A library composed of stolen copies of anything ever written by humans and an army of homunculi without language. Take any request, shred it, divide the shreds into little piles based on your personal aesthetics. Send the army sprinting on random paths through the library looking for other little piles that are most commonly associated with their own.
If you don’t like the reconstruction, repeat the request, with no guarantee of the same homunculi, or the same paths taken.
The thing currently being sold as artificial intelligence reads a lot like the Chinese Room problem, if written by Borges.
First beard(s) highlight pass sketched in.
Right. Let’s get started on that hair then. All of which is entirely composed of additional beards.
In contrast, the first ‘real’ (fake) highlight placement.
Interestingly, at this kind of size, at this distance from my painting lamp, the real light reflection reads much more scale-appropriate, so it looks like I’ve been highlighting here when I really haven’t.
Tiny eye dots, tiny teef dots, and a patchy first couple of base layers for the skin, over black. The fool’s not even using a zenithal.
Okay. Now hear me out. Have I abandoned yet another 80%* complete mini because every part of my flesh and skin and soul rebels at the thought of ever even looking at it again? Yes. Technically, yes.
But! I’ve now picked up a vastly larger, more fine-detailed display figure that will need exponentially more patience and skill and time to complete. I see this as a clear win.
*~40-80%
Just realised that my own ‘my roman empire’ may be the 2007 Dairy Milk gorilla ad.
Just look at that boopable snoot.
Yay!
We’re definitely into the golden age of the series now.
Even his smallest panels just ooze character.
Ahh, finally the Geoff Senior art has begun. Best Transformers.
Just binged the whole first series of Mackenzie Crook’s new… I can’t even say what kind of a thing it might be. If you can avoid reading anything about it beforehand, trust me, it’s probably worth a watch. ‘Small Prophets’.
The first UK story that you hit is Man of Iron and it’s so different in tone, art and telling from the ‘I am Megatron, I am a bad guy!’ style of the initial US pages that you could get whiplash.
I also really should have gone colour-against-opposite on each of the side transitions, but if you think I’m going back to correct that now…
Did I choose a sane, easily-accessible area in which to attempt the obligatory checkerboard pattern? No.
But will I at least finally learn from this experience? Also no.
You read the pull request, you close the window, you look at the clock, you wonder if you can wait out the rest of the day without having to be one of its approvers.
Never forget that Unicron once got so irritated with someone that he tore his own leg off.
First ‘contrast’ pass, what do we reckon? Better? Worse? Legally indistinguishable?
I think one of my problems is that I’ve pushed the skin so bright in the highlight (no regrets).