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Cake day: September 29th, 2023

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  • I remember your first post. Glad that you are still working on putting this workshop together. Excited to read about what you come up with.

    If I remember correctly, you use a 3d scanner to get close-enough measurements of your workspace, and design around that? Is there any chance of us getting some pictures of your completed space once things are buttoned up, or would it be too much of a privacy concern? I’m super into confined, efficient workspaces and I’d love to see what kind of solutions you’ve come up with for your specific needs.


  • My imaginary friend was very tiny, and I’d imagine him cartoonishly jumping around whatever environment I was in so he could talk to me on my level. I used to hide out in the bathroom a lot, so oftentimes he’d be jumping on top of the toilet paper roll, then scampering up to the counter so we could have a proper conversation. If I was in the car, he’d sit on the edge of the window.

    The best way I could describe him looking back would be like the vault boy from fallout. Not the same clothes or look, but just that cartoony style. I probably imagined him to be a little darker and with different colored hair.


  • Gonna necro this post so I can ask about your priming color selection.

    Those purple/ blues aren’t very apparent in the final model at first, but the colors you chose obviously do a lot of work in creating the look. How did you decide on that color scheme of priming?

    I mentioned in another post some orc armies I wanted to paint, including a red-skinned “fire ork” army. I want to avoid just priming them in a color that makes up most of the model to get some more depth like I see in your final products. My first guess would be to shoot some dark purple/blue from below and use a yellow from above? Does that sound similar to how you would approach that color scheme, or am I way off base?







  • I see. “Glaze” is a term I see used a lot but have not done a lot of research on what it actually means or how to use them.

    The video I watched (from State of Play, if youve seen him at all) was on mixing a host of colors from 5 base inks, I’ve been thinking about snagging those 5 inks to play around with. Perhaps now is the time to look into glazing as well.

    Thanks as always for your advice.





  • Here’s my take, and you can do with it as you will.

    We don’t have free will, how could we? We are, as you said, chemicals in a hot dog casing. When I see something I want to eat, it’s because chemicals tell me I’m hungry and it will provide sustenance. When I do something that I enjoy, and want to pursue, my brain is receiving chemicals that it enjoys, and tells me to continue doing actions that produce said chemicals. I can choose to do these things or not, but my choice in and of itself is determined by… more chemicals.

    But why does it matter, if those chemicals also tell “me” that “me” is the one in charge?

    It’s like the cave/ shadow metaphor (that I will poorly paraphrase and misuse); hold a chair in front of a candle, show me the shadow, call it a “table” for my entire life, and the first time I see a chair I will say, “so this is what a table looks like!” It doesn’t matter that it’s actually a chair, just like it doesn’t matter if I actually am making my choices. My reality (and your reality) is what I perceive and accept, and nothing more. Logically, I understand that when presented the choice between A and B, my body and the chemicals composing it are the ones “making” the decision, and I’m just acting it out. I get that. But if someone says, “do you want really want to watch The Lord of the Rings again?” I already know that the world has changed, because I feel it in the water, feel it in the earth, and smell it in the air.

    And that’s my choice, chemicals be damned.


  • I think this might be where it comes from for me, too. If you say it’s with x, and I think it’s worth z, I don’t want to insult you or assume you’re trying to scam me by asking for x, but I also don’t want to pay much more than z.

    The concept of some mystical “y” living in the middle is lost to me and it’s socially impossible to reach “y” without me calling you a scammer or you calling me cheap, so no deal will be made today.