Coloring for Adults
A few months back I was looking for a specific gift, and upon purchase, I says “Yusef, you need these markers”, but for what? I have played with Crayola, marker sets, pastels and watercolors all of my life, usually for a reason, then Amazon did me a favor for once, Adult coloring books. They provide a great deal of detail, which I enjoy, and the opportunities are endless as far as style goes.
Coloring Books!
I purchased a nice dual brush 72 color watercolor marking set, a few books and I am off!
That’s when I found out Snow White doesn’t look good as a Mexican, so I bought some skin tone markers, then I noticed I needed Copper, Steel and Iron, and got some metallic pens After playing and experimenting, I realized my Diorama experience rolls right over into this art form, color matching and blending is a useful skill here.
Metallics
72 color main set
Skin tones
Typical color wheel
Setup and prep:
Setup should be a no-brainer, but hey, LCD. A large flat table is preferred but you do you. I also use Magnifier/light thingy on an arm, my eyes aren’t what they used to be, https://photos.app.goo.gl/iDSCLrz8fHPKQ1UC9
Color matching is next, take a Real Good Look at the piece you’re going to start, ask yourself,
are you ready? Locate every different piece and note the requirements, location, color, all of it, then you begin the color wheel. Depending on the scenario, you may use 3 or 4 different shades of a color, some saturated, some muted, but it’s best to find out and learn your project Before you start, or you’re not going to have fun..
Dorothy and Toto
Snow globe
Once you begin, you want to start from the center out if possible, this way you can avoid smears.
Plan your work, work from the back forward if at all possible,
If you are doing leaves, rock etc. use many colors, but work it so you get the most out of that marker, then grab it’s complimentary color, you used the Wheel right?
Some pictures require Bold work, some subtle, it’s all a challenge for me. The only down side might be backgrounds, the sky can be hard to keep uniform in color, I’m going to experiment with mounting a cut out picture on a piece of cardstock, then apply a coat of matte finish over the whole thing.
Like this maybe
I have under 100$ in this pastime, it will keep me from boredom, like all my toys, and it’s a good way to pass the time during rain delays. Without room for dioramas, this works well for me, tons of color mixing and great detail. I think I have skin tones down now, they are difficult to do properly, it takes a very light touch and a one stroke pass, or it all goes to shit. notice the difference in a weeks worth of practice,
Blotchy Dorothy
No blotches there
A few more projects, just because cool shit,
Compass
Olde Compass
My latest looks good, an interesting take on Lions, let’s see it change,
So many little details,
Gotta have Moar Books!
And a bevy of markers, I use watercolors,
I usually work on four or five pictures at once, and take many Eyeball breaks, some projects may take months, but the medium lends itself to time, I have lots of bits and pieces of time to spare, so this is a good way to spend it. When I have a few big pieces done, I’ll post again, until then, Peace out.
Bonus! watch me speed paint to Vivaldi,
Neat! Those books are awesome just from the titles.
I swear I read that about 7 different times as “Those books are awesome just from the titties.”
It’s spelled “tiddies”.
My apologies!
#MeToo
I’ve never looked at Dorothy that way!
I was the poor kid dressed in hand-me-down corduroy Tuff Skin pants who brought the 8-color crayon set (off brand, no less) to kindergarten. I was jealous of the kids with the monstrous 64 color Crayola box.
Hah it’s like we’re twins.
Me too, that’s why I do all my coloring/painting, making up for a poor beginning,
I was the kid using the broken crayons from the cigar box the teacher had, with all the broken crayons. Now I have my own cigar box of broken crayons. No one else gets to use them either, I don’t share.
I remember those discount brands, the damned things were colored wax with very little pigment. None in my cigar box now though.
We got the 24 pack in our household, but K-mart branded in a white and greenish box. Not even my classmate whose father was a bigwig at K-mart had K-mart branded crayons.
We were so poor we only had our own bodily fluids to color with.
*haughty British accent*
Luxury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
remember when Crayola had the unwoke insensitivity to name a color “indian red” ?
And I wonder how this cartoon would go over today on Saturday mornings…
Hell, I remember “flesh”.
