"THE ONE HIVE IS REAL!"
(I shall be the Pirate Queen!)
After 44 days, i have reached illustration level art!
Sorry to everyone when i suddenly went total black out. I have been facing alot of issues, but the biggest factor was a self-reflection and possibly no-internet connection. UWU
I took for granted the wifi connection at Aunties house. Realizing on the 1st week staying with my lola (Grandma relative). Wasn't high tech as to be expected in a 3rd world country and a room that looks worse than most prisons within USA Murica.
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Where should i begin.
I guess to start with its
Grrrrrrrrrrr i wanna sleep but, my exitement as im writing this post for people. Especially those humans from OCD and HivePH Communities.
Getting very little sleep (2-4hrs) With the rest spent on.
Preparing my day (1hrs)
Commute (1:30hr x 2) *Back and forth
College (2:30hrs - 3:45hrs / 6days a week)
Study (1hr)
Homework (1-2hrs)
Chores (30min)
Sleep (2-4hrs)
Leisure (1-2hrs)
ART ART ART ART (6hrs - HOWEVER I FEEL LIKE)(*Grrrr)
First of all, yessss. The website looks like it was made in 2000s, im having a migraine especially since we use it regularly.
Submissions of task
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MCL Black Board
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One MCL
Emails
- Outlook
- Microsoft Teams
Im starting to hear voices in my head and i agree to an extent on what they say.
But i should save this topic on another post.
After my 507th layer and 44days later
The Image displayed on Peakd got compressed so much. GRRRRRRRRR
So i placed a link to a discord attachment address, the cover is 1280 x 720 only. BRUH! That's like 1/4th the total number of pixels. I suggest clicking on the link or google drive to see the images with as much detail as possible.
Hmm, which part should i start 1st.
Ughh
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Ohh right, how about i mention my drawing of the OCD waifu from 1-year ago.
https://peakd.com/artbees/@takuri/starting-from-the-top-with-a-hat
This was on Jan,21,2023. After finding my @takuri account stored in a USB. After a year or so after the dog blunder i did, i tried coming back. Already apologized at the time and asked for forgiveness for those i affected, if im going to step-into this crypto thing once more. I should at least do something to make amends. The only thing i could provide was my art.
Although at the time i was a 16-17yrs old kiddo dealing with alot of abuse. I know keeping myself composed and calm should have been the proper way of handling things.
Looking back at it, a 16yrs old kid doing crypto stuff is already a HUGE RED FLAG.
Here is my 1st and 2nd post, this was on steemit.
https://peakd.com/introduction/@takuri/hello
https://peakd.com/digitalart/@takuri/a-long-while-ago-2-weeks
We moved into the city when i was 14yrs old. For the entirety of my life until then was within in a 20km radius around a rural rice farm village. This was my 7th time visiting a town/city and i finally get to live with my father of whom was absent during my childhood. He only showed up for about 0-15 days a year in my life, working as an OFW *(Overseas Filipino Worker).
To keep things short.
- City life shock
- Smog filled air
- Km Commute distance
- City laws and School codes
- Absentee Father
- Drug and Crime heavy neighborhood
- Cannot touch grass or trees *(All concrete)
It would have been fine, but i dunno why. Perhaps this was the year alot of bomb-shells was dropped on me.
My father is a electrical engineer, initially i thought it was cool of him traveling abroad to work was pretty cool. I had ideas of my head of him being inside of USA or Germany and earn lots of money, turns out he was working on places like Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.
No offense to those folks. Lets just say, he wasn't earning much more than what a Filipino working inside of Philippines would make. The main reason he worked there was simply hold a job locally for more than a couple months for him is impossible, because of his ego and drinking problem. So applying for overseas work was a better alternative because of the demand and less competition.
Saudi and Nigeria are in need of English speaking electrical engineers during the 90s and late 2010s. A lot of Filipino's that couldn't work within the Philippines usually ended up here because of our fluent English and cheap labor.
I have to admit that, working overseas can be tough.
For the decades he spent traveling, im not sure why he didn't climb the corporate ladder. The highest he was able to reach was floor manager at some Nigerian soda factory, making sure the electrical section stay operational.
Downward Spiral - Didn't keep up or improve his craft: Back in the 90s, Capable of installing a light bulb could have gotten you a middle income job here in the Philippines. Nowadays, Engineering students are required to code. *He struggles to use Microsoft Word
- Spent his savings on Jewelry, Vehicles, luxury good and LOTS AND LOTS OF BOOZE!
