May 4-5, 2025
I’m getting closer to the end of Scott Harris’ Character Art Course. I started in 2020 and tried to do as much of the homework as I could. As I learned more, I realized how difficult the homework would be to do legitimately. I wrote down the time commitment he was suggesting and it is massive. Here I’ll do a bit of the math just for fun. See below. If you want to become a good artist, you need to have a lot of muscle memory. Where does that muscle memory come from? From drawing, painting, and so on. If you have time and want to get to it, the homework is a pretty powerful tool. Along with the course which explains why bad drawings look bad, how to improve your character art, and so on, this course is something else. This blog post goes into my experience.
I’m not going to say it’s perfect. If it was, I would’ve finished the course and by now I’d be a skilled artist.. Oh wait. I think it makes sense to draw to show you what I mean. You see M1A1, the first assignment (module 1 assignment 1) tells us to draw a character so that we can look back over time to see how much our art has improved. This is helpful in getting a mindset of growth – that you most certainly need. Because if you’re taking a drawing course, you probably think that your character art looks bad. How do we go about understanding good vs bad?
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A conversation between Javantea and Gemini (artificial intelligence by Google). Javantea's prompts are labeled.
Javantea: Do you have any opinion on the meaning of the song Forever Young by Alphaville?
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Hoy discutimos un event muy recente -- guerra en Siria.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on Dec 10, 2024.
This is bound to come up again as geopolitics is starting to become rather chaotic. I'm not saying anything about this event because I still have no understanding of it. That is why these paragraphs are here.
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This is the nineteenth podcast. Hoy discutimos filosofía. Me gusta mucho.
The audio is created with Google Text-to-Speech in Android for free using the spanish (Spain) voice. The script was written by various authors around the world and given to Wikipedia, where I got it on May 20, 2024.
Philsophy will be on a break for a few weeks after this episode. We'll come back for sure.
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