Anke (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ankewehner) wrote,@ 2009-07-08 08:17:00 |
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Meme
Comment "WORDS" to this entry and I will comment back with five words I associate with you. Then you post this in your journal elaborating.
beccastareyes gave me words...
Markers
I don't remember how I got the idea to get markers the first time... it may have been manga-related art, or the first five volumes of Elfquest - Hidden Years.
The only markers (except textmarkers) I could get locally were Copics, so I got those - Copic Ciao, because they were cheapest. I really love the brush tip... honestly, I can't really work with "normal" markers with chisel tip, because I have near to no practise with those.
Comparing markers with colourpencils, markers are less tiring because you can lay down a solid, bright colour without having to strain, but colourpencils are better for details (sharper tip), and you can get way more shades out of them. Using a marker base and adding shading/details with pencils works nicely, too.
Photographs
Photographs of people are boring. Well, not uviversally, of course, but they just don't interest me.
I have a more-or-less point and click camera; at least for its priceclass it's pretty good at macro images, which is nice when you like insects and spiders, like I do. I would like to be able to adjust aperture/depth of focus, and stuff, and get a better hang of things, but I can't really afford a better camera.
Cards
They are small images on somewhat sturdy paper. That makes them easy to store, which is a major plus if a) you want a lot of different ones and b) don't have any wallspace to hang up images, anyway, because everything is full of shelves.
I collect (travelled) postcards sort of as an extension of my stamp collection.
Playing cards interest me particularly when looking at differences and similarities between different (traditional) sets. Same goes for tarot (card reading is a party game).
One of the appeals of Magic - The Gathering is that it's not "only" a game you play, but also cards you collect. The fact that there are a lot of new ones every couple of months is a bit of a problem, but, eh.
ATCs/ACEOs are fun, particularly trading, but I kinda got put off of it, for several reasons:
1) People going "ATCs are great; I don't have to worry about what I do at all, and just do what I want!" - That sounds backwards to me. ATCs are MEANT to be given to other people, so I should try to do something good, not spend 1 minute drawing a "barcode" on a card and call it good, or slap three scraps of paper on a playing card that would have looked better unaltered.
2) People getting all high and mighty about self-made trading cards not being allowed to be sold. The first trading cards were extras with cigarettes or bubble gum, marketing gimmmicks - commercial. About a century before the whole ATC thing started. Dedicated, commercial trading cards have been printed long, long before the ATC movement. Original art trading cards ("sketch cards") have been included in packages of commercial trading cards to raise saled before the start of the ATC movement. While ACEOs probably have sprung from ATCs, ATCs have been piggybacking on a century-long tradition of commercial trading cards, so ATC-fanatics getting all high and mighty about how evil it is to sell Trading-card sized art is completely ridiculous, as is the so-caused "requirement" of using two different names for the same thing.
There's no difference between a little image whether I trade it for another image or for money.
3) People slapping a cut-out image on a card, slathering paint around the edges and calling it their work.
Apart from that the kind of vintage photos I like have to do with tech - steam engines, sailing ships - or work, not the simpering women and kids that are so popular with the gros of vintage-image-collager ATC artists.
Fantasy
My favourite genre... or rather, setting.
I mean, fantasy is not really a class of plot, but a characteristic of the setting - the existence of magic and beeings that don't exist in the real world and are not presented as extraterrestials. People thinking that all fantasy is about some quest to save the world give fantasy a bad name. I think mixing genres leads to more interesting books, and, in particular, I am sick and tired of "Save The WOOOOORLD!!" plots.
So, worldbuilding. You don't have to use the whole baggage good old earth comes with, but can make up your own thing. That also means that fantasy is safely removed from the real world. Something that takes place in the real world, and does not have fantasy elements, well, I worry that I get confused about what's real and what's not. When I was a kid, I did think the stuff Karl May wrote had really happened, because it was written in first person, the main character had his name, so, of course, it had to be a report. Plus of course the normal "I heard/read that somewhere, but I'm not sure where" knowledge-osmosis.
Computers
My mother got our first computer, if I remember correctly, in 1996. Win 3.11, starting in DOW so you had to enter "win" to start it.
My mother talked me into getting christened (together with a bunch of people getting their confirmation) with "you'll get money from pretty much everyone in your family, probably enough to buy your own computer". It worked, too. Windown 95, I think, that one had. (I should really look into leaving the church; it feels wrong being singed in there when I don't believe in god.) I think we ended up giving that one to my paternal grandfather.
The one I got after that ran XP. It started to crash and immediately restart without any warning a lot. As in, on bad days every couple of minutes. We brought it in for repair, but they didn't find anything. So I had to get a new one.
This one runs Vista, which I set to look more or less like Windows 95. Unneccessary visual candy is unneccessary. I had to get that one without much consideration so I had something to do my homework on. What I really miss now is the silent fan the one I had before had. But a bit later I got my first flatscreen, and a big one, too, which is nice.
And I finally got a laptop so I didn't have to rely on finding a computer at the university when I needed to look up something there. Also Vista, 12.something inches widescreen, and faster than my desktop.
