Artistic Attempts – Page 5

A slightly more laid-back day today. I caught up with a bit of admin this morning, got some ukulele practice in ready for tomorrow’s class, and then spent the afternoon working on my text adventure.

I got my steps in on the treadmill this evening (if it was spring/summer I might be tempted out for some evening runs at the moment, but it’s getting dark fairly early now!). I’ve also been doing lots of reading about creating basic pixel art. For my last text adventure game, I created the graphics by making photo montages, scaling down the images, heavily pixelising them and reducing them to a 16-colour palette. For my current project, I’d like to create at least some of the artwork from scratch, so I’ll be doing some experimenting this week.

Hoping for a productive day working on my various projects tomorrow.

Pixel art practice — Not an OOTD: I’m no artist, but I gotta start somewhere!

Today’s earworm playlist:

Jon & Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home
George Ezra – Paradise
Sacre – The London Marathon
James Taylor – Wichita Lineman
Pharrell Williams – Happy

Canada part three…

After our trip to the Bata Shoe Museum on the Tuesday, Mum and I went to Pogue Mahone for a drink. Pogue Mahone used to be one of our family’s favourite bars for eating out in Toronto, as Geth had discovered it during his visiting fellowship at Trent University in 2010 and absolutely adored the chicken wings. Unfortunately, it’s been taken over by new management, and when Geth went to eat there on the night he arrived, he was very disappointed to find that the chicken wings on the menu are now, in his words, ‘chicken McNuggets’. As such, we never ate there this trip, but I did enjoy a couple of ciders there, which I will log soon.

In the evening, Mum, Dad, Malcolm and I ate out at Jack Astor’s. Portions were huge, dessert was so rich I couldn’t finish it, and there were pots of crayons on the table, which meant I could indulge my inner artistic toddler:

Restaurant table scribblings — Bonus points if you can tell what it is.

…and Dad could indulge his not-so-inner mad scientist.

Physics equation scribblings — I’m the opposite of a physicist so I’ve no clue what these mean.

After the meal, we went back to the Holiday Inn bar to wait for Geth, who had been out for a meal with conference contacts. I found I was getting really tired, and I would never quite adapt to Toronto time – which is why I’ve been quite surprised at the persistence of the jetlag on my return!

Tag: Artistic Attempts

Treadmills and pixels

Lots of eating

Canada part three…