More assorted things!

[flamebyrd]

🎮 My gaming YouTube profile suggested a Let's Play of Mini Metro, a puzzle game about building urban train systems, and about halfway through I got twitchy wanting to try things, so I went in search of where I could buy it. (As an aside, I really recommend IsThereAnyDeal for getting an overview of the pricing of PC games.) Anyway, it told me it was on sale on the Humble Store (sadly, it isn't anymore), however before I headed over there it occurred to me to search my inbox in case I'd already bought it in a bundle, and it turned out it was in the Itch.io Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid! So I loaded it up on the media PC and had a happy couple of days building train lines. I can definitely see it being a stressful game for some people, but I found the ability to continue in "endless" mode took the stress out of it for me and I could just enjoy trying to optimise my system.

🎨 My watercolours and swatching tools (see last post) finally arrived! I had a nice, chill time swatching all 34 of my watercolour tubes (although now my shoulder hurts - maybe I shouldn't have done all 34 in a single day). I have updated my watercolour spreadsheet with the new colours accordingly, although I didn't think to mark them in any way. I should have added a date column on this. Now I just need to... make some art? That sounds fake.

🖼 Relatedly, I just discovered the concept of Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and I love it and want to make some. I also have a box of blank watercolour postcards I recently rediscovered! Filing tiny art under the list of things I'd like to post people if I ever get around to making a form.

📖 My library hold on Rainbow Rowell's Any Way the Wind Blows came in, so I'm about to start reading that. Here's hoping I like it more than Wayward Son!

Comments

[sqbr]

I like the idea of Artist Trading Cards but whenever I think about making one I get stuck in a loop of it should be unique -> it should be traditional art vs it should be good -> it should be digital art (since that's what I'm better at)

[flamebyrd]

I definitely just went through a train of thought that started with uniqueness in digital art and ended with ATC NFTs 😱

But I (a person who only heard about ATCs this week) think there's nothing wrong with printing a single copy of digital art at trading card size for trading! You could print a whole sheet at once :D

[sqbr]

Ha, that's one way to make them unique, but no.

And yes, I could! An artist friend once sent out a limited run of postcards printed with her digital art and that was lovely. absolutely does not do that, but thinks about it