Comment "WORDS" to this entry and I will comment back with five words I associate with you. Then you post this in your journal elaborating.
beccastareyes gave me words...Markers
I don't remember how I got the idea to get markers the first time... it may have been manga-related art, or the first five volumes of Elfquest - Hidden Years.
The only markers (except textmarkers) I could get locally were Copics, so I got those - Copic Ciao, because they were cheapest. I really love the brush tip... honestly, I can't really work with "normal" markers with chisel tip, because I have near to no practise with those.
Comparing markers with colourpencils, markers are less tiring because you can lay down a solid, bright colour without having to strain, but colourpencils are better for details (sharper tip), and you can get way more shades out of them. Using a marker base and adding shading/details with pencils works nicely, too.
Photographs
Photographs of people are boring. Well, not uviversally, of course, but they just don't interest me.
I have a more-or-less point and click camera; at least for its priceclass it's pretty good at macro images, which is nice when you like insects and spiders, like I do. I would like to be able to adjust aperture/depth of focus, and stuff, and get a better hang of things, but I can't really afford a better camera.
Cards
They are small images on somewhat sturdy paper. That makes them easy to store, which is a major plus if a) you want a lot of different ones and b) don't have any wallspace to hang up images, anyway, because everything is full of shelves.
I collect (travelled) postcards sort of as an extension of my stamp collection.
Playing cards interest me particularly when looking at differences and similarities between different (traditional) sets. Same goes for tarot (card reading is a party game).
One of the appeals of Magic - The Gathering is that it's not "only" a game you play, but also cards you collect. The fact that there are a lot of new ones every couple of months is a bit of a problem, but, eh.
ATCs/ACEOs are fun, particularly trading, but I kinda got put off of it, for several reasons:
1) People going "ATCs are great; I don't have to worry about what I do at all, and just do what I want!" - That sounds backwards to me. ATCs are MEANT to be given to other people, so I should try to do something good, not spend 1 minute drawing a "barcode" on a card and call it good, or slap three scraps of paper on a playing card that would have looked better unaltered.
2) People getting all high and mighty about self-made trading cards not being allowed to be sold. The first trading cards were extras with cigarettes or bubble gum, marketing gimmmicks - commercial. About a century before the whole ATC thing started. Dedicated, commercial trading cards have been printed long, long before the ATC movement. Original art trading cards ("sketch cards") have been included in packages of commercial trading cards to raise saled before the start of the ATC movement. While ACEOs probably have sprung from ATCs, ATCs have been piggybacking on a century-long tradition of commercial trading cards, so ATC-fanatics getting all high and mighty about how evil it is to sell Trading-card sized art is completely ridiculous, as is the so-caused "requirement" of using two different names for the same thing.
There's no difference between a little image whether I trade it for another image or for money.
3) People slapping a cut-out image on a card, slathering paint around the edges and calling it their work.
Apart from that the kind of vintage photos I like have to do with tech - steam engines, sailing ships - or work, not the simpering women and kids that are so popular with the gros of vintage-image-collager ATC artists.
Fantasy
My favourite genre... or rather, setting.
I mean, fantasy is not really a class of plot, but a characteristic of the setting - the existence of magic and beeings that don't exist in the real world and are not presented as extraterrestials. People thinking that all fantasy is about some quest to save the world give fantasy a bad name. I think mixing genres leads to more interesting books, and, in particular, I am sick and tired of "Save The WOOOOORLD!!" plots.
So, worldbuilding. You don't have to use the whole baggage good old earth comes with, but can make up your own thing. That also means that fantasy is safely removed from the real world. Something that takes place in the real world, and does not have fantasy elements, well, I worry that I get confused about what's real and what's not. When I was a kid, I did think the stuff Karl May wrote had really happened, because it was written in first person, the main character had his name, so, of course, it had to be a report. Plus of course the normal "I heard/read that somewhere, but I'm not sure where" knowledge-osmosis.
Computers
My mother got our first computer, if I remember correctly, in 1996. Win 3.11, starting in DOW so you had to enter "win" to start it.
My mother talked me into getting christened (together with a bunch of people getting their confirmation) with "you'll get money from pretty much everyone in your family, probably enough to buy your own computer". It worked, too. Windown 95, I think, that one had. (I should really look into leaving the church; it feels wrong being singed in there when I don't believe in god.) I think we ended up giving that one to my paternal grandfather.
The one I got after that ran XP. It started to crash and immediately restart without any warning a lot. As in, on bad days every couple of minutes. We brought it in for repair, but they didn't find anything. So I had to get a new one.
This one runs Vista, which I set to look more or less like Windows 95. Unneccessary visual candy is unneccessary. I had to get that one without much consideration so I had something to do my homework on. What I really miss now is the silent fan the one I had before had. But a bit later I got my first flatscreen, and a big one, too, which is nice.
And I finally got a laptop so I didn't have to rely on finding a computer at the university when I needed to look up something there. Also Vista, 12.something inches widescreen, and faster than my desktop.
