Drawing tablets are indeed fun.

Some recent stuff:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/Sketches/20160117_00001_002.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/Sketches/20160202_00001_003.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/Sketches/20160202_00001_004.jpg

Why do I now feel like someone out there is now writing a Mike-numlocked fanfic?

I'm pretty terrible at architecture, so I've been practicing.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/Sketches/20160111_00001_002.jpg

The last one looks a lot like Sideshow to me.

I just can't put my finger on it.

http://imgur.com/a/yYpm2

Discuss.

Isn't this something that could be modified by Valve for the release of matchmaking?

lol, I've been saying this for at least a year now. All they would have to do is redesign it like a jet burner, and it wouldn't even need to be lightning based and break the thematic 'Pyromaniac' part of the Pyro.

Porting TF2 to a newer engine would be a matter of re-using major existing game assets(models, animations, textures) in the new engine, then re-implementing stuff like lighting, particles, physics via the new engine. Additionally, most of the FPS optimisation that will come from switching to a new engine will very likely come primarily from the engine being able to utilise the GPU more efficiently for FPS-heavy stuff like particles, materials and lighting. The current models and textures in TF2 are actually reasonably well optimised, besides which, polygons are probably the least FPS-intensive assets in a modern game engine like Source 2.

Of course, the amount of work this would take, and whether or not they'd be willing to put in the effort I can't say.

Yeah, just me providing redundant information because I'm still using b7

Wow, that's a great website. I actually found some places. Going to look into it, thanks.

Surface Pro 4. Want so bad.

Well, damn. At the very least there's a workshop in my city that has people who might know where I can find the stuff I need.

Wow, now I want to do something like that. I have access to a 3D printer and can pretty easily make the 3D model, but need to figure out if I can find a silversmith who will cast that thing.

Some life-drawing from sculptures at a museum:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/20151125_00001_002.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/20151125_00002_001.jpg

My first life-drawing session with an actual model. Kind of messed up the shading in two places, and made the side of her face a bit too wide, but otherwise happy with it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19664301/Artwork/20151206_00001_002.jpg

It works, but I wouldn't recommend using DSEO to put your computer in test mode, as it seems to do so only for the next restart. After that you end up with a non-working mouse and will have to go into advanced startup to disable signature enforcement again. Instead of DSEO, open a command shell with admin priveleges and enter

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

That will basically accomplish the same thing(disabling signature enforcement, and enabling test mode) and you can then follow the remaining steps.

I've only ever owned 3 'gaming' mousepads over the course of 6-7 years, out of which two have been hard pads(Roccat Sota and Alumic). The biggest fear I had buying hard pads was that they would "eat mouse feet up like crazy", but that doesn't apply to every hard pad out there. As for control; yes, you lose some control initially, but your hand does get used to it eventually. I've actually come to prefer the minimal friction you get when using a hard pad.

If I had to break it down, what I like about hard pads is the minimal friction, durability and absolute ease of cleaning. On the other hand, the main thing that bothers me is when dust or dirt gets on the mousepad. Of course you can just brush the dirt off with your hand pretty easily, and it doesn't happen more than 2-3 times in an hour, in my experience.