I bought an entire set of “flesh” lot’s of honest choices
Flesh for Fantasy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1oM7LBbxE
In the Flesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGO9nPO0Po
It’s just a flesh wound…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UijhbHvxWrA
LOL that might be peak 80s
This was nice, Yusef. Thanks for sharing it. I agree with rhywun, the books look cool.
Too all, the books are endless, and yes there are so much more Dorothy images like that, it’s a lot of fun.
I wish I would have set this to post months ago…my mistake. I thought it was an open post!
Jimmy Carr’s new face and hair look so weird. https://youtu.be/0SE3ZzqU84c
I have never seen this show.
I love the witty back and forth!
/rabbithole
OOOOhhh, they do word games.
Wordscapes ion my phone s my weekend weakness. I only came in 6th this past weekend (football was on), but I am usually in the top 3.
There was a rather long running quiz show called Countdown; the contestants were all earnest students. There was another show that had roundtable of comics called 8 Out Of 10 Cats. Someone had the brilliant idea to combine the two, and the UK’s greatest quiz show was born.
Why do people do that? Completely fuck themselves up.
Fun Yusef!
I have said several times before , how so many skills and talents abide on the Glibs. It seems every person brings a different skill set. It’s Glibertopia, on a geographically spread out area.
Good work, Yusef. You are multi talented (and left handed, I’m sure that is part of the reason.)
Ahem Sir I am ambidextrous, right handers are crippled,
Thanks 4X!
You stayed within the lines and still call yourself a glib? That looks fun, though.
“You stayed within the lines”
Look closelier,
Lefties and shot eyeballs, brother. We got a lot in common. It looks fine to me.
#metoo
Though I write right-handed nowadays, I cannot draw a line with my right hand to save my life.
The lion’s face was well done.
I’ll post the finish, much better looking,
Thanks
Those are really cool! You’ve already learned that art supplies are like guns and guitars. You just keep wanting more,
Your neatness reminds me of being in art school. I took a few semesters in Chicago. Previously I had taken classes in the back of an art store from a professional painter. I framed my work so I was always taught to be neat. In college one teacher singled out my work because it was neat and professional looking. The teenagers in class had peanut butter stains and torn edges on their projects. Craftsmanship is important!
Clean hands, and work from the center out, to keep your grubby fingers off of your finished work
Especially if you want to display these or give them away. Speaking of which, people will go nuts if you give these as gifts.
Heard a quote from Woodrow Wilson today. In case your hatred of that scumbag has slipped over time:
“ It is a new manner of accepting and vitalizing our duty to give ourselves with thoughtful devotion to the common purpose of us all. It is in no sense a conscription of the unwilling. It is, rather, selection from a Nation which has volunteered in mass.”
You heard it today?
And here I thought he was dead.
He is risen as the Biden, Fear him! for he is the stupid one, which leads to War, and Death,
hard eye-roll
That’s the part that is infuriating. Say what you will of the warrior king, but at least he put his life on the line. Look at the coward Congress critters cowering as muh insurrection! happened. How many times did Chaney and Bush get hustled away to their impenetrable bunkers after 9/11? Our leaders are blood thirsty, but only if they can force some dumb kid to pull the trigger on a drone strike.
At least the recent wars have had volunteers. They were handing out prison sentences for those who didn’t “volunteer” in 1917.
Still, valid point.
Or the Reagan administration prosecuting selective service avoiders. Something Reagan promised to rescind.
Compare with Ben Franklin talking about being hanged and he wasn’t being hyperbolic.
The writer was in a hurry. He needed it toot sweet.
I really need to make a pilgrimage to his grave and pour one out on it. I’d like to piss directly on his headstone, but the political speech aspect of that probably wouldn’t fly.
I would join you
I’ll join you. I know we haven’t met IRL. I’ll be the guy taking a dump on his grave m
Fuck that guy…I’d micturate!
The fact that the headstones have been removed from CSA POWs but Marx’s gravestone is guarded tells me something.
That the owner of marx’s grave makes 5 pounds a visitor.
