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Battle to the Un-Death: AMC Zombies vs HBO Zombies
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Two popular shows with seemingly uncommon elements have stolen the hearts and minds of adults 18-49. One is set in a post-apocalyptic world where a band of survivors try to scrounge up some existence of a normal life. The other is set in a medieval, mystical world that is engaged in all-out war. What do these two shows have in common? Zombies – or at least some variation of them.
AMC's The Walking Dead and HBO's Game of Thrones were in the top five in the Nielson ratings on Easter Sunday (March 31, 2013). This was the first time the two shows had paired off against one another with The Walking Dead having its season finale up against the Season Premiere of Game of Thrones. Although The Walking Dead took the victory in the TV ratings, how would their "walkers" stack up in a fight against Game of Thrones "white walkers"?
Numbers: White Walkers. The "walkers" in the Walking Dead are clearly only a threat when either using the element of surprise or using overall numeric force. Clearly, as shown in Atlanta, there are vast numbers of them. Originally, you think these examples would lead them to winning this category. However, in the Season 2 Finale of Game of Thrones, we saw the "white walkers" were easily able to hold their own in this category as well. The tie-breaker came down to the fact that it seems the "walkers" would prefer to eat living creatures where as the "white walkers" would prefer to just kill living creatures thus turning them into more "white walkers". Therefore, in the long run, the "white walkers" numbers can grow at an exponentially greater rate.
Stealth: Walkers. The Walking Dead "walkers" seem to pop out of nowhere ALL THE TIME. Even though they groan constantly, they seem to be able to repress this when needed to jump out and eat someone. Due to the bright blue glowing eyes of a "white walker", I have to give the nod to the "walkers" (even though "white walkers have stayed hidden in the far north for thousands of years).
Agility: White Walkers. A lone "walker" from The Walking Dead is slow and seems generally unable to move. Additionally, as pointed out in the first season, they have limited thinking capability and are just moving based on impulse reactions. As shown in the Season 3 Premiere of Game of Thrones, the "white walkers" can move much quicker and can also effectively yield weapons such as swords, axes, and shields. It took a wolf the size of a horse to eventually subdue the creature. Additionally, the "white walkers" seem to move with a purpose, which makes them much more dangerous than just creature that aimlessly lumber around.
Diversity: White Walkers. As demonstrated by the lead "white walker", they are able to convert creatures into "white walkers" as well. This means that "white walkers" can have cavalry. The Walking Dead zombies thus far do not seem capable of turning animals and thus prefer just to eat them.
Survivability: White Walkers. I first must go on the general assumption that environmental conditions don't seem to drastically effect either pair of zombies. They both seem to be able to survive in a harsh environment without too much food, water, or shelter. Therefore, this assessment is based on their survivability against humans. The Walking Dead "walkers" seem to have a severe vulnerability when it comes to the neck and head region. The smallest of hits to the head seems to render them obsolete. Additionally, their lack of intelligence seems to disable them on the crudest and simplest of "booby trap" type devices. With their lack of intelligence and agility, it seems that unless they attack in great numbers or surprise someone, they are killed relatively easily. However, the "white walkers" seem much more formidable and can also utilize weapons of their own. In Season 1 of Game of Thrones, it took two men to barely subdue a newly risen "white walker" – one that wasn't even battle tested. Between this incident and the incident with the direwolf in the Season 3 premiere, it is clear that it is much harder to kill a "white walker" than it is to kill a normal "walker".
The facts don't lie. If I was leading an undead army or trying to avoid one, the "white walker" army takes the prize. The survivors of The Walking Dead had better hope there are no "white walkers" waiting for them around the Arctic Circle.
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Good article; however, it looks like the White Walkers are more vampire than zombie. Zombies are typically non-thinking, stimulus-reaction kind of creature with no ability to communicate, organize, or use tools, and their human victims are re-animated in their likeness. The White Walkers can communicate, organize, use tools, and re-animate with purpose (the Wights). If a White Walker can use weapons and ride re-animated horses, they are more than just a mindless creature wandering around looking for something to eat.
Just my two-cents worth of observation.
Fascinating topic, Mark. Often when zombies and other monster's appear
in literature, movies and television shows, they represent collective anxieties. Zombies originated from Caribbean cultures with Africa heritages; they come out of slavery, wherein slaves were "going through the motions" of living while subjected to subhuman status under deplorable inhumane conditions, all in the service of 19th-Century capitalism.
Zombies, vampires and various monsters seem to be everywhere in contemporary literature, movies and television. While they may be cool to many to read about
and watch as they lumber across our high-definition screens, I wonder what
collective anxieties they might be reflecting in our 21st-Century capitalist society? Who are the enslaved, "going through the motions" subjected to subhuman status and inhumane conditions, the walking undead? Of what are their fears reflective?
