HJ-Diviana
Cadet
Hooray, I have an avatar!
Uh... Sweet? Anyway, it's nice. *shrug*Hooray, I have an avatar!
Heh. A trillion times better than any graphical art I can produce.
My ladyfriend draws avidly, and my roommate as well, although he's much further along in skill level than she is. My own drawing skills are limited to technical sketches. You want a practicle schematic of an object, tool, or weapon? That I can do. But anything with style or human subjects, I can't pull off.
The curse of being a writer is that you tend to stink at drawing. So now you have all these ideas in your head and you can try to describe them, but at some point it just seems like it would be so much clearer in a picture. How can you describe the look of an oddly shaped object? You have to go into a long, technical detail that bores the reader and challenges them to remember every little descriptor.
"Projecting two inches from the frontal face of the adjacent side is a raised, oblong flow-valve of burnished bronze, divited in the center and tapered along the edges to meet the curved surface of the facepiece. A six foot hose connects from the side of the radial valve to a rear facing compression and storage tank, which is set at a rough 30 degree angle from the main chassis, etc, etc."
A simple graphical representation just tends to be so much clearer, and more immediately understandable.
~Dune Walker~
Max. For some reason, the school will not teach us anything about Maya until we are in our 3rd or 4th year. I'm actually one of the worst students with it in the class, but I think my design is winning out over my faults for once.
Oh! Today, she got her toenails, parts of her clothes, and a belly button!