Someone has a much too high opinion of himself.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2022/01/24/neil-young-says-that-spotify-can-have-his-music-or-joe-rogans-podcast-but-not-both/
Hmm, I suspect Joe Rogan wins this one.
In a landslide.
Millions of listeners vs…old Boomer.
Well, I Mr. Young talk about Joe
Well, I heard old Neil put him down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
Spotify don’t need him around, anyhow.
And not just rock stars.
That is a clever comment.
Sorry Neil, we already know you are a Commie, Joe and I won’t lose any sleep,
If by “music” Neil meant his own and not CSNY, then he can just go fuck himself.
Then how will we keep on rocking in the (formerly) free world?
As a fan of (some of) Neil’s music, he can fuck right off. He’s acting like a petulant child.
And I don’t even listen to Rogan.
Ironically, Old Man just came on the radio.
Neil is going to be left helpless.
I’m sure the phone call from his manager explaining how contracts work will be fun.
I’d also be curious about how much Rogan Neil has listened to and what, specifically, he objects to.
I think we know the answer…
Grima Wormtongue has been whispering into his ear.
*snort*
That is the look he’s rocking these days.
Health update- when I woke up not too long ago, something hurt my foot when I walked. Come to find out, my pinky toe has a…hang-nail/torn cuticle.
How does shit like that even happen ?
Personal neglect, don’t ask how I know, just watch your body, All of it,
Tall Cans!
ooh, watch out for those. I knew a guy who got a severe foot infection from one of those. Almost lost the toe.
Its an age old argument, but Left v. Right?
Like Yufus, Im ambidextrous even tho’ I favor my right. I was left-handed until age 9 when, while climbing a maple tree in our backyard gravity too control and I fell, breaking that arm. While casted, I started doing things right handed. Falling off of a fence at age 11 broke the same arm again and sealed the deal. I write right-handed now, but I still do things lefty- my mouse is on the left side (pisses Jugsy off), when Im cooking I stir with that hand, I brush my teeth left handed, and Ive noticed that if Im shooting and not hitting where I want, if I switch Ill likely be on target.
I throw left and right, it pisses people off, I have the complete game, Suckers!
Yeah, I’m all over the map too. I also broke my left arm, but at 19, which encouraged more rightiness but even before that I did a lot of things the “wrong” way.
I write with my left hand but do most other things with my right (including shooting,) and I’m pretty sure that’s by natural inclination, not “coercion.” In fact, my kindergarten teacher saw me coloring with my left hand and told me to ask my mother to get me the “Lefty” scissors with the green handles. I never could understand why I couldn’t get the damn things to work when I instinctively picked them up in my right hand to use them. I have no idea what this indicates about how my brain is wired.
I have, so far as I know, never had a broken bone. ::knocks wood:: OWWWWW!!!! ::clutches hand in agony::
LOL a Charlie’s Angels episode revolving around roller skating is on. Perfect.
I remember that one. Peak disco.
We didn’t watch this in our household so they’re all new to me.
Ha – guest starring Odo and a Trek guest star whose name escapes me. … Oh, Ed Begley Jr.
Ed Begley, Jr. was on Star Trek?
Yes.
He was also a regular (Sgt. Greenbean) on the real Battlestar Galactica. https://youtu.be/MFHIImzvFq0
You and I share a lot of the same hobbies, Yusef. I color on my phone because I’m not very good and don’t want to waste perfectly good money on art supplies that I will subsequently use to do violence to a picture.
That’s cool Trashy! I prefer using Photoshop for digital image rendering, but I’m old.
This is a phone app that uses the stylus and lets you choose from a variety of coloring pages and coloring implements. Fun little diversion when I have an hour to kill.
Jugsy has something similar that she messes with.
There’s also a few of these “scratch and sketch” books laying about my Palatial 2X-Wide™.
Those look fun
Tall Cans!
They fucked up and gave me tod̶a̶y̶ night off. I have standard-sized cans, but 45 of ’em!
I’m off tomorrow so party tonight!
Cheers!
Shared hobbies,
Cheers!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/jEVdqQQAgs8YU2JDA
Snow disc golf is my favorite!
I’m off tomorrow, so I’m going to Banzai Golf, long ribbons taped to your disc, Gaiters and mega clothes, should be insane,
Nick just texted, he’s in, gonna be crazy fun!
