Danioover9000

Hello all! Yesterday I have gained some new materials to draw with. Today I share with you one of them, called willow charcoal. I tried the willow charcoal, and this what it looks like: The package of Willow charcoal, from a company called BOLDMERE, contains small, medium and large sized pieces (2 to 4 mm, 20pcs. 5 to 6 mm, 7pcs. 7 ti 8 mm, 3pcs. All together 30pcs). Product is made from specifically selected willow twigs. Prone to breakage, but each piece is usable. Perfect for sketching, outlining and block colouring, and suitable to be blended with paint and pastels to create a unique finish( gonna give this a try with my acrylic paint, watercolour paint and pastels). Typically charcoal is messy to work with, and willow charcoal is quite soft and a bit fragile to draw with. Also, willow charcoal is similar to the length of a pencil, but the difference is that the writing end is circular and flat rather than pointy like a pencil. Because of the shaping, I felt I needed to adjust my grips. I used over hand and under hand grips and modified tripod grips to negotiate with the flat circular end. The surface is loose, and when rubbed with the fingers or drawn on the paper, has a pleasant hollowed scratchy sound. The texture is soft and powdery to the touch, in fact when one uses a tortilion(rolled paper for smudging) or the finger to smudge, the willow charcoal is so soft and loose the smudging can easily erase not just the tone, but the outline of your drawing. I suggest using both a finger and tortilion to smudge, and to smudge while being in a drawing mindset, not a blending mindset, while being careful. The smudging really does erase some of the drawing! As you can see, in the right page, tbe middle to upper right section, is the darkest lines and areas I can go. I mainly did it by layering, hatching over lines, and increasing pressure, but I was careful not to go very firm with the pressure. As you can see, the material is so soft it can transfer the image of your drawing to another page, as you can see on the left page of my scetch book, that page was me doing a bunch of faces and eyes. When I saw how easily it can transfer, I thought about some ways of transferring sketches I did of previous works to other papers using willow charcoal. Overall, I suggest not to go in with a perfectionist mind, as creating fine lines is a bit difficult, and sometimes smudging can erase some lines. My thinking and feeling when going in perfectionistic was less happiness, security, confidence and creativity, and more negative feelings like feeling judgemental with my drawing, annoyed, frustrated and worried about ruining the drawing. Go in with a beginner mindset, similarly to using pencil, and instead look forward to creating a mess. Personally, my mood and feelings were effected when I see and experience grey colours, and overall I didn't feel as excited as I thought I'd be, and sometimes the grey tones make me feel slightly bored, lazy, just slightly apathy, however I was using a new material which did make me feel excited enough to draw with. Unless you international want this, I don't think that drawing willow charcoal only from start to finished image is enough, it's doable, but I think mixing willow charcoal with different mediums can be very exciting, which is what my intuition is saying to me. I also have two other materials I have purchased and am practicing with, trying to understand through practice. Hopefully you feel motivated enough to give willow charcoal a try. See you next time.

@JuliusCaesar That's interesting to hear. my sleep tends to be mostly 7-8, sometimes 6 or 9-10 depending on mental/physical stress. Huperzine A and Galantamine are both nootropics, and Huperzine A has a very long half life, like 12-18 hours, while Galantamine is much shorter. Both are associated with greater learning and memory capacity, which I think has to do with how they inhibit cholinesterase. Have you tried supplementing with melatonin, or foods like honey or cherries for your sleep, or drank teas like chamomile or lavender tea? The video provided is for the throat chakra. I thought maybe stimulating either the crown or Ajna chakra might be more in line with lucid dreaming as the dreaming is more biopsychological towards the head/brain than the throat.

@machinegun Ok, so what are you going to do about it?

Not a plant I'd mess around with as Datura has time and memory distorting effects on one's astral and energy body, with some physical effects, but if you fully know what you are doing, and what you want from Datura, I'll say best of luck with future dealings with Datura. Have you also tried micro dosing psychedelics while attempting your lucid dreaming procedure? Nootropics for your sleep and lucid dreaming? Even supplements while preparing for your lucid dreaming? Keep a dream journal too? Do you sleep 7-8 hours even? @JuliusCaesar

@bloomer Have you also taken notes on the getting laid videos too? Noting them down tends to make them less complicated, and the note taking process helps with mentally integrating the information, such that later on the theory is easier to apply and makes them less complicated. Don't forget to take notes and question for yourself. Really put yourself at higher value and talk about yourself a lot. Also, while talking about yourself, don't forget, for every question you ask her, make 2 observational statements and 1 funny statement about her. Too much asking questions makes the whole thing feel like an interview. You can treat her as if your familiar with her, but not as a friend, as a sexual interest. Treat her like a friend if you want to be friend zoned yourself fast! Is your voice a common problem? Go do vocal exercises for singing and projection, learn to speak from a lower larynx and work on having a good melodic range. Having a shaky voice is a minus for a woman and a sign of neediness and fear auditorily speaking. Women on average like to hear and feel a man more than see a man to check them out. Working on that voice and physical escalation is gonna give you a bigger advantage over other men who don't work on their voices and escalations. Those two greatly increases your attraction value.

