenery catching the moonlight, increased the saturation of the yellow and green levels to bring them back out. Lastly I increased the intensity of the Dalek light and added a spoked lighting effect to it.
I did experiment with making the lights on the Dalek ship either brighter or richer, but in the end felt the softer colours gave a better sense of atmosphere and distance to the scene.
Which do folk prefer? As was or with the post work? }}

Well now you've confused things - I suppose this last post is without the post work, so if I say "the second one" it's not clear whether I mean the second one posted or the one after post work. (even that language is confused).

I like the one with the softer lights.

um not sure I would need to see them side by side to really tell. I have to scroll madly to another page to check and then by the time I see the second I cant remember which I prefer.

it comes down to whether you like the lens flare on the right.  (though why would it take a star shape?  Can't figure out the physics of that).

Edit: ah, it's because apertures have the overlapping diaphram, so it's not a perfect circle.  different cameras will have a different number of "spokes" in their flares. But the computer generated image is putting that in artificially, it's not what the eye would see.

Figgy - you can cut and paste a screen shot to compare. Know how to do it on a mac, sure the same is possible on a pc.

don't know how to do that unfortunately.

seems to be windows-shift-s, then click and drag over what you want, and release.

{{ Ive not been entirely idle or just wandering aimlessly drunk in my absence from forum and barrel- managed to do these, that I am almost more or less not entirely crabbit with (they are quite large 4kish images so you may want to click on them to go to original and load the full res version, can also download them if you have a care, tree one makes a nice desktop - }}

love the 2nd pic, Druid tree.