An excerpt from my diary, from the 26th of February, 2024.
Speaking of games, a game I quite love playing every so often is Minecraft. Typically I’ll go without for several months or so, then suddenly get addicted for weeks at a time. Thankfully, though it wasn’t a deal breaker, I was able to immediately locate a suitable package for my system and run the launcher! I booted it up, it worked; I generated a world, and that also worked! I think everything is in order here, but figure before I call things complete, I should move my main single player world over. So I go about doing that, since it only takes a couple minutes. Downloaded 1.18.2, since it’s the last official version before the strange chat report telemetry nonsense, and get into it. Loads in, works wonderfully, and I’m satisfied for when I want to play next. Another small thing off the list of many I can cross off now. Boy, do I love when things just kind of work out like that.
Aside from that, I take to Krita again to work on a new project. It’s just a sketch, but to imitate the style of a mutual on Mastodon, because of a project they invited people to participate in. Technically it was only for them to imitate our styles, but I wanted to do it anyway. They pretty much only draw My Little Pony characters, and I basically have never drawn them, so I spent some time studying their sketches and final works to see what I could learn. After a bit of warm up I was able to get something cute going, and made myself a special character just for the process. I think I emulated the scanned paper on pencil digitally fairly well, with similar paper coloring to theirs and a similar type of pony design shape wise anyway. I was happy to show them off later that night, and feel that much more confident with Krita.
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