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I wasn't sure whether or not to do one of these...for the simplest of reasons that I really don't have much of a story to tell...Okay,here goes.
I've been drawing ever since I was a kid.In fact,my incessant doodling in class often got me into trouble for not paying attention,which is why I never really did well in math...or science...or history...or geography etc. etc.In high school,I did reasonably well in English and literature but that's it.I was never an A student;best I could do was a C.I had to go to summer school,then night school...at that was to graduate!The only high points from my high school years?Three years with the chorus,and the time I won the school-wide crazy hat contest by wearing an old bandmaster's hat and some old bifocals of my father's...I was trying to be Benny Hill.
My college years,not much to tell there either...once again,not much of a student,spending way too much time at the rec center.I did become a volunteer cartoonist for the "other" student newspaper,the one run out of the small office they shared with the rugby club...my editor asked me to do a cartoon about that,so I did.
Still with me?Like I said,not much of a story...tell you what,I'll skip over the years I spent washing dishes on the graveyard shift at a Denny's and get right to when my nephews told me about DevArt,about two years after we got our first computer...once I learned of the paint function,I couldn't wait to try it.After years of holding the pencil/pen/watercolor marker in my hand and moving it around on the surface of whatever my canvas was,I had to learn a whole new way of creating art,moving a "mouse" around while watching what was happening on the screen,all the while mentally putting the two together.Patience and perseverance aren't exactly two of my strongest virtues;they're probably what prevented me from pursuing painting beyond college,and as much as I was fascinated by airbrushing,I never even thought about trying it.
When I found about DevArt,I immediately jumped at it...as I've never worked as a professional artist,the internet gives me something I wouldn't have otherwise...an audience.
The only bump in the road during the five-odd years I've been here...was the first time they deleted art of mine that violated their standards.Don't mind telling you,I was mad as hell...but what could I do?It's their site,I'm just a guest.Fortunately,my much-more-computer-savvy-than-I'll-ever-be nephews once again provided the solution,showing me how to set up my own blog.
And that's it.End of story.Real nail-biter,huh?
Anyway,out of my gallery,here's the stuff I consider some of my best:
I've been drawing ever since I was a kid.In fact,my incessant doodling in class often got me into trouble for not paying attention,which is why I never really did well in math...or science...or history...or geography etc. etc.In high school,I did reasonably well in English and literature but that's it.I was never an A student;best I could do was a C.I had to go to summer school,then night school...at that was to graduate!The only high points from my high school years?Three years with the chorus,and the time I won the school-wide crazy hat contest by wearing an old bandmaster's hat and some old bifocals of my father's...I was trying to be Benny Hill.
My college years,not much to tell there either...once again,not much of a student,spending way too much time at the rec center.I did become a volunteer cartoonist for the "other" student newspaper,the one run out of the small office they shared with the rugby club...my editor asked me to do a cartoon about that,so I did.
Still with me?Like I said,not much of a story...tell you what,I'll skip over the years I spent washing dishes on the graveyard shift at a Denny's and get right to when my nephews told me about DevArt,about two years after we got our first computer...once I learned of the paint function,I couldn't wait to try it.After years of holding the pencil/pen/watercolor marker in my hand and moving it around on the surface of whatever my canvas was,I had to learn a whole new way of creating art,moving a "mouse" around while watching what was happening on the screen,all the while mentally putting the two together.Patience and perseverance aren't exactly two of my strongest virtues;they're probably what prevented me from pursuing painting beyond college,and as much as I was fascinated by airbrushing,I never even thought about trying it.
When I found about DevArt,I immediately jumped at it...as I've never worked as a professional artist,the internet gives me something I wouldn't have otherwise...an audience.
The only bump in the road during the five-odd years I've been here...was the first time they deleted art of mine that violated their standards.Don't mind telling you,I was mad as hell...but what could I do?It's their site,I'm just a guest.Fortunately,my much-more-computer-savvy-than-I'll-ever-be nephews once again provided the solution,showing me how to set up my own blog.
And that's it.End of story.Real nail-biter,huh?
Anyway,out of my gallery,here's the stuff I consider some of my best:
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Okay,I'll admit it...Eclipse ain't so bad.
Like a lot of other people on this site,I really wasn't looking forward to the changeover. I'd looked at the provided prototype and instantly,somewhat compulsively,decided I didn't like it. Most likely,it stems from my asperger's syndrome,which I didn't even know I had until I was diagnosed two years ago. I tend to react negatively to wholesale change,even if I eventually end up liking it. I had several of those "NO TO ECLIPSE" deviations in my favorites,as well as reposting someone else's anti-Eclipse graphic in my own gallery (as the original artist suggested). Given the circumstances,I have since removed them. It took me a while to figure out how everything works,but I'm definitely getting the hang of it; were I to pick a new feature I like,it would have to be now being able to post a cover image for your main page. The only change I don't like is no longer being able to,in a favorites gallery dedicated to a single artist,post their thumbnail icon in the description....it was sort
Super-cool cars
Last night,I re-watched Ready Player One...my favorite scene is still the Copper Key Race,a seemingly impossible-to-beat auto race through a fantasy New York,so filled with dangers it makes the real city in the notorious mid-1970s look like Amish country. In keeping with the Easter-Egg-laden tone of the movie,several characters drive some famous vehicles....there's actually a few not included that would've loved to have seen compete:
--The Ecto-1 (in fact,why wasn't that in this race?)
--The Mystery Machine
--The Drag-ula (the drag race car,whose main body is that of a coffin,seen in the movie Munster Go Home)
--The Batmobile from Tim Bur
The movies of 2019.
I guess this is an annual thing for me now; here,in the order they were released,are last year's movies which I saw,with a few brief thoughts.
Glass.....and M. Night Shyamalan BLOWS it again....in a sequel to one of his best films,and another nearly as good.
Happy Death Day 2U......Good Lord,does everything have to have a bloody sequel?! Especially one that does little more than rehash the plot of the better original?! Is there even any point in my hoping they won't make a part three?!?
Alita : Battle Angel....It's no secret that Hollywood's adaptions of popular anime haven't exactly been setting box-office records. Truth be told,I've neve
No escape pod in a Hamdingers box for Jonah.
A little over a week ago,I found out that Netflix is,after only two seasons,pulling the plug on their MST3K revival. Frankly,I'm not the least bit surprised.
Did I say that because I didn't think the new version was as funny as the Joel/Mike era?
Truth be told,I'm really not qualified to judge. I've never had Netflix,and during the brief time I had access to it (when my brother and his family moved into our old house following my mother's passing),I only watched two episodes. I seem to recall liking it at the time. But anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the history of television knows of the numerous times that old TV shows,especia
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