Lumière

I drew this two years ago, but I was going through my sketch book, and said to myself "Hey! This is really good. I should put this on my blog!" So I did.

Dreamy Mountains

These are some pacific mountains I envisioned when I was trying to lull myself to sleep. I pictured this as from the point of view of a bird flying through these mountains.

Comment on how pacific you feel it is on a scale of 0 (no peace) to 10 (perfectly peace stimulating).

Buffalo

This was a fun silhouette picture I liked out of a "stay away from the wildlife" pamphlet from Yosemite.

My Pencil's Grave

I have posted many pencil sketches on this blog and some of them are really good. One of the keys to making maximum use of your pencil is contrast.

You can get the best contrast by making your outlines in a light pencil led and slowly working your way up to darker pencil leads as you shade more and more. You can't generally get past 4B pencils, which are softer and darker than regular 2B pencils.

That is the foundation for my story. At career night I decided to bring my notebook and sketch the speakers. It was a really good idea and gave me something to do.

The first few speakers I drew in pencil, as you can see and then I transferred over to pen. The comparison is rather clear to me. The pencil is drab, boring and smudgeable, while the pen is crisp and contrasting.

There is, of course, that lingering doubt. "What if you make a mistake?" While there is still argument for me, I haven't noticed myself making that many mistakes. If I do, I can still correct it with more lines or with white-out. I put my picture of Louis Armstrong to show how my fear of mistakes is generally not in step with reality. (I did, however, make some minor mistakes with his lower trumpet pipes.)

This is why I want to put my pencil to rest. I will still use my pencil, but I want to move on from creating finished products of carbon lines. I want to use pens, and markers, and my computer too, to make art in the future!

The Love Equation

I happen to know a brilliant scientist and psychologist. He is somewhat well known as Florenti Drakeiovitch author of "We make small things out of big things," and "To tapdance upon an electron is to be idiosyncratic." A number of years ago he walked into a completely unrelated session at a convention I attended. From his brilliance to his pen flew calculations that will always stick in my mind, and perhaps one day, become a man's entire career. He wrote the equation that calculates love.

In which p is the number of entities in a closed system and greater than one. G is the love constant. m_e1and m_e2 represent the emotional mass of person one and the emotional mass of person two. Which is divided by the distance between them squared. Within the parentheses, you have money per hour times shallowness times attractiveness on a scale of one to ten.

Since the mighty Drakeiovitch did not provide the Love constant, you cannot immediately begin calculating love, however, you can estimate love and back-solve for the constant. You now also have the mathematical relationships that will let you increase the love in your life, or decrease it if it's getting out of hand.

I have wanted to document this in the past. I hope people will appreciate this scientific truth which has for years layn concealed in the notebooks of myself, and the few others at the convention.