Lazy day today, taking advantage of the weekend, I did get some drawing in, playing around a bit on the new drawing monitor we picked up. It’s an interesting experience. It’s nice having the advantages of a digital medium, with its layers and tool options and variable erasers and all, while still having that direct feedback of moving a thing and leaving a line more or less where it makes contact. I say more or less because there is a slight offset between the pen nib and the cursor point on the screen, which is unfortunate, but still, it’s pretty slick.
That being said, I’ve actually gotten pretty used to using my regular, non-monitor based drawing tablet, so so far I’m not really seeing much difference in the results. I’m sure it’s a matter of degrees and getting used to things, though.
Music 30/30 – Day 8
On the music front, in addition to the standard piano practice, which for today included an almost recognizable rendition of some parts of Megalovania, I spent some time today learning more about intervals, as well as consonance and dissonance in intervals and how they resolve. Tomorrow gets into counterpoint, which I have been looking forward to. I’m not entirely sure why, since I’m not entirely sure what it actually is, but I have a feeling that understanding that is going to really help push my composition skills up into a new bracket.