Creativity of the day

[Viktor77]

Scans badly. If I see quatrains I expect them to be either all iambic or trochaic tetrameters, possibly with each other line in trimeter (that's called a ballad stanza).

Why do you know more English than I do?

sometimes I think *I* know más inglés que you, compadre, and that's saying something.

You're just lucky the internet is based in English. I've searched and searched and buscado for Spanish forums of interest and nada....There was one language forum in French but it was slow. There's just shit for online practice and I know from playing the online game Runescape in French that if I were to join a fast-paced forum like the ZBB in Spanish or French, that I'd improve immensely.

[Jipí]

I were to join a fast-paced forum like the ZBB in Spanish or French, that I'd improve immensely.

I've been hanging out in these parts of the interwebs for 7 years (OMG!) and have been talking to the guys on the various ZBB-related channels on a more or less daily basis at least since 2006. Now I'm studying German and English Literature. Way to get fluent.

[Viktor77]

I were to join a fast-paced forum like the ZBB in Spanish or French, that I'd improve immensely.

I've been hanging out in these parts of the interwebs for 7 years (OMG!) and have been talking to the guys on the various ZBB-related channels on a more or less daily basis at least since 2006. Now I'm studying German and English Literature. Way to get fluent.

If there were such resources in Spanish or French I'd gladly do the same and in 7 years maybe I'll be fluent. You can learn a lot in university classes, I won't deny that. But it's no where near what you can learn online. I've built my French vocab ten-fold just playing for a week on French Runescape. Now I know words like a raton laveur and to donner un coup de cogné sur qch. If that's what an online game can do without conversing, I can only imagine what a forum could do as it takes writing to a new level.

[dhok]

The fact that you used Runescape is...

[Nortaneous]

aren't there like french irc channels or something

i mean i don't even look for irc channels in finnish and i see them mentioned everywhere, so french ones must be out there also

[Torco]

There's plenty of cool fora in spanish... lemme get a few links I remember had interesting communities. I don't participate in any of them, but have at some time, and they're generally good. Inforol was awesome, but alas, the linkrot got to it.

http://www.antronio.com/

http://www.juegosderol.cl/

http://www.elcachondeo.cl/foro/



Unsurprisingly, they're chilean communities about geeky stuff... elcachondeo also has, I'm told, kind of a swinger scene.

hope you learn! Myself, I'm not yet conversant infrench, so yeah u_u

[Viktor77]

Torco those sites are amazing!! Especially the last one. Already signed up. Muchas muchas muchas gracias wena!

[Risla]

I sketched up a picture of a South Eresian woman (of relatively high class, from the north). I think her head's a bit big since I was working without any references and it scanned funny (some spots are much lighter than the original, some darker) but otherwise it turned out okay.



(btw, yes she does have pointed ears, piercing the top of the ears together to achieve that effect is a common body mod there)

[Viktor77]

Nice sketch Risla! You do well with folds which are hard as hell!

This is the most complicated pixel I've done to date. It's of 88 Edmund in Brush Park and is the house I'm having drawn up in Auto-CAD in much more detail. This beaux-arts masterpiece lasted from around 1885-1965 spending more than half of its life as a boarding house/auto-repair shop with a lot sized addition built on the back.

[Risla]

Thanks! They're harder without a reference for how they're supposed to look, which is how I drew that; when you have an original, they aren't hard at all.

I'm currently working on drawing a lower-class male farmer from the south, but I had to look up some models on google (which doesn't really give average-looking people in the first few results) and now I suspect I'm going to make all the gay guys on the ZBB (and straight women, if I'm not the only one) want to move to South Eresia.

And that looks really nice. I'd never dream of doing anything that complex in Paint.

[Astraios]

@Risla: I love the woman's clothes. And the ear thing is cool.

(post the guy already )

[faiuwle]

I looked at the bottom left of that image, Viktor, and now this is driving me nuts:


Is the part on the left the column, or the part on the right? At the top, it looks like the right side is the column, and at the bottom it looks like the left side is. It's like that Escher painting where the elephant has different numbers of legs depending on whether you look at the bottom of the legs or the top.

[Kopachris]

Another n00bish poem--I'm not good at writing, so why do I try...? Anyway, this one is about my experience with asking a girl out to junior prom in high school:

Gavotte brought bliss into my being;
She could ponder all the meaningful thoughts
And had a predilection for freeing
The lonesome, loose legs of the world that ought
Not to be in such dreadful company.
And so I asked her if she would a dance--
That Gavotte had music as any--
"Yes," said she, and so I put on my mance.
The following three days were but bliss,
But she came and something there was amiss.
The Allemande's Gavotte was of age,
Gavotte felt as she were in a cage;
She came upon with a ruthless demand,
And thus Gavotte slew the Allemande.

