Danioover9000

To give you some idea of what I've been up to drawing wise, here are some images I'll elaborate on later: The two images above come from me using a set of dual nib brush pens, one broad and the other end fine. The colour I had were two jet blacks, one light azure blue, one dark azure, one darkish grey and the other was light grey. They are not bad brush pens and did really well considering that the paper I'm drawing on isn't the best medium to handle markers, water colouring and paint. The above jmage is me drawing many eye shapes, by first quickly sketching them, and adding some details, and making another eye. I did around 20 + eyes for each hand, and on this one the majority above was HB pencil from a German company, and the last two rows were 3b pencil from a Canadian company.

Hello all, I've been very busy for the past month, with life events, and with getting some new drawing materials and building familiarity with them in the meantime. I'll be posting about the materials and what I've discovered from using them myself. In the meantime, below is a photo of what I ate, fish and chips. But if you look closly, you'll see in this one image contains all the art fundamentals most people have learned, and more intrestingly all the basic shapes for any drawing ever done. I'll list some art fundamentals in the photo and the basic shapes. I'll later explain each one in detail 1. Perspective. 2. Proportions. 3. Form. 4. Value scale. 5. Colour. 6. Light perspective. 7. Different types of shadows. As hard as it is to imagine, when I remember past events I've been through, my memory is almost like the photo below. It's just sometimes when I draw, it's sometimes not as exact as that, which is a part of my dream, to be able to actually draw what I see. You know, like what some master artists say 'draw what you see, not what you know'? Well, I want to draw what I see, not just the real life contained in a photo, or what my eye sees, but what I see in my mind, and to be able to draw that to near perfection. A close second is finding my style, but if I can, drawing to perfection is the first I'd work to.

@JuliusCaesar I think it's similar to intuition, where it's not necessary to logically 100% understand what it is or how it works, implicit understanding combined with many rich experiences of life is somehow enough that it makes intuition correct most of the time, and sometimes when it's wrong it's then part of the mileage in the library of the mind, I guess. It's also not limited to people who know the occult, magic or spirituality, paranormal phenomena can occur without prior knowledge of such things. I had no idea about ghosts, spirits or Tulpa, however they still occurred to me.

@How to be wise I'm not saying, or typing, anything about Trump's political position. Since we're mostly disagreeing with each other, why don't we both agree to drop this little issue here and not derail the thread? Agree to disagree and drop it?

@Space Lizard Fantastic example of a shit post done right LOL

@How to be wise That's an incorrect assumption.

@How to be wise I'm not American. How to be wise: shit posting to infinity with false assumptions.

The key question that should be answered in this thread is: Should an entire community suffer from the actions of a few of it's members? I have yet to hear a solid answer for this. What YouTube did was questionable, and it's not the best solution to the problem.

@Human Mint Thanks for the advice.

@At awe I've had this issue for as far back into my elementary years. For whatever reason, human faces scare me a bit. I'm not sure if it's related to a past life or some earlier movie about faces or something about other eyes turning me to stone or whatever. I've avoided looking directly at the eyes, sometimes looking down and away to parts of the ground.

@kamwalker That you for your advice. Personally I'd like to not take drugs or whatever hallucinatory substance if I can do more natural techniques instead, but again thanks I'll keep this in mind.

@mandyjw That'd not the main issue. the main issue is whether a company has the right to give a blanket punishment of the majority of the community for the actions of the minority. For example, this whole start of the removal of dislikes from videos started off when a minor group of dislike attackers attacked politically based YouTube videos regarding Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's inauguration into the white house. There might also be dislike attacks regarding Covid Procedures as well in YouTube, so as a result those organizations slightly threatened by the disproportionate dislike ration reached out to YouTube company to sort it out, and they just did, except instead of giving localized punishment's against the trolls and dislike attackers they punish the majority of the YouTube community by removing the right to view the dislike count, while maintaining the right to view the likes count. It's a subtle issue, but it's a serious issue if YouTube doesn't correct it's blanket approach. I've already posted what I think is the solution for YouTube, instead of removing dislike counts from all YouTubers, just give a pop up window asking for explanation and feed back on what the YouTube viewer thinks needs improving. It's ridiculous to effect all members when the real issue is with the few, or just one member.

Hopefully you get the necessary pro help outside this forum wherever you go, but don't kid yourself, you will be back one day posting like it's nothing.

@Knowledge Hoarder I definitely agree, as long as they can explain their views, provide examples and evidence for their views, while keeping the discussion as civil as they can in their end, they should be welcome here, or in another part of the forum. I actually think that most users here who say they're conservatives, are actually more identified as nationalists, ethno or religious nationals and fascists, who keep finding ways to bend or break some guidelines, and then point the blame to being conservative, and then people think it's all conservatives to blame.

@Rilles I think the degree to which a conservative is a right winger matters a lot, that it's insufficient to label all Conservatives as right wing, in fact some conservatives lean not just far right, or in the middle, but on the left in regards to certain policies the group/person in question wishes to get implemented. The reason why the degree to which one conservative is leaning towards in the political spectrum matters is because there's more estimation as to the likely policies that particular conservative wishes to enable, and is reflective of how complex politics can be because there are a lot of diverse political ideologies out there. It's incorrect for you to assume I don't own my political position, nor the state of emotion behind it. You are straw manning me by assuming incorrect things of me, without providing proofs and an explanation as to why you think I'm scared and have little ownership of my view. I'm right center-leaning, or more accurately an agnostic conservative who leans center and a bit to the left.

