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Went for my 2nd ever life drawing session today. It was a 3 hour pose; I only stayed for 1.5 hours, because I wasn’t planning to work on a piece for that long. I ended up drawing the same pose 3 times.
Seems like the short poses sessions are more suitable for me! Because I’m so impatient. I tried the stick method of gauging distances, but it didn’t work out for me as well as if I just use plain visual observation.
Shading was tricky, as usual! I’ve never taken any classes on figure drawing, so I’ve never been taught any methods or anything. My method of drawing is crude & dependent on habit. I so need to attend a life drawing class! I realised that even in life drawing, a lot, especially shading still depends on one’s imagination and artistic sense. The finesse in wielding a pencil is important as well, especially in shading.
Ahh, I still have a lot to learn.
So I finally finished reading Potter7! It concludes part of my childhood memory. I think I belong to the generation that has grown up with potterbooks; I started reading ‘em in 2000, picking up volume after volume at the airport at sequential intervals.
Sentimental value was what propelled me to read this book. For childhood memory. And since I’ve read 1~6 I might as well read 7.
Personally I would say the back stories were a tad bit tacky. Too sensational. Especially since 1~6 have been pretty pristine, as far as I remember. They also draw attention away from the main trio, and I’m not even sure of they’re that relevant. (Personally it was a pain going through that chapter, gwarsh…) They bring depth to some characters, yes, but flatten & diminish the depth to Riddle, who stooped by the end to a pretty one-dimensional dark lord. That’s my complain for this book.
Though all in all I think it was a good read. These 10 years have been an entertaining ride. I appreciate the author’s effort in keeping stray elements from the previous books together (of course she has to). It was interesting revisiting all those characters again.
Hmm. I can’t give an impartial review to this one because to put it simply, I got bored of this game halfway & only finished it for the sake of finishing a game.
It’s such a soul-sucking game nonetheless. Super long. I no longer have the patience for long games like this one. I stayed up for two nights or so through Orzammar because I just wanted to get through it. It over-stimulated me & had me negatively obsessed with the game. (Which is ultimately my own fault, blah)
The main attraction of this game are the characters and the story. The characters are colourful, funny & interesting (I love Zevran) and the story is classic. The gameplay is really so-so. Might be because I didn’t exploit the options fully, but seriously! I can’t be bothered to tweak every single setting. I got so tired of just choosing abilities and equipping the characters.
Also, the dialogues were cumbersome & tiring for me. I know having varied choices for PC dialogues is a signature of Bioware games. It gets so tedious at one point. I guess this just means that Bioware games are not for me?
I was so filled with dreams and fancies back then.
