No worries at all!. It is great you have find little bit of time to leave a comment!
I am glad you liked this one, I am working on Alia atm, I should be able to post it today:)
I love hot peppers, but not with a religious @holoz0r devotion. I simply love how the capsaicin affect my moods!
Cilantro, eh? I will not say it taste like soap, although fresh one certainly has some soapy aftertaste. I can find it useful in thai food, but I think it can be easily replaced:)
I'll look for Alia. All of your drawings are so well done. A great deal of practice is evident, traditional stuff with all that anatomy. I have such a weakness for this kind of art. Then the way you evolve it beyond that in these stages, it's quite fascinating to observe and study.
Religious pepper devotion, ha! Well, I can't argue with @holoz0r on that one since I'm pretty much of the same mind, no matter how much I've been burnt by peppers. I forgot about the mood effect! You're so right, it's wonderful.
So fresh cilantro tastes a bit soapy to you. I think it's dependent on a person's body chemistry as to how it tastes, or something like that. I've been asking people for years to figure this out. Thai food...YUM. It can be switched out easily. I like the taste a lot, but most especially the medicinal benefits of fresh cilantro.
I forgot to add chilli to my breakfast this morning (though, that was just a protein shake) - why don't these companies make chilli flavoured products for spice heads like myself?
I have extra hot cayenne powder in my, um, breakfast of green sludge, let's pretend it's a protein shake since it's got chia seeds in it.
Because they suck. Make your own custom blend, then you always get what you want the way you want it, when you want it, how you want it, where you want it.
Green sludge breakfast is the best. The liquids that are black truly disturb me. I believe people call it coffee.
If you have the black liquid in a white or clear glass liquid holder, it's a tad less suspect. Yerba Mate is my go to, although I'll drink the dank dark black stuff.
Love Yerba Mate, not for taste really, but it actually works! Way, way better than any coffee/tea/energy drinks etc!
Yesss, the taste is very mild and rather insipid. That said, it mixes well with whatever you want it to taste like. Any citrus peel works well. I've mixed it with mint, ginger, and a bunch of other things, pretty much whatever your taste is.
Too much coffee isn't a good idea, regular tea not as bad, energy drinks + me = vomiting.
Actually? No coffee at all?
None. If I have a warm beverage - its an almond milk hot chocolate. :) Perhaps the occasional plain green tea. Never coffee. Never liked the sludge. Never needed the caffeine. I spring out of bed because the world is a gorgeous place to behold and I'm incapable of capturing its beauty, splendour and intricacies. Coffee doesn't help me do it any faster.
I don't drink coffee for caffeine, I just like the sole fact drinking something as black as my thoughts in the Morning. For kicks I definitely prefer yerba mate or just freezing cold water, enough to keep my eyes open:)
Really like almond milk though:)
I just added in post with Alia's drawing study here
To be fair - I still feel I am out of practice. After academy I work in art-related places, but I hardly ever draw. And now, being bit older - I just started to miss it a lot.
I see some progress since I picked up pencil again, but there is plenty work ahead of me:)
There you go - one man has found his match! :)
Oh, about cilantro - I actually eat it only because its healthy benefit too. I actually have read few medical publications, that it can even help to get rid of lead from your body and other heavy metals.
Not sure I believe in this, but why not increase my odds;)
Why would you want to get rid of heavy metals? Best music that there is!
I hope that's not the only flavour of music in your sound library.
Certainly isn't. I'm also obsessed with (and I'm not ashamed to admit this) Taylor Swift's early work, and the complete catalogue of Florence and the Machine.
There's much eclectic in my play list.
All I can think of when it comes to Taylor Swift is red dress. Florence and the Machine is a yes.
Garbage?
Dead Can Dance?
Nina Simone?
Nils Petter Molvær?
Sean Ryan, particularly with ATB?
Garbage = Yes
The rest of your list, haven't heard of at all.
That's some good shit right there! When I first heard Nina Simone I thought I have a stroke :D
Garbage is just must have on playlist next to Siouxsie And The Banshees.
