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FabIe posted...

Thanks! I was going for a candle light look. Minimum effort on the background though.

How do you go about shading the shadows? You just imagine where the source of light comes from and then shade according to the angles of the characters clothing/hair ect?

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FabIe posted...

Ill bump with this one i just finished up yesterday

That shadowing, I love it.

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Finished a page. Need to plan my day out, got so much I want to do every week.

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Woot! Classes starting next week and I've been going over a few old chapters. Learning these phrases that I totally forgot.







Gonna be filling out a page of phrases with these before bed.

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Didn't draw today. Been out and about, but I'll get back to it soon.

Also my new table arrived so maybe I can utilize more space :>

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I did kind of cut her off once or twice now that I look back on it which I feel bad about. Probably because of me not being confident enough and trying to get myself across clearly.

But she seemed fine with it. She said my Japanese was very good but I know full well that they all say that. What I need to do is maybe let the other person talk to me more next time, so I can be in the answering seat more.

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Itachi157 posted...

Did you run into her IRL somehow or was it online?

Spoke to her over video call.

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So I just spoke to one of my favourite idols of all time, Den Ayaka. And I'm so happy I was able to hold a conversation with her totally in Japanese! Im proud of myself, kinda struck me how cute she was too!

Damn, today was a good day.



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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

Looking good. Im at my brothers the rest of this week so I havent been able to finish my gogeta drawing yet, fyi in case anyone was wondering why I didnt post the finished piece yet.

Looking forward to it!

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Yeah here in London I'd rather not risk it either till I either get the vaccine or Covid starts to die out for good.

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Skimming more pages from the textbook. Should be starting up my lessons again in 2 weeks, anticipating it >_>

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Still having trouble understanding conversations when people speak at average/fast speed. But I think its just a lack of vocabulary on my part. Remembering is the hardest part for me, ugh.

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FabIe posted...

Thanks! I did this one too.

How long did these drawings take you?

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Been writing down random phrases I've been making just to practice now and then.

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Didn't do much today. Got my hands on FF7 Intermission, just finished it lol

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Nice! Looking good.

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Been speaking Japanese, mostly to my girlfriend. Im aiming to do at least 30 mins of straight convesation everyday.

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Looks so good!

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Went over perspectives again. Gonna try and draw this from scratch. Didn't finish it last time and took a break, now its time to break it in again soon. Will be a bit busy for a few days but hopefully I'll get time after I get everything else out the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfHKJLir1yE

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FabIe posted...

I did that for a few of my NPCs. I posted some of the painted ones on my mini painting community board. Heroforge is great if you have a 3d printer.

I was using heroforge I think? But I was going to get the company to make it for me. Or was I mistaken, it might have been a different website.

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FabIe posted...

Bumping with an aged up version of my D&D campaign's MC

You just reminded me! I made a picture of my MC in D&D too. I don't know where it went but I spent a lot of time with it. I even incorporated my skillsheet around it, was pretty cool to have my character drawn there on the table. I even went so far as to almost order a custom made miniature for my character, but then covid hit.

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Did a bit of reading today, although still have trouble with Kanji. But there are a few familiar words and letters. Really wish it was easier, but I got to persist.

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PerseusRad posted...

I believe that some come with codes for programs, either as an extended trial or something else. Not all do, but I believe there are a few decent free programs out there.

Thanks. Im thinking of setting mine up. My one is the XP pen Deco 01. Not sure if its good or not but ill give it a try.

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PerseusRad posted...

I'm not particularly good, but I tried drawing then coloring a few pieces, this is probably the best of the 3 I did, but still obviously amateurish. I basically referenced somebody else's work as well while doing it, so eh. I need to learn fundamentals, I slack on it. On retrospect, I was really lazy with the eyes, though I could just say I was trying something new.

I use a Wacom One. It's kind of expensive, esp if you don't have much in disposable income. But less so than a new game console.

Do you need to install a program or does it come with it? I bought a tablet at comic con 2 years ago but never actually opened it yet. Also that picture is cute!

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Itachi157 posted...

It's been a while since I've set it up, but IIRC there are pre-made decks you can download and use.
Not sure if they are still out there. I think they set up all the formatting for you too.

But aside from that to my understanding, you do make the cards yourself manually. You can set the cards up however you want (what info to show on each side, etc) and there are also ways to change up the fonts/sizes.

There used to be a tool in Firefox I believe that synced up with Rikaichan (mouse over dictionary) where if you linked it up with Anki, you could add and create new cards to an Anki deck with the press of a button. Made it super fast to make and add new cards. It would make the whole card for you. However, some browser update broke it, and I didn't check if it ever got restored. It was kind of a double edged sword as the ease of using that tool made me add every unknown word I ran into, which led to inefficiencies.

I'm actually going to make a new deck for the first time in a while, so if I find anything useful, I'll post it here. I was planning on making the cards manually which would probably be a pain, but if there's a way to auto do it I'll try to find it. Like I said it's been years since I really messed with Anki.

Itachi157 posted...

Found this when poking around reddit

https://learnjapanese.moe/

It has a section on Anki. Not sure who made it and I didn't in depth read the whole thing, but from skimming there's some good info on there.

