Forums → Art, Music, and Writing → Strop's sporadic scrapbook

the face might be seen as having a more bovine influence

usually you see people with a more canine'esque infatuation.

isn't wrist pain normal for someone who uses a keyboard alot? i've read that keyboards aren't healthy for your hands... its on the back of some of them actually as a potential health hazard... so an avid gamer who uses a keyboard alot might succumb to such a pain b/c of over use... (is it carpal tunnel?)... u've prob been told that before...

You sound like you've visited the furry subculture, indeed the land of a plethora of profligate foxes and wolves.

Strop, the Strip-legs look odd. Very, very awkward.

my old roommate up at college enjoyed fridays on 4chan...

believe what you will but I have never sought out anything of the sort.

I list dogs/wolves as my favorite animals but.... not in that manner.

Wow, that's has a great effect
Are they characters?

Yeah on the left is Crimsonblade and on the right is Leon. They're the final two candidates in the elimination stages of the Way of Moderation.

Hmm....and now I wish I had been in the WoM, if only to have my character drawn by Strop.

Shoutout to Cen whose suggestions helped me correct a couple of images to make them look more awesome.

Fixed...

...and fixed!

Hey Strop, i just wanted to know if this was good or not =)

Uh mabye this

I'm guessing you did that with a mouse, in which case it's not a bad effort. Did you use a photo reference as well? The lines (while wonky) do give some impression of actual 3-dimensional shape, but I daresay you should probably focus on mastering shape with lines before moving onto colours, as the colour tool you've used is unwieldy with a mouse and won't help you much unless you already understand how to draw 3-dimensional objects.

If you get a chance to use actual drawing tools, it's always worth practicing a few simple drills:

1) Try drawing two straight parallel lines as close as you can to each other without actually touching. Draw lots of objects that require straight lines, like a picket fence.

2) Divide some paper into ten or so sections, then shade them progressively so that the first section is completely white and the last section is completely black.

3) Draw a circle. Try to make it as smooth and even around as you can. Once you get used to that, pick a light source, then shade it using cross-hatching.

4) Vanishing point perspective. Rule a straight horizontal line, this is your horizon. Then pick a vanishing point. From this point, you can draw an object where all the lines oriented in the direction of the vanishing point will eventually converge on that point, thus giving you the impression of perspective. For more advanced practice, use two vanishing points on the horizon.

I did use a reference and did use a mouse Thanks for the help!

Alright guys, I've said I play the piano many times on this forum before, and this is my thread. Also, I've already 'unmasked' myself here by posting photos of myself on the official faces thread in the Tavern. So I figured this would be a good time to plug some duet stuff I did with my brother while I was holidaying.

My brother and I have both played piano for more than twenty years each. Performance and music exams were part and parcel of our every day life growing up, only it became strictly recreational for me when I started studying medicine, and he continued to study it formally. Now he's in the middle of a Doctorate of Musical Arts.

Recently, my brother bought got a melodica. At first a cheap plastic one that cost $38. And because he's a bit of a nut, he went and recorded himself butchering some old timey pieces.

My brother playing Fantasie Impromptu on melodica. Warning, not for the faint of heart or fragile of ear!

I've heard and played Fantasie Impromptu too many times to take it seriously anymore. Personally I think it's overrated and understand why Chopin wanted it burnt, as opposed to published. But when I saw this video I lol'd. And wanted to play this melodica.

So I inherited the cheap piece of plastic (to try out) while my brother got himself a very expensive one. And while I was there we decided to jam on it together and his friends (who are also musicians) got very enthused about it and asked us to play in a concert, which was meant to be held by a bunch of fellow doctorate musicians. Apparently they had all bailed, so we had to try and fill in somehow. Turns out on the day that they all showed up, and were playing all this serious music, and we were playing...

Rondo Alla Turca.

Flight of the Bumblebee.

On melodicas. Woo. At least the audience found it entertaining.

After that (qualified) success, we turned our attention to something we've wanted to do for a long time but never really got around to: piano duets. So we arranged a few pieces and sat on the piano and banged out a few recordings:

Stars and Stripes Forever. Sousa's best known flagrant Americana. Done on New Year's Day.

Comedians Gallop. The afternoon I was leaving, my brother said to me "so you wanna do something?" A couple of hours later, this resulted.

Currently I'm working on a few original works. Somebody with a rather eccentric (i.e. awesome) taste in music made some pretty extravagant promises if I could arrange some Shostakovich, which is easier than it sounds, so I guess I've got plenty to do on this front now!

Oh my god. I watched all of the ones you linked to + the Arabian Nights cover. All of them are awesome. I have a fetish for weird instruments, so I enjoyed these a lot. . . . Do you know if your brother owns a theremin?

Do you know if your brother owns a theremin?