To express, or even just simply write down, my brain's state is not an easy task, as the latter always runs (much) faster than even the fastest typing hands.
However, whenever there's enough time for me to slowly hit down every letter, I'll make it a record of a summary of a certain span of past days.
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Trying return to normal
Finally, about two weeks ago I've got it done, after almost 2 years. (._.)ｺﾞﾒﾝﾈ
More exactly, the draft of this piece first came out in the end of last December, and took 8 months to finish, while there was no complete outcomes in the whole 2018, though there were ideas coming out.
it's all From's fault... >_>
Anyway, I'd like to use this as a new starting point, and hope to gradually return to a more active pace.
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<Serenata notturna>, finished on August 24.
The first step to return to the right track: some liner notes as usual.
- as mentioned above, the initial draft came out in the end of last December, out of total randomness while the only clear point was I wanted my girls wearing a tiara with semi-transparent veil (forgot the reason)
- their dress colours were originally white for all black parts
- it took very long (very) to finally decide the background. In February, I initially planned to draw an outdoor fantastic scene, like at a garden under moon/star lights while there are Bloodborne-style lanterns on the ground
- but as I drew the characters (slowly), my mind gradually changed, and at a point, I was inspired by the following CD cover arts (when I happened to play them):
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and this↓
- thus, no need to explain why the title is borrowing from that piece and why there's a PHILIPS-style banner on top!
- still, I always modify the base. So the two side theatre miniature (?) turned into flower baskets, while the shinning bright back-light (?) appeared as a night windowsill scene. As for the seven-point star, it's more fun than a more regular one (5-point) and simpler to draw (than a 13-point)
- also, I tried assign random colours to each flower, but soon changed to use the same to make it less messy -- for same reason, I didn't make a full-star night
- at last, I'm aware of that no harp is involved (meanwhile I looped the 3rd movement of his concerto for flute and harp for days)
- besides, since this one, I begin to number my drawings, even just for fun
Next target is potentially "Cute Souls"... a draft that I made back to 2017's October... >_<
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Fabric paint online again
Since the kind of crappy painting of the hunter's mark on the back of my phone (
this), I wanted to use them more on different things, and the best candidate is the case + case cover. But I didn't have an idea of what kind of thing I could draw.
On one Monday in the beginning of August, I got up early and got ready to work, then felt something wasn't right. So I checked the calender and realised it was a holiday. With such regret, I pulled out the paint and did some quick doodles, then transferred them using a white coloured pencil, and applied the actual paint.
It looked pretty good, I was satisfied with it.
Cats are always a good choice, more universal than "praise the sun" or "endless dream hunting". ^^;
Definitely I'll probably try to paint on real clothes that I still wear someday! xD
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Site updates
In last week I made some minor updates to my site scripts.
First, I integrated all static pages into the database for easier retrieving. Though it made me creating a new table and figured out all submit/update related html forms.
-- at the same time, I wanted to install a plug-in (CodeMirror) to apply syntax highlight, but it resulted the input contents can't be correctly submitted without running another javascript to pull out information from the CM-affected textarea boxes. So I gave up and reversed to the basic plain interface (I use NPP for major editing anyways).
Second, the "misc" page and "backyard" page are merged, less confusing now with clearer redirects.
Third, I changed the design of /days (show full entry content instead of truncated on the main page) and /mygirls (pull out more entries on main page, like a gallery. I like the hover-and-show-title CSS trick got from W3schools).
During this, I noticed that Apache+php can not properly read document root dir if put in OneDrive. There must be a myth behind, but I myself won't be able to solve. The simplest solution is to work on a non-OneDrive location, then mirror everything to OD through a .bat file.
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Melodist and the end
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"Beethoven wasn't a melodist." said Rob, our section instructor.
Exactly, this answered everything that why he's never on top of my favourites. I do like his works, but not always. Mozart is always my top, then Baroque and Tchaikovsky, and then the others...
And the key is melody.
That's enough. Feeling fine.
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Two days ago, I restarted my computer several times because of both Apache-related reboots and system update. Things were okay.
Last night, I ordered my computer to hibernate but the power indicator was flashing forever after the screen turned black, so I forced to turn it off.
This morning, I started it and got a "SMART failure warning":
Same happened when I tried to hibernate it later and booted this afternoon.
One more step getting closer to the end? Hope it's not the most recent system update's fault.
Now doing a disk check, hope it can be fixed, at least before Surface book 3 release..
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Saw
this when I was browsing PSN's on-sale items, which looks very interesting... 30% off, shall give it a try. My lolicon-soul is activated. (゜-゜)
