Intelligent Life

 

The Universe is such an enormous place. Filled with trillions of galaxies and yet to be determined structures.

Our own Galaxy is just the one, that we know has some intelligent life. Us.  At least some of us.

And after decades, one of our Voyager probes only recently left our own Solar System.  It is estimated it will take another 40,000 years to reach another star system.

We, our science and engineering may still just be too primitive, but our current understanding is going fast enough to travel galactic distances in a fraction of a human life time is "impossible".  

Don't know what technology will exist in 100,000 years though. But pretty sure humans as we are today will have evolved into something else. Evolution has not stopped.

There must be so much Intelligent Life out there though...  

This is, maybe, the 3rd or 4th time I have done one of these on this subject. I expect it isn't the last either.  

And we bought a One By WACOM (R) to replace our now dead MEDIUM INTUOS WACOM (L) Tablet.

I was surprised to find the active area is the same size as the old one, or close enough it doesn't matter to me. The old one had buttons and you could use your fingers to rotate the display, but I hated that stuff and never used them and had finger control turned off.

The new one doesn't have that stuff and I don't care, and will not miss it. The old one has 4096 levels of pressure and the new one "only" 2048.   

From a quick test, I didn't notice any difference for pen pressure. I don't draw on tablet though, or VERY rarely. I find it very uncomfortable. I do my drawing with pencil/pen on paper then scan that.  I only use the tablet to edit scanned pencil line work sometimes, and the rest is airbrush color.  Select size of brush and fade, then set 8% or 14% pressure and built up the color slowly, for digital painting stuff, like the alien above.  

I had planned to color this guy with watercolors. But with other things going on yesterday, I stuck to Photoshop color, based around rendering clouds.

Edit: 2025/6/11 So powered up my older Clip Studio Paint and tried the watercolor brushes there with the tablet.

Been a few years since I touched CSP and don't remember touching their watercolor features before. I Need practice in the different brush effects, but they are giving a lovely effect! Love the splotchy watercolor look achieved here, and much prefer the color selector and features here over my old Photoshop. 

Indeed, Intelligent Life is a very rare thing, social media shows that very clearly...

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