Juice [none/use name]
Tech projects are weird because the people who design them don’t use them, and the people who use them don’t design them. So goals and plans and expectations are constantly shifting. Users give instructions and devs have to be like interpreters, taking their instructions and translating them into computer instructions
We (say that we) use a paradigm called agile, where we break the project into “sprints” of about 2 weeks, and at the end we go back to the “user” and plan the next sprint.
Where you plan an entire project out at the beginning and stick to the plan is called “waterfall”. The problem is the user constantly changes things, so the closer you get to the end of the project, the more features that were designed based on the users needs get rejected by the users, or new features get added that might not be compatible. Waterfall makes it difficult to actually finish a project, where as agile (theoretically) delivers a working but incomplete product at the end if every sprint. Agile is like 20-30 years old and def has a lot of problems, blind spots and bloat. But waterfall just doesn’t work for software projects
I like how your line work feels kind of translucent, esp around the eyes. Rather than just using black, or a darker flesh tone like around the jaw lines or outlining the shoulder, around the eyes the lines don’t look opaque, and takes on the colors around it. and the effect is pretty interesting to look at and more compelling than just a solid line. Nice use of color overall. You might start drawing from life, or copying anatomy for practice, but you def have a good sense for aesthetic which is the part that can’t really be taught IMO. Hammer down on fundamentals while continuing to explore artistically. Nice work!
Its funny, I am only familiar with the Stephen Mitchell translation, but I love it to the extent that I identify with Taoism more than any other “religious” orthodoxy. This article describes it as impartiality, as it doesn’t “take sides,” but I think of it more dialectically. There is an interplay of opposites. Taoism isn’t centrism, it is playing a different game entirely, one where life is understood as positive and negative relations that define each other.
Idk I’d love to hear more criticisms about this version, and I’ll look up the version in the article that the author recommends
Idk if we are making a huge distinction between punk and hardcore ITT, but lots of hardcore bands are really good. At the risk of aging myself, the Refused are really good, “The Shape of Punk to Come” is a perfect album no matter how you slice it. Fugazi is also fantastic.
Good punk is The Damned, The Minutemen, Television, The Clash.
