Chris Lau Manson 阿劉

An ink drawing of a young man posing in a mesh crop top, shorts, sand shoes, and knee socks.

More marker hatching experimentation - I think I'm getting into a good groove with these, slowly looking more viable as a style. Still some things I'll tweak, but I'm gonna keep iterating on these til I find The One that looks like what I want it to look like!

A pastel painting of a wall covered in light blue plaster, with a large chunk of the plaster missing, revealing strongly coloured blue tiles underneath.

Here's today's pastel practice - a Renfrew pub wall, plaster and concrete crumbling to reveal the beautiful original tiles underneath. Pretty happy with this one.

I was asked to place the T800 on this chart of clueless time travel hunks. In this ranking “posh” will just represent “polite graces”, like, is the appeal the visuals or the conversation

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A pastel painting of a wall covered in light blue plaster, with a large chunk of the plaster missing, revealing strongly coloured blue tiles underneath.

Here's today's pastel practice - a Renfrew pub wall, plaster and concrete crumbling to reveal the beautiful original tiles underneath. Pretty happy with this one.

Twitch Twitch is the world

🔴 Alrighty folks, we're live and ready to paint! Come join Friday Art Stream for a few hours of painting some interesting slightly abstract urban scenery! Live now, starting in about 5 minutes.

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*Road to Nowhere plays*

MAXIMUM Early 2000s lighting right there

Right, freshening up the coffee, then we'll be trying something a wee bit different for pastel landscapes on Friday Art Stream! Stay tuned!

a uh plea if anyone has had any joy getting a 2024+ iMac to talk to a USB flatbed scanner

I'm on scanner no. 3 and the problem is clearly the computer now (not even sure if 15 yr old+ scanner no. 1 was broken to begin with) and we're still just not communicating (:

Folks, gimme half an hour to get something done, then we'll jump onto Friday Art Stream with the pastels! See you shortly!

I regret to inform you that there is indeed a small gang (flock?) of doves that are distinctly not Woodpigeons that terrorise the local blackbirds 👀 The Woodpigeons mostly like to fight amongst themselves.

All the corvids work together to get the snackies and therefore they are my favourites 😌

I would like you to know that I had half a mouth full of maltesers and they wound up on my graphics tablet when I chuckled at this

lol

Reputed Broadcasting Organisations

Ohmygodijustrealised

This would be an AMAZING concept for an anthology

Counterpoint - the doves are *the* worst bullies in my back garden 😅 For some reason they wait for smaller birds to start eating the seed I leave on the ground, and swoop in to displace them.

I bleached some ceiling mould in my bathroom earlier this week

And learned the hard way that the bleach aerosol hangs around in the air for longer than you would think 👀 My poor eyes 😫

Just a ridiculous wee boy full of playground bravado and posturing, and the result is there for the whole world to see: a child’s pink rucksack soaked in blood.

A tax on being a woman athlete , because transphobes hate trans people, and hid under the guise of 'feminists' to do it

Well done you clowns, and this is only the start

"The Ship's Queer" sounds very much like there is one, ONE person on board who is gay, and his name is Jeremy, and everyone likes him and would throw hands at any lubber who would dare insult him.

Yassssss, done my useful thing for today, gonna go outside and play now

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It's Grand adventure yonder Friday!!

Things are getting intense as Corrys "very bad not good day" continues!

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Yeah, I reckon that's probably the most accurate way of looking at it!

Conversely, I think I don't actually remember specifics of photos etc. and instead recreate them from vectors or first principles or however my brain stores them. I think if it's a photo that I've seen over and over, maybe I'd remember that, but I remember the *object* rather than the image!

From my experience, it's less tracing and more like... Almost like drawing a witness sketch? Like, someone is telling you "this is what I saw, this is what it looks like", but the person is you and you're showing it to you but in your mind so the replication through your arm isn't totally perfect?

For me, refs are more making sure things look like what they look like in real life - my visual image probably isn't all that detailed unless I make a specific effort to zero in on them, but doing that for eeeeverything is a *lot* of energy.

I think my initial hypothesis was more or less correct!

Thanks for sharing! I actually think we have very similar processes overall - I believe the key differences is that I don't always need references, because I hold that initial visual in my head, but I definitely need those construction lines to help me translate it to page.

(Only if you don't mind talking about it, I feel like I'm asking massive questions very casually 😅)