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Inktober day 11: spiderweb
Didnt feel like drawing another spiderweb after just doing an entire month in my journal. So progress on the web crochet.
Never mind. I've finished the first pannel!! Now repeat and add sleeves
Inktober day 11: spiderweb
Didnt feel like drawing another spiderweb after just doing an entire month in my journal. So progress on the web crochet.
Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.
I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.
Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.
(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)
But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.
There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:
Novice
Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:
Dash - by General Assembly
CodeAcademy
w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)
Intermediate
Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:
Khan Academy
CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP
Difficult
If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.
Programming problems
Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems
Talentbuddy
TopCoder
Web Applications
If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.
Django Tutorial
I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.
Rails Guide
If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:
Cake PHP Book
Symfony 2 - Get Started
Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide
Conclusion
If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.
If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.
Best of luck!
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Jade Mountain Academy students
#Bonus - Faculty chapter
And here, as has been requested, we have the ones in charge of the operation. And so I am left pondering that, over the course of this project, I have drawn essentially all of the arc 1 and arc 2 protagonists... with the exception of Glory. That's pretty weird.
Anyway, here goes:
Sunny
Teaches subject(s) - Art, Cultural Exchange
Additional responsibilities- Founder, chief administrator, student admission, teacher-student relations, Silver winglet guardian
Tribe - Sandwing (partial Nightwing heritage)
Color - Sunrise gold
Relatives - Stonemover (father)
Physical characteristics - bright golden color; green eyes; no venom barb; small stature with slim to average build
Tsunami
Teaches subject(s) - Exercise
Additional responsibilities- "Head of School", security chief, Jade winglet guardian
Tribe - Seawing
Color - Cobalt blue
Relatives - Prince Turtle (brother), Princess Anemone (sister)
Physical characteristics - bent horns; royal wing markings; small burn scar on right side of neck, small cut in wing membrane; large build, long and burly
Clay
Teaches subject(s) - Anatomy
Additional responsibilities- Chief healer, student counselor, Copper winglet guardian
Tribe - Mudwing
Color - Bronze
Relatives - Umber (brother), Sora (sister), Marsh (brother)
Physical characteristics - curly horns; diminished mobility in right hindleg, walks with a limp; very large stature, muscular, heavy, broad
Starflight
Teaches subject(s) - Science, Literacy
Additional responsibilities- Chief librarian, chief accountant, Quartz winglet guardian
Tribe - Nightwing
Color - Midnight blue gray
Relatives - none on site
Physical characteristics - severe burn scarring across face, neck, and chest; blind in both eyes; average size and build
Fatespeaker
Teaches subject(s) - Science, Literacy (assisting)
Additional responsibilities- Assistant librarian, assistant student counselor, inventory
Tribe - Nightwing
Color - Dark violet black
Relatives - none on site
Physical characteristics - curved horns; small silver scales near eyes and along body; smallish stature, slim, slightly underweight
Webs
Teaches subject(s) - History
Additional responsibilities- Assistant healer, assistant accountant, Gold winglet guardian
Tribe - Seawing
Color - Teal green and blue
Relatives - none on site
Physical characteristics - blotty, luminous markings across body, luminous birthmark on left front talon; small puncture scar on tail; medium to large size, gaunt frame
Stonemover
Tribe - Nightwing
Relatives - Sunny (daughter)
Additional notes - Stonemover is neither a member of the Jade Mountain Academy faculty, nor a student, but remains on site as a consultant on various animus-related matters (and also because he is stuck to the floor).
Took another swing at some Seawings.
I decided i liked Albatross's lil horn crown he had in the comics. I also leaned into the "he's half Icewing" headcanon again. Who knows why, maybe some failed animus breeding project. Those Icewing genes are strong.
Indigo is more wavy are resembles Tsunami.
Webs is a droopy, droopy man with some sea lion whiskers.
My Wings of Fire fantribe (Part 1)
Tribe name: WebWings
Royalty: Queen Maratus, Prince Huntsman, Princesses Sicarius, Arachnid, and Tarantula
Territory: The mountains of Pantala
Kingdom description: Large webs span across the areas between mountains. They are layered far enough apart to walk, but not enough to fly. Cave systems inside the mountains are used as houses, schools, and a palace. The main outdoor area is referred to as The Webs, and it is like a marketplace and popular hang out.
