a Tesla and a YouTuber
Hey there, person on the other side of the planet reading this fifteen word sentence!
Thanks for stopping by my post.
This is short post about my drawing progress on Carter PCs, the tech Tiktoker. You may have seen him on YouTube, Instagram or TikTok. He gives tech reviews and recommendations on his channel. But that's besides the point.
I have been on this drawing since January. Yes, January. (O, Theodora, you're such a... Yes, yes, I know, now shut up.)
Not that it's supposed to take that long, but because I abandoned it. I thought that school work would choke me. Yes, it did but at the same time, I could have squeezed some time for it, couldn't I? But I didn't. I used the time to watch YouTube videos.
I made a lot of progress during this exam season and yes, I got frustrated that my skills were regressing but after watching some videos of other hyperrealistic artists, I decided to be patient with myself.
And here are some shots from my progress. (That was the intension, anyway)
Verdammt! 😅 This is so gooood! How was Cara Delevigne, by the way? Still bald? Although I liked her bald...
😅 I unbalded her. Did you see the update on that post? I added pictures of me starting out on the hair, then I completely forgot to post a full writeup on it! 🤦
Wait. Didn't I post it? My, my.
😱 I revisited the post - you did halfheartedly unbald her!
You should've reposted it 😅 Did you finish it though? Or better yet: make her bald again 🤭 Kidding aside, you nailed the details on the hair!
Yeah, I did finish it. I thought I posted that on Discord.
Do you remember?
I'll make a proper post, now that I remember.
😲... The baby hairs! What a detail! I just don't have the words for this. I feel like you're faking your pear scribble last time... You know the scribbling contest we both joined in.
No, you didn't post this on discord. I would've known...
Please do.
Faking? Nein, nein. I wasn't faking it. I'm not good at pen art yet. It seems fun though.
Actually, no. It was actually the bald version of her I did post.
Can't take my eyes off these eyes. You nailed the details.
🤭
Wow! That's so real, looks like a photograph
Verdammt, @henryclive flucht jetzt sogar schon auf Deutsch!
But he's right: your work is damn good!!!
Sie lernt schon Deutsch, sogar bevor ich angefangen habe. So, it's fine - it's music to her ear. She once shared she'd like to visit Deutschland someday, while ich es nur in meinem Traum besuche. 🥲
Come on! Du wirst eines Tages Böckchen besuchen!
Dann spendiere ich dir auch einen Kaffee... 😇
By the way, is Erbse still around? I dreamt about sheep last night... They're all white but then, there's this particular lamb - dazzlingly white as if constantly gazed upon by the moonlight. The whitest of them all. And then I woke up and thought it was Erbse...
What a shame it was all a dream. It felt so real - Ich war sehr glücklich
Na klar!
All the lambs are still there. Firstly, I haven't managed to sell one (maybe that's a good thing...) and secondly, we've had a very good year so far: not a single lamb has died (they say 10-20% lamb mortality is normal), the animals are perfectly healthy and have survived every infection with aplomb.
I went out to the pasture yesterday just to take a photo of Erbse for you. She got new earrings yesterday (like her sister and all her half-siblings). She thinks she looks beautiful with the yellow jewellery in her ears. And now Erbse has a surname too: 77496 🫣
I’ve heard that when a ewe has triplets, things can get complicated (perhaps labor-intensive for you) - since she only has two teats.
Wow! I’m pretty sure that’s down to a shepherdess who actually loves her flock...and can't help naming them all out of sheer stubborn affection. 🙂
Thank you so, so much for the pictures and sorry for making you go to the trouble. But that’s exactly the sheep from my dream. There were so many of them, and I was so happy being among them… but I couldn’t even touch that particular lamb. Someone had taken her away, just out of pure admiration for how white she was. 🙁
I guess Erbse won't be around for long. Why would you name them... Now I get to know them as well. 😞
Is it just me, or does she know she’s being photographed? That leg pose feels a little too intentional. 🤭 Or maybe she just forages elegantly like that. Yes, the earrings looked good on her 🙂😞
Yes, the sheep only have two teats. In the case of triplets, the two strongest lambs prevail, the third usually remains a ‘Nücker’. But good, experienced ewes manage to distribute the milk fairly. However, these animals are often very emaciated because they cannot eat as much as they need to produce and distribute.
Don't worry, Erbse stays!
The yellow ‘earrings’ are ear tags with a number and an electronic chip inside. Livestock farmers are obliged to tag their animals before they are nine months old. I do it earlier because the cartilage in the ears is still quite soft. I imagine that piercing them hurts less that way. However, it's not ‘bad’ at all. The lambs flinch briefly and immediately love me again as if nothing had happened.
It’s also indicative of a very healthy ewe when she has triplets, isn’t it?
Ah, I didn’t know that. I thought those meant they were listed for sale. 😅 Sorry for getting upset.
chriddi, moecki and/or the-gorilla
Thank you very much