stbenge wrote:

> Anyway, I said I would post some pics once my tablet came in, so here 
> are a few:
> 
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/char8.png?t=1257281871
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/Gnome.jpg?t=1257282031
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/char6.jpg?t=1257282108
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/eye.jpg?t=1257282224

An entire year of drawing classes, and I never once produced anything 
approaching being this good. Kind of depressing, really. I guess I just 
inherantly suck at drawing. :-(

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clipka escreveu:
> nemesis schrieb:
> 
>>> Indeed. That would be quite exactly what I'd be aiming for, too - if 
>>> I had any talent and the necessary patience...
>>>
>>> ... so I rather wait hours for a 3D render to finish :-P
>>
>> and what you do in the mean time?  That's right!  You draw... :)
> 
> No, I write POV-Ray patches :-P

ah, yes, to each his own talent. :)

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clipka wrote:

> Indeed. That would be quite exactly what I'd be aiming for, too - if I 
> had any talent and the necessary patience...
> 
> ... so I rather wait hours for a 3D render to finish :-P

Some of us don't even have the talent to do that...

...so we perform numerical integration instead. ;-)

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Invisible escreveu:
> stbenge wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, I said I would post some pics once my tablet came in, so here 
>> are a few:
>>
>> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/char8.png?t=1257281871
>> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/Gnome.jpg?t=1257282031
>> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/char6.jpg?t=1257282108
>> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/eye.jpg?t=1257282224
> 
> An entire year of drawing classes, and I never once produced anything 
> approaching being this good. Kind of depressing, really. I guess I just 
> inherantly suck at drawing. :-(

Well, everyone has a special talent:  you have good math skills.  My 
skills at math and povray are kinda poor.  Sam just beat both of us in 
both drawing, math and povray! :D

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>> An entire year of drawing classes, and I never once produced anything 
>> approaching being this good. Kind of depressing, really. I guess I 
>> just inherantly suck at drawing. :-(
> 
> Well, everyone has a special talent:  you have good math skills.

I'm not sure where everybody gets this idea from. I have no idea how to 
perform polynomial division, complete the square, factorise polynomials, 
compute triangle angles or any number of other basic school-level math 
tasks. (Not forgetting of course that I have *no idea* what 7 * 6 is 
without getting out pencil and paper to calculate it.)

> Sam just beat both of us in both drawing, math and povray! :D

Heh. I'm used to being beaten. It's the story of my life...

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Invisible escreveu:
>>> An entire year of drawing classes, and I never once produced anything 
>>> approaching being this good. Kind of depressing, really. I guess I 
>>> just inherantly suck at drawing. :-(
>>
>> Well, everyone has a special talent:  you have good math skills.
> 
> I'm not sure where everybody gets this idea from. I have no idea how to 
> perform polynomial division, complete the square, factorise polynomials, 
> compute triangle angles or any number of other basic school-level math 
> tasks. (Not forgetting of course that I have *no idea* what 7 * 6 is 
> without getting out pencil and paper to calculate it.)

well, I thought your alias mathorchid and Haskell affinity would have 
anything to do with it.  Your fractal renderings too...

How are you supposed to know about basic school-level math stuff when 
you didn't go to a normal school?  And forget that, you're way past that 
basic level, you're now an advanced math geek using computers to do the 
low-level math glue code... :D

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>>> Well, everyone has a special talent:  you have good math skills.
>>
>> I'm not sure where everybody gets this idea from. I have no idea how 
>> to perform polynomial division, complete the square, factorise 
>> polynomials, compute triangle angles or any number of other basic 
>> school-level math tasks. (Not forgetting of course that I have *no 
>> idea* what 7 * 6 is without getting out pencil and paper to calculate 
>> it.)
> 
> well, I thought your alias mathorchid and Haskell affinity would have 
> anything to do with it.  Your fractal renderings too...

Heh, well, perhaps. Still, you don't need to know any maths at all to 
install and run FractInt.

> How are you supposed to know about basic school-level math stuff when 
> you didn't go to a normal school?

That's about the size of it, really.

> And forget that, you're way past that 
> basic level, you're now an advanced math geek using computers to do the 
> low-level math glue code... :D

Haha, well maybe. It just seems like there's a whole crapload of math I 
don't understand that everybody else does. But maybe that's just because 
I'm surrounded by people way smarter than me...

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On 11/3/2009 3:14 PM, stbenge wrote:
> My intuos4 medium tablet finally came yesterday! It was a long wait. Why
> is it that anticipation dilates time?
>
> This tablet is awesome. It works very well with Gimp 2.6. No full
> support for the touch ring though. Rotating and zooming can be
> difficult, but that's what detachable menus are for :)

Excellent! Wacom makes a great tablet. I have a small intuos3 at home 
The drawing area is about the size of a 4x6 card, but it doesn't 
dominate the desk. I use mine mostly for photo retouching/clean-up, and 
it works exceptionally well for me. I occasionally do some sketches, but 
nothing on the level that you've demonstrated.

> Adobe Illustrator 9 also supports pressure sensitivity, which is a big
> plus.

I didn't know Illustrator was pressure sensitive. Cool ;)

> Anyway, I said I would post some pics once my tablet came in, so here
> are a few:
>
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/char8.png?t=1257281871
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/Gnome.jpg?t=1257282031
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/char6.jpg?t=1257282108
> http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/eye.jpg?t=1257282224
>

Nice drawings :) I used to draw quite well in HS, but it's been a long 
time since I've done any serious drawing.

> Thanks nemesis and Jim, for helping me make a good decision. It was not
> a frivolous purchase ;)

A good tablet never is. I'm glad I have mine :)

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On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:36:34 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>> And forget that, you're way past that basic level, you're now an
>> advanced math geek using computers to do the low-level math glue
>> code... :D
> 
> Haha, well maybe. It just seems like there's a whole crapload of math I
> don't understand that everybody else does. But maybe that's just because
> I'm surrounded by people way smarter than me...

Well, story goes that Einstein sucked at maths as well....

Jim

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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Nice drawings :) I used to draw quite well in HS, but it's been a long 
> time since I've done any serious drawing.

Thanks! The last "serious" drawing I made was for a fellow mineral hound:
http://i447.photobucket.com/albums/qq199/stbenge/berylProspector_retouched.jpg?t=1257362210

Just pencil-on-paper and referenced from this photo of Prospector Gabby:
http://mentalfloss.cachefly.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/gabby.jpg

I thought it would be funny to show a miner holding an impossibly large 
beryl crystal, but as it turns out, specimens of that size are 
occasionally found :S

> On 11/3/2009 3:14 PM, stbenge wrote: 
>> Thanks nemesis and Jim, for helping me make a good decision. It was not
>> a frivolous purchase ;)
> 
> A good tablet never is. I'm glad I have mine :)

Last time I talked to my grandmother she asked if I was drawing much and 
I said no... she sounded so let down. I realized that I should probably 
keep my skills up. Buying the tablet was like investing in myself :)

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