Great article, Mark! Having never seen Game of Thrones, I can't argue which would win. But I can say that the "walkers" definitely get in your head. I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead, even though I stay tensed up the whole time I'm watching or reading it. Recently, I was sitting in the back yard by the pool watching my dogs chase each other around. It was a gorgeous, relaxing day and I'm an educated, rational person, but I still found myself shaking my head, looking at my yard, and thinking, "this fence would never keep the zombies out." And, if I'm being completely honest, I went on to contemplate how best to prepare for the zombie apocalypse, at which I don't feel I would be very successful. Now, because of your article, I'm going to have to watch Game of Thrones just to see if there are other impending threats that I should consider when pondering the security and durability of the six-foot wooden fence surrounding my back yard. I believe in being prepared.
Game of Throne's white walkers win hands down! Just beware of the obsidian. The books are even better though (of course). I can not wait for another season and for Martin to come out with the next book. My husband likes Walking Dead and I just can't get into it like GoT.
Don't forget the zombies of World War Z. They don't shamble, they run. Also, if you watch the evolution of zombies from Night of the Living Dead, which was a trail blazing movie for the 1960s in that the hero was African-American, through the Day/Dawn/etc of the Dead movies, the zombies get more mobile but not like WWZ. I would like Chris Otto to discuss zombie physiology–plausible or pseudo-science. By the way, this is Ron Fritze writing, JoeDogDaddy is my nome de plume on CHE and it somehow got linked into this account. Joe is my venerable, oldest dog.


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Incumbents Robert Shield, Jim Kelly and Richard "Dick" Hoy have all won re-election in the race for three open seats on the Grossmont Union High School District governing board.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Board President Shield received the most votes, followed by Trustees Kelly and Hoy. Shield finished with 23.9 percent of the vote to win his second term.
"It's always nice to win and have the confidence of the voters behind you," Shield said. "Maintaining the continuity of the board and board leadership is going to be helpful moving into the future because of the difficult financial times brought on by the state budgeting process and by the recession."
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This is my first ever post about the Kennedy Assassination. To be frank, I never knew much about it. I always knew there was many conspiracy theories about his death and I have watched a few doco's on youtube. Here's a nice HD version below for those who don't know or haven't seen it (only lord knows why you haven't??)
Annnnnyway..... Last night a new (to me in Australia) documentary came on the TV / Foxtel (Well, actually for all you perfectionists out there it was shown yesterday some time, my wife recorded it) it was about the Kennedy assassination and new evidence that has come to light.
Everybody over the years has gone on about the "magic bullet" and how it was never found bla bla. However this presentation managed to take all the footage that was taken that day and up-spec it to HD. Nothing new came of it apart from the producers of the show could discount old theories as the footage quite clearly showed the driver of the limo turning around and the facing back to drive......the first one was fuzzy for all those who used to think he actually was in on it.
So, the investigation went on and on and on until right at the end of the show it was found that the first shot (the ellusive one) was actually taken but hit the street light and traffic light pole just below the window of the book depository building! This was confirmed by footage taken 5 days after the shooting by the police quite clearly showing a hole in the traffic light surround! I was amazed!
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However, these measures will only be effective if they are ideally adapted to the real market situation. This means that the pooling options have to be extended to members of co-operatives. In addition, an EU-wide obligation to enter into contracts must be introduced, taking into account the milk producers' production costs. Otherwise the provisions adopted cannot help improve the milk producers' position in the market.
The planned Price Monitoring Tool should be introduced as soon as possible and both empowered to monitor the milk market (prices, supply, demand and production costs) and equipped with effective regulatory powers to prevent market-damaging surpluses being produced. Price monitoring alone is not enough. Moreover it is important to keep an eye on margins. For instance, from July 2010 to July 2011 the prices of supplies required for milk production rose by 10-15% in many European countries. This means that the average costs of producing milk are now well in excess of 40 cents.
It has been obvious in the last few weeks and months that the dairy sector is not self-regulatory throughout the EU. The markets are noticeably under pressure, which is evident in plummeting farm-gate prices. In Belgium alone the base price fell from 29.84 to 28.5 cents between December 2011 and March 2012. Some French dairies have already announced a decrease in the farm-gate price to 27.5 cents for April 2012. There are similar developments in the other member states.
At the same time the producers have so far been unable to react appropriately to this conspicuous market signal. The volumes of milk supplied are still at peak levels.
