Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Sound Effects, Summer Holiday

Two very busy days. Spent most of yesterday updating and reviewing my IndieSFX sound effects, almost 50x sets of (normally) 100 sound effects. Many have a graphical icon for each one, but many only have a generic one. Some have a sound list with descriptions, but only about 8. Yesterday I made a spreadsheet sound list for every set, a tedious mechanical process. I would like to refurbish and fix up the full library.

Painting today, the third of the English Triptych called Summer Holiday. Here it is so far:

It's generally used cobalt turquoise colours for the blues, and light red and the faux-Naples yellow for the flesh. My 'default' flesh mix uses mars violet but here I wanted something warmer which might suffice for one layer.

Windows keeps wanting to update my graphics drivers to faulty ones. The drivers that came with it work fine, also over time, a lot of what is added is actually negative or useless anyway, such as general spy-like additions or 'custom' setups for lots of different games, which are nothing special. The whole concept of continual updates is inefficient, of course there is an analogue in medicine, with a population where most people are on a long term prescription.