On a day of christmas, I saw an angel…

See the angel deploy her wings:

It’s alive, it’s alive!

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type             : Ralink RT5350 id:1 rev:3
machine                 : VoCore
processor               : 0
cpu model               : MIPS 24KEc V4.12
BogoMIPS                : 479.23
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 32
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : yes, count: 4, address …

A couple years ago, I etched a couple shapes on a napkin, and bet with a friend that I would one become famous enough it would sell millions.

Unfortunately, I have not yet sold this napkin millions. However, I still have it, and I plan to hold on to it …

The trick is to not mix the outline with the cast shadow.

Both “what do you do?” and “where are you from?” are very loaded questions that will cause quite a few people offense.

The former […] combines both the American presumption that one’s job/career is a person’s single most definitive characteristic and is effectively a query about class. Sure …

Last Friday, an interviewer asked me how I would describe myself.

I stammered: “I’m not exactly sure how to answer that.” So she turned the question around: “How would your friends describe you?”

To be honest, I wonder the same. My current close friends are not very verbose on …

At the falling edge of a sharp spring morning…

… an aspiring teacher shares his experience of Bargoens, also called “Thieves tongue”, a Yiddich-Hebrew-Dutch dialect spoken in Amsterdam between the 19th and 20th century.

Now also with making of:

Tricky, trickier, trickiest.

Blond hair under the sun against a dark background which I don’t want do draw: should I draw the hair or not? Without, it looks too strange; with, too dark. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Also, I do not really like this …

Albert Einstein, that is. Yet another pencil this time. It feels darker, suitable for this model with plenty of shadows.

New tool, new results…

When I left home with my pencil and paper yesterday, I was excited about the sketch I had just started of Andrei. Alas, the pencil disappeared somewhere during my travel… So I had to use a different/new one. It feels “fatter,” also for the first …

Shade first or eyes first, that is (was) the question.

Lessons learned: blond hair is quite difficult; edges only easy if something to draw on both sides.

Achievement unlocked: woman face.

Exercise pays off.

So there’s this thing called “perspective” and it is a bitch to get anything close to right.

The next exercise I need to complete successfully at least once before I can move on to the next chapter is perspective. One-point perspective works all right, it’s kind of easy …

The space in between matters more in drawing than the space inside.

It is told that women are a more interesting drawing subject than men. After testing myself, I respectfully disagree.

This is the profile I drew from a woman I like, whose body I think has good proportions:

These are pictures I drew of men whom I do not know:

I …

Beste E.,

ik liep langs de via Regina Margherita in Turijn op woensdag toen plotseling kwam een gedachte naar voren die ik onmiddellijk met jou wou delen.

Het beeld van Ezio (Assassin’s Creed III) vanavond doet er me weer aan denken. Er gaat over een afwijking die ik observeer …

“affection, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, mutual understanding, enjoyment of each other’s company, trust, and the ability to be oneself, express one’s feelings, and make mistakes without fear of judgement from the friend.”

Affection: an objective feeling of bonding emerging from heightened levels of oxytocin and conditioned by repeated …