That is why it is essential that the 1% increase in quotas scheduled for 1 April 2012 is abandoned for the time being to prevent the markets being burdened even further! This step is vital to stop prices plummeting again for now.
We call on you to take active steps in this direction. The market situation can be re-analysed in the middle of the milk year to evaluate the suspension of the increase in quotas.
Yours sincerely,
Romuald Schaber (President of the EMB)
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February 15, 2014By Andrew Smith of New Palestine High School
New Palestine furiously rallied from a 12-point fourth quarter deficit to take a lead in the final minute, but eventually dropped a 39-38 decision to Greenwood in the semifinals of the Whiteland sectional.
The Dragons trailed 33-21 with six minutes left when they drew an offensive foul and touched off a 17-4 run that put them into the lead.
Gia Nitschke hit a second-chance basket. The Dragons forced a turnover and a missed shot, and answered with a free throw by Emma Laughlin and a 3-pointer by Haley Stratman that cut the deficit to 33-27 at the midpoint of the fourth quarter. Greenwood hit four free throws, but Laughlin and Natalie Kehrt answered each with a runner and a 3-pointer, cutting the deficit to 37-32.
After forcing another miss, Kehrt hit a driving shot to cut the deficit to three, and then Katlyn Keele forced a turnover with 1:45 left. On the ensuing possession, Raegan McMurray fed Haley Stratman in the corner for a four-point play -- Stratman buried a 3-pointer, drew a foul and hit the free throw to put NP up 38-37, the Dragons' first lead of the game.
Greenwood's Holly Hoopingarner hit a contested pull-up jumper with 53 seconds left to give the Woodmen the lead back at 39-38. NP had a shot to win on the final possession, but it was heavily defended in the paint, allowing Greenwood to survive.
The Dragons shot 52 percent in the second half after going 1-16 in the opening half. Kehrt led the Dragons with 11 points, including 2-of-3 from 3-point range. Stratman hit two 3-pointers and scored eight points. Laughlin scored five, while McMurray and Carly Hackler scored four each. MMurray also had three assists, Keele had six rebounds and two steals, and Hackler and Kehrt had five boards each.
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Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing with Soyuz 29 spacecraft 180 km southeast of Dzheskasgan.
This spaceflight carried the third Interkosmos mission. Following a two day solo flight Soyuz 31 docked with the Salyut 6 space station on August 28, 1978. Cosmonauts Valeri Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn were greeted by resident crew Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov when they docked at the aft port of the Salyut 6 space station. The visitors brought with them fresh onions, garlic, lemons, apples and other food for the long-duration crew, then in space for more than two months. In the next days common work with the second resident crew was performed.
The presence of the East German cosmonaut was seen as significant because of the presence of the MKF-6M camera on the space station, built by the Carl Zeiss works at Jena. Medical and biological experiments were carried out, including an audio experiment which tested sound and noise perception limits. An experiment called Berolina used the Splav furnace to process an ampoule of bismuth and antimonide with the material between two plates in the ampoule. The tree structure which resulted was four to six times larger than what had been produced on the ground. Another experiment tested using different photographic films on the station's interior.
Sigmund Jähn became the first German in space. The crew conducted several scientific experiments in the areas materials research, Earth exploration, atmosphere research, medicine and biology. Using the two melting furnaces on board new connections and semiconductor structures were made of lead and tellurium, crystal growths experiments were performed and even optical glasses were melted. Observations to environmental pollutions were also performed.
Life sciences experiments were performed in the fields of hearing sensitivity, time feeling and also tasting. Experiments to bacteria growth and for the development of single celled organisms had also been done. Science work of Earth exploration included earth photography and meteorological measurements.
The Soyuz 31 crew swapped craft with the Soyuz 29 crew so as to supply the long-duration crew with a fresh craft. On September 02, 1978, the engines of Soyuz 29 were tested, 25 experiment containers with 100 experimental results were transferred, along with exposed film, and seat liners and centering weights were exchanged. The Soyuz 31 crew left in Soyuz 29 the next day and landed 180 km southeast of Dzhezkazgan
The Soyuz spacecraft is composed of three elements attached end-to-end - the Orbital Module, the Descent Module and the Instrumentation/Propulsion Module. The crew occupied the central element, the Descent Module. The other two modules are jettisoned prior to re-entry. They burn up in the atmosphere, so only the Descent Module returned to Earth.
Having shed two-thirds of its mass, the Soyuz reached Entry Interface - a point 400,000 feet (121.9 kilometers) above the Earth, where friction due to the thickening atmosphere began to heat its outer surfaces. With only 23 minutes left before it lands on the grassy plains of central Asia, attention in the module turned to slowing its rate of descent.