Would you like to see my drawrings?
Cheeky monkey! Were you looking at me bum?
Kyle Dunnigan’s Alec Baldwin is really growing on me.
“a little town known as Bothon, Mathachuthets”
😀
Live stream from the ISS looking down at Home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86YLFOog4GM
Pretty spectacular. There is a small map at the lower edge showing the location and the orbit.
That’s really fantastic.
Orphan defense level chutzpah
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/georgia-trump-grand-jury/index.html
he snuck up on an election worker and yelled “BOO!” Interference.
Fuck Nike. I hope he sues the shit out of them.
https://katu.com/news/local/nike-fires-vaccinated-employee-after-he-refuses-3rd-party-his-vax-info-report-says-dex-briggs-vaccination-covid-coronavirus-covid19-portland-oregon
How progressive of them.
Yeah, “fuck Nike” has been in my vocabulary for a long time. Have never bought from them.
Growing up, I was pretty much into Asics and Pumas.
Never Nike.
I vaguely remember purchasing my first name-brand shoes in late high school, they were Reebok. Nothing that fancy growing up.
If anyone is still around and knows poker, could you tell me what should be the outcome of this game?
Opponent: 4 Q
River: 8 7 2 Q Q
Me: 3 Q
Thx if you can help.
Split pot. You both would have the same high hand. Q Q Q 8 7
Thanx, PP. I thought it’d go to the next high hand card, and was wondering why I got any money at all.
7 card TX Hold’em, since I didn’t mention it.
I’m assuming you each use your best 5 card hand, which I mentioned above. Since the 3 and 4 are lower than the 7 and 8, they become irrelevant in determining the best hand. If one of you had a 9 or above as your other card with the queen, then that person would win the hand.
That makes sense. I’m fairly unfamiliar with anything other than 5 card draw.
5 card draw is the lamest of pokers
Romania is the lamest of European nations. If Vlad feels like it, he’ll roll through Moldavia and head straight down to Bucharest. Then he’ll pick up Ceauşescu’s place for a party dacha. Think Biden’s going to stop him?
TX Hold’em is sufficient no need to mention the number of cards
APPLE! WHY MUST YOU STYMIE ME SO?
/shakes fist at heaven
I think Ive mentioned it before, but last year Jugsy bought an iPad pro 12.9, 256 GB, 2021 edition. Then decided she wanted a MacBook. I get the hand-me-down.
Steve Jobs as my witness, Ive been trying to make use of it, but its foreign and awkward. Like buying gas in Canada. Or drunkenly trying to convince that lesbian she needs to try it “just once”.
I even bought all the accoutrements to make it more PC like….Apple pencil. Magic Mouse. Slim Folio keyboard. But to me, its like being taught Spanish by a guy that speaks German.
Mornin’ Tres. Tall Covfefe!
“But to me, its like being taught Spanish by a guy that speaks German.”
I had two instructors for first-year Russian. One was a young dude from Texas who spoke English with a drawl. The other was a fetching young Swedish lady who had an aversion to wearing a bra. That was one class I did not cut.
Sucker for a southern accent?
/deliberately obtuse
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/01/24/ginos-ristorante-pizzeria-hep-a-outbreak-reopens/
There is such a thing as bad press.
#localnews
https://techstory.in/gms-driver-behavior-based-insurance-plan-for-its-driver-assistance-systems/
I don’t like that. No sir, not one bit.
+1 Ren / Stimpy
Mornin.
It seems unfortunately inevitable but like with many such things will take a long time to roll out?
Bring on the self-driving pods *shrug*
https://news.yahoo.com/3-baltimore-firefighters-dead-1-024718224.html
That’s sad news.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/undercover-students-expose-colorado-high-school-vaccine-clinic-administering-vaccinations-without-parental-consent-even-school-superintendent-assured-not-happen/
Outrage!!!!
Fetch your pitchforks!
Seriously though, it is kinda effed up. What are we even doing with these shots? This can’t end soon enough.
