{"id":15248,"date":"2015-04-15T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2015\/04\/15\/new-stuff-old-stuff\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"new-stuff-old-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2015\/04\/15\/new-stuff-old-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"New stuff, old stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took several big bags of stuff to a charity shop this morning, and some broken electronics to the recycling post. We’ve still got heaps of books to donate, but we’re finally making some headway.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Last weekend over brunch, we made an inventory of the things we own, and over the next two months we’re going to give most of them away and pack a few select things to ship to Canada.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I have an acute sense that all\u00a0these possessions are just temporarily borrowed for the time I’m here on the earth, anyway. That’s handy when it comes to making decisions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’ve been busy doing illustration work, and, since I want to get better at that, I created a “cartoon school” for myself: I took all the ebooks, PDFs, reference pictures, manuals, and video guides I’ve collected and organized them into a curriculum. I figure this will take me at least a year to work through.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The four main subjects are:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Draughtsmanship<\/li>\n
  2. Software<\/li>\n
  3. Content & Story<\/li>\n
  4. Meaning & Motivation<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There’s so much good stuff here, and I have that feeling again like I did with the podcast that I want to\u00a0share it\u00a0and spare others the effort of finding these things from first principles — except a lot of it belongs to other people and isn’t mine to give away. So I’ll concentrate on just doing my lessons.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

    There’s so much material that I’m using dice to decide what to look at next, and today’s lesson was on colour theory. This brontosaurus was my test subject:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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