Eight minutes later, the spacecraft was streaking through the sky at a rate of 755 feet (230 meters) per second. Before it touched down, its speed slowed to only 5 feet (1.5 meter) per second, and it lands at an even lower speed than that. Several onboard features ensure that the vehicle and crew land safely and in relative comfort.
Four parachutes, deployed 15 minutes before landing, dramatically slowed the vehicle's rate of descent. Two pilot parachutes were the first to be released, and a drogue chute attached to the second one followed immediately after. The drogue, measuring 24 square meters (258 square feet) in area, slowed the rate of descent from 755 feet (230 meters) per second to 262 feet (80 meters) per second.
The main parachute was the last to emerge. It is the largest chute, with a surface area of 10,764 square feet (1,000 square meters). Its harnesses shifted the vehicle's attitude to a 30-degree angle relative to the ground, dissipating heat, and then shifted it again to a straight vertical descent prior to landing.
The main chute slowed the Soyuz to a descent rate of only 24 feet (7.3 meters) per second, which is still too fast for a comfortable landing. One second before touchdown, two sets of three small engines on the bottom of the vehicle fired, slowing the vehicle to soften the landing.
The standard recovery procedure was changed with this flight, observers noted. In the past, the recovery of a civilian Salyut crew had been made on the orbit following the one which provided a nominal launch opportunity to Salyut. With this and subsequent flights, the landing occurred during the orbit which provided the nominal launch opportunity. The effect of this change was to have a landing window open some two to three days earlier than otherwise.
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April 3rd, 2012 #1
A rookie sketchbook
(Please ecuse my bad english)
My name is Ludo, I'm french and I decided to start learning to draw. I'm 40 but it's never too late (at list I wish ^^).
I started learning about a month ago. Mainly, I'm following Riven Phoenix courses, and basics exercices from ctrlpaint.com and enliighten.com, I've also read a lot on this forum about where to start, some tutorials, a lot of things, and other things all around the internet, so much in fact that I'm completly overwhelmed by the infos...
Finally, I also bought two books that a lot of artists seems to find usefull, but I didn't started working with them already : Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards) and Keys to drawing (Bert Dodson). And I have Andrew Loomis books.
At first I didn't want to open a thread since my work is the ugly one of a beginner, but then I though that if I really want to learn, then I need critiques, advices, orientations. So please don't hesitate to tell me what you think, be mean if you want, tell me to stop drawing if it's deseperate, no problem (I will continue anyway :p) ^^
So here are some of my studies : skulls from imagination, and a face, apple and eggs (no, they aren't potatoes ...) from photographies.
Best regards
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welcome to CA! iam a rookie as well but i think you made a pretty good start
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April 3rd, 2012 #3
Welcome to CA Theotenai!! I'm also a rookie and I've got to say this is a good start, those skulls have volume so at least you're aware of form and shape, which is crucial. To understand that took me weeks so don't be so hard on yourself, all you have to do is studying those books. If I may help in any way, I would recommend you not to focus on just one of those books. Sometimes you may struggle with a particular subject because you are not able to get the point as the author puts it. However, having different books with different approaches has helped me a great deal, you can compare, let's say, the subject "arms" in 3 different books so you get a strong understanding of that particular theme. Loomis is great but I had to check Vilppu's one to keep on advancing so this might be the case for you, hope you do great
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Hai! welcome to CA... and Holy! a month ago? I approve.
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April 3rd, 2012 #5
Welcome aboard. You're off to a good start already. I can see you have good observation skills - you notice a lot of little details. This is a very good thing, but it can also work against you. Before thinking about the little details, first make sure you understand what they are, and why they are there.
Here, I made a quick paintover of your study (I hope you don't mind).
I didn't change much here, but notice how different the eyes look when you replace the uncertain, trembling lines with more confident ones.
In general, lines represent edges, or areas where two forms intersect. All those little details you see? Try to think about how you could use form to produce them instead of lines.
Good luck and keep posting!
April 4th, 2012 #6
Thank you for your warm welcome !
Already some usefull advices, thanks !
@DaveGarcia : oh yes, I know that looking at several approaches on the same subject will help me... I know that... but I don't do it ^^ So thanks for the reminder !
@IntoTheVoid : thank you ! You're right, I tend to focus a lot on details, and often, after an a lot of work on them I realise that there are mistakes in the general forms... And for the trembling, uncertain lines, it's awfull, I really have to stop being afraid of drawing ^^
This morning I tried to draw 30sec poses with artsyposes.com and posemaniacs.com. Wow, it's hard ! But it's a lot of fun too ! Maybe it will help me gaining confidence. I will try to do this a bit everyday. I post my attempt of this morning here (sorry for the bad quality, I don't have scanner, so I use my phone...). As you can see, I need a lot of work :p I even don't know how to draw them, I tried with basics forms, with lines for hips, spine, etc, I guess it will come naturally as I continue.
