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ochazake.bsky.social
@ochazake.bsky.social
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artist, software engineer, cat parent. 日本語OK。中文沒問題。
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bicycleidiot.bsky.social
RIP Kaleb Horton
kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/
I also have advice. Everybody loves reading advice on the computer, so I'll share it: the best thing you can do right now is log off as hard as you can. Go outside, talk to people in real life where it's actually kind of rude to talk about the news, try to actually see the friends you usually just text message. Go for a long drive and turn the phone off while you do it. Get back into your hobbies or pick one and learn it for a while. Watch one of those studio movies that reviews called "wildly miscalculated" and you haven't seen since high school. Play an album you like but find embarrassing. Go to free community events even if they sound stupid. If you take the freeway, try the surface streets. Go to a bad diner and just order some bad coffee because even bad coffee is good coffee. You can't help anybody when you're exhausted and keep posting one million college-educated rewordings of "I would love to be dead right now" on the computer. Walk away from the thing and try out some of those normal things you hear about and if you get bored that's wonderful because we're not supposed to get bored anymore. It turns out boredom is the Cadillac of feelings.
September 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
ochazake.bsky.social
New Vega & Ko comic, after three years of hiatus.

Read from the beginning: vegako.webcomic.ws/comics/1
September 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
I have submitted my two weeks' notice for my job
ochazake.bsky.social ochazake.bsky.social @ochazake.bsky.social · Aug 2
I would like to quit my job
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
'Antique in a House' - Minagawa Taizo, ca. 1960s.
#JapaneseArt
Inside a traditional Japanese home with folk art decorations. A black cat can be seen lazing on the tatami.
May 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
I would like to quit my job
August 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ochazake.bsky.social
I have a policy on LinkedIn to add everybody who adds me. As a result I think I should start amassing a(n anti-) trophy room of the best(worst) posts I've seen
we don't hire developers who don't use AI weird flex where author takes a sweaty, desperate candidate and tells them they'll make a motivational linkedin story about them guy thinks LLM tutorial was the best part of his weekend lady forgives skip-level manager for texting her "I love you" in a work chat
June 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
bird of paradise flower
bird of paradise flower illustration
May 2, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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lilblueorchid.bsky.social
Despite everything, it's still you...
A painting of several lilypads, under the sunset over water. The light of the sun paints the whole picutre soft orange, with sparkly drops of water over the lilypads Under the painting is written "Despite everything, it's still you"
April 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
ochazake.bsky.social
I even rolled out the red carpet. Let's hang

#blender #art #b3d
Art deco bar modeled in Blender with lots of free assets from Sketchfab
March 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
20 minutes
March 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
this bar is a cool place. you should come
March 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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tommchenry.bsky.social
Posting GARY PANTER'S SKETCHBOOK TIPS to save a life -- the site that used to host these took em down years ago, and they are as useful a list about this kind of thing as you will ever find.