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Didn't innovate/invent a product: Most successful engineers that reached higher positions like chief or director used their knowledge to create patents that helped the company or earn money as a side project.
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Lack of company loyalty: During his years abroad, if one company offered a slightly higher pay. He would take it at a drop of the hat. Although he works overseas, its not like he becomes a regular employee for years. Companies hire my father as a contractor, if getting fired was common. Because of the job market at the time, getting hired within a month or two was just as easy.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr, i must avoid making this post into a 7k word documentation. Alright Flashback to current me.
9-Months Ago
Today
The only thing i could say is. @zeroooc
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH
MUAUHAHAHAHHA
I was expecting around 10yrs for me to catch up to your art level, but by the looking at the pace im going. Probably around a few more years before i catch up and WHOOP your buttocks.
Same for @jijisaurart, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR youuuuu think just because your a ranker of the Splinterlands art contest means you win. NEVER! I reject the notion that i shall lose to a Berry bush burner.
Yess im going to bring up the law of causality that states:
"The longer Takuri plays a game of Don't Starve Together with JIJI, the higher the likelyhood of Taku's Berry bush farm getting destroyed increases exponentially"
We have played for about a dozen hours now, 5-worlds. And in all of those games, my Berry bush farm always gets destroyed within the first 30-days in game (3hrs)
Grrrrrrrr, I was fighting a pack of wolves by myself. JIJI just watched with joy and ecstasy as i got shredded into tiny bits and pieces.
After i was deds, JIJI just accepted her fate.
Apparently @demotry had set the world to nightmare/Iron-man mode. *If everyone dies the world is deleted.
The Start of my +300hrs Training
Sketch
This started 2-days after i posted , Sorry @wittyzell https://peakd.com/hiveph/@takuri/my-update-about-being-kicked-out-situation
I was doing some self-reflection. Thinking back about a year ago, getting commissions here and there was epic. But if i wanted to get a job i needed to get serious.
So i started looking for gigs online such as Linkedin, Facebook Marketplace, Fiverr, Discord-servers and local area. The only ones available at the time were commissions, i took the one's i was able to get and tried my best to land a job. Be it Salary, Project based or contractual.
However there were many hurdles of which im going to simplify into five factors.
- Time difference: Im not sure about you, but the majority of the people i interact with are within the American or European Continent. I have a 11-13hrs difference for Americans and 7-9hrs for Europeans.
This is very bad not only for me but for my fellow partners, Not only did they had to factor in my awful schedule compatibility and me usually sleepy (2am) during meetings.
- Distance: HMMmmmm, i live in on a Archipelago. Mountainous jungle island chain with a distance of more than +10,000km
To put it bluntly, im super far away.
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No College degree or passport: Just this alone, eliminated me from the majority of official company positions. Both foreign and local studios, *Imagine hiring some 3rd-worlder Filipino kid.
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Domestic Competition: Considering the hurdles the employer has to go through just for me, yeah. Hiring your local fellow American/European artist is much much better than hiring me. Even if my monetary compensation is much smaller, the hassle is just not worth it.
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AI Grifters: The damage to beginner-Amateur artist,editors,musicians, basically all digital creative field has been gutted. Unless its a tight nit community or you have some fame. Getting commissions at this level is almost none-existent now.
The life-line ladder has been rugged pulled, either you get a college degree or spend over a decade with no form compensation mastering a skill to industry level just to even start earning your first $1
All stolen work, the individuals and starving artist has reached a new low. "Helping the common folk" has been the biggest grift to screw over normal guys for the profits of a few companies.
Last i remember piracy was for the little guys, fighting the super greedy companies.
Didn't knew companies could pirate billions of images toss em into a blender and monetize it with no consequence.
NICE!
Keeping all these points in mind. I only have a few options.
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Work labor at chemical factories / sweatshops
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Just end it all
(Commit Suicide) -
GET GUD
AND SO I WORKED MY ASS OFF TO FIX THE SKILL ISSUE. GETTING CONSISTENT COMMISSIONS AND HIGH PAYING ONES. TEAMS, PROJECTS, STUDIOS WILLING TO GO BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR ME EMOTIONAL SUPPORT WHOOOOPING @ZEROOOC SENDING @jijisaurart FLYING
Character
First of all yess, i did all the line art by hand. If i start using the line tool like what the videos suggested. My art skill won't improve as much as I'd like to.
But it's mostly because i wanna test myself with this new found POWER!
For the ship reference i used