I also post a muscles'head study from mind. I'm really not happy with it, because the render is just ugly...
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April 5th, 2012 #7
For example, like so: http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/...ers/chara2.htm
The purpose of a gesture is to tell as much of the story as possible using as few lines as possible. When thinking about how to reduce a pose into a gesture, try to make just one single line that would best represent it - this is called the line of action - and build the rest of your gesture around it.
April 5th, 2012 #8
Thank you IntoTheVoid. I try several approach, and read a nice article on the line of action here : http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.3/3.3p...pudrawing.html, but it's hard to get... (Il also have a book named "Force" by M. D. Mattesi, it's a bit too advanced for me though).
I post other stuffs : studies, studies and some studies and a bit more ^^ (It took me ages to undestand the structure of the nose...)
April 6th, 2012 #9
Few more gestures but more than 30sec pose (a lot more !)
April 7th, 2012 #10
Good work, your last few studies are showing promise.
The moment you finish a study, make sure you go back to it and make a note of anything you didn't get quite right. Like the legs being too short on the first one, or the knee being too low on the third one. This will help you learn more out of the practice and keep things fresh in your mind for the next time.
April 7th, 2012 #11
thanks for commenting on my sketchbook.
One thing I would say is to study from life, study a model skull if you can get one, go out and draw gestures of people in public places. Set up a lamp and do studies of ping pong balls or other simple, white objects to practice rendering. It's useless trying to draw more complicated stuff before you can render a cube or a sphere well.
Once you get more confident with your life drawing, drawing from imagination gets easier
April 9th, 2012 #12
Thanks for the advices Hunin, I study mainly from photos but yes I would do more from real life.
I tried with a ping pong ball, and took my sketchbook flat on my desk too far from my eyes so it's not round ^^
I also tried with go stones (pieces of an asian game for those who don't know, I put a photo), their shape are simple but interesting and harder than I though ^^
The result is better on my sketchbook than on the photo, I'm quite satisfy with the black go stone, but not with the white one... and well I will try to draw a round ping pong ball next time ^^
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Thanks for commenting in my sketchbook, and welcome to ConceptArt. You're off to a good start with drawing, and you're probably at an advantage never drawing before since you don't have to undo bad habits.
I just have a couple of critiques. It's most obvious with the go stones, but make sure with those value drawings that you keep a clear distinction between light, dark and mid-tones, otherwise everything blends together. With your ping pong ball, the top that is in direct light barely looks like a highlight at all.
Along with that, and what IntoTheVoid said, work from very general first. That also applies to the values and your brushes. If you start with light, dark, and mid-tones and then blend and put little accents and details, it will help you to keep the values separate. In post #9, with the woman bent over, it looks a little muddy and uneven, especially in the highlights, if you started with bigger brush sizes, that would decrease some of that. Then as you get more detailed, you can start using smaller and smaller brushes. I'm sure on ctrlpaint that may be mentioned, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, I wrote a novel, but good luck with your drawing. Keep at it.
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April 9th, 2012 #14
Also a warm welcome to CA . You got a few interesting studies up there even there are some faults my forerunner already explained and that quite good . It could be also usefull to have a few more brushes . Just search at Deviant Art or another Website if you are interested .
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April 9th, 2012 #15
Hey! Welcome to CA, and thanks for your kind comment on my sketchbook.
So, you're definitely heading in the right direction, but I'll just add my critique to what everyone else has already said.
Your lines are still pretty timid, it's especially noticeable in the digital drawing of the bending woman. When you do a set of gestures, try making your lines very quickly and loosely. Once they're drawn, commit to them! Don't be afraid to make mistakes, just move on to the next thing. That'll help you build some confidence in your mark-making anyway. You can always go back and fix things later if you want to.
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April 10th, 2012 #16
@NicoleWG : thank you for your critiques ! I tried another ping pong paying more attention to the values, I think it's better (well, not really visible on the photo but on the real paper it is ^^) but not good enough, I'll make more.
@M1dor1 : thank you ! Yes, more brushes can be an idea but painting isn't my priority for the moment (since I don't even know how to draw ^^), but I will try some.
@Clur : thank you ! You're right, my lines are awfull, I'll try to be more and more quick and loosely.
