After a few more hilarious misadventures with my drawing tablet delivery, I finally have it!
First it was mysteriously destroyed in transit. Then today the delivery to the hair salon down the street somehow went awry, but fortunately it was delivered to another nearby hair salon (no city on earth has a shortage of hair salons). As the second hair salon looked frantically on their rack of deliveries I got a great sinking feeling, but they found it! It was delivered with one other item we ordered (a sound machine), and as we walked home we shed cardboard (I mean, not on the street or anything).
And it works great!
I suppose I have tons to learn about controls, that I may or may not learn, but fundamentally I can now draw on this pad with my stylus pen and have it show up one to one on my computer screen! It is even pressure sensitive, making stronger lines as I press harder.
Naturally I raced to work on one of my new picture studies to show you here. This is mainly pure drawing now (all the black) with a faintly layered background. I intend to make it a more finished drawing and to even try working in color, but time is up for tonight's posting, so here it is so far:
We won't mention the political message, as we are too busy with other business here at clerkmanifesto today.
For instance, yesterday I was excited to share a bit of video of how pretty the ocean was out beyond the port. Unfortunately I couldn't see how badly that video footage was compressed until it published, and I think it did a terrible job of representing the original scene and the unspectacular film of it which was still a hundred times better than what appeared here!
Je suis desole.
I am sorry.
So in recompense, and to set the world right, here are some of the regular pictures I took of the area to make sure you don't retain the wrong idea. To me they need a lot of work, and I wouldn't normally share these, but at least they are far closer to the color and look of that water for yesterday's missive:
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