Plurk; Art

[wallwalker]

- So this Plurk thing is the next new, shiny toy, yes? I'm honestly resisting the urge to grab one, because it does look neat and I am interested in following some of the people whose profiles I've visited. But, well, there are three reasons:

1. I already have too damn many social networking things that I signed up for, used three times and never touched again.
2. Paradoxically, the more things I have along those lines to post stuff on, the less I actually use any of them these days. Easier to stick to one platform.
3. I don't have a smartphone, or even a decent phone (my cellphone was an out-of-date brick when I got it five years ago,) which means I don't benefit from its main selling point anyway.

I may sign up at some point, but just to follow people. As far as posts though, I'll be sticking with DW.

- Somehow I am finding drawing easier now than I did when I tried to do it several years ago. I don't know why, but back then when I tried to do any sort of drawing from life, I couldn't make the lines even remotely work together. Now the things I draw actually look like whatever I'm drawing. I don't know why, but I'm not going to complain.

I still have a long way to go before I can do any sort of art from the imagination, though. :/ And I can't post anything still, and even if I could it would be the boring stuff, like that drawing of a purse I did from a magazine yesterday. Oh, well. I need to keep practicing. And to possibly find some references to learn from. (I remembered the author I mentioned last time - Mona Brooks - that I want to look for. I recall reading one of her books about learning how to draw, and it was quite good. I just didn't really have it in me to pursue it back then.)

Comments

[lassarina]

Plurk is in fact really addictive. I like it a lot better than Twitter, insofar as it's easier to hold conversations, but that also makes it really time-eating. :)

[gamera]

I like Plurk for things that are too short for DW, but too fannish for Twitter (which is where I aggregate my non-media fannish friends, like my tabletop gaming group), like real-time reaction shots while I'm watching or playing something.

[stealth_noodle]

I think I've hit my social media saturation point, too. Which is too bad, because Plurk looks like it fixes some of the things that annoy me about Twitter, but Twitter is my primary method of keeping up with many of my friends, so.