@DocWatts Well ok. It's just more better if you asked him some questions to see if Joel has a blind spot, because just taking his/her post at face value, there's no hard evidence as to suggest that the user has a blind spot to America's well functioning democracy which reflects the will of the people. Joel's post is in my view way too vague to reasonably conclude that Joel's view doesn't take into account structural flaws in America's representative system. There's lack of proofs, examples and elaboration in Joel's part to rebuttal sarcastically and to assume he was also being sarcastic himself. It's so vague it doesn't literally include America's structural flaws in it's representative system. My assumption was he's just stating the current political situation, and concluding from the present state of America's politics, America's collective ego, and him stating how America's democracy is working as intended, due to the will of the people, was making a comment on the present state of minds of the American people's psyche. It's likely he meant that, but I could be wrong in assuming that as well until he himself clarifies his post and it's intended meaning. I didn't mean to cause such a stir myself, I just spotted some inconsistency from both you and Joel's posts worth pointing out.

@Carl-Richard Joel was talking about bananas, Doc was talking about oranges. Both points mostly different, but both agree that they are talking about fruits.

@Peter-Andre If creators can still see dislikes, ok then. It just gets problematic when the creator can't even see the dislikes in their own video.

@Flowerfaeiry Oh ok then, thanks for your advice.

@Carl-Richard In Joel's post, he's commenting on the overall democracy of America and how well the American democratic system is working, and stating that the parties involved in the American system reflects the will of the people. He also states about the majority of right wing people in the country not wanting change, therefore the system, America's democratic system, reflects the will of the people. I assume here that he's commenting on the level of consciousness and ideological identity of some political groups of the right, as parts of a collective mind, that resist change. If I was Joel, I would have given more elaboration on what I meant with my statements, plus given some evidence on my part to prove that America's democracy is working well. In Doc's post, the entire first statement starts with a condition if statement. Doc assumes Joel's post means the following: the system adhering to 'antiquated' and 'undemocratic institutions', that give a 'rural minority' 'far too much influence' to 'dictate policy' to the rest of the country(the USA), then 'yeah it's doing a bang up job', followed by an image of the USA and I'm assuming it's showing actual figures about the population and senators. Notice that words I quoted here are not present in Joel's post, there Doc is not only assuming what Joel exactly meant, Doc is also abstracting from Joel's post as if it means more, when in exactly means what the post is worded. The biggest problem with Doc's post is that he starts assuming what Joel meant, when in fact he could only give an estimation as to what he likely meant, because of how general Joel's post is. If I was Doc, I would have started asking for Joel to clarify what he actually means in his post first, rather than conclude what he most likely meant, give additional meaning from abstraction, and follow up with some nebulous statement that is either sarcastic or a oddly placed praise of America's democracy doing a 'bang up job' and some image I find questionable, almost as questionable as Joe Rogan's post on the political image. How the two points are in agreement? Both user's comments are, and I'm assuming, are implicitly talking about collective consciousness of America's political parties, in it's democratic system. That's the agreement between the two relatively speaking, but explicitly and literally speaking, the two points are largely different. As to if Joel act ally meant what Doc thinks he meant, or if Doc's assumption is correct, that needs clarity.

@How to be wise I'm a centrist conservative, not a die hard conservative 'right winger', or whatever caricature you want to fit me in, nor am I pretending to be any other role than the role of a user asking questions and being in a discourse. Also, I think you're in the wrong forum if you're scared of me getting eaten alive, like this isn't a cannibal website, this is a personal development website. Maybe take a break, or seek emotional support if you think I'm in danger, I'm not.

@Hardkill It seems to be heading in that direction, which is a bit scary if you're living in the USA. I don't see any other alternative that this issue could reform peacefully without a fight. It's already ingrained into the culture of America deeply that it won't be easy to reform.

@Yarco I mean a case can be made for thinking about a topic a bit more than engaging with the activity, as neuroscientists have found that the brain can't differentiate actual actions or skills you do in the outer world versus thinking about that action, aka visualization from 3rd to 1st point perspective of such activities, from the inner world, and the neurons firing the pathways attributed to such actions from merely thinking them into action. Having said all that, I do agree that if you do an inner check, in your mind reality, and you can't quite perform the action exactly as if you're performing in the outer world, like for example, if you can't perform cooking because you're missing other sensory experiences to re imagine and engage in the action, then you are justified in taking more action on cooking more. Same with drawing, which happens to be on my ballpark, I used to struggle visualizing with more senses on the actual drawing process of using a pencil, how it feels, sounds, and what lines that are being made(not the final images, that's a bit easier for me) in that case I do more drawing, until I have no trouble replicating that experience inside of my mind. So, if thinking more about a field of interest is unproductive, I'd pin it down to having thoughts that are not related to the process or outcome you want, and having those thoughts frequently throughout the activity. In that case, I'd narrow the problem down to slight lack of focus, mindfulness, and maybe even something to do with the subconscious mind, maybe not a strong enough vision.

@Carl-Richard I understand that relatively speaking, it's pointless, but to me how Destiny handles opposition from both the corn guy and the moderator is a skill I can appreciate. I can't handle a situation as ell as Destiny did in a debate like that, I'd more likely to leave or unnecessarily escalate the conflict. However, the video you provided is also a better one. I imagine it's better because it's more in alignment to what Actualized.org ideas are discussed in videos, or in some really good posts about spirituality, non duality, philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and other advanced topics. I'm just not as excited to keep on listening or watching advanced topics. Personally, I'd put art over advanced topics that have a logical explicit framing of delivery, but that's a bias I've found about me.

@How to be wise Firstly, you assuming I'm a right winger is incorrect, and you assuming that I'm complaining is incorrect. Instead of refuting my points directly, you attack a caricature of me about my position that's false and and my mood that's false. Talk about the main topic first instead of me and less about whatever false assumptions you have instead.