Setting up a mobile clinic at a school, during school hours, guarantees that many if not most parents will not be present. In other words, it was done deliberately as an end run around unwilling parents. Pitchforks indeed.
Morning, Glibs.
Today I drive back up to maine again. I’m debating whether I should take the toll roads for the proability that they’ve been cleared, or stick to my normal route which goes past the chaper gas.
Good morning, UCS. Is this for the bladesmithing course you enrolled in?
And for perhaps the fourth time, how are you getting on with your milling machine?
Please and thank you.
This is for bladesmithing.
I’ve been too busy to do too many milling projects.
Good morning, U, limey, homey, rhy, & Sean!
U, on the way there especially, I’m inclined to urge erring on the side of safety if you’ve had bad weather. It would be a shame should anything happen to keep you from arriving for the class on time. You can always take your normal route on the way home. ::recalls getting stranded in Effingham, IL, on the way back to Dayton from St. L.::
You see, I don’t know what kind of weather there’s been along the way.
Mornin’ GT and all the friends mentioned.
Caution, UCS, we want to see your work in progress on completion. Only the movies have good outcomes from being stranded. No dress rehearsal for the rest of us.
take the safer route. We want to see your next article.
Morning All
Unplowed backwoods roads it is!
😉
These euphemisms…
Good luck, hope you enjoy the trip and the class. How long will you be up there? Might be a big storm this weekend.
The class ends friday. Checkout from the hotel is saturday.
As long as you’re not on the toll roads while they’re being cleared:
Snow plow tosses slush onto windshields, damaging about 40 vehicles on Ohio Turnpike
So, A state court Threw out New York’s Mask Mandate. How many businesses even know?
sup brah
we out here yho
… I can’t even figure out what you’re saying.
Huh. Nice.
Gov. Rached says her appeal means “not so fast”.
Sure, Jan.
When did politicians forget how to pivot?
She seems to think she’s the governor of Manhattan and Hipster Brooklyn.
And yet her supporters keep crowing that she is first Guv from upstate since the 1920s.
Doubling down is the modus operandi nowadays. They seem to think pivoting is for pussies, unfortunately.
Gov. Rached
Perfect. She could have had a theater career. We’d all better off.
Re: ambidextrous people: my high chemistry/physics teacher would stand in the middle of the board and start writing, when he got to the middle, he would switch hands and keep going. Couldn’t tell the difference.
High school, though he may have been high
Mornin’, Tulip. Better living through chemistry?
I’ve given this coloring book as a gift. I think it’s perfectly Glib.
https://www.amazon.com/Cat-Butt-Off-Color-Coloring-Lovers/dp/1640011765
What’ll ‘they’ think up next?
And ‘they’ say there are no opportunities left.
Sandy missed this one
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1115/Woodrow-Wilson
Can you forward that to BLM?
Love it.
Stinky needs a Louis Wain coloring book, if there is one.
Good morning, all.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60124003
Ask and ye shall receive. Blocked, you whiny cunte.
LOL. I’m sure Spotify is aghast at the possible loss of tens of subscribers.
It would be funny if Spotify said “your terms are acceptable”…
+1 MIB
SCIENCE!
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/01/24/poverty-children-brain-development-monthly-gifts-study/1921643043129/
$333? Pikers. Imagine what $1000 can do. Why, we’d have a generation of Einsteins!
OFFS what horseshit.
More SCIENCE…
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/01/24/physical-activity-prevents-death-study/5921643034517/
“By adding 30 minutes per day of physical activity, adults ages 40 to 85 years can lower the rate of “preventable” deaths nationally each year by roughly 17%, the data showed.”
Forget “vaccines”. Take a nice long walk. Unmasked.
You see, I don’t know what kind of weather there’s been along the way.
Check for webcams along your route. Idaho and Montana have highway webcams which are quite helpful sometimes in finding out the conditions.
511.org for your region.
http://newengland511.org/
“By adding 30 minutes per day of physical activity, adults ages 40 to 85 years can lower the rate of “preventable” deaths nationally each year by roughly 17%, the data showed.”
Don’t believe it. Millions of joggers and recreational hikers are murdered by right wing domestic terrorists each year. Stay home. Stay safe.