I've got my first Pfizer vaccine a month ago, and am due a second one a couple of weeks later. What I've experienced in the first shot is not just soreness or slight fever pains, but irregular heart palpitations. Has anyone here felt irregular heart palpitations taking the vaccine? Does anyone know what to do to minimize this risk? Has anyone also taken a booster and experienced any side effects? I'm considering taking the booster for omicron if available, but I don't want to develop a heart condition from these.

@KingCrimson Those are pretty good resources for getting into kriya yoga.

@bloomer Pick a place you're familiar with when arranging a date. You want to be able to lead her around from place to place and talk about yourself a bit, stories that involved you and those places, even if those stories are embellished or full bullshido, in those stories tells her what kind of man you are in general. Don't be afraid to puff yourself a bit, and make those tales a bit emotional as well, not too over the top or dramatic. I also suggest you watch all of Leo's videos on dating, and the three part how to get laid series. Worth a watch through. Also, consider training your subconscious mind, like doing lots of visualizations and positive affirmations about being social, being a player and so on. Self hypnosis is also good as well. Do those exercises until you fully believe in yourself that you are social and worth dating. Fully believe you are worth socializing and dating, as this really puts you into the right state for the interaction. Have fun with your date!

For those of you that have followed so far, there's a channel that discusses what Tulpa are and how to develop one implicitly. I suggest to watch the whole series and videos to be familiar. This is what it might look like to intentionally develop one. Also has paralells with psychology, energies, entities and the supernatural, and also spirituality.

I haven't gotten my second Pfizer dose yet and now the latest version of the covid virus is starting it's wave. What's the minimum time between the second dose and the booster for the omicron variant? If there's a time period I have to wait for the booster, I'll wait until my body settles down with the vaccine first, because I felt a few side effects of the vaccine like irregular heart palpitations.

Good job on Destiny's part in keeping it cool and managing his side of the discussion. Jake, the corn cob guy, for some reason really hates Destiny and it shows in this entire debate about managing one's online community. The Moderator for this discussion is biased to Jake, but Destiny keeps a decent job in managing them both. https://youtu.be/n-PHbg7bx3U

@Carl-Richard 1. I'll be looking forward to reading that future thread on systems thinking. 2. It's possible to out grow adolescent emotional neglect, and to some degree childhood emotional neglect with some inner work involved. However, some emotional baggage that is too large or too traumatic, I can agree that it'll be very difficult to out grow that without more available resources. 3. I think it depends on the cognitive, moral, life experiences and personality type, and ego development of the person. In particular, emotional development or EQ of that individual. I just see that different personality types that have logic as part of the typing will struggle in different aspects of their emotion. Trauma, cultural identity, social identity and difference in masculine : feminine spectrum are also factors that can decrease emotional range. In particular, those who have degrees of psychopathy/sociopathy also internalize and express emotions more limited than the average person.

@Scholar He does have some aspects of yellow thinking, but it's not systemic enough. It's actually his level of skill applying logical thinking in some of his discussions and debates that gives me that impression of a systemic thinker, but he's not fully inside stage yellow value systems. Another confusing bit when I thought he was yellow was with his discussion with the gamer therapist, and bits and pieces of him struggling with being emotional, or displaying some level of empathy with some people he interacts with. It's a common problem with a person predominately in stage yellow, they are similar to stage orange, they are not that expressive externally with emotions, sometimes not enough internal processing of emotions. I think at best, he's masterful in stage orange cognition, with some cognition from stage green, stage blue, and a tiny bit of yellow cognition. Speaking of cognition, he maybe partly sociopathic (claims from his chat and some who interacted with him, and from the story he shared when discussing with the gamer therapist.). However, that could just be from him being hyper logically consistent, and some misunderstanding that trauma doesn't always result in a person developing sociopathic/psychopathic traits, it's tendencies that are context sensitive to the trauma. Otherwise, if he is cognitively different than the average person, I guess that does give that impression also. Morally speaking, he has a moral framework that stems from utilitarianism and pragmatism, that as long as it is useful, then morally speaking it's justifiable to him.

@Epikur Booksmarts is another good YouTuber to watch.

Hello all, how are you? Along with the fish and chips photo, here's a photo of sunday roast. As you can see, a lot of information to unpqck here visually, but the maun art fundamental dominant here is both perspective, colour, value and light/shadow contrasts.

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.