I wish I could…

Posted on March 26, 2023March 27, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Chess, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1887, Knowledge, Learning, protégés, Skills, Time4 Comments

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?

Play chess better. I don’t understand how people can work out several moves ahead. I only know the basics, I learnt from playing against my father as a child. But I don’t know how to castle and I rarely play. I don’t know where our chess set and board are.

When I watched a film about chess players in the 1970’s I was amazed and impressed by them. But they were protégés and must have had some sort of mathematical minds so that they understood the game in great depth. Then of course computers were introduced which started to beat humans. So I would like the ability to beat a computer like Deep Blue. An ambition I’m sure I will never have!

Eye eye!

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Design, Drawing, Eye, Fun, Learning, Sketcher app, Sketching, Skills, TechniquesLeave a comment

I do like playing with images, as you can see! (literally and metaphorically). By playing with them I learn new techniques, skills, and expand my ideas. Just getting the reflection on this to seem to float above the ‘iris’, by having the background slightly darker it makes the reflection stand forward. It should probably be shaded to get an apparent curvature onto the front of the eye. I used simple tools in my sketcher app on my phone to achieve this.

Portrait of hubby

Posted on May 23, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, ArtRage app, Digital drawing, Drawing, Fun, Hubby, Learning, Sketching, Skills2 Comments

sketching using ArtRage, an app I have on my phone. This was quite hard to do because I’m not quite used to the app yet for straight drawing. It’s getting the colours to blend without them being too pale. I want to use digital art like pencil and paint.

Single line drawing

Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged college exercise, drawing from a podcast, Hand eye coordination, Learning, Life drawing, Sketching, Skills, Time2 Comments

One of our exercises this week. Drawing with one continuous line without looking at the page, just the computer screen! A slim model changes shape! How is it possible to get a likeness? But it’s not about that, it’s trying to get your hand and eye to coordinate without your brain getting involved. Weird, but I like it!

Mark making

Posted on August 9, 2020August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blogging, Creative, Design, Fun, Happy, Learning, Mark making, Poem, Poetry, SkillsLeave a comment

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Take a pencil a pen or a paintbrush

Make a mark

See what happens

Feel joy and wonder

Learn your skills

Slowly, patiently,

Or fast

Reach for your imagination.

Be creative.

Create!

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Skills