The new ping pong ball and a few 3mn gesture drawing :
April 10th, 2012 #17
Nice to see you doing some value studies, try and make your background (a wall, a board etc) and your foreground (eg. a table covered with a cloth) all white, it's easier to accurately see values that way.
With your gesture studies, try to draw through the form, try to see the complete line of action in a figure, hopefully this diagram will explain it better,
I know it's about cartoon characters, but the principle remains the same for all figures
April 11th, 2012 #18
I tried before with the action line but gave up because I didn't know how to construct around it... But it's never good to gave up, I'll try more, it will help for the flow of my gesture and the confident for sure.
Here some new real life value studies, I didn't manage to set up a foreground and background yet but I put a cloth on the table this time. And a WIP selfportrait value study in digital just to change a bit.
April 11th, 2012 #19
the cat looks great...
keep going
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April 11th, 2012 #20
The value studies are nice. The pencil in particular is fairly convincing.
The self-portrait is off to a good start, but the framing is a little odd. Are you planning to put something on the right side? Otherwise I'm not sure why you'd want to cut off the left part of the head.
Line of action can be a tricky concept to get. The way I like to think of it is: if you look at a pose and squint, try to imagine just one line that describes the shape you see. It doesn't need to correspond to any actual curve on the body - just the flow. Hope that helps.
Good luck!
April 12th, 2012 #21
Line of action can be a tricky concept to get. The way I like to think of it is: if you look at a pose and squint, try to imagine just one line that describes the shape you see. It doesn't need to correspond to any actual curve on the body - just the flow. Hope that helps.
Good luck!
Value study again with a spoon this time, some "plan heads" (really badly done...) and some quickly rendered ones.
April 12th, 2012 #22Yes, I quite understand the line of action and can draw it, but I find myself stuck when I have to construct the forms around it.
after putting down the line of action, the first thing I place is a line for the tilt of the hips. This gives me a milestone to measure other proportions with, and gives a lot of indication on the character's weight distribution and attitude. Then a line for the tilt of the shoulders. Many characters can be described exclusively using those two angles. The next things I put down is a quick oval for the ribcage, a curve or two for the leg (or legs) supporting the character's weight, and if I don't forget it - I place the feet down on a plane in perspective. This helps ground the character.
That's just my own workflow of course, and I'm still working on making it better, but maybe that could help. You can use lines, curves, 2D shapes, 3D shapes, planes, bones, or anything else that works for you. Most likely you'll get a good feel for how you want to do it after a few dozen (or hundred) more gestures.
April 13th, 2012 #23
Thank you IntoTheVoid, I will practice. I'm also reading Hampton book, the first chapter is his view of gesture drawing and it's really interesting.
First thing I choose to do is to sketch with a ballpoint pen, it's probably only psychological but I can't erase (though I don't erase when sketching with graphite...) and the feeling is diferent. I tried some quick sketch, from observation first from random pictures on internet.
And a few heads from imagination.
I used the girl's head sketch for a digital painting. I wanted to keep the comic style but I saw something completly different as I was working on it. For a first painting from imagination I though that the result would be worse thant it is so I'm quite satisfied with it.
April 13th, 2012 #24
good way to start, just keep up the steady practise and you'll get your results.
Try out different pens, hold them differently, work in different sizes and find out what works best for you.
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April 16th, 2012 #25
Thank you Shockowaffel, yes I will try more !
I made a lot of gestures and I don't feel like improving, it's despairing... But I'm not discouraged at all ! No questioning, just drawing ^^
Here some quick sketch from life or pictures and some of the many many pages of gestures. Also a WIP of a portrait of my niece.
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The finished version looks nice. The texture works well with the shirt and hair.
That said, I must point out that it doesn't look like you pushed the piece at all since the last WIP. The textured effect is neat; I like it. But, it also looks like you used it to hide the unfinished bits and that just doesn't work. It looks just as unfinished as it did.
More things you could do to push it further:
Punching up the contrast more. One can rarely have enough contrast.
Refining the ear and neck. The ear is a bit too small.
The torso lacks volume. It feels flat.
The hair is working well overall, but a portion of it is getting lost in the background, and another portion is blending in too much with the shirt.
The mouth is turned toward the viewer more than the nose and eyes are. If accurate, a stronger laugh line to indicate she's pursing her lips to the side would read better.
You're right, I watch the beguining of my thread and it's better, but it's not enough !
All progress is good progress.
April 18th, 2012 #29
Hey, man, great start to everything. Never too late to get this thing going, so keep at it.
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April 19th, 2012 #30
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Today, two sketches from pictures in a magazine, 1mn gestures, 3mn gestures and 10 to 15min gestures.