With Dead Can Dance I can go for weeks, Sean Ryan is too mellow for me tbh, but lovely voice, Nils Petter Molvær is perfectly decadent!
I don't really understand the Tylor Swift hype. I like Florence though. 'Heavy in my arms' I think it was first song I have heard form her :)
Miss Welch is a force of nature. She's a hurricane of a human being and had an incredible aura when I was lucky enough to see her live a few years ago.
Her exploration of water in all her work is fascinating. The historical references, amazing; and the story telling fills my mind with such vivid pictures. It's so inspirational.
I want the song "No Choir" to be played at my funeral one day. Dang it, typing that brought tears to my eyes after going and reading the lyrics. I'm stupid! :D
Indeed!
"Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait.
Don't you stray, don't fade away.
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may.
Don't you stray, from the narrow way"🤟
Some of the best nine minutes of "metal" you'll ever hear.
I find Unleash the Archers amazing, but I definitely prefer male voices over over female ones, sorry!
But I actually like melodic death metal and folk metal too, especially scandinavian bands, that actually sounds like roaring mad vikings:)
I tend to gravitate toward the big "goth" symphonic metal; I love the contrast between soprano female vocals and the typical death growls. It is densely packed with stimuli which takes a bit to unpack, and that's why I enjoy the mix of both female and male vocals in my mainstay listening list. :)
I too am a big fan of things with male voices, and melodic metal is one of the most wonderful genres. It's like classical, but on complicated instruments of modernity. :D
There's so many roaring mad viking bands. I like some of the dwarf and pirate ones. They're amusing (and fascinating) that it seems to be a cosplay and a theatre show, intersected with specific musical styles.
There's two types of people, those who are magnetic, and those that aren't. The ones that listen to metal tend to be magnetic.
At least now I know why you're a magnetic person :) (Apart from all of our other common interests!)
I just finished drooling over her and writing a book comment.
It can feel like that when away from it. All the skills stay, it's just a matter of getting back in the flow again. It can be daunting, but, at the same time, it's obvious you've put a great deal of practice in prior to being away from it for a long while.
It was drilled into me to take a sketchbook with me everywhere, so much so it became an automatic practice to this day.
sings an ode of devotion to peppers, then moves on....
You're right about cilantro. Paired with chlorella, the both of them work as a team to remove heavy metals from the body. One bonds, the other carries it out of the body. I forget which does which.
That's probably the best compliment I've ever gotten about my drawings. Thank you @nineclaws!
Yeah, practice is everything. You can be incredibly talented, but without practice it will all go to nothing.
What I am talking about is closer to muscle memory. I want to train my hands and eyes so that I don't have to think about how to draw but what I am drawing. So that my focus is completely on my subject and not on whether the hand should be drawn at this or that angle in order to make anatomical sense. That's why I returned to basics, like anatomy, so to up my skills to the point, my drawing become organic and natural, not 'practice' or 'training'. Does that make any sense?
Sketchbook should be always with you, never know what will be worth to capture on your way! That is a good habit!
It's just great. I honestly didn't expect my hate of dill will escalate to existential conversations and cult status 😀
Good go for extremes sometimes:)
There you go! I was missing some chemistry mystery sense there, that what was what gave me some doubt's about it. Thank you very much! This way I know I am not torturing myself for nothing:)
You're welcome! I always appreciate real creativity and the evident hard work of repeat practice to express it.
Exactly.
I'm laughing. Been there so many times for so long and still end up there when out of practice. You're absolutely right. Everything you said made complete sense to me since it's pretty close to my own approach. It's always effective.
The always with a sketchbook thing took some effort to get in the habit with. I don't carry a phone, but I do still carry a sketchbook😄.
It's discussions like these that fuel creative ideas and why is it I keep feeling dill lurking in the background of my creative landscape wanting to mutate into some weird monster thing? Might even catch on if we spread it to others.
The cilantro, nope, you're not torturing yourself for nothing. Plants are so interesting.
Sketchbook over phone, this is the way!
First time in my life I am glad I don't like dill :D
The phone I have stays home, have never liked to carry it...just one more thing to think of, deal with, bother about.
😂 I'm never going to see dill the same again.