“Your reviewer toughness score is 20%. This means that 20% of the time you gave lower scores than the other reviewers of the submissions you reviewed. Reviewers are encouraged to maintain a toughness score closer to 50% so that they are working on roughly the same scale. You may want to update your reviews with this in mind.”
I wonder what is going to happen if all reviewers actually try to reach the 50% toughness level. Meanwhile, I will maintain my independent opinions.
This is a very impressive sculpture, especially given that Rodin made it from memory. My drawing is far less impressive, even from my beginner standard. I plan to revisit this one again.
Due to the need to ensure the dog I am sitting for a friend performed the morning biological dumps in both solid and liquid forms, I got on the train one second before the door closed.
I spotted this guy standing on the Palo Alto Caltrain station platform, and had only a few seconds to draw before the train departed.
I had a few more minutes drawing this girl sitting a few rows in front of me.
There were less than 40 minutes until closing when I arrived at the museum, so I picked an object suitable for quick sketch.
I did not notice that the sculpture indeed has only one year until finishing the drawing and looking at the artifact title.
I plan to come back and draw from a view that show both sides of the face.
Both took me about 1 hour before stopping for various reasons (museum closing, dinner time).
Daichi suggested me to spend more time and patience, as shown in his drawings
A colleague recently told me that he felt like being an imposter in our lab. I was surprised because in my view he has been very successful all around.
Many members of our research community feel likewise and need to shore up their facades. I guess we can all relax a bit once we realize everyone else is just like us.
Or you can be like me, too insensitive or self-absorbing to really care what others think about us. (I still pretend I do, mostly to fit in.)
🙂
Sighting people is a fascinating activity on public transports.
Below is my usual procedure.
Pick a subject that seems interesting and remains relatively stationary.
The subjects may move, but often come back to the original positions or cycle through a small set of configurations while sitting on a train.
Sketch as efficiently as possible without worrying about correctness.
Avoid direct eye contacts with the subjects.
This guy asked me what the train number is, and I said 193.
Sketch from memory of a toddler, whose face was partially blocked by his grandmother.
A sad-looking woman sitting with her dog looks fascinating, but the BART was too crowded for me to draw anything.
So I drew this lady with head scarf within a few seconds.
This double-chinned girl smiled brightly while typing on her cell phone, but turned back to her laptop with a grim expression.
There were about 2 hours between my meetings in the Moscone center.
I headed to SFMOMA only to realize it closes on Weds. Fortunately, the nearby St. Patrick’s church was open, so I went in and spent about 80 minutes drawing from a sculpture.
The church was very quiet and peaceful; downtrodden people napped on the benches, tourists wandered around, and church staff cleaned the floor.
Nobody really cared what I was doing.
A girl dropped by asking me if I was drawing St. Catherine. I told her that I don’t know.
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