Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter Good luck with your project! I hope you get everything done with time to spare, but please, do remember to give your poor eyes a break now and then. I've found regular breaks help a lot with my work and even hobbies.

@jedgamesguy I do know passports are required to be changed in some special circumstances, like the friend I'll be traveling with this summer. She had to change her passport after marriage to reflect the surname switch. From what I understand (with US passports at least), renewing isn't quite an ordeal as it is when starting from square one. I'm probably in the minority of females who doesn't put too much thought into hair products. I'm one who gravitates towards function out of fashion 99 times out of 100. I probably spend 2-5 minutes with my hair on average most days, even less (Read: none) on days I'm not going anywhere.

Oh gosh, the Echo Dot we have in the kitchen just did a Furby and started talking and playing music alone in the middle of the night.

Now I’m all spooked.

@Eel Obviously it wouldn't just start talking to itself so there must be a more logical explanation for it. Perhaps a mentally ill murderer has escaped from an asylum and is hiding in your home but only comes out during the night whilst you're asleep to look for sharp pointy knives, rat poison, steel cheese wire and whatever other tools are in the kitchen that can be used to protect themselves in case they're ever discover. That seems far more likely than you have a ghost and I hope you feel less spooked now!

@jump welp at least they seem to prefer classical music

That sounds like it would necessitate a new passport, can’t think of too many other situations otherwise though. I do have a trans friend that’s going through the process of getting new IDs under their new name, so as far as that goes it’s virtually identical. Same person, different forename, so the inverse of marriage. I did have to renew mine during the pandemic, which involved mailing it in and getting a new one in the post, easy as you like.

Mm, I can imagine you’re in the minority, you probably put less work into it than even me, and that’s saying a lot 😅! From my side I just put in whatever work needs to be done, I haven’t thought too hard about how other people prepare their own… besides mine’s longer than the average man so I have to spend more time on mine anyway. For you yours is shorter so of course you’ll spend less time caring for it.

How’s everyone’s weekend going? I hope you are having a good day so far!

If you’re wondering about me, I haven’t been doing much today. A little bored, but I plan on playing games all night. I haven’t been playing on my consoles or phone a lot since I draw a bunch. I love art, but I get art blocked so much from having multiple failed artworks, and seeing lots of other people’s artwork online (whether better drawn or more innovative) really doesn’t help my self-esteem at all, given its extremely low already. I think if I play games, it’ll help my self-esteem and make me happier.

I am likely going to replay a couple of classics for a few hours and then moving on to a new game. I’m going to try completing as fast as I can. I think I’m going to have so much fun!

@Pastellioli It's going all right. I haven't been feeling too well mentally earlier, but I am getting a bit better. I like to draw as well, though I haven't been drawing as often as I should... I do want to change that sometime!

@MarioVillager92 I would also love to draw more! However, I think I need to take a little bit of a break for a few days.

I’ve been using social media for only a few months now and seeing lots of great artworks online, and having positive interactions with other artists. However, I feel it’s contributing to my negativity, seeing a bunch of people frequently posting and getting huge numbers. I think I need to take a break from both for a while and just forgetting to not worry about the quality of my art and to just have fun.

@Pastellioli Oh gotcha, I'm guessing they're getting a huge amount of likes or something? I'd agree that it's best to just have fun drawing, and not compare yourself with others. Do take as much time off as you need. The last time I made a drawing was when I made a Christmas drawing, with Mario and Peach riding the Merry Mountain train. I've been long overdue for another drawing, lol... I do have quite a few ideas of what else I'd like to draw.

@MarioVillager92 Yes, though I think I expect success to happen too fast. A lot of art accounts take time to grow over the years and get attention, though some get lucky with algorithms and grow faster than some; everyone sees success at different paces!

It got so bad at one point for me where I would always draw everyday and stayed up all night, sometimes until 12-3 in the morning, trying to finish artwork to post daily, but it wasn’t feasible. I have heard artists more skilled than I say that the tip of “drawing everyday” is a bad one, likely for that reason and a chance for creative burnout.

I got way too obsessive with social media that I would focus heavily on growing an audience for validation. I always saw so many people post pictures, both detailed and simple, and getting attention and love from other users. I wanted the same, but I am still rather new to posting on social media. I would love to post short art videos, but I have to wait, as I don’t have the right materials for it yet. I’m also not sure if the subjects of my art are what they would like to see, but I don’t really care about it luckily.

I’m probably not going to start drawing until maybe later next week. I just think I need to do some other things not related to social media and drawing and be happy with where I am with my art than I was years ago. Luckily I still have a small audience, so they won’t mind what day or time I post

@Pastellioli my day has been very chilly but very busy. Sunday isn’t a weekend in kuwait (weekends are Friday and Saturday) so today I had very little free time but spent a lot of quality time with my old man. Came back exhausted beyond belief. All I want is to open yo my steam deck now.

slow Sunday as usual. while I'm watching the rest of the Suspiria remake on Freevee today on my playstation 4, I was thinkin about delivery ordering a pizza from the Little Ceasar's website and also might try out their crazy bread aka bread sticks. Might order their regular crazy bread sticks or the Italian seasoned ones

In a world where you can be anything be kind. 🙂

Good morning.
Today I will draw one of the most difficult thing to draw for my storytelling project, drawing the driving scene inside the car.
Some teaser from me, there will be chasing scene with police car so I have to draw the police animal driving inside police car to show the things happened inside when something happened outside too.
I have found some samples of driving the car from front view from Google image to get some examples to draw.
It still looks pretty hard to draw car interior while my Chibi police animal will be the character inside the police car.
And I realized the setting of my storytelling is on German and German use Left side steering and that means it changed completely the traffic road direction I have to made.

@Pastellioli Oh absolutely, I agree... drawing every single day isn't exactly the best idea. It's always worthwhile to take breaks and blow off steam... even for hobbies such as drawing. I pretty much just draw for fun, I'd post on the artist thread on Nintendo Life when I'm happy with the final result. I have an Instagram page as well, I plan on showing off my drawings there too. I've posted my Christmas drawing over at Instagram as well! I've taken a drawing class in school, which did encourage drawing from still life, so I'd often use stuff like figures and zero in on their details to make my art. I use photo references, too. I don't have too many followers on my Instagram page, but that's OK because it doesn't bother me.

@ThatZeldaNerd Agreed for sure.

@MarioVillager92 yep <3

On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your day?
I'd say I had an 8 today

@CaleBoi25 Unfortunately it was a 5 out of 10 for me. I just got super annoyed with things I won’t get into here and my initial plans got pushed to the side again, and it sucks even more for me because it’s the weekend.

5 from 10 because I still have to draw more for my storytelling project and I have no time to get relax until next two weeks. 🥴