First print of my own design

Out of the set of Midjourney images I sifted through yesterday, I thought the one below would be fairly amenable to interpretation in FreeCAD for an absolute beginner who still hasn’t finished the first tutorial because he got distracted.

Fun in FreeCAD

Apparently, the first step to me falling off a plan is to develop a plan. At least, that’s what this last week has been like. Between being a bit run down and somewhat distracted by the 3D printer, I gave myself the week off from the new routine. The step back has been good for perspective. As planned, those dailies and rounds leave no room for spontaneity. So I’ll be tweaking the plan next week to see how well it works out. Current thinking is to keep the dailies and limit the subject interests to one a night instead of trying to cram two into the limited time I’ve got. And instead of rotating through after only half an hour of scratching the surface, stick with a topic until I’ve got some meat on those bones, preferably something to show for it, like a piece of art or some kind of stand-alone offering.

Phantasmagoria Friday

This week’s phantasmagoria came together whilst scouring the photon mines in search of an illustration for my Law MOC.

Phantasmagoria Friday

This week’s Phantasmagoria Friday features the last set of scenes from the photon mines that I extracted during my quest for an illustration of my Spirit MOC.

“What the hell am I doing here?”

Radiohead – Creep

Wherein our intrepid psychonaut answers the age-old question, “what is art?” and raises a great many besides.

Phantasmagoria Friday

Happy Phantasmagoria Friday! Here’s another fun set of lushly-colored mandala-inspired images extracted from the photon mines.

Phantasmagoria Friday

This week’s phantasmagoria is another set of mandala-inspired images selected from my search for an illustration for my Spirit MOC.

Bust a Move

Sometimes what I get back for my effort is just…fun. I was looking for a particular sort of image. This wasn’t it. But I love it. In the future when engaged in theater of the mind, either my own imagination or that of prospective players and/or readers, I might not just see some storm giant or god appearing static and immobile in the sky. Maybe what I see is that giant or god busting a move. A grand entrance, if you will.

At first it just struck me as funny. I don’t tend to think of dancing beefcake. It just strikes me as muscle-bound and quite possible stiff and a bit funny. Then I recall Maori haka. Nope. Not funny. Deadly serious. As might be befitting a giant or god. Then I recall Shiva. Grim, ecstatic stuff, indeed.

For that matter, for other usages, maybe it isn’t always about dance, but just entrance. The bigger the drama, maybe a bigger entrance is called for. How does your god or giant emerge onto the scene. Are they just suddenly there, voila? Do they rage and storm onto the scene? Do they calmly fade in from mist or shadow? The sensations do they radiate? What feeling should be palpable in the air?

Here, though, it’s dance.

You’ve been served. Roll for initiative.

Phantasmagoria Friday

Scribbles from the Archives

Found while organizing my files in preparation for the next stage of the grand scheme of things. Last modified March 25, 2017, that must have been the day I did all the color shifting. The original is an 18×24 drawing in cheap marker on whatever pad that was, from several years before that. One day I got a fairly decent shot of it on my camera, then decided it would be fun to rotate the colors by small increments in GIMP to see what other color schemes would slowly emerge.

Update: I noticed after uploading that the color series was all out of whack, so I went back and re-sequenced the images. I did not expect to see what I saw when it was done. This turned out cooler than I expected. Somehow it had never occurred to me to look at the series arrayed in two columns. Turns out, they tile very nicely (not accurately, just in a pleasing fashion) and the transitions are smooth.