ENTRY #0008

Cutie-pie of the sea (x)

*Update: this is not a real octopus but a spy bot for research. In a BBC vid(here), the spy bot helps an octopus to protect itself from sharks.

How to make a tiramisu, step 1: dip your lady finger finch in coffee

It's a bird soaking in coffee camouflaging as latte art (◡̀_◡́)

i like that they're called java finches cuz the brown ones look like coffee

Thinking of doing a daily doodle thing.... Here's the first one :)

Mutuals in different timezones:

Turn based friendship

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

8 September, 2023

I finally downloaded CSP and made these two cat angels based off a reference image I found on the internet. I played around with CSP's brushes (you can see the default feather brush haha) and overall had a fun experience.

I think the sketch turned out alright, but the coloured version looks rather bland. I tend to have a problem with colouring and I think it's because I always choose washed out colours? And perhaps I need to use more contrasting colours and textures? I suppose the composition can be improved as well -- this is something I struggle with the most (>.<)

I'd like to see how other people would colour and compose this! Here's the lineart if anyone would like to try :) (please tag me so I can see!)

mutuals

Something I struggle with in learning how to art is the inconsistency in quality of the work I produce. I can make a 'good' painting/drawing and an ugly one in the same day even if it's of a similar subject done in a similar manner. I make the first one and think I've improved and then create the second and feel like I haven't improved at all

whomst has awakened me

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