I've never tried something that I see... I will try that.

I remember a quote from somebody a while back, very relevant to drawing.

"You need to know the rules to break them."

This is very relevant in fact, because no matter what you make, you first have to understand how something would work in reality. And only then once you have a thorough understanding of the rules of real life, can you bend them as you please.

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See that?

I don't want none of it.

Well, for starters, there are two species of chimp. The regular chimpanzee, and the bonobo. Regular chimpanzees would be too aggressive to to perform this stunt, however, the bonobo are significantly more relaxed than regular chimpanzees, and often, solve problems by having lots of sex instead of fighting. So, already we know that the bonobo are more relaxed, but they're also good at getting into position.

Now, the average size of a troop of bonobo or chimps consists of about 10 members, with one alpha male. So, for the sake of simplicity, let's say the group consists of five guys and girls. That means in total there are three troops of bonobo that will be forming the hat, with one group containing only six split into three of each gender.

Now, females have alphas too, so as such, the directing control group would have to be composed of more females, specifically alphas. They could direct the females of each group into position and then lure the males into their corrosponding positions with the promise of sex.

I think, if you took the alpha female out of each group and had them direct the show, you'd only need three because we're using three troops of them to construct a bowler hat.

A bowler hat made of bonobo chimps having sex.

Are you satisfied?

...sure

There ya go! Chin on up! We can be miserable together!

God i hate your posts.

Well, if it makes you happy, yesterday wasn't all sunshine and bunnies in the shadows. The day was nothing but setbacks and I've got to go to the docs because there's something wrong with the left side of my chest under my ribcage.

Happy now?

Keep putting one foot in front of the other and you'll get there! Although, what I might reccommend you try, is taking a look at something out of real life, or a photograph, and seeing if you can copy what you see.

I think for a lot of people who want to draw, there's this allure to draw what they come up with themselves. But the thing is, very few can ever do it at the start. They don't have the right skills and comprehension to take what they see in their head and copy it out onto whatever media they do it with, without it looking off.

However, that doesn't mean the approach you're taking is wrong. Everybody has their own way of doing things. I remember a girl back when I went to school, she loved dragons. And everyday without fail she'd draw pictures of them. And, naturally at first they weren't very good, and she got a lot of flak from people.

But I saw something she made a few years later and let me tell you, those days spent drawing like an obsession worked for her. She is damn good at making cartoon characters and she's refined how sharp she is with a pencil that she can take a cartoon and make it look like the creator drew it themselves.

So, so long as you keep it up at a reasonably steady pace, you'll get there. One foot in front of the other compatriot.

You're done cleaning your room?

Lol

They looked like fucking kites. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody made a kite out of them in fact.

Not blasting, no; and it's usually Billy Joel or something off of the Oldies station. I do enjoy having the windows down at night, though, so...maybe I'm kind of like those assholes a bit.

If you rev your engine and then go ripping down the empty street while screaming out the window, I'm going to find you. And I will ram this slow moving tank of a vehicle into yours, while letting my obnoxious engine sit idle and make enough noise to rival a gunshow because of the loose parts in it.



49 miles an hour of pure speed demon. Better watch out you.

The town about 8 miles from where I live has a lot of gas stations, stores, and restaurants that stay open late at night, but there's hardly ever anyone out and about after 11. I like to drive around town at night listening to some good music, just cruising around without a destination.

I hope you aren't like the asshole kids that go roaring down main street with their windows down blasting their farmer equivalent of ghetto music through their open windows.

When I was younger complete darkness was actually where I felt safest, as odd it may sound. It was like another world where the only thing that mattered was what was going on in my mind.

There were nights where I kind of just sat around with my dog on my life to ponder life. For whatever reason I was rather philosophical as a child.

I can admit that sometimes when I'm driving at night out here, I get really fucking spaced out. It's almost like you're under water. It's just a strange feeling to look ahead of you, to your side, or even up, and you're completely immersed in it.

But it isn't weird not to be comfortable. Darkness, for all the night time critters that it hides, is a time of peace that you aren't used to seeing often. The world shuts down in silence yet opens it's doors to you at the same time. I must say, that when there are power outages in my town, and every last light goes out, I'm estatic.

I suddenly see my entire town in a new light as it too is absorbed by the all encompassing blackness. Personally, if there is one thing I'd like to see in my life, it's an entire city in a power outage. All those lights snuffed out to reveal a new shade of something not many people have seen before.

Very thought provoking sandtrap. Yet another quality thread.

Too bad I live in a city, which natural light and sound is washed over by sirens, horns, trains, and other noises siding with the city lights. It's rather difficult, trying to find something I wouldn't trade.

Even cities have their charm. Some spot that you would find nowhere else. I'm not much for cities, but even I know every one has that one special place.

 Have ever been in absolute darkness? On my way home tonight, I stopped my truck on the roadside, shut everything down, turned off all the lights, and stepped out.  There is nothing. You can't see anything. A blackness so deep that you begin to feel dizzy from not being able to register any depth of any kind.

But out there, in the fields, you can hear the wind. You can hear everything in the absolute silence of it all. And then, you look up. And there's the night sky. Stars, everywhere. You can see the band of our own galaxy etched across the sky as millions of points of light reveal themselves to you.

I don't often stop and look at things in the night, but it makes me appreciate where I am. Although my province may be remote, and the collective IQ of the place could barely compete with a rock, in that darkness I realize there is no trouble here. I sit in a corner of the world not worth fighting over, not worth taking over, and not worth anyone's attention.

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, somebody who tries to go to sleep and wake up tomorrow gets their town shelled by mortar fire. Somewhere out there, are people preparing for a brewing war in their country, or a looming virus, a plague with the promise to kill many.

Many of these things come from the darkness in people's hearts, from conceited actions and wills. But as I stood out there on that lonely old dirt road, on that small patch of nothing in the world I realized the dark I stood in was pure. It does not discriminate, asks of nothing, and is all consuming in it's simple purity.

Anywho, this should hold some value other than my semantic rambling, so here's your challenge. Find one thing in your corner of the world that you wouldn't trade. It seems for most folks, all they want to do is move away from their part of the world. But, surely, there must be one thing you take enjoyment from that you wouldn't throw away.

Let's hear it gentlemen.

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