They are like a favorite dogeared paperback to me.
INTRODUCTION Get a book-size (or paperback-size)d sketchbook. Write your name and date on an early page and maybe think of a name for it — and if you want, write the book’s name there at the front. Make it into your little painful pal. The pain goes away slowly page by page. Fill it up and do another one. It can be hard to get started. Don’t flunk yourself before you get the ball rolling. You might want to draw more realistically or in perspective or so it looks slick — that’s is possible and there are tricks and procedures for drawing with more realism if you desire it. But drawing very realistically with great finesse can sometimes produce dead uninteresting drawings — relative, that is, to a drawing with heart and charm and effort but no great finesse. You can make all kinds of rules for your art making, but for starting in a sketchbook, you need to jump in and get over the intimidation part — by messing up a few pages, ripping them out if need be. Waste all the pages you want by drawing a tic-tac-toe schematic or something, painting them black, just doodle. Every drawing will make you a little better. Every little attempt is a step in the direction of drawing becoming a part of your life. TIPS 1. Quickly subdivide a page into a bunch of boxes by drawing a set of generally equidistant vertical lines, then a set of horizontal lines so that you have between 6 and 12 boxes or so on the page. In each box, in turn, in the simplest way possible, name every object you can think of and draw each thing in a box, not repeating. If it is fun, keep doing this on following pages until you get tired or can’t think of more nouns. Now you see that you have some kind of ability to typify the objects in your world and that in some sense you can draw anything. 2. Choose one of the objects that came to mind that you drew and devote one page to drawing that object with your eyes closed, starting at the “nose” of the object (in outline or silhouette might be good) and following the contour you see in your mind’s eye, describing to yourself in minute detail what you know about the object. You can use your free hand to keep track of the edge of the paper and ideally your starting point so that you can work your way back to the designated nose. Don’t worry about proportion or good drawing this is all about memory and moving your hand to find the shapes you are remembering. The drawing will be a mess, but if you take your time, you will see that you know a lot more about the object than you thought. 3. Trace some drawings you like to see better what the artist’s pencil or pen is doing. Tracing helps you observe closer. Copy art you like — it can’t hurt. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 4. Most people (even your favorite artists) don’t like their drawings as much as they want to. Why? Because it is easy to imagine something better. This is only ambition, which is not a bad thing — but if you can accept what you are doing, of course you will progress quicker to a more satisfying level and also accidentally make perfectly charming drawings even if they embarrass you. 5. Draw a bunch more boxes and walk down a sidewalk or two documenting where the cracks and gum and splotches and leaves and mowed grass bits are on the square. Do a bunch of those. That is how nature arranges and composes stuff. Remember these ideas — they are in your sketchbook. 6. Sit somewhere and draw fast little drawings of people who are far away enough that you can only see the big simple shapes of their coats and bags and arms and hats and feet. Draw a lot of them. People are alike yet not — reduce them to simple and achievable shapes. 7. To get better with figure drawing, get someone to pose — or use photos — and do slow drawing of hands, feet, elbows, knees, and ankles. Drawing all the bones in a skeleton is also good, because it will help you see how the bones in the arms and legs cross each other and affect the arms’ and legs’ exterior shapes. When you draw a head from the side make sure you indicate enough room behind the ears for the brain case. 8. Do line drawings looking for the big shapes, and tonal drawing observing the light situation of your subject — that is, where the light is coming from and where it makes shapes in shade on the form, and where light reflects back onto the dark areas sometimes. 9. To draw the scene in front of you, choose the middle thing in your drawing and put it in the middle of your page — then add on to the drawing from the center of the page out. 10. Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further. Be like a river and accept everything.
March 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
welcome to my bar
A minimal bar scene rendered in Blender
February 28, 2025 at 6:37 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
LET THERE BE (A PENDANT) LIGHT
A pendant light rendered in Blender
February 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
it's party time
liquor bottles made in Blender
February 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
Forgot my phone while trying to go to the gym in the morning, also didn't read the weather forecast before riding my bicycle to the train station... today is a kinda brainless day, will stay home in the evening to minimize casualties
February 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
Vega somehow always looks like Ko's mom these days
cats staring outside cats side by side
February 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
my neighbor WhatsApp group talking about the one neighbor who doesn't have WhatsApp. he resides in the sewer and is a known resident
raccoon
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
ochazake.bsky.social
"Jack of all trades master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one."

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."

REMAIN DEAD AND CURIOUS. NO MASTERY ONLY JACKERY
February 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
春節快樂! Happy Lunar New Year!

#yearofthesnake #lunarnewyear #illustration
February 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
I'm taking an intro to Blender class, and here is my homework 1! (assemble a scene with at least 10 objects. these are all from Sketchfab)

(it's like low-budget Animal Crossing on hard mode 💀)

(this took me 4 hours 🪦)
January 31, 2025 at 5:23 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
I tried to order beef jerky from a company in California, relatively local + artisanal + good on the conscience despite being meat blah blah blah and

USPS fucking routed my package to HAWAII???

genuinely no ethical consumption under capitalism, utterly bewildering
January 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
ochazake.bsky.social
新年快樂！恭喜發財！蛇蛇平安！
January 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
ochazake.bsky.social
40 minute drawing of a candle at the bar
January 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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magnoliapearl.bsky.social
I think when you consume art you just have to know that it was made by people and people can be bad, even evil. It’s up to you to decide where your personal line is to continue to enjoy their work or not. For me it’s kinda case-by-case. But there is no category of person that is “safe”.
January 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM