From sunshine to dark clouds and heavy rain

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If you were around a couple months ago, you might have caught when I bought an online/digital Art/drawing course called ART SCHOOL by Marc Brunet.
Thread here: http://makestation.net/Thread-Art-School...f-any-sort

This thread will serve as basically a place where I upload whatever I'm working on or have completed (if I can consider anything completed when I'm not the greatest artist.)

In any case I've been working through Term 1 Assignments and redoing them a couple times to make sure I get stuff down, and although I haven't even done actual colouring or shading in the lectures/assignments so far, I like to play around with it anyway. Even though I've done basically all of the assignments multiple times, it still takes me a long-a** time, for instance, one of the Term 1 lectures focuses on the idea of perspective and techniques for both 1-point and 2-point perspective. The following drawing is for 1-point only, and it still took me a good four hours or so. And I got lazy around the last hour, hence why the desk/counter have nothing on them.



Just some rendition/idea of a sci-fi kinda room.
I don't like using straight lines the whole time, but my freehand is still way too rough. Need to work on pen control, I guess.
And yeah, coloring is also super rough since I was just going off whatever general colours I wanted.

But hey, it's something. And it doesn't look too terrible IMO, although I reckon I'm a bit biased
So yeah. I'll update this thread as I draw more and progressively get better at drawing.
Let's see how long it takes before I do sick concept-artist stuff B)

I'm going through them for the next week. 

Professors aren't particularly being laid back. I just got done with a Zoom presentation that I almost completely forgot about, had to prepare at the very last minute. I've done presentations by the seat of my pants in the past. I usually record myself doing them so I can figure out how I can improve later, but on this one, it was so last-minute that I didn't even do that. 

I've got a few more to go. And I'm failing most of these classes so it's just going to be a very difficult week. 

How are your finals going? Hopefully better than mine.

I bought a wreck Puch SV 125 motorcycle built in 1954 in autumn 2019, the frame was too welded, the engine was stuck, rust, rust, rust, piston was stuck (double-piston engine), ignition system converted to fully electronic, paint on chrome parts,.... more and more 
   I have 100 ... pictures, here are just a few

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I've always heard that Linux should be very secure against viruses because there are hardly any.

But if everyone switches to Linux against virus protection and everyone switches to Linux to avoid data collection, wouldn't it make a lot of sense for people to try to attack Linux and collect data because everyone thinks it's so safe?

Or when people download the Linux distribution Tails, which is there to protect the private sphere. Wouldn't hackers find these special operating systems and people installing these operating systems the most interesting?

For the uninitiated, a nootropic refers to any sort of substance that can be considered to increase mental ability. 
Your mind might jump to coffee as an example, and sure enough, caffeine is a nootropic. 
And, following definition, since nootropics are banned either by law or by a more silent customs/import seizure, it's actually pretty hard to even buy caffeine pills in the Philippines.

My intro to the world of nootropics was typical, just shitloads of coffee. Then eventually I started buying caffeine pills and decaf coffee to mix together, since decaf was cheaper and I could buy 100x 200mg caffeine pills (100mg is like a normal cup of coffee) for less than ten bucks (7$ for the Americans) and when taken in pill form, your body metabolizes it all at once, so you feel helluva lot more 'rush' than you do when drinking coffee.

Now, problem with this is that caffeine, as most people know, can have some pretty negative effects both mentally and physically, at the cost of alertness. I'd get some pretty nasty jitters and increased heart rate which just wasn't pleasant, and another one of my friends who also took caffeine pills would get really bad anxiety.

Then, that friend discovered a little something called L-Theanine. It's a chemical that's found naturally in Green Tea and you can buy as a supplement in most health-food stores, something like 20$ a bottle for 60x 200mg. A little on the expensive side, but allegedly taking it in a 1:1 ratio with caffeine (basically 1 pill of each) would get rid of all the negative effects of caffeine.

And to this day, I swear by it. It's probably the easiest way to make the most of caffeine without feeling terrible if you ever experience negative effects. I could take em in the morning with my decaf, go about my daily activities, and just sit down and focus without getting jittery or feeling like I'm running on empty but still have that rush of energy from increased heart rate. Just normal wakefulness, even if I only got 4hrs of sleep as students typically do.

If you try this, you won't go back, it really does work wonders. I don't buy into health-food stuff often unless I can actually experience some pretty remarkable results, and this is only one of five things or so that I will shill until I die.

• Caffeine (+ L-Theanine)
  
• Adrafinil
  
• Amphetamine Sulphate (Adderall, Vyvanse)
  
• Microdosing LSD + Psilocybin
  
• L-Tyrosine
  
• Creatine
  
• Energy Drink Blends

Formula 1 Austria: Races on July 5th and 12th almost fixed

Even more concrete information about Formula 1 in Austria: Red Bulls Motorsport consultant Dr. Helmut Marko sees two GPs in July as fixed, all requirements can be met.

At And in Austria, the series The Mandalorian is currently starting in Disney Plus.

I like it very much, I was a 12-year-old in 1977 in the cinema at Star Wars with huge big eyes, then came 1980 The Empire Strikes Back and 1983 Return of the Jedi, so I was always enthusiastic and especially about this one Time everything INCREDIBLE

My wife has a very good Nikon D500, but I always take photos with my smartphone and that is still bad as you can see :-(

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What is better for you?

You can turn to a number of companies if you buy one of the best smartphones, regardless of what you buy. However, one of the two popular mobile operating systems is guaranteed to run: iOS (if you choose an iPhone) or Android (if you choose something else).

Both platforms are pretty mature at this point and have been around for over a decade. This means that both have gathered extensive functions and there is very little that the other cannot. Still, each has its advantages, and there are reasons why you should choose one.
What do you choose?


or in German   :

Was ist besser für dich?

Sie können sich zwar an eine Reihe von Unternehmen wenden, wenn Sie eines der besten Smartphones kaufen, unabhängig davon, was Sie kaufen. Es wird jedoch garantiert eines der beiden bekannten mobilen Betriebssysteme ausgeführt: iOS (wenn Sie sich für ein iPhone entscheiden) oder Android (wenn Sie sich für etwas anderes entscheiden).

Beide Plattformen sind zu diesem Zeitpunkt ziemlich ausgereift und existieren seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt. Das bedeutet, dass beide umfassende Funktionen gesammelt haben und es nur sehr wenig gibt, was der andere nicht kann. Dennoch hat jedes seine Vorteile, und es gibt Gründe, warum Sie sich für eines entscheiden sollten.
Für was entscheidet ihr euch?