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[Fniff]

I can really see the night creature's train of thought just before the crash... Very good!

[Jopax]

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Some fluffeh clouds because I'm feeling fluffeh today

[Mesa]

Spoiler: Not really in a mood to do any Gun Francisco stuff proper lately, so have a random drawing of a human totally not related to said setting. WITH LIMBS. (click to show/hide)

Yeah, I'm making limbs in my drawings a bigger deal than I should, but hey, I don't like limbs, okay?

[XXXXYYYY]

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This is amazing and my new background.
OHMYGOSHSOPRETTY. SAME RESOLUTION AS MY MONITOR EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Anyway, I doodled a lot last year in school, and I finally got around to copying over an old post I made and putting it here, where it belongs. :l

During my free time during school this year, I've been creating some doodles on any graph paper I can get my hands on. Over time, I have amassed a moderate collection of these, and today I finally got around to scanning some of them in. I have 17 of them currently scanned, and want to hear any comments or suggestions the rest of you have. I have named a few, usually related to the limitation/challenge I imposed upon myself. I am interested in any comments or suggestions/tips you guys have, so please share. Some are unfinished, as (especially at the start of the year) each doodle used to take around 2 to 3-ish hours to do, leading to me finishing one (or less) a day. The unfinished usually have enough to see what the end result would look like, however.

I usually start with a 'base', usually a near-regular octagon or a square, and build up off of them. The way I did this has changed throughout the year, and the doodles are in roughly reverse chronological order, with doodles #7 -16 being from the beginning of the year, and 1-6 from much more recently, being from the past couple weeks. If I have any commentary on any quirks or challenges on a specific doodle, it will be in the spoiler containing the doodle. #17 is rather special, as it was selected to be made into a quilt, using white and dark grey. It has a few other peculiarities, which will be explained later.

bases are listed as [shape](side length), followed by any extras it may have.

Sorry about the quality, as the shading can be hard to see and my scanner seems to only export to .jpg.

Newer Doodles

Spoiler: Doodle #1 - octagon (3) base, using a square(3) for int. star. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #2 - octagon (3) base, with all points connected, using a octagon(1)with all points connected in the center. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #3 - possible square(4) base? no base is truly appearant for this one. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

This is a strange one, with the base being hard to determine. A square(4) is possible, but I do not usually erase line segments from a base, and the internal line placements for the base are rather unusual, if so.

Spoiler: Doodle #4 - octagon(2) base, all points connected, shaded. - Dwarven Rune. (click to show/hide)

This is a Dwarven Rune Doodle.
It menaces with spikes of graphite.
It is encircled with bands of lines.

Spoiler: Doodle #5 - octagon(1) base, starred, shaded. - untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #6 - octagon(2) base, all points connected, shaded. - untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #18 - octagon(3) base, ringed with octagon(1)s. - untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #19 -Octagon(2) base.- untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #20 - line base, procedurally made - untitled. (click to show/hide)

For this, I started with the line joining the two octagons. From there, I split it into two diagonal segments, both going up as 45 degrees from the vertical. Then, for the 2 new endings, I split those into 4 segments, 2 vertical and 2 horizontal, and this pattern was continued outwards. Where 2 ends met, I cancelled the endings out, and continued on with the remaining endings.

Spoiler: Doodle #21 - octagon(2) base, with each 1- long segment formed into an octagon inwards. - untitled. (click to show/hide)

Older Doodles

Spoiler: Doodle #7 - square(5) - every 6? point connected. - untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #8 - octagon (1), corners extended and shaded, surrounded by an octagon(3). - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #9 - octagon (4), all points connected, shaded. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #10 - square(4) base, with a smaller square inside. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

This uses a strangely large amount of triangles, especially in the outer rings and the middle ring.

Spoiler: Doodle #11 - 4 Triangles, pointing out. - Twisted Similarity. (click to show/hide)

This was named such due to the fact that each quadrant is the same as each of its neighbors rotated 90 degrees and inverted colorwise.

Spoiler: Doodle #12 - 12 squares around a dodecagon. - Unnamed. (click to show/hide)

This uses a unique base, as it is the only one to use a dodecagon as a starting point.

Spoiler: Doodle #13 - line curve inside a square tilted 45 degrees. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #14 - octagon (2), all points connected, shaded. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

This is one of the simplest doodles I have done all year. It has a strange charm, however, and I quite enjoy the way it looks.

Spoiler: Doodle #15 - octagon (2), all points connected, shaded. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

The reason for all the random junk on this page is due to this being extremely early on, where I was still
working on finding the proper number of 'steps' to make a given ploygon in an octagon, and hadn't cleaned it up.
In addition, this was one of the first doodles of this kind I have done.

