First :^)

I know the eyes are slightly too big. Being a weeb at one point cursed me with shitty eye proportions.

The eyes look fine to me

Nah they are slightly f'ed, as well as the whole portrait. Here's the original I was using as a reference

I can't unfortunately dwell on one work for too long. One it's unhealthy practice, two that's what I get for falling for the Higher Education trap.

That's pretty nice walking cycle.

Thank you

I see what you mean now that I look at it

Zemo posted Anime, where my Right Wing Deathsquads at when you need them?

Also in anime

I’m going to built a 4’x6’ wood frame with support slats for a Warhammer board

Should I use MDF for the main body of the frame?

And would I be overdoing it to have slats?

>tau

some of their models are cool but their lore is kinda meh

Tau lore is meh but I like MOAR DAKKADAKKADAKKA

i have space marines i still need to paint

I think i picked a bad scheme, as a beginner, for my first batch. I wanted to do white but the white goes on badly

I primed them black

Re doing the portrait but with a different medium (pens). I think I got proportions better this time.

Finding dedicated time for anatomy studies is pain in the ass tho

I’m going to put a wood finish on a chamfered walnut frame. Should I use linseed/tung oil or polyurethane?

@clossington I haven't used tuning oil so I can't speak much about it but if you are going for slightly darker finish then colour of your wood then linseed oil is the way to go. Just don't use boiled linseed oil, it has some unhealthy solvents. If you want you could use white spirit (turpentine) and mix it with oil 1:1, the spirit will evaporate and oil will cure faster.

If you want darker finish you could also try burning wood on the surface first.

I was originally going to go with lacquer but I don’t enough of it. I’m probably going with Linseed but it takes forever to dry and many layers to cure properly

Good rule of thumb is once a day for a week, once a week for a month and then once a year

And turpentine speeds up the curing and won't give you cancer.

Fair enough

Ready for shading.

Does anyone know how to use Blender?

I’ve been working on a Vaporwave project but I can’t add emissions

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/shader/emission.html this is what duckduckgo says

My problem is that the emissions and the viewport display are disconnected

I haven't used Blender since college

there should be a massive amount of tutorials though

inb4 most of them are pajeets

I think I "over cook" it.

Do we have gardeners of any persuasion?

I am a gardener of questionable skill.

@McFansy What kinds of plants do you handle, what do you do?

garden beds mostly perennials

planted some fruit trees last spring

Nice. I have a wild peach tree that sprouted in our garden 10 years ago or so, its the only one thats actually disease resistant and produces a lot of fruit, Im looking to propagate it this year and replace the 3 or 4 other trees (that we bought) with it. Also want to propagate a plum tree that produces large fruit with great taste, tastes somewhat like oranges. I will try to air-layer it.
Im trying to start some bonsai too, will go out and collect some young hawthorns for that later

Nice

bonzai is pretty zen, pun intended

good for someone who doesn't have much land to plant on/is restricted indoors

I dont know much about zen philosophy but Im not uninterested in it. Bonsai is cool because it allows you to capture the beauty of trees, forests and landscapes, and its relaxing to work on. Its living art.
Youre right in that they allow ppl with small or no gardens to dabble in gardening, which is especially true in Japan. But in the west people have larger gardens and many people make larger bonsai too. The ones I just started which are conker trees will be above 1,50 meters tall at their final hight I think, which is necessary because of that species´ thick twigs and large leaves, and I also want them to flower heavily if possible.
But I will also start a hawthorn or dwarf-pomegranate landscape/forest, which might be the size of a dinner plate in height and width.

zen is gay

why

WEEEEEEEEEEEB

I've been listening to shortwave for a while. Ham might be useful in the future.

You have to get a license. But the process is apparantly very easy. Id recommended looking for a local Ham radio club/group on Facebook. They're always happy to have new members. They'll set you up for success when it comes to training and licensing.

Anyone play guitar? I've been using a public guitar and the strings are really eating up my fingers even on my strumming hand. Waaay worst than any other guitar ive used.

Is it possible they used some sort of cleaning product on them and that made the strings more abrasive?

Maybe talc or the compound used on strings of the violin? Other then that you can always use a pick.

Any Track & Field people here?

what even is that

Ya know, track? 100M dash, 200M dash, 400M dash, 800M run, relays, long jump, pole vault, high jump, shotput, discus, hammer throw, all that?

I wasnt sure but yeah i know that

not my hobby though

Running’s just my thing, but sadly the COVID-19 outbreak is screwing up my season.

But you can still run right just not compete?

Yeah meets are cancelled.

I go for a run every now and then but I've only started like 3 months ago so I am not that fast.

I’m mostly a 400/800M runner but my 5K is decent.

@ItzMidrex can you run to the store and get me some TP

They’re all out

what about paper towels

All gone

what about vodka

I’d have to check but I’m not 21 can’t buy it.

Had to go outside, can’t pass up a nice day like this.

looks dry as fuck

looks like he lives in serbia

No it’s ‘Murica trust me it’s a lot more green when the warm weather comes and stays the snow just melted recently.

Plus that’s a cornfield they look dry as hell in the fall/winter following harvest.

i forget its not summer over there

You from Australia?

yes cunt

do you knee grows like annie-may or mango comics?

@Punished Elíasshame u

so im just watching videos about bonsai and this is what i have to put up with in the comments:

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.
And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ...
Soldiers!
Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel!
Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.
Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!
You are not machines!
You are not cattle!
You are men!
You have the love of humanity in your hearts!
You don't hate!
Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
Soldiers!
Don't fight for slavery!
Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men!
In you!
You, the people have the power - the power to create machines.
The power to create happiness!
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite.
Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security.
By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
But they lie!
They do not fulfil that promise.
They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!
Now let us fight to fulfil that promise!
Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance.
Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

some mix of every political compass field except authoritarian right

It's hard to believe that people think that movie speech is a good deep moving speech (I used to be one of those Rtards). It's just platitudes with no real sustenance.

@LimaGolf what movie is it from?

I think its Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. If I remember right, it was big amongst leftwing libertarians.

@Fighting Gold

It's peak j-lib propaganda.

Get that (((Socialist))) propaganda out of here

@Ecclesiast Orev Chet looks nice. If you can tone down the texture on the dude because it kills the drawing slightly.

On purpose.

Ok then

Meant to be sorta formless

How can I find someone trustworthy, maybe professional, to buy something in Surrey (UK) and send it to me in germany 🤔

when i googled uk buyers i only got results for property and shit