Okay

No real thoughts this week, so no real post..... but that's ok. soon it will be september and everything will be different in a better way hopefully!

1404 days

A few weeks ago I broke the streak of being a mouse artist...as in, using the mouse to make digital art.

It was a decision I made on a whim one day. Even though I have a tablet, my desk area was too small and it was becoming inconvenient to have to take it out every time I wanted to draw. The mouse is always there, so why not?

I was a mouse artist before I ever used a tablet, anyway, thanks to Disney Create (siiiigh), so it was a bit of a return to form.

Now that I'm back on a tablet, there are a few differences I've noticed. Obviously, there's a lack of pen pressure, but there's also the controlled feeling of everything. You don't wave your mouse around all willy-nilly, right? You're always aiming for a destination. Because of this, I think my art always lacked some "soul" ...

Anyway. Using a mouse isn't too bad, but if you want more room for expression, it's probably a bad idea to use one. I find that using it for too long makes it hard to return to more traditional forms of art, despite the fact that using a mouse isn't exactly natural for people.

I'll end it with some art to show my progression in using a mouse.

I remember this being my first ever mouse art. (I do not know who this girl is.)

 

And here are the next 4 years...

 

Yep, yaup, yep! (All this to say, I'll still be using it just out of habit... but it was fun to recollect on the past five years of using a mouse for art!)

Worlds

the dead internet theory claims that there are differences in content between mobile and desktop, which is obviously true but hilarious that it makes it out to be scary

but this makes me think about how, even though we're all on the same social media platforms, we see different things. that's not so crazy though because we all live on earth, yet experience different things.... but still a little cool to think about how we use/experience the same thing differently

so, feel free to comment your typical social media habits and usage. i'd be really interested in hearing it

anyway here's how i use it

tumblr

i don't use it as often as i did. i follow one (1) person and i look at the tags for stuff i like. if you follow a tag that isn't posted in much, you can use the "explore" tab to see if there are new posts without having to check the tag, which is how i primarily use it

before, i followed about 800 blogs and was subjected to the whims of whoever the fuck i was following. this is probably how most people experience the site, especially if you've been using it for years

instagram

used for posting art and following artists whose art i like. haven't used it much so the algorithm recommends me irrelevant stuff which keeps me off (a good thing). when i do use the explore page i only look at still images and never the reels just because i don't go on instagram to listen to sounds, which probably shows how used i am to its older, soundless version

twitter

use this one a lot. i have a personal where i follow friends and use the "following" tab so i can keep up with them. then i have a non-personal account where i follow whoever and use the dreaded "for you" tab and receive immense amounts of psychic damage (just kidding the algorithm has me down to a T, unfortunately, so i have "posts" pertaining to my "interests")

can get sucked down pretty far into the for you rabbit hole but sometimes it runs out of quality posts and starts showing you garbage and that's how i know i've gone too far

despite originally being more of a tumblr user i've come to like twitter a lot. it has a lot more characters on there and there's a surplus of normal (relative to tumblr) people. the interface also makes it so conversation flows easier, something tumblr is trying to mimic with reply threads so you know it's a liked feature

all in all i'm pretty neutral-positive towards social media but i've never used it in a way that's actively harmful to me. i think it's a nice way of keeping up with the public consciousness, which is why twitter appeals to me more, since it's a lot more chatty about mundane topics

Sensation

sometimes i get this nice, cold feeling on the top of my head. don't know what it is. it's not asmr. it happens, mostly, when i'm thinking or reading

these also happen for like a week or so, then go away to return a few months or years later (i only think a week out of a year, maybe?)

no one knows what it is, but there are definitely other people who have experienced it (this reddit thread, this blog)

i know i experience this on and off because i vividly remember the last time this happened, i searched it up again, but with "happiness" as the term instead of "tingling". the answer, then:

hehehe .............................

anyways did you know you could change the transparency of hexcodes by adding letters after it. fuck (i've always used rgba ....)