Sooo, I've got a tablet now
Yes, as the title says, as it's my birthday, my parents saw fit to provide me with a WACOM Bamboo tablet, size 5.8" by 3.7". Needless to say I'm excited about the possibilities it presents before me (particularly in the hopes of speeding up my drawing). On that note, however, it'll take some time for me to get used to it, so don't expect any big changes right away.
posted by Lewis Lovhaug at 3:40 PM
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Might I suggest playing some solitaire with your tablet and using it in place of your mouse for a while, that will really let you catch on to it quick. Rather quickly it will become second nature and you will find that you can make comics with ease.
Yay! Tablet! How's it going with that? I remember you were using a mouse before... I found a tablet came easily to me so yeah, I hope you like using it.
I like the metaphory stuff on this page. Light/dark and all that. :D
It's coming aong. ^^ In addition to Xade's suggestion, I've drawn a single pic I'll be inking completely with the tablet to test it out on. And thanks!
I did not know light bringer could do that
then again ive always said a hero needs to keep the scariest power they have in reserve
Lightbringer's powers are getting stronger all the time the more he uses them and knows what to do with them. ^_~
On the issue of the "dichotomy" of good and evil--- may I recommend CS Lewis' "Mere Christianity." Though some of his theology was amiss, he was a great scholar and thinker who dissected the philosophy of dualism quite thoroughly and effectively, exposing it for the falsehood that it is. He expresses it better himself, of course, but in summation the ideal that good and evil are equal and opposite is overthrown by one simple fact: that if they were truly equal, they would be both equally effective and produce equally desirable outcomes. But it takes little thought to realize that this is not the case.
Any student of life can see that invariably, the "benefits" of evil are short term and quickly eradicated, and then some, by the inevitable outcome of such. The payoff is worse than zero.
Or... the wages of Sin is death...
Good, on the other hand, prospers. It struggles and suffers, but that is because evil seeks to impede it, and its impediment only makes the inevitable positive outcome shine brighter.
Evil is not a counterbalance to Good. It is nothing but the absence of good. It is a nullity, an empty space which is yet to be filled, just as Darkness is merely a place where the light has not yet fallen. It is void and possesses no substance of its own.
I'll probably check it out. ^^
That assumes, however, that evil's only goal is to impede good. Evil acts can still be done for supposedly good causes but still in effect be evil. And if evil ONLY leads to short-term benefit, what about the people who managed to get away with evil and were never punished for it? Now, from a Christian standpoint we can argue that ultimately they'll be "rewarded" with damnation and hell for their crimes, but even I as a Christian have to admit that if my religion is wrong and it turns out that there is no God or heaven or hell, those who get away with evil enjoyed the full benefits of it with plenty of long-term advantages.
While I'll certainly agree that evil isn't equal to good, I will continue to contend it as an opposite but with different end results. It's a choice that leads down one path different than its fellow. But then again I also have kind of bizarre standards for good and evil, especially when it comes to ideas that some acts, regardless of intent or situation, are evil, but are forgivable offenses because of the circumstances around them.
Also, since Darkbringer wields an energy (admittedly, it's magic, but...) which is not light nor is it merely an absence of light, he'd probably disagree on the idea that darkness is not anything. ^_~
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