Prio

Electives:

• Code
  • In the this context, math is purely supplementary, a means to an end.
  • Tasks
    • 3d color selector
    • Physical color model
    • Palette planner. Light (y-axis). Material (x-axis).
    • Value (drawing) practice tool, requires painting.
    • Projection practice tool.
    • Home server
    • Value db.
    • Cellular automata
    • LLM setup?
    • Cross-platform rust-python interop
    • Stateful keyboard shortcuts to navigate tool selection in Krita.
    • Algorithm visualizations using computer graphics techniques.
• Book
  • Tasks
    • Sociopragmatics
• Japanese
  • Tasks
    • Shadow
    • Nisio Isin
• Draw
  • Exercises
    • Line weight
    • Elipses
      • Packed cylinders in perspective
    • Arrows (waves, twists, curls) (perspective, contours)
      • Hair
    • Hats, caps, and duck beaks
    • Checkerboards 4x4
  • Projects
    • Figure drawing
    • Character fanart
      • Yotsugi (Monogatari)
      • Mizuki (AI Somnium)

Drawing

• Concerns
  • How the head and jaw overlaps with the neck to connect to the torso.
  • How the breasts attach to and hang from the torso.
  • Proportions and perspective of the head and jaw and breasts.
  • I think it’s interesting to think of figure drawing as a composition of boxes. Consider the proportions and perspectives of the boxes. How the boxes overlap and connect. The lighting of the boxes. Intentional curves and distortions.
  • Prerequisite is figure drawing.
    • Anatomy studies.
    • How clothes wrap and drape from the body.
• Stages
  • Composition exploration (e.g., thumbnailing).
  • Rough.
  • Shape refinement.
  • Value and color.
  • Rendering (e.g., details, line, edge, etc.).
• For each stage
  • Time limited.
• Before each stage except exploration
  • Drawing study.
• After the last stage
  • Judge each stage in relation to the whole.
  • Identify the weakest stage.
    • Bonus improvement stage.
• Pacing
  • Try one stage per day.
• Comments
  • The difficulty of each stage depends on the project. Composition has the greatest variance in difficulty.
  • I should focus on building from reference. It’s difficult to apply many transformations simultaneously so start from one, then a few, and build build build. Eventually, acquiring and combining transformations will be a simple thing.
  • The goal is to create a drawing where there are aspects that are more appealing to me than the corresponding aspects in the reference.
• Transformation examples
  • Camera (perspective)
  • Proportions
  • Pose
  • Gesture
  • Shapes
  • Lighting
  • Clothes
  • Hair
  • Expression

Tasks

• Operate
• Create
• Consume
  • To operate
  • To create
  • For leisure

Speaking

• Stages
  • Cold take.
  • Does it make sense?
  • Supplementary research.
  • Take 2.
  • Does it look good?
  • Task 3.
  • Does it sound good?
  • Take 4.
  • Does it feel good?
  • Final take.
  • Final impressions.
• Takes
  • Should be 1 minute.
• Topics
  • Spontaneously decide on a topic and run with it.
  • The topic doesn’t have to be good but it should be focused.
• Research
  • Find 1 or 2 facts or perspectives. Or make them up.