Spoiler: Doodle #16 - octagon (1), all points connected, shaded. - Untitled. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Doodle #17 - square/ irr. ocatagon. - Split Equality. (click to show/hide)

This has a few interesting quirks. Firstly, the amount of black and white within the design are exactly equal, with each bit of black being countered by a bit of white, leading to the 'equality' part of the name. Secondly is the profileration of 'hourglass' squares. These aare exactly 1/2 black and 1/2 white, but each half is split into two quarters, leading to 'split' being in the name. The numbers are due to the number of squares being counted in preparation to be made into a quilt.

Sorry for huge post._{Please don't hate me.}

[Bauglir]

I've finally got the bugs worked out of my text-placement algorithm. I believe I can handle arbitrary* widgets now. Also, I figured out how to make animations out of pygame's output, so here's the first 100 frames of a little test I did. It has lots of diagnostic color blotches in there, but you know.

*Provided they are rectangular, so not actually all that arbitrary. I'm pretty sure I could do an actual collision-detection thing with arbitrary shapes, but it would be hella slow and just generally not worth it for anything I've got planned.

[Fniff]

Oh that is so sexy. I would love that feature in a game where there's a menu where windows and such can block text.

[smirk]

That's pretty awesome, Bauglir. Also, you get +1 for exquisite choice of example text. What project is that for?

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Like the comic there, smirk. Cartoony and surreal. The frame representing when the game crashed is particularly creative.

Also, your lines are so much cleaner than when I was drawing comics like that.

Thanks! The secret is to draw absolutely everything with mechanical pencils, all the time, forever =P  I've got some more free time tomorrow, so creature bodies might be attempted. We shall see.

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XXXXYYYY, that looks like a lot of time spent bored in math class =D  I particularly liked the ones that gave off an organic feel, like 4 and 11. If you feel like changing things around a bit, maybe try and find some hexagonal graph paper?

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Some fluffeh clouds because I'm feeling fluffeh today

Nice! Background is now.

[Spehss _]

Like the comic there, smirk. Cartoony and surreal. The frame representing when the game crashed is particularly creative.

Also, your lines are so much cleaner than when I was drawing comics like that.

Thanks! The secret is to draw absolutely everything with mechanical pencils, all the time, forever =P

...That's a thing I've been doing for years now, heh. Mechanical pencil master race. Only reason I'd use wood pencils are for quicker shading.

If I had any of my pencil drawings I've done over the years I'd post 'em, but alas, I'm at college without my hoard of "cool shit I've drawn." Maybe when I get back home for a break I'll get around to sharing some stuff. I like drawing with pencil the most.

[Bauglir]

That's pretty awesome, Bauglir. Also, you get +1 for exquisite choice of example text. What project is that for?

A game I'm making. Nothing should ever actually do that, but having things move around serves as a pretty decent stress-test for a wide variety of possible static positions. It also suggests that the algorithm is probably running fast enough to keep up with actual demand, since that's pictured at actual speed (or close enough that I can't tell the difference).

I did just realize I need to write the boilerplate code for interactivity, but hopefully that won't be too tricky since pygame is specifically designed to make that simple.

[Mesa]

Spoiler: Brought out my tablet after so long and took it for a spin. Turned out decent. (click to show/hide)

I traced the lineart on the second one, the first was made on the fly.

[ShadowHammer]

Spoiler: Brought out my tablet after so long and took it for a spin. Turned out decent. (click to show/hide)

I traced the lineart on the second one, the first was made on the fly.

Is the second one supposed to be communist, or am I just seeing symbolism that isn't actually there? Either way, I like them.

[GiglameshDespair]

So icons from a ISG game I planned. The idea was the character had had their heart replaced with that of a demon, giving them incredible fortitude and access to magic. The plan was a sorta roguelike thing. The character could take whatever damage (except to the heart) and they'd regenerate, no fuss. They could use magic, but it'd burn away their soul. Fortunately they can steal others souls to patch their own by eating the hearts of other people.

Health
Mana/Soul

[Mesa]

Spoiler: Brought out my tablet after so long and took it for a spin. Turned out decent. (click to show/hide)

I traced the lineart on the second one, the first was made on the fly.

Is the second one supposed to be communist, or am I just seeing symbolism that isn't actually there? Either way, I like them.

It was a communist skin for a character I submitted to a skin contest once (mind you, the game already has a Soviet character in it).
Which is probably why it didn't get any further... :S

[Fniff]

Don't you love it when you just make an animation that just looks... perfect? As in, it just represents the motion in the animation perfectly? No jankiness, no weird disappearing and reappearing limbs, it's exactly how it should look.


I mean, come on. Isn't that the best "kicking down a door while holding a pistol from the topdown" animation you have ever seen? Well, apart from any from the game Doorkickers. That's cheating, because the entire game is about kicking doors. Or apart from any of the animations of opening doors in Hotline Miami. Or Gunpoint (Though that's sidescrolling), or..
Criticism is welcome even if it seems perfect to me right now, is what I'm saying.

[GiglameshDespair]

Pretty good. Can't help but feel it looks like the head's extending and retracting, though, rather than bobbing back and forth.