So I have a weekly 4-hour-or-so call with my superniece Cora, and yesterday's was especially good, we got into co-doodling/drawing and talking about doodling. I actually discovered a new-ish coloring tool in Apple Notes (my prefered doodle program)
Open Photo Gallery
We started collaborating on a wolfwoman, though I think we haven't quite worked out the difference between a wolfwoman and a werewolf.
I kind of explained some of the techniques I heard you "should" use more of, but honestly I'm usually too lazy to do...
Also I decided to experiment with "anime"/chibi style ala the game "Gacha Life", but the results were... pretty bad...
I did realize there's a nice airbrush-like tool in Notes now - I still need to get skills in using it but it's much friendlier feeling that tne "highlighter" tool I've been using.
Rooster man.
Cat guy. Beteween this one and the next one I realized maybe I should be using that "draw the structure first" technique more often...
Cora as wolf-Cora.
Alright, enough trying to draw humans.
Cora's 3-tailed fox character Sábia
Cora was getting frustrated by coloring - she had a good version of her Sábia fox character going, and she was sort of distraught by having "wasted an hour" when the orange coloring she was using led to bad results that she ripped up. So it was maybe chance to work with her on emotional regulation. Also made me think about how the digital tools I prefer (even though I've never been more than a doodler) are much more forgiving than good ol' paper...
"This is the ideal desktop setup. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."
Just a note for me to find when I'm making an argument in terms of trans rights - on intersex folks. Intersex isn't the same as Trans but I think it helps with the argument that a genital centric, fifth grade science class understanding of what makes men, women, and non-binary just isn't enough to get all authoritarian about.
There's a saying from computer science.
"Whatever you measure will improve. This is a warning"
Whether it's metrics you're applying to employees, or unit tests of AIs, or fulfilling statistical victories.
Want more lines of code written? Done, now no one writes short, snappy code and every if statement uses three different lines.
Want this neural net that's learning how to walk to reach the furthest distance? Now it makes itself impossibly tall so that when it falls down, the top of it reaches further.
Want more jobs? Well, the finger on that monkey paw is curling up as you speak.
random shots from the ending of The 3-D Battles of World Runner:
