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I created a #HighLow (high interest, low reading level) book for adult #EnglishLearners. I plotted, directed, edited, and did some of the writing. #LLMs helped me plan, did some checking, and, yes, did a lot of the "writing".
I'm an #ESOL / #ESL #teacher. I want to provide #EducationalMaterials for my students. I want to get affordable #books into my students' hands.
Includes #AI content, so #PublicDomain / CC0.
(Book coming soon; have to get it internet ready.)
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And to finish off my #HighLow theme, I found another #High (also I need a new theme!)
Glastonbury Tor, overlooking the town of #Glastonbury
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I realised that I never posted my last portrait here...
This is Tano. He is a male, Nair Serpensia from the south of Eirinn, who ran away from home to escape slavery. He has since joined one of the most prestigious mercenary groups in the continent and is the youngest member to ever make it to the Elite ranks.
#digitalart #digitalpainting #photoshop #highlow #worldofaarde #serpensia #npcportraits #npc #ttrpg #ttrpgcharacter #ttrpgart
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There's 210 or so steps, but you don't go straight up. You start at a little door at one end of the building, which takes you up to the roof. Then you have to talk along the roof. And you also stop in the bell room and get to climb into and look at the bells. So not a particularly hard climb.
This is crossing the roof on the way back down.
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Bath from the top of Bath Abbey's tower.
In cathedral and related buildings, there are often signs offering a tour of the tour, just ask [some person]. Not being fond of steps nor finding people, I pass.
But Bath Abbey is sneaky. Just inside the entrance is a little desk with a sign about their tower tours, and a nice person behind the counter looking expectantly at you. Also, a declaration with a long list of health conditions that you have to agree you don't have. -
Central Deborah Gold Mine, Bendigo, Victoria.
A lot of climbing and dark tunnels (and eating a Cornish pasty in the underground dining "room"). Not so suitable for taking photos, as least ones that actually look like something. -
From the steps, a passages leads into a chamber with these pillages, which you can't actually see very well, because it's dark.
Had trouble taking photos because the camera wants to be able to see something to focus on it. (I put on camera, use phone to create something to focus on, turn off phone and stabilise camera. Not much fun. Also I couldn't what what I was actually photographing.).
I did make a video with the phone. It's very rough and shaky but it might give a better idea of the place.
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The Bishop's Palace is across the road from the cathedral and built about the same time (12th C), then enlarged in 1540. An extra floor was added to the main buildings and the tower constructed.
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The tower of the Bishop's Palace in Kirkwall, Orkney doesn't look very high, but it is quite high enough once you are up there, thank you very much.
(I'm not scared of heights so much as getting anxious in places where me, camera or phone could fall down and be damaged or lost. Which is quite, reasonable I think.
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Shot Tower at Taroona (2007), south of Hobart. Built about 1870. .They made shot by pouring molten lead through a colander. As it went dooooown it formed into sphere and hardened on hitting the water at the bottom.
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Over the years, Hobart had a series of coastal batteries (small forts) built to provide protection from warships coming up the river. The first of these were built one Battery Point (now an inner-city suburb full of quaint cottages and old sandstone houses).
While most of the batteries have since been dismantled, one of the last built on Kangaroo Bluff on the eastern shore, is preserved as an historic site. There are stone passages, guns and information panels, although the underground parts are closed. It's sister battery on the opposite is all open but lacks any information about what is where (at least when I was there).
Back to Battery Point, the Prince of Wales battery was constructed in the 1840s. The second or third in the area. It was later demolished but the underground magazine remains. It was apparently a location for dubious activities, so a lacked gate was put on it.
However, at times the gate is unlocked. In 2014, it was used for a night time exhibition during Dark Mofo (mid-winter, city-wide, rather odd at times art festival). The art installation wasn't particularly exciting but it did provide an opportunity to wander around old tunnels at night.This is the entrance. (Inside on next post.)
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Apparently I forgot it was Valentines Day yesterday... so here's a late portrait I completed last year of two of my OCs. I had never done a couple portrait before, so I was pretty happy with how this turned out.
#DigitalArt #WorldofAarde #HighLow #OCArt #OriginalCharacters #Artist
Original blog post about it here: https://www.aelyryapayne.com/post/latest-completed-painting-c%C3%B2mhla-ri-anam-a-prince-and-his-knight
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As well as the #HighLow style, I do some coloured portraits. These generally take me longer, and I lean toward semi-realism in my work, as I have not yet grasped skintone layering and blending!
I still find them fun, and I mostly do them for 2d Tokens, Character Portraits and, sometimes, as references for other works. I also use this style to depict the monsters I create for my games, as I like to show off the ranges of colour within them.
I hope to become better at colour works in the future.
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Re-sharing some of my most beautiful boys, because I can!
1. Creed - massive, strong, hunk of muscle, but exceedingly sweet
2. Neyon - Smart and wise, but useless when it comes to his crush!
3. Border Knight and the Dryad Prince - polar opposites, but both crap at communicating!
4. The Dryad Prince - looks harmless and innocent enough, will absolutely rip you a new one if you anger him!#DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #HighLow #BlackAndWhite #Artist #TTRPGArt #WorldOfAarde
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Bevyn is the owner and leader of the Blue Wolves. He is known to be charming, jovial and well mannered. But his true identity is a well-kept secret, even amongst the Elite Wolves. A key figure behind Aelyx Everbright's rise to the leader of the Fuldair People's Rebellion, Bevyn always sidestepped efforts to place him in a more prominent position, instead pushing for democratic leadership and returning Fuldair to the hands of the people.
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My latest finished painting is of Neiven, the Tayaar Ginnaya Swashbuckler Rogue.
Crude, mouthy and chaotic, Neiven enjoys teasing others and causing mayhem wherever he goes. A mentally high-functioning drunk, he is sharp tongued and even sharper with his crossbow. Despite this, he is a caring person who will do anything necessary to protect his friends. He's openly pansexual.
Currently, his favourite pasttime is to torment Neyon with cheeky questions. -
Time for an update, so here's my new #introduction!
I'm Aely, and I'm an #artist #writer and #crafter from the #UK
I mostly work in #fantasy #scifi and #ttrpg spheres, though also do #reviews and record a podcast with @ioshiv
My weaknesses are pretty #dice and cool #miniatures , and I'm currently commissioned to draw the #CharacterPortraits for #HomebrewHavocSeason2
My #signaturestyle is the #HighLow, though I also work in colour and on maps!
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After many months of worrying and fussing about this, I finally finished a painting of two of my characters together. It's not perfect, but I've never drawn to characters interacting before so I count this as a win for a first try!
Reveal video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/i1fY_wpqJzk#DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #HighLow #OCPainting #WorldofAarde #Photoshop #FantasyArt #Duinesith #Feyborn
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New #introduction as I think I'm finally getting the hang of Mastodon! I'm Aely, and I'm an #artist #writer and #crafter from the #UK
I mostly work in #fantasy #scifi and #ttrpg spheres, though also do some #tech and #product #reviews. I love #indiettrpgs #DrWho #StarTrek #StarWars #Marvel #LordoftheRings and #DungeonsandDragons
Also obsessed with #puppies #butterflies and #dice!!!
As an artist, my #signaturestyle is the #HighLow - samples below!
I look forward to meeting more amazing folks!