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  • Grandson portrait

    This one was interesting to draw! As always, displaying my Photoshop Takes Zero Skill heavily filtered pic, but I do want to post some WIPs too!

    I wanted to try something different for this – I really like the angle and lighting of this shot, but it was too daunting to approach with pencil because it was extremely black heavy, and I don’t like having to spend so much pencil lead on paper because it’s so tedious, not to mention the graphite goes everywhere and is prone to smudging! So I decided to start my digital canvas black, and worked my way towards white. It kind of worked???

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  • Taika Waititi

    I think I’m done trying to draw digitally for the rest of this year. It’s so hard! Also a cropped version without a filter wrecking it just cause.

  • Why does drawing hurt so much

    That’s it, that’s the post.

  • Damian Lewis

    When will I get better at colour accuracy??? When I can I capture expressions accurately???

    Also I still hate doing digital only from scratch, it’s too hard!

  • Matthew Gray Gubler

    First drawing in months, couldn’t draw an original character so went with a character study instead.

    Definitely not my best, it’s passable though. His messy tousled hair was a challenge!

  • Sydney 2023

    Ah, finally, my first round of travel after many years of staying put! Though, with pigeons to look after now, I hadn’t actually thought about planning any trips, instead, this just happened to be a work trip where I tacked a few extra days for myself to explore.

    What does Sydney look like post COVID? How much of what I remember would still be there? How many of my favourite places would have closed down?

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  • Komeyui Melbourne

    I only really wanted to choose one restaurant to book while in Melbourne, and Komeyui has been on my list for several years and seems to regularly pop up as a great restaurant to visit. Some of the research I did shows that this omakase would be interesting, since they also offer kaiseki options, so I wanted to see what dishes they’d have on offer!

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  • Petermen

    Haha, I’m so silly for starting a post about a seafood restaurant using a picture of a flat white! But there’s a reason for that, I was here for brunch, and, the coffee was surprisingly good! I’ve never had coffee this pleasant from one before (including Saint Peter’s Artificer batch brew; that was nice but not at an Artificer level).

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  • Gildas

    First there was Firedoor, and now there’s Gildas, a new Lennox Hastie establishment!

    My trip to Sydney was rather impromptu, and I found myself without any plans on a Friday night. So what do I do? I google Gildas to see if they’re walk in friendly, and lo and behold, I got myself a spot!

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  • Sydney 2023 – Chaco Bar

    Wow, has it been forever since I posted about a restaurant! In this Sydney trip, I wanted to do a mix of new and old. Technically, this is both, since I’ve been to the old Chaco Bar, but not this new one in this new location! It was interesting to see what was the same and what was different!

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