CIRCLE WITH A DOT

As is often the case I am very pleased with the pencil sketch of this week's #portraitchallenge but find painting impossible! After trying many different options for the hair I stuck with this boring one but how are you actually supposed to start laying down tone in #krita? I need to watch some tutorials. It seems like there should be some blending mode or layer set up which does what I want... whatever that is!

#kleinekunstklasse #mastoart #drawing #digitalart

@0xabad1dea as someone who has had to read mimeographed notes, that caption is worthy of Douglas Adams

@silentexception Careful, you'll summon @SmartmanApps who will try to insist that he can "prove" that the only possible answer is 1. He can't, but he will certainly persist in increasingly unhinged bullshit to avoid admitting any error.

There is an additional nuance here which is that the multiplication in this expression - which is only implied, not denoted symbolically - is *typically* read as having a higher precedence than division, even though the *typical* practice is to otherwise perform multiplications and divisions from left to right.

This is almost *never* articulated explicitly in mathematics education as far as I can tell, so such expressions are rightfully seen as ambiguous.

The aforementioned user insists that 2(2 + 2) does not express multiplication (as would 2×(2+2)) but something else that he calls a "product". This is, of course, nonsense; a product is nothing more than the result of multiplication; 2(2 + 2) is just as much a product as 2×(2+2) is.

He then misreads certain explanations of how to simplify expressions using the distributive law as an instruction to apply the distributive law before all else, so, to him, this means expressing 2(2 + 2) as 4 + 4 *must* be done before anything else. He ignores the fact that textbooks show the evaluation of expressions in different orders, and that, when applied to an expression such as 2(a)³, it would have us rewrite it as (2a)³! (And then by ordinary laws of indices, this is (2a)¹⁺² = (2a)¹(2a)² = (2a)(2a)² = (2a2a)² = (2a)⁴ !!!)

Now you are forearmed in case this cyberbully happens upon you. I apologise for dumping this on you, and not in your native language as well, but hopefully you find it interesting/useful.

@MostlyDrawing fantastic!

@schnagi bleh!

@Durcheinanderin sehr Goth!

Cornflour in the sink
#photography #macro #texture

@minouette oh man, I remember reading about his discovery in a Horrible Science book as a kid.

@SecondUniverse @hollie genuinely!

I resolved to spend less time on this week's #portraitchallenge and succeeded at that. TFW you're not as good as John Sargent though

#kleineKunstklasse #mastoArt #sketch #krita #art #digitalart