2024-W01 (Jan-W1)

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Freetalk

Happy new year!
I'm still writing the review for last year and goals for this year. I don't want to rush this so I'll take my time thinking about what I want to achieve in this year. I'll publish it around the end of this month!

Log

  • 💸 Commission: going well going well, This is another commission with a lot of flowers again!
  • 🎨 Art:
    • I finally have some more time for personal art. I
  • ✨ Topics:
    • ▲ Alternative Digital Spaces
      • As the enshittification of major SNS continues to get worse, recently I am really into reading about the minor, alternative communities and platform.
      • I have been in the PKM space for some years now and PKM is very adjacent to Digital Spaces. The power of community knowledge is something we need to explore more.
      • To me this is much more interesting than AI. I am always fascinated by how product people can design such innovative piece of softwares like that.
      • Some sites I really like (even if imo they are no replacement for a massive SNS, which directly benefits from their sheer size of the userbase)
        • Kialo
        • Misskey
    • ▲ another pondering about Pinterest
      • I'm very reluctant to use Pinterest as a primary source of inspirations and references
      • I fear that I might become an artist who only cares about the art and not also the authors, the sources of the art.
      • The recommendation system works a bit too well for similar vibes. Idk why but I feel it cheapens the individuality of each artwork a bit.
      • A lot of times I have no choice but to use it, mainly because I'm not informed about the keyword of a particular niche topic, I can only use generic descriptive keywords and find more from there.
      • I'll collect my thought about it in here Pinterest
    • ▲ nnnv Brush Mode Toggle and AHK
      • I've been using this since the beginning of 2022, it's an AutoHotkey script to switch between 4 brush modes based on the permutation of 2 CSP pressure sensitivity settings:
          1. Glaze Mode: Brush density ON, Color mixing OFF
          1. Thick Paint mode: Brush density OFF, Color Mixing ON
          1. Blocking Mode: Brush density OFF, Color mixing OFF
          1. Thin Paint Mode: Brush density ON, Color Mixing ON
      • Recently I added a visualizer for me to recognize which mode I'm currently using at a glance with my peripheral vision. Looks pretty basic but get the job done.
      • AutoHotkey is really useful but because I'm not a coder, I had to look at the documentations, examples and took people's code all the time.
      • Some other scripts that I use at a lesser frequency
        • Disable Ctrl+Z for some practice session.
        • Pin a window to be always on top (although recently replaced by PowerToys)
        • Picking color from Krita's Advanced Color Selector.
        • Note taking: Quick Capture in Obsidian
      • I once got pretty ambitious and made an AHK script to change Density/Opacity/Hardness by dragging, similar to the Ctrl+Alt+Drag to change brush size in SAI and CSP
        • It worked but the performance and reliability were unusable.
      • I think I can organize this in this new page: nnnv Working Tools
    • 💓Favorite Art of the week: for this year I'll replace this section with the Media section👇
    • For the time being, I'll experiment with this format:
      • not giving long commentary anymore I just point out 1 thing I like most
      • In return I can include more than 1 item
      • I'm not limiting myself with artwork anymore, this section can include any media (like last week's 13 Sentinels)
      • I'll collect them in this page Notable things I've seen, watch or read in 2024🌱

Media

  • illumi's series about Traditional Chinese Outfits | Link | ♥ Strong gradient in background contrasting with the fine ornamental details.
  • 🖼 Nguyen Gobber has taken a 1960s design challenge and turned it into a typeface | Link | ♥ Modular design in a square grid with a circular pattern
  • 📃 「結果」はどう生まれるのか｜イラレ職人月報2023/12 | Link | ♥ Cool article (in Japanese) about the way how multiple talents/conditions stack to produce desirable result.