Kathy Murdoch
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Next year's Spanish class timetable has been published, looks like if I choose to continue I'll have to pick between Wed @13:00 and Mon @18:00—and they're both in person, no online option. Registration's open until September but places are first-come, first-served so it'd probably be useful to decide sooner rather than later.
I could do Wednesday on my old work schedule but at the moment I don't know whether a new job, if I can find a part-time one, is going to let me have the Wednesday off.
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CW: Hokum (minor spoilers)
Couple of "did you remember this line?" callbacks which were a little annoying. I was paying attention! Would've been nice if the cast could've been more diverse than a bunch of white guys and one woman, I got a couple of the men confused at one point.
I need to read a plot breakdown to get a better understanding of what went down in the cellar near the end (with the keys and chains), I think, but I understood sufficiently to really really enjoy it overall
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CW: Hokum (minor spoilers)
There were 8 other people in the cinema and I think I may have been the loudest, gasping at the couple of jump scares that got me. I think the jump scares were a bit unecessary for this, the moodiness and straight up scary bits were more than sufficient for me. But maybe you need the jump scares to get the heart up for the ensuing scene? I don't know how this genre works so much.
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CW: Hokum (minor spoilers)
So I watched Hokum last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it, there's probably no point in me denying I'm into horror at this point, or, well, folk horror at least, given my love for Wicker Man and some of the Ghost Story for Christmas series. I'm not going to be watching any slashers any time soon 😂
Really tight strip, and some really nice character work with in it, at least for the protag. The "framing device" at the start and end was a nice metaphor.
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I'm really really glad I listened to my own experience with such things and didn't upgrade #krita until I'd finished reformatting Brace for Impact. The new features are all lovely but the UX on the new text dialogue desperately needs some love and I'm tripping over it so much doing a few minor bits of text formatting this morning.
(Specifically, the issues lie in places like the font selection dialogue, such as being able to mousewheel through fonts to see them applied on the actual selected text like we could before, and being able to reliably select a font by typing the first part of its name. Wild that so many settings are hidden behind needing to add them to the dialogue manually too, and there's a lot of wasted space in a panel I'm already struggling to find space for on my screen. My suggestion to the designers would be to take a look at how CSP lays out its text options panel. It's ugly and dense but everything's at your fingertips.)
The KDE bug tracker is a big sticking point here too. I had to sign up for an account before I could even browse open bugs, and I don't see any obvious way to see what issues have been accepted, taken up, or fixed in the dev branch.
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#LifeDrawing log: I didn't attend last night's due to other commitments but I forgot to write up last week's, so:
I had company for this one! A new friend from the writing group offered to come along and she's about at the same stage with her art as when I started life drawing, so I was able to answer some questions and hopefully not overwhelm her, fingers crossed.
Chef's special was drawing a box and "chipping away" the negative space to leave the form. My least favourite one! I am slowly improving at it, though.
For one of the twenties the model—gasp!—put on a jacket! Very unorthodox. I do need to practice clothing folds more but it completely threw me in terms of construction. Maybe that's the point. I just about got the render to a finished state, but had no time for shading other than some basic line thickness variation, so it ended up as a stark black and white piece.
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#LifeDrawing log: first week back after catching covid nearly six weeks ago! (It's been a rough recovery.)
I didn't get myself out the house in time for the usual, tutored, first session, so I went to the second session for the first time. It actually worked out pretty well, though I was back home past my bedtime. Not having tutoring sections or specific exercises to do meant I felt I stayed in the zone for the longer ones, so I had a much better night than I expected to! I was worn out by the last long one.
The format was 10x1m, 2x5m, 1x15m, 2x20m, and 5x2m, though this seemed up for debate as the tutor—well, host, I guess, since this was untutored—opened up to the audience for suggestions after the warmups.
Here's a couple of my favourites from the evening. CW: drawing of nude woman.
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My printed copies of the compilation of all six current issues of Brace for Impact arrived today!
I'm super proud of these, I've been going through them all by hand over the last month or so to prep them for print and add additional behind the scenes material between chapters. I'm so happy with how they've come out.
(More details on how to get hold of one coming soon.)
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 7:
Thanks for reading; I'm considering this the end of the first story arc! These three will return once they've had a chance to settle down in their lovely new home ;)
#BraceForImpactComic #mastoArt #krita #comic #BraceForImpact
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 6:
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 5:
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 4:
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 3:
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 2:
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Brace for Impact Part 6, page 1:
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Over the next week I'll be posting Brace for Impact part 6: The Dormant Spaceship!
Our trio have finally made it back to Thud's spacecraft, but tensions are still running high. Can they figure out what's going on aboard the ship together, or is someone going to end up ejected from an airlock?
Previous parts:
Part 1: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/111370982961675171
Part 2: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/112321691542085179
Part 3: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/112881773327726668
Part 4: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/114473305531406420
Part 5: https://speedlines.stctp.zone/@kapellosaur/115067823079629838 -
Forgot to post the timelapse of this earlier! It's a bit oddly formatted because I forgot to crop the canvas until the end, but on the other hand it shows all my warmup sketches and ideas too :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFLqyAlA4wg
[yt alt: timelapse of above image, 3m20s]#deltarune #krita #timelapse #speedDraw #NoelleHoliday #CarolHoliday #WeirdRoute #snowgrave
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A friend and I were PIs at a snowy remote winter resort trying to solve a murder. We'd tagged a pet dog off its leash we were certain belonged to the culprit, and now our phones alerted us when it was nearby. Our sensors had also alerted us to a gunman in a garage
The dream pivoted into #TacticalBreachWizards game but first-person. We avoided the garage level and focused on powering up on levels that gave us magical gems. We defeated a large fish and could summon lightning thereafter
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And the time lapse! (Including some warm-up poses from reference to begin with, haha)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxQ8R30Xcjc
[alt: the process video for Gina, who is described in the previous image in this thread)