#Mechanical Tutorials

[lucybellwood]

A while ago Falynn K. asked this question on Twitter:

"So on a tall sailing ship you have the mast, and you have the yards across it--is the yard/spar actually attached to the mast, by like i dunno, a pin or something, or is it strictly roped/lashed to it?"

This is a totally reasonable question! A lot of folks who haven't sailed square riggers might think that the yard stays put, but in fact it needs to move up and down the mast so the sails can be fully set. (Y'know how everyone's always talking about halyards? They literally haul the yard up. You're welcome.)

So to answer the question: yards are held loosely to the mast by a looped line strung with large wooden beads called a parrel. The beads roll up the mast as the yard is raised and lowered. Here's a drawover that hopefully clarifies a little:

Once you start explaining things about tall ship anatomy it's hard to stop, so there's a bit more context for how the sails work:

(These are pages from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here or grab as a print minicomic here.)

Hope this is helpful!

[penofwildfire]

Don't quite understand the obsession with bringing back characters' old interests/hobbies. Like yeah it could be fun but also, people pick up and abandon hobbies all the time? People do them a little every once in a while and then forget about them for like 3 years? It's not some horrible character-assassinating thing to not mention someone's interest in poetry or whatever they quite literally might have just stopped doing it.

[mechanicalmutt]

Shibari scares me.

What if someone wants me to tie them up, and I gotta wikihow it? YouTube tutorial playing in the background as im struggling to tie someone up.

Absolutely not. I'd die of embarrassment. /j

[secretsimpleness]

I figured this out somewhere along the second-to-last act. Octavia, the Baroness / Pathfinder Kingmaker (c) Owlcat Games

[datgreenmonstah]

Doing an ear test after having attempted a failed ear experiment. Maybe another mask, but with this one we’re attempting to curve it out more to give it a 3D effect. Gonna explain this in the tutorial along with the delayed snarl mechs.

[legionofpotatoes]

star wars outlaws

[jaedoesart]

Stickmin Space Resort but it's a tycoon game...

[thegreatyin]

oh hang on these are actually pretty cool

[jjinpang]

Hii! Art question! Any tips on drawing the other eye, especially when the face is at an angle?

My biggest tip is UNDERSTAND THE SHAPE OF EYES. I think the most important thing is to understand what you are drawing. If you are having trouble with "the other eye" chances are your understanding of eyes, not just the other one, might not be strong.

Here are some notes about the shape of eyes that I hope you'll find helpful.

Remember that the human face has shape! Eyes aren't sitting on a flat surface they are beholden to the landscape they are planted in.

Not pictured above, but please remember that the skull is round you will not be looking at both eyes at the same angle unless you are looking from straight on.

ALSO! how much eye is visible will vary by situation. Sometimes eyes will be visible, and sometimes they will be hidden behind a nose, some hair etc etc.

When thinking about eyes remember that they have physical presence and take up space in 3 dimensions.

Also this is one I have a ton of fun with over exaggerating, but remember that eyes are a lovely subject to draw with varying materials, and a pretty complicated structure, so have fun with it.

How much reality you want to put into your art depends on your style/preference, and the fun part of drawing is you can ignore physics if they don't work for you, but I'm a strong believer of understanding and making informed decisions when developing your style. I've said a lot, but please remember to just stay curious about shapes. Don't get too bogged down by detail and have fun with it.

HOPE THIS HELPS, and thanks for the ask! this was fun, anon.

[aenderlara]

Quick look on how I been rigging this cables with Blender3D

[fishmech]

also people don't talk about it enough but it is funny that space war crimes general Obama gets put in full bottom storage and also that you can fuck with him by just deliberately waiting at him

[beanjang-draws]

I’ve been a little busy but here’s my drawing homework 🫶 one of these days I should prank my prof and do an exercise with ponies

[sillymagicfroggie]

im supposed to be doing a school project rn but i cannot stop thinking about how i recently learned that joshua can't jump like wtf do you mean he cant jump is he stupid?

[the-final-high-noon-rings]

they've got a qpr-type deal. to me

[raisengen]

Design of Strife's design is a real mystery to me.

After thinking about it, I think the intention is:

You play it like reverse CC: fight a hard enemy while helped by a large number of buffs, then whittle down the buffs until you're fighting them au naturel. This then unlocks the next difficulty, rinse and repeat.

Within battle, you're meant to exploit the lava fissures by deploying operators on top of them, managing the burn damage in exchange for bonus damage against enemies.

The thing is, the game is absolutely terrible at conveying this. There's no effort to make sure you know about the buff system, and there's no effort to make sure you know how lava fissures work.

The most the tutorial has to say is "if you use buffs you can't unlock the next set of stages". OK? The buff system isn't even available at the time they say that. It's not even unlocked until you lose a run at that rank (and even then it's relatively easy to miss). And besides, all I've been told is that I shouldn't use them, and since they're off by default maybe I should just ignore them.

Compare to CC, where you have to pass through the contract selection screen every time you start the stage.

The lava fissures have no tutorial at all, forcing you to rely on the poorly-worded tooltips. (Did you know you can long-press on special tiles to bring up a notification explaining them?) And you're unlikely to intuit their interactions, either; the lava only hurts friendlies, unless you put an operator on top, in which case they can scoop up some of the eruption and throw it on your enemies. Of course. They didn't even get a good animation, since they appear to only hit low tiles, but still deal damage to high tiles.

Compare to... pretty much any event with a stage mechanic, where they have dedicated tutorial stages focused on the interaction.

If these are (well, were) meant to be the experiments for new high-end content, then surely you should want players to be able to engage with it as intended, right?

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