Scott, why not get a deck of cards and practice some simple manipulation or sleight of hand? That seems up your alley. Maybe work on learning Walter Irving Scott's Second Deal?
Scott, why not get a deck of cards and practice some simple manipulation or sleight of hand? That seems up your alley. Maybe work on learning Walter Irving Scott's Second Deal?
Scott, why not get a deck of cards and practice some simple manipulation or sleight of hand? That seems up your alley. Maybe work on learning Walter Irving Scott's Second Deal?
Requires thinking.
Simple card moves don't require thinking. I'll sometimes practice them when I just want something to fidget with, I'm trying to practice the moves to make a move that's essentially a bottom deal into a tenkai palm and ditch, with a false deal after. Don't think about broader magic tricks, they do require some thought, you just want simple moves that make the trick work, which require no more thought than reading about them once or twice(or maybe watching a demo video) so you can figure out what to do.
And no, I don't cheat at cards, and yes, I'm still shit at cards. A few simple card manipulations can't make up for that.
Like I said last night, real art supplies cost money. Get some Crayola fine-tipped coloring markers, and you should be good to go. They are cheap, but a good balance between fine and wide.
If I'm going to doodle something different, it has to meet some conditions.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing. 2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
Cubes, rectangular prisms, pyramids, and cylinders?
If I'm going to doodle something different, it has to meet some conditions.
1) It has to be easy to draw, because I suck balls at drawing. 2) It has to have nice outlined areas to fill in solidly, because the solid coloring is what allows me to color and work my hand out without thinking.
Cubes, rectangular prisms, pyramids, and cylinders?
Yeh, draw primitives. You can make it interesting by varying the shading (lighting) with very little effort.
So Sketchbook pro is obvs an amazing app for the digital doodles and arts, but I have been recently enamored with Mischief which packs a lot of punch for a $25 multiplatform desktop app.
I'm using a surface pro, so I don't have access to the cool & free iOS adobe sketch & ink *sadness*. A lot of windows desktop programs have terrible interfaces for touchscreen with teeny buttons and sliders. While not quite sketchbook level flow or features, I don't find the Mischief UI getting in the way of work, and the simplicity can be refreshing when you don't need bells and whistles. The program is also a raster-vector hybrid, with infinite zoomability and a unique approach to canvas that abandons the limitations of physical media.
I bought Pokemon Art Academy after reading some good reviews. I kinda doubt it's actually making me better at drawing but it's hella fun. Maybe not $30 fun though...
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And no, I don't cheat at cards, and yes, I'm still shit at cards. A few simple card manipulations can't make up for that.
Even adding colour. Use hatching or shading. Yeh, draw primitives. You can make it interesting by varying the shading (lighting) with very little effort.
Have abit more fun by cutting/ intersecting etc.
I'm using a surface pro, so I don't have access to the cool & free iOS adobe sketch & ink *sadness*. A lot of windows desktop programs have terrible interfaces for touchscreen with teeny buttons and sliders. While not quite sketchbook level flow or features, I don't find the Mischief UI getting in the way of work, and the simplicity can be refreshing when you don't need bells and whistles. The program is also a raster-vector hybrid, with infinite zoomability and a unique approach to canvas that abandons the limitations of physical media.
The infinite zoom/arbitrary scale is great for my day-to-day notetaking and UI sketches.