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Photographer: Jim Brekke
The rolling hills stretching towards the horizon along with nice foreground placement of the mountain laurel are the reason this photo of the Big Run Watershed within Shenandoah National Park has been chosen as this week's photo. Most sweeping landscape shots come from the National Park units out west, so I'm glad to offer some views from the mountains out east as well.On the Web: Jim's Outside Photos on Flickr
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This is a great place to visit. I love camping at Big Meadows Campground. Nice shot!


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I think that I need to add something about heeling. I really don't mention it in my pre-sail because I assume that people understand that's what sailboats do. On the other hand, there must have been a 100 times when someone asked me if the boat could tip over, if it would come back up, what we would do, etc. Clearly, they were worried about the heeling thing. I must have explained another 100 times about the fact that we're 16500 pounds, have 8000 pounds of lead in the keel, etc. Since it's all underwater and out of sight, I don't think that the explanation does much good.
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Wary of the charge the Bharatiya Janata Party was pushing the country towards a mid-term Lok Sabha election, party veteran L.K. Advani said here on Sunday that it was the "ruling dispensation" that was indulging in "scaremongering," and the talk of early elections was its "sponsored agenda."
Addressing the party's national executive committee meeting on its second and concluding day, he said the 2014 Lok Sabha elections would witness the "best ever performance of the BJP so far." This, he indicated, was because it was "time for a decisive change," and the corruption issue looming large on the political horizon would prove a turning point.
It seemed the Opposition party was mindful, lest it attract the charge it was bringing back the spectre of political instability that set in after the Bofors pay-offs case led to the defeat of Rajiv Gandhi in 1989, followed by the coming and going of several governments till 1991 when Narasimha Rao became the Prime Minister and completed his five-year term.
Mr. Advani said the Congress was only indulging in scare-mongering. In fact, "it does not have the courage" to call an early election. The Congress could ill-afford an early election, given the stink of corruption that had enveloped its government and the high inflation that was hurting the people; 2010 would be remembered as a year of "stinking corruption," but it was also the year when the National Democratic Alliance's victory in the Bihar Assembly elections had kindled the hope for change, he said.
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During the first wave of lunch rotation in the Southside High School cafeteria on Thursday, four female students, all 15-years-old, were accused of beating up a female faculty member. The four students are currently being detained in the Dallas County juvenile detention center and are awaiting a hearing in Judge Bob Armstrong's courtroom Friday at 10 a.m.
"According to the police report, it occurred at 12:25 p.m., lunchtime," District Attorney Michael Jackson, said. "Four females jumped on a female teacher and — what this was about — I do not know. The sheriff's department will interview some more people tomorrow and we will have more details as to why."
Jackson was able to confirm all four female suspects were 15-years-old. He said other teachers pulled the students off of the teacher and the teacher was, "all scratched up on her neck and other parts of her body."
Jackson explained because all four suspects were juveniles, law mandates they are entitled to a hearing in a specific amount of time so they will go before a judge Friday morning.
Dallas County School System Superintendent, Dr. Fannie Major-McKenzie, was able to confirm the incident at Southside High School occurred in the lunchroom and said it was very early in the lunch period.
"There weren't very many students in the lunchroom, is my understanding," McKenzie said. "This was the first part of the lunch wave."
She was also able to confirm the incident occurred between several students and a teacher.
"At this point we are trying to gather facts to see what will be appropriate action," she said. "We will take that information to make a recommendation to the board."
McKenzie said she wants to be fair in punishing the students but behavior such as shown today does not have a place in the school system.
"We will take the appropriate steps to protect our employees and we want to be fair to the students but we are not going to tolerate that kind of behavior as it relates to our employees and our teachers," McKenzie said.
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FGCU search firm nets $105,000 for one failed search, one controversial one
ESTERO - FGCU's contract with Parker Executive Search, signed in August 2010, included one clause titled "Candidate Guarantee," reading: "If for any reason the candidate selected leaves FGCU during the first 12 months, we will conduct an assignment to replace that individual without additional fee, but for out-of-pocket expenses only."
FGCU is batting one for two in recent searches for high-level dean posts.
After paying out $105,000 to an Atlanta-based search firm for help on two big hires, Florida Gulf Coast University has secured one dean, but is back at the drawing board on the search for another.
Meanwhile, FGCU officials have no plans to try to recoup lost time and money spent on the unsuccessful search, which cost the university a base fee of $52,500, with additional bills anticipated from Parker Executive Search to cover "direct costs" such as travel for the consultants and for the candidates selected for interviews.
No additional invoices for either search had been received by the university as of this week.