Colors: Main scales are typically shades of brown or black, with web patterns on the underside of the wings. May have different color patterns covering the body.
Body type: Small torsos with long, thin legs and necks. Rounded wings. Four extra arms that are noticeably smaller.
Extra information: Heavily based on spiders. Silk glands can be on the tail or near the snout - if they are on the snout, the dragon has mandibles, I'd the glands are on the tail, the dragon will have spinnerets. All WebWings have venom, which is injected through biting. Either eight or six eyes, depending on the dragon. Omnivores with a strong preference for bugs. Early WebWings are said to have been cannibalistic.
Dark black (on the face): Example of mandibles (not every dragon has these!)
Blue (tip of tail and behind mandible example): potential silk glands locations
Red (torso): small, extra limbs
Green (in mouth): venom fangs
(By the way, though I doubt anybody will want to use my WebWing design, if you do, please ask and credit me!)
There are no people in what I’ve written. Only ghosts. — Susan Sontag
1. mahmoud darwish | 2. a ghost story (2017, david lowery) | 3. sylvia plath | 4. a ghost story (2017, david lowery) | 5. emily brontë | 6. a ghost story (2017, david lowery) | 7. harry styles | 8. a ghost story (2017, david lowery) | 9. kathleen graber | 10. a ghost story (2017, david lowery) | 11. ovid | 12. a ghost story (2017, david lowery) | 13. richard siken
Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss by Antonio Canova
by Sappho
Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out by Richard Siken
To Fanny Brawne (13 October, 1819), John Keats
The Kiss, 1907 by Gustav Klimt
The Meeting in a Dream, Jorge Luis Borges
Holy Things in This World, Emery Allen
You Are Jeff by Richard Siken
growing & healing & learning
1. Garden Song, Phoebe Bridgers 2. Interlude: I'm Not Angry Anymore, Paramore 3. The Orange, Wendy Cope 4. The Return, Mary Oliver 5. What The Living Do, Marie Howe 6. Ending, Johny Bulc 7. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Raymond Carver 8. Spring, Mary Oliver 9. Witch Burning, Sylvia Plath 10. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson
your hand touching mine. this is how galaxies collide. ― Sanober Khan
― Carolyn Forché / Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994) / John Berger / Katrien de Blauwer / Hélène Cixous / Bruno Munari / Eli Craven / Sharon Olds / Hart Crane / A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019) / Mary Ruefle / Robert Bly / Hans Bellmer / Richard Siken / Eli Craven / Cassandra Clare / Katrien de Blauwer / Louise Glück ―
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
In Place Of The Mirror is a Portrait of You, @lilllium | Home Is Not a Country, Safia Elhillo | Myself Time, Ron Hicks | Sweet the Sound, Clementine von Radics | Memory of Forgetfulness, Mahmoud Darwish | Looking in the Mirror, Ron Hicks | Dressing Room, Ron Hicks, | Diaries of Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka | Rilke’s Book of Hours, Rainer Maria Rilke
the front bottoms, twin size mattress // @rbhvleo on tumblr // richard siken, crush (little beast) // taylor swift, cruel summer // unknown source // ada limón, bright dead things // margaret atwood, we are hard // ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous // @normal-horoscopes on tumblr // halsey, trouble (stripped) // richard siken, crush (scheherazade) // louise glück // richard siken, a primer for small weird loves // @bipeds
forgetfulness, an absence, a mere nothing.
Phillip B. Williams, “Final Poem for My Father Misnamed in My Mouth,” published in the New Yorker // Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole,” via the Poetry Society of America // Rebecca Doverspike, from “Every present thing, a ghost of something,” Every Present Thing a Ghost: Poems // Artworks by Holly Warburton // W.S. Merwin, “Separation” from The Second Four Books of Poems // W.S. Merwin, from “After the Voices,” The Moon Before Morning // Siobhan Vivian, Same Difference // Audrey Niffenegger, from 'The Time Traveler's Wife' // Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories // Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Julian Palley, from Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry; “Destiny”