u/bunny-rain

I know that new artists do not have a style and should not attempt to stylize until they have learned realism. But at what point can one say they have an actual style and at what point is it okay/won't hold you back to try drawing stylized images? Fundamentals are something that you never escape from and you must always go back and revisit, so I am unsure of how people draw the line of "yes my fundamentals are good enough, I know the rules well enough to break them now"

I am 21 and still don't have my license because I'm just so shitty at parking. I can't see the lines when I am a foot shorter than the car is designed for. I have my seat pulled as far forward as it will go. I can drive just fine but I am just so ridiculously awful at parking, I am always over the lines or not close enough to the curb. I have been practicing driving for 3 years and I'm still utterly hopeless at parking. How did fellow shorties overcome not being able to see out of the car? I am 4'9

I think it's fairly recent, I saw it first while half asleep and can only remember that the audio had a guy saying the number 38 repeatedly.

I have an adult cat and 4 kittens I took in from a feral litter. The kittens are around 7 weeks old so they are plenty old enough to go to the bathroom by themselves and have been doing that well. The adult cat is doing well with the kittens, she plays with them but is gentle and lets them lay next to her. However, sometimes she pins one of them down and starts licking their butthole. Since they came from a feral cat, it is likely that the kittens have some sort of worm and we don't want her catching them too if they do.

I am cosplaying Reisen Udongein Inaba who has very long, loose hair. I have crimped this wig and I am still struggling with it becoming tangled and looking ratty after a few hours of wear. What are your guyses tips for keeping a wig looking nice, or at least decent, at a con?

Lenovo Yoga 7, around 3 years old

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For around a week, my Yoga had increasing instability issues until eventually it would turn on, flash the logo, and then then back off, and I could no longer access BIOS to try anything. The progression went:

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Frequent crashes that would make me force restart the laptop > asking for bitlocker key and having to reset PIN every time I opened the laptop > laptop kept crashing and eventually stopped booting past the logo screen

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While it was still in the stage where it was asking for bitlocker I ran memtest86 and chkdisk tests which both said nothing was wrong, ran the corrupted file repair which said nothing was wrong, bluescreenviewer gave me an issue that said NTOSKRNL was malfunctioning and every time I crashed I was getting IQRL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I updated all of my drivers and it did not fix the instability. That was about the extent of my knowledge so I took it to the Geek Squad and they told me they had no idea either and that it might be the motherboard but that the system is too unstable to diagnose anything conclusively.

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Does this sound like a motherboard issue? It's not in the budget right now but if I can get it repaired someday I would like to, it's a nice laptop. If it is potentially a cheaper part I would like to know that too.

I am 4'9 and have a very round face. I am 21 years old and still constantly mistaken for a child.

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I am afraid to be sexy because I look like a child. I was wearing a short skirt once and kept getting glares from people because they thought "oh, some parent is letting their kid dress like that."

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Whenever I go places that have kids prices for stuff I often get ticketed as a kid if I don't explicitly say I am an adult.

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Nobody is attracted to someone who resembles a child. The few people who have been attracted to me have all been, well, I don't think I have to say it.

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Last year, around this time, I asked one of the art subs if I was good enough for artfight and one person told me at my level, I should be doing focused practice instead. So I didn't do artfight and instead stuck to study. I studied and studied and studied until art wasn't even enjoyable anymore. Slogged through and hours of copying figures and poses into boxes, comparing, making notes, meticulously making sure everything lined up perfectly, throwing out the whole thing and starting from scratch if something didn't line up.

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I didn't improve. I don't know why, but I have barely improved. I've seen people improve more in a few days than I did in an entire year. My people look horrible, and worst of all, I am still making and not catching extremely basic proportional errors even though that's the thing I've been trying to drill for a year. I had to throw out a drawing because I didn't notice I made her legs WAY too small until someone else pointed it out and I'm so so so embarrassed and ashamed of myself for making a huge, extremely beginner error when I've been studying that exact thing for so long.

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I know once again artfight would be a waste of time for someone at my level and I should be studying instead. I hate myself for not improving fast enough. I'm watching all my good artist friends have fun and attack each other while I'm sitting here with my ugly ass art that nobody wants. (And I truly know nobody wants my art, I once asked for free art requests and no bites.)

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I'm trying to do all the right things. I'm trying to do all the boring work, the unfun stuff, the basics and slog and grind that everyone says will make you improve. But I just don't. My art looks like someone a few months along, not a year.

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I'm starting to doubt I'll ever be good enough for that damned contest. I know people will reply with "But it's for any level!" Which is technically true, but does anyone really want terrible art of their characters?