Do you like evolutionary biology, video games, anime, and drawing?

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These are my favorite lifelong passions.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Anime not so much despite being from Japan except my childhood nostalgia. I do have a soft spot for some of the 80s and early 90s shows I watched.

Sometimes video games. I'm very picky these days and don't game much anymore. I actually used to be a former gamedev.

Evolutionary biology is interesting to me along with psychology.

Drawing is one of my lifelong passions.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

For drawing, I really like to doodle all the time. I'm not very good at it and tend to just sort of improvise and scribble and see if I can find something in the scribble, like cloud-gazing. Tends to be quite messy and I usually find faces more than anything.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Little bit more rendered. Same process though. Just scribble and figure out what I can see in the scribble. I like to doodle a lot like this and just see what I can find in the scribble or graphite dust or the mess and see if I can spot something in the mess.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

My lighting and shadow are probably completely whack. I just kind of put highlights and shadows where it feels right to me in a 2D way without actually thinking properly about 3D forms and planes and whatnot. Unfortunately I've never really learned how to draw properly in a constructive way in 3D. I just doodle shapes in 2D.

[Asker]

One of the reasons I like anime is the art style doesn't care about realistic lighting or form, it cares about aesthetics and character and beauty and expression more than realism.

[Asker]

There are other art styles I like, but most of them follow that same surrealist trend, so I actually liket how you used the shadowing/lighting in the first pic you posted, but the linework from the second I like more.

[Asker]

The dragon ball fighterz game looking better than dragon ball xenoverse 2 is an example of how ignoring 3 dimensional logic can create better art sometimes, inversly, I also like super photorealism art as well.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I think I'm at least influenced somewhat by it. I miss the era of the traditional cel animation though. That seemed to end around the end of my youth as studios started switching to digital and most focus on post-production.

It's not just the look of the cel art but I think because traditional cel animation required such extensive planning, most anime in my time and earlier was mostly a faithful adaptation of the comic books, treating them like the storyboard and script and just animating the panels. So if the comic book (manga) was entertaining to read, the anime would usually be entertaining to watch.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

One of my favorites when I was a boy was Saint Seiya. I don't know if that was so popular outside of Japan but I've heard Italians really love the show.
https://youtu.be/Bu533OKYHyc

[Asker]

I remember watching the dubbed version of that show on cartoon network, can't remember if it was aired on toonami or adult swim though 🤔, and I only remember bits of it.

I also prefer traditional cell shading in anime. But in some cases cgi is done well enough to compensate. One of my favorite animation styles was in the dragon ball super broly movie, which I think was a mix of the 2?

[robhazelnut]

Relaxed drawing, especially one-page comics. The rest are wonderful pasttimes, though anime is hit or miss.

[4ngelic]

evolutionary biology kinda (nerdy ik. it's not like passion or anything though),

video games yea but never play any, except like subway surfers and bitlife lol

dont like anime

like drawing but dont really draw anymore, used to all the time though

[IslaTheWitch]

I do... and programming, psychology, hard SF, and long conversations :D

[Asker]

I like all those except psychology, because it's a pseudoscience in the professional field (its impossible to accurately assume a person's mentality because of personal preferences and intelligence level differences leading to different lines of logic and reasoning).

[IslaTheWitch]

actually, there are tools to measure a lot of elements of the human psyche, but if you don't like it I won't try to convince you :D
I have a master's degree in psychology, so I look at it a bit differently

[Asker]

Yeah that conversation would only end up being an argument because the tools are entirely refutable in practice, I'd rather stick to talking about my interests, the point of this post is too see if any likeminded people on on here, not to debate.

[Asker]

are on here*

[normalice]

Not drawing, no.

[strateguy632]

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