There's no one way to learn but you can usually glean some useful stuff from guides like this.

Thanks, I'll check this out.

Rimmer_Dall posted...

I've decided to start practicing writing, not because I particularly want to write but because I want to improve my reading speed. Today for the first time in forever I started writing the hiragana over and over again from memory, and I've also started the Kanken deck and finally learn how to write kanji (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/759825185).

I've already seen results. It's the same day and my reading speed has already improved just by writing hiragana and a few kanji. It's ridiculous.

Really need to start writing things. And not just homework or textbooks.

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Itachi157 posted...

Starting to get back into the groove. Back to finishing VNs for once and going to start a new Anki mined words deck. I'm going to abandon my old decks as I haven't used them in forever so the algorithms are probably way off.

One of them was the Core vocab deck and I've long mastered all that vocab. The other was an old mined words deck that was way bloated with unnecessary stuff.

I added a bunch of words that I doubt I really need to know and that I barely have a grasp of in English anyway (a bunch of scientific terms like chemical compounds etc that basically had no chance of sticking). I think there was a science infodump in some VN and I just added all the words from it to Anki without thinking.

My new deck is only going to contain stuff that I think I can remember and that seems like it'll be useful/repeated often.

Overall if someone goes the mining/Anki route (adding words that pop up in stuff you read to a deck), my advice would be to not add in everything blindly because your deck will end up bloated with difficult to remember stuff. I would advise asking yourself if the word is actually something you'd predict seeing more than a handful of times ever. I think with a more focused deck, practice will be more efficient.

Of course it depends on your goals with Japanese as well. If you're going for like a science degree at a Japanese university obviously priorities will change.

I checked Anki out and I really don't know how to use it. All I saw were blank cards. Am I supposed to fill them out myself?

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Rimmer_Dall posted...

I was so not expecting to see a Shimura Ken reference in a Zelda game.

https://i.imgur.com/A1e306F.png

Burst out laughing because of how unexpected it was.

I could read the first 2 sentences perfectly but had trouble with the last one :<

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For you guys that posted, what tablets do you use?

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So I was relearning the muscle memory techniques last night and I'm so much better than before!?

This always happens when I take a break. My drawing gets slightly better, it's so weird.

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Amazing drawings guys. I haven't been doing much recently since I've been busy. Will pick up back soon.

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Stalolin posted...

Why is the first line here can I take your order? I cant find the normal way to write this in English so I cant find the translation exactly?

I wouldn't know. Maybe some of the more learned members can answer that?

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Some of these lyrics dont make full sense obviously when translating them. I believe songs sometimes take liabilities?

Its so crazy
here we go

never give it up never give it up

Run away, its so crazy
Throw everything out here we go
I want to grab it someday
Never give it up never give it up, you are

Not sure if the translation is 100% correct? Going to translate the next part.

Edit: The last part would be better if I said "You Never give it up, Never give it up"

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Ugh so classes are gonna be delayed until later this month. Sucks, I wanted to get back into the swing of things. Really wish face to face classes will start soon..

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It's so crazy
here we go

Never give it up never give it up


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Trying to figure out why whenever I try to translate Kanji I end up forgetting every since one I studied, but then I remember a few hours later.

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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

Lol what the fuck dude? I post it right side up and it turns it, so I take it turned landscape-wise, and it doesnt rotate it at all...the fuck man?

I always have that trouble. Maybe use Imgur if it gets too bad. But yeah that looks amazing!

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Haven't done much studying today. Got a lot of other things to take care of.

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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

It depends what youre drawing. In the case of say, the DB stuff I doyou can translate realistic shading to cell shading (what the anime uses) fairly easily. The hardest part would be picking the proper colors.

Guess for me thats way down the line.

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I'll keep that in mind, thanks! Hopefully my translations wont be too bad.

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Woot, translation is fun sometimes. Although I know theres a few mistakes here I'm still enjoying the process of learning this way.

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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

No, Im a pencil/ink person. I prefer to just shade with a pencil or pen rather than color anything.

If I had a nice supply of coloring supplies that were high quality, I probably would color some of my stuff, but, I typically draw all my stuff with the idea in mind that its *not* going to be colored.

Was colouring hard to learn? The shading and light differences?

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N3xtG3nGam3r posted...

Basically done minus some extremely fine tuning to clean up any linesplus I need to find a way to make the ends of the picture look natural since it doesnt fill the whole page...like blend the dark parts of the cape on the left onto the blank page. Idk.

Tbh it was a very easy draw...but the shit that absolutely kills me is how long the line-work takes plus the fill insMurata produces like 40+ pages of way higher quality stills than this one I did, which is basically more than 1 a day. Thats do-able, but I couldnt draw like this EVERY day...its excruciatingly tedious, and you eventually jus want it to be over with. I only spent probably a total of 5 hours on/off sketching, drawing, lining, and filling, BUT...If I couldnt have taken breaks like I did and spread those 5 hours over the last 2 days, theres no way it would have came out the way it did. I would have inadvertently ruined it due to my mood.

Looks so good. Do you do any colouring with your pictures?

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Listening is a mixed bag for me. Sometimes I'm on the ball, other times I get lost so quickly.

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Looks good so far!

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