The final week for this semester is upon me and I've been deep in the assessment mines. I miss making my own stuff :) I'll have a couple of weeks off, then do an intensive were I do a 3 month course in 1 month, and then finally with have some time off for my own stuff.

After years of clowns pretending I was tracing stuff, I'm finally tracing a whole bunch of stuff! ... As part of a unit focused on rotoscoping. :P

First draft of A2 print, folded into an 8 x A5 page zine for assessment. I get why we do a draft print, you instantly spot so many issues when its in physical form. 🥴

The irony of shit like this while I'm doing a case study on Alphonse Mucha

Count Trashula@trashmobminis.bsky.social · 2w ago

What the actual hell are you talking about?!

For a VisCom assignment I have to make a little 8 page zine, and one of the topic focuses you can chose is a social issue you care about. So surprising no one I'm going to do 'Fem-SM, gender rep in wargames'. If at the end of it I don't hate it, I'll make it public.

I am once again asking my fellow hobbyists that if everything being released atm fills you with displeasure/anger, please learn to move on. Sometimes you fall out of hobbies, its natural & normal. Hanging around to gripe, piss & moan because it no longer does anything for you is sad & dull. Move on.

Not Warhammer Wednesday - taking pics on non-GW stuff from my collection. The first stuff I did when getting back into the hobby was the DnD board games.

@culexus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not Warhammer Wednesday - taking pics on non-GW stuff from my collection. Another piece from Avatars of War, this is the Dark Elf Queen. She is metal and had an alternate staff and head to make a Sorceress instead. #nerdlings #miniatures #miniaturepainting #tabletoprpg #dungeons&dragons #dnd

Tower of Doom was a DnD arcade game I loved to death and have played countless times... I am feeling an urge to make a campaign based on it.

Jeapers.Adobe After Effects is a memory hog!

This weeks going to be a bit nuts Uni assessment wise. But I promise I will start posting hobby content again soon! (I don't feel an obligation, I just like doing and posting hobby stuff and this term has impacted my ability to do so) Have a GSC Necromunda uprising flashback image.

A little while back I got an autism diagnosis, it involved talking to a psych for an extended series of session. Ultimately I think the protracted process was a bit of a waste when I simply could have told them; yes I do watch 26 years of classic Dr Who every 12months or so.

I greatly dislike working 9am to 9pm days to stay on top of 3 pieces of assessment all due within the week. I've mostly stayed on top of this stuff, but the final weeks worth of delivered material for the 3 subjects needs to be incorporated and submitted within a handful of days of being taught it.

Schrodinger's AI * You are going to be left behind if you don't learn to use it. * Its the great equalizer that lets non artists make art without training. The fearmongering/hype much like the product, is simply BS.

Did you know the Fighter from the original D&D arcade game 'Tower of Doom' had more charisma then strength or con. He never came across that way in this side scrolling slash'em up. :P

Design is a funny subject to study. I am as likely to encounter a lecturer who uses AI at the drop of a hat, or who thinks being able to sell garbage as fine dining is laudable, as I am to find them teaching the philosophical ramification of consumerism, or how maker movements are truly admirable.

You can tell you are deep in the theory woods when you are doing comparisons of productivist rationalism vs phenomenology in design.

Stupider and stupider. Obviously this kind of thing is playing on the fears of the ignorant for personal power. "I don't understand how someone can have no gender... there must be something else going on!" I'm mainly frustrated by peoples seemingly endless capacity for being manipulated.

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4w ago

Feds' war on "gender extremism" has a new target: nonbinary people www.kenklippenstein.com/p/nonbinary-...

I love DnD, been my pastime/solace for 35+ years. But I would give good money for a combat difficulty calculator that actually worked well. So I could pick 'hard' for an experienced team and it be hard (or mid for mid etc). My experience tends to polarised: cake walk - ahhh fuck I miscalculated.

Researching Mucha for a uni assignment and resonating with the struggle: As Mucha started to get more illustration work commissions he had to wait weeks or months to get paid, often not till after the work was published, leading to years of work he described as 'suffering in penury'.

Hoping to finally get back to doing some hobby stuff this weekend while my partner is away visiting her family. With uni and guests, I've done none in a month and its starting to get me down. Old minis for attention :P

A thing that amuses me about twitter is that by building grok into it, it's straight up admitting that nothing on the platform should be trusted.

Some design teachers have a real dislike for raster images/photoshop. On one of my current lessons on concepting up layouts it recommends pencil and paper or illustrator but says to stay away from PS as the files sizes are large and glitchy... and im like WTF? (99% of my concept stuff is in PS.)

One of the more disappointing/frustrating things in my studying of design is the amount of subjects that either don't actually teach, or mark you on things not taught. One subject involves telling you a bunch of skills to go an learn each week, and the class exclusively involves checking if you did.

Apparently it was 8 years ago I played my first competition AoS game. Seraphon with a couple of Stormcast allies. Where does the time go?!

In class: this assessment has a blanket ban on ai, no using chatgtp for your research. Break into pairs and get started. Person I'm paired with proceeds to read to me from a chatgtp summery...😔

Na it's good advice that I want to take on board. What do you think about this? Tinted some of the areas with xpress colour oily black.

Been a few years since I've done a bit of theatre and I've looking back over some of the shows I did and reminiscing. Shots from 'He died with a falafel in his hand'x2, 'How to be a Man' and 'So you die a little, shall we dance?"

Leaders/champions you say?

Tristan is painting spookily@tristanwelsh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Quote post with your leaders/champions! #nerdlings #miniaturepainting #minipainting #warhammercommunity #warhammer

This week is the start of all the mid term assessment being due. Like a torrential rainfall all banked up to dump down on my over one weekend, where the final assessable content is delivered on Wen/Thurs like a starter pistol, and due that Friday or Sunday...

I'll never be able to engage with an aspect of youtube culture. Maybe it's my age, but I will never understand why anyone would watch a vid where a no skill/achievement/academic qualification rando posts "My opinion of fem-custodes" Who cares? Might as well pol the guy yelling on the street corner