Category: Daily Creates

For the final week of Daily Creates, I completed the objectives from June 16th, June 19th, and June 20th. Here are the following creates:

June 16th: Tell a story in two images

This pair of images is directly inspired by Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, specifically the character Samuel Rodrigues. His whole character arc is that until he meets your player character (and duels you to the death shortly after) he’s been so disillusioned to needless violence that he no longer knows why he fights, nor if he can be anything other than a killing machine. I’m not exactly the best at drawing humanoids, so it’s a bit sloppy, but I think it tells a decent story the way it is.

June 19th: Take a Line for a Walk

I just opened GIMP for this one, held down the mouse with the Paintbrush tool active, then closed my eyes and steered it blindly for about 15 seconds. I’m surprised how somewhat isolated and almost neat the final line ended up being. The line started in the center of the screen, and happened to return to that point multiple times, which was unexpected.

June 20th: Write a shadorma

Sit and think
Listen to music
Tune out world
And practice
Again and again, repeat
Until perfection

If I had to list out my creative process into words, this is what it’d be. I usually just find somewhere to sit, put in my music, and just let myself zone out. Once I feel that I’m in fully immersed, I simply just mostly do the same thing over and over again until it reaches a point I’m happy with. Is this literally the textbook definition of insanity? Probably, but I’ve made decent stuff in my opinion by doing this, so clearly it works to some extent.

For the fourth week of Daily Creates, I completed the objectives from June 12th, June 14th, and June 15th. Here are the following creates:

June 12th: Wolfram Tones

An interesting way to create music to be sure. It’s cool that something like this is possible, but unless it can be improved substantially from where it’s at right now, I likely won’t be using this in the future. It’s hard to beat music written manually by a competent composer. Always fun to learn about something previously unknown to me, though.

June 14th: Poem Portrait

This is the very first time that I’ve shown my face on here, it’s a little bit nerve-wracking, but it is what it is. I chose the word Moss since I think it’s a neat plant, I felt there was a lot of potential for a poem, and it’s part of an inside joke between me and my friends. Not gonna lie, I’m kind of disappointed with what the AI could produce. Not surprised, I’m generally in the opinion that AI is generally worse than an actual person, but it’s still unfortunate it couldn’t do anything better than this.

June 15th: The Fake Shadow Knows

I don’t quite have the photoshopping skill to make it blend seamlessly, but here’s the shadow of my chair turned into a bird, specifically a finch. I am aware of the poor state the chair is currently in, but it’s still usable so I don’t really care. As for why I chose a finch, there wasn’t really any reason other than the general shape of it and the little sliver of light that came through a gap in the chair gave the image of a bird’s side profile.

For the second week of Daily Creates, I completed the objectives from May 26th, May 29th, and June 1st. Here are the following creates:

May 26th: Dark Side of the ds106 Moon #tdc4882

What mystery of ds106 lies on the side of the moon outside of our view? Show us in art.

A lot of times, it can be a bit of a struggle for me to find the motivation to get this work done, especially when I’m working from home. Naturally, since that leads to me putting things off till the last minute, it means that I frequently will end up just making stuff up to get the grades. I am aware it’s a habit that is important for me to break, not only for this class, but for any other, and I do my absolute best to avoid that situation, but the dark side of my moon is hard to keep hidden sometimes.

May 29th: Unparalleled Misalignments For Today’s Diurnal Concoction #tdc4885

Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Create one and then use it in authoritative message.

Fool’s Gold // Con’s Coin

Avoid the Con’s Coin, lest it make you believe in value that isn’t there.

I wanted to play off of the phrase “Fool’s Gold”, which is actually iron sulfide but looks incredibly similar to gold. As such, I turned the idea of the fool from the person being deceived to the one doing the deceiving, or if it’s simpler, the action of a Con being that of trickery and deceit. Then I took the meaning of gold from being the metal to being the currency, and turned it into a Coin. Therefore, the Con’s Coin.

June 1st: Dinosaur Day #tdc4888

June 1st is Dinosaur Day! If you were a DS106 dinosaur, what would you look like? Would you be a giant scary one or small cute cuddly one?

Unfortunately, I don’t have a self-made drawing of one, but I’ve always imagined myself as an Archaeopteryx. I commonly relate to birds, both because of a nickname and because I love their sense of freedom, and this is basically the original bird. Plus, I’m not exactly the strongest or largest, but I’d say I’m a pretty nimble and quick individual, just like this dino.

For my first week of Daily Creates, I’ve completed the objectives from May 23-25. Here are the following creates:

May 23: Lunar Explorations

“Use the Random Moon Name Generator to find a moon in our solar system, and then do something creative with your lunar discovery — draw a picture of the moon, share an interesting fact, write a poem, compose a story ….”

May 24: Environmental Sounds

“Record and share a sound happening in your local environment.”

May 25: Cyanometer

“‘According to Wikipedia, a cyanometer is “an instrument for measuring “blueness”, specifically the colour intensity of blue sky. It is attributed to Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Alexander von Humboldt. It consists of squares of paper dyed in graduated shades of blue and arranged in a color circle or square that can be held up and compared to the color of the sky’.

It’s probably too big of a task to make one from scratch for today’s Daily Create – although we’d love it if you did. Instead, why not visit Hello Cyanometer and browse though the images there, then remix one into something to share with us.

Alternatively, you could download one from Gavin Gough, print it and hold it up to measure the sky where you are.”