Empty Triangle webcomics

#039 Single-digit kyu

A few weeks ago, I oficially reached 9k. I was considerably happy, but does that really mean anything significant? The leap between 1k and 1d is regarded as something extraordinary, but when I made my tiny step from DDK to SDK, I at least wanted to draw it :) I still think it is something special, I wonder how others feel about it. And, do others also have this nostalgic moments of thinking back to the times when they were total beginners? One can never un-learn his go skills, and I feel that being a complete beginner has something comforting about it..

#038 Learning to teach

The courses at the faculty of mathematics and physics are over! It was fun, and I learned how hard it is to teach. This strip rounds up what is partly my own expirience (like for example the attendees being horribly scared of me and I really did make cookies ^_^), and what I think may be a big mistake when teaching beginners.. going too deep might do more damage than not explaining enough - I kept forgetting to explain what ko is, but the players found out by themselves mostly anyway :D I am a bad teacher, but it's not something one can't learn with time, right?

#037 self-esteem course

You are saying this strip is crazy? I can't disagree. It is a good example for what sort of ideas one gets while standing in the shower at 2 a.m. after spending the whole day (and most of the night) hanging out on KGS. How would an empty triangle feel if a ponnuki (the "divine shape" from what I understand, being worth 30 points and god knows what else) would lecture it about how it, too, can become good and strong and etc, I wondered. Maybe the same way I feel when strong players tell me that I should believe in myself more... The drawing style is a bit different from the rest, mainly because I drew the outlines right away - so this strip holds the record concerning speed: it was drawn in something