[Nortaneous]

I looked at the bottom left of that image, Viktor, and now this is driving me nuts:


Is the part on the left the column, or the part on the right? At the top, it looks like the right side is the column, and at the bottom it looks like the left side is. It's like that Escher painting where the elephant has different numbers of legs depending on whether you look at the bottom of the legs or the top.

this is why it's useful to offset the tiling a bit vertically on surfaces that are supposed to be at a different depth(?)

[Viktor77]

I looked at the bottom left of that image, Viktor, and now this is driving me nuts:

Is the part on the left the column, or the part on the right? At the top, it looks like the right side is the column, and at the bottom it looks like the left side is. It's like that Escher painting where the elephant has different numbers of legs depending on whether you look at the bottom of the legs or the top.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was rushing that bit so I accidentally overlooked the elevation. The base molding belongs also on the second column as seen here. It's trickier to tell as the first column is hidden by the depth of the second.

this is why it's useful to offset the tiling a bit vertically on surfaces that are supposed to be at a different depth(?)

That's not how elevations work. They're always face on with no dimension.

[Nortaneous]

Oh, so that's not supposed to be a column detached from the main wall?

[Viktor77]

Oh, so that's not supposed to be a column detached from the main wall?

It's not a detached column, it's an attached column or whatever the proper architectural terms is.

[Aurora Rossa]

I looked at the bottom left of that image, Viktor, and now this is driving me nuts:


Is the part on the left the column, or the part on the right? At the top, it looks like the right side is the column, and at the bottom it looks like the left side is. It's like that Escher painting where the elephant has different numbers of legs depending on whether you look at the bottom of the legs or the top.

Maybe it's a precursor to this.

[Risla]

I already posted it in my thread in Ephemera (check it out and give me something to do, before I start drawing random people from the pictures thread!), but here is a self portrait that I just drew. Came together in about two hours. The South Eresian guy picture should be up shortly but he does not currently have legs and looks kind of like a robot.

[Shm Jay]

Could someone try their hand at that creating a picture of that egg dish someone dreamed about?

[Aurora Rossa]

I'm gonna try to draw another Terpish house, hopefully better this time, and provide a floor plan. Before that, though, I was wondering if it would make sense for the Terps to use ladders instead of staircases to get between floors. That would free up a great deal of space in the house, though I don't know if any real-life houses ever worked that way.

[Dewrad]

I'm gonna try to draw another Terpish house, hopefully better this time, and provide a floor plan. Before that, though, I was wondering if it would make sense for the Terps to use ladders instead of staircases to get between floors. That would free up a great deal of space in the house, though I don't know if any real-life houses ever worked that way.

In premodern Europe, if a peasant house had two floors, they'd be connected by ladders. In Çatal Höyük, different floors were connected by ladders. The list could go on.

[Torco]

Torco those sites are amazing!! Especially the last one. Already signed up. Muchas muchas muchas gracias wena!

What can I say, I am an endless fountain of awesome.

[Aurora Rossa]

In premodern Europe, if a peasant house had two floors, they'd be connected by ladders. In Çatal Höyük, different floors were connected by ladders. The list could go on.

Cool, I will try that, then.

I have also been trying to find floorplans for real terraced houses to give me an idea of what it should look like. I tried drawing one last night, but ended up with 8 bedrooms on the two upper floors. That naturally seemed kind of nutty to me since I didn't envision eight or more people living there. But then I could use couple of the rooms for something else, maybe a study or something.

[finlay]

I'm gonna try to draw another Terpish house, hopefully better this time, and provide a floor plan. Before that, though, I was wondering if it would make sense for the Terps to use ladders instead of staircases to get between floors. That would free up a great deal of space in the house, though I don't know if any real-life houses ever worked that way.

In premodern Europe, if a peasant house had two floors, they'd be connected by ladders. In Çatal Höyük, different floors were connected by ladders. The list could go on.

I have a ladder in my house. It's technically against building regulations, at least if we ever want to sell our house, and there are other issues with calling the upstairs rooms bedrooms, at least legally (the roofs are too low, for one thing - 2m at the highest and then they slope down towards the edges of the room - which is fine for short people like me but could be problematic for many). Basically my room is an attic conversion.