FGCU announced last week it had hired Mitchell Cordova to take over as dean at the College of Health Professions, which oversees FGCU's nursing and rehabilitation schools. Cordova will come to FGCU in July from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and is slated to receive a base salary of $175,000.
He takes over after the dean's position had been filled on an interim basis by two people — currently Joan Glacken, chair of the Division of Health Sciences — since June 2009. The prior person who served in that role full-time, Denise Heinemann, still works for the university in the same division as Glacken.
Provost Ronald Toll declined to discuss the reasons for Heinemann's reassignment to a faculty position.
Members of the college had tried once before, unsuccessfully, to fill that dean's position without the help of a search firm.
But while the use of a search firm brought success in that case, the dean's position at the university's Lutgert College of Business remains vacant, filled on an interim basis. It is a high-profile spot to fill because the Lutgert College, rated among the top 300 business schools in the nation, also educates roughly one-quarter of FGCU's undergraduate students.
As founding dean of the Lutgert College, Richard Pegnetter's annual salary was $214,000, the third-highest at the university after President Wilson Bradshaw ($341,775) and the provost ($232,050).
FGCU spokeswoman Susan Evans said the university has no plans to seek reimbursement from Parker Executive for the unsuccessful Lutgert dean search because there was "a qualified pool of candidates, including one to whom an employment offer was made by the provost."
The $52,500 fee for the Lutgert search was agreed upon between Parker and FGCU in a contract that covered both the Lutgert search and the College of Health Professions search.
That contract, signed in August 2010, included one clause titled "Candidate Guarantee," reading: "If for any reason the candidate selected leaves FGCU during the first 12 months, we will conduct an assignment to replace that individual without additional fee, but for out-of-pocket expenses only."
As a cost comparison, the Collier County School District is searching for its next superintendent, and has set a total budget of $40,000 for that search. That total includes out-of-pocket expenses such as travel; FGCU is still waiting on an invoice for out-of-pocket costs from its two searches.
In the FGCU contract with Parker, a threshhold of 12 percent is set for those out-of-pocket expenses, meaning the firm is guaranteeing not to charge FGCU more than $6,300 per search process over the top of the base fee.
FGCU spokeswoman Susan Evans said the university has no plans to seek reimbursement from Parker Executive for the unsuccessful Lutgert dean search because there was "a qualified pool of candidates, including one to whom an employment offer was made by the provost."
That means when all is said and done, FGCU could be out a total of $58,800 for the search that didn't ultimately result in a hire.
However, Toll said he wouldn't rule out using Parker for a future search, in spite of the fact that some members of the Lutgert search committee expressed frustration in emails to each other with how the Lutgert search was conducted, including the fitness of some of the candidates selected for interviews.
Toll said members of the Lutgert College were meeting to review how that search went, as well as to determine whether to use a search firm at all for the next iteration of that search.
The email record for the College of Health Professions shows a smoother search process than the Lutgert search, but there was one blip that casts something of a shadow on the ultimate hiring decision. At a February meeting of the college's faculty, the roughly 30 members present agreed to draft a letter expressing their opinions of the four candidates under consideration for the College of Health Professions dean position.
Addressed to the members of the search committee, the letter stated that two of the candidates would be a "good fit for the needs of the college," though neither of those two was ultimately hired. The letter states that "the faculty unanimously felt" that the other two candidates wouldn't be good fits. That included Cordova, who was ultimately hired.
"Dr. Cordova lacks the type of leadership experience that is needed at this time in the college," reads the letter, signed by Loureen Downes, chair of the College of Health Professions faculty council. The letter doesn't go into detail about the reasons why Cordova was deemed to lack the leadership experience needed, and Downes couldn't be reached for comment this week.
Julie Hammerling, a member of the search committee who attended that faculty meeting, but who says she didn't participate in the discussion about the candidates, said the letter didn't necessarily represent the feelings of everyone in the college.
"First of all, not all faculty come to the faculty council meetings," she said. "So, it wasn't, of course, a totally unanimous faculty-wide thing. It would have just been a unanimous opinion of people who discussed it in the meeting."
Other faculty members contacted responded that the search for the College of Health Professions ended well.
"I think the search firm and the committee did well and that Dr. Cordova is a superb choice," wrote Kenneth Kirsner, an associate professor in the nursing school at FGCU, in an email.
Hammerling echoed a statement made by Toll after the first attempt at finding a new Lutgert dean failed: that every search is different, and often takes on a life of its own.
"Of course search processes are always hairy, and everybody knows that," Hammerling said. "Of course, the last time (we searched for a dean of Health Professions), we didn't get any candidates we really liked. And, we involved the executive search firm this time and got a much better batch of candidates."
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