Darren M. A. Calvert

The Marge Simpson "I just think they're neat!" meme but she's holding a 36 pack of Copic markers.

Talking to my students about markers this week:

Dayman...AHHHHhHHHHH! fighter of the Nightman...AHHHHhHHHHH!

I ended up "napping" for over 2 hours. I'm sure I won't regret that later.

It makes me want to beat those guys up all over again.

Great example of enshittification: Google now wants to use your Gmail to train AI, but if you opt out (Settings->General->Smart Features->Turn off) not only do you lose *spell check*, you also lose all sorting of emails, so everything goes in one giant inbox. I hate it here

Just about gave myself a concussion falling asleep at my desk.

Lt. Frank Drebin in 1988's The Naked Gun during the "Nothing to see here, please disperse!" scene with a fireworks factory exploding behind him.

In The Naked Gun (1988), this is supposed to be a serious police detective

Some of them!

Got a copy of the *official* Minecraft cookbook for $5.

Tired of wasting my time cooking unofficial Minecraft recipes.

My students made fun of me this morning for saying that you have to be careful when you're erasing so that you don't skronk up your paper and that I always test my Posca pens before using them so that they don't blorch paint all over my drawings.

Pretty basic art terminology.

Real America

Yeah, those were good. The fine-point Poscas are pretty solid though.

Man, I'd like to get in on this but that's not cheap, especially with shipping...

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

The white is about 80% opaque. Not quite a solid coverage like a Posca paint pen.

My first thought was actually that they would be good for drawing (permanent) battle maps for RPGs.

Tips are a bit broad for most of the stuff I do but I can see finding uses for them.

Two Sharpie markers next to a piece of tan paper with a white and a black scribble on it.

Picked up a two-pack of the Sharpie Creative Markers to try and they seem pretty good. 👍🏻

Have been tempted by Gunslinger Knights…

I can’t pass up a $5 crab mech

A small marker drawing of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph. To the right are a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen and two Copic markers.

A little Wreck-It Ralph from this day in 2018

My students made fun of me this morning for saying that you have to be careful when you're erasing so that you don't skronk up your paper and that I always test my Posca pens before using them so that they don't blorch paint all over my drawings.

Pretty basic art terminology.

A marker drawing of Kit Fisto from the Star Wars prequels on toned tan paper. To the left are two Copic markers.

A marker Kit Fisto on toned tan paper from this day in 2020

#StarWars

I was on a pro vs anti ai panel the other day and this is what I was trying to say but I’m not as smart

The point of playing a game of chess is not to achieve the quickest possible route to victory for one side in a chess game, it is to have and perform those thoughts and actions yourself and grow.

A marker drawing of Kit Fisto from the Star Wars prequels on toned tan paper. To the left are two Copic markers.

A marker Kit Fisto on toned tan paper from this day in 2020

#StarWars

The original Frieren angle drawing on the left and my version on the right

Gave it some colour

People are very dumb. Just, like, in general.

Not you.

It's fun that their "defeat" of the Democrats in the shutdown means that they get to cut a whole bunch of people who voted Republican off of healthcare and SNAP benefits.

You did it!

Congratulations on being the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World, America.

"Listen up, yumnuts."