Added 1 new A* page:Warning: this is eerie. Researchers at Harvard have been working on robots made entirely of flexible materials; they can undulate and crawl like worms or starfish thanks to strategic inflation by air pumps:
video on Youtube
Why? Well, according to a quote in this article, at least one of reasons for this is that the "unique ability for soft robots to deform allows them to go places that traditional rigid-body robots cannot."
Yeah, like...crawling up your pant leg. Ew-w-w-wwww *cold shivers* Okay fortunately they can't do that just yet.
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After nearly two days of tortured drawings and paintings (and wasting about $3 in fine French watercolor paper on three of said paintings ;_; which shall go unpublished for the public good), I *think* I figured out what the trouble was. See I wasn't satisfied with yesterday's page (this is not unusual with me), to the point where I couldn't sleep (that is a little more unusual) and had to stay up and try a complete re-do. It was not successful (and I was thinking I'd scan it and show it since it was sort of experimental in some ways but now I just want it to be over with >_<).
And I thought okay well that was aggravating but I think I learned some stuff, onward, tomorrow's page will be better. But it wasn't. So I redrew it numerous times and tried painting another one from scratch and it was still bad--like really unavoidably bad this time because it was a subject with more detail than the previous day's, and it was all just not coming together somehow.
Then I realized that in trying to get a good evaluation of it I was constantly picking it up and holding it at arm's length--to the point where I would do that, then make like one brush stroke, then hold it out again. After an hour or so of that it occurred to me that perhaps I was working too close to it. See I've been adjusting my drawing table now and then to try to reach some ideal point where all my various nerve endings will be happy simultaneously, and over the past few days I had...moved it too close to my face. Yes. Not that it was blurry or anything, but the image-evaluating part of my brain just wasn't functioning properly at that distance. It probably didn't help that I was trying to do a close-up of Selenis, either.
So I canned the close-up, which wasn't all that inspired anyway (we're due for well I guess two more in the next few days so we'll have plenty anyhow AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL WORK OUT BETTER GAR), thought up another angle for the drawing so as to have something fresh to attack, and...was still having trouble. I lowered the desk, erased and started drawing the pose again for the umpteenth time, and...it sorta worked like it should have. So that was nice. Hopefully that'll be the end of it (at least until I find some other mysterious way in which to discomfit myself). MAN.
I did get an exceptional amount of reader feedback on yesterday's page, though, so that was one up-side to the whole debacle. There were a lot of good comments, although my favorite may have been the one remarking that the examination appeared to have transformed the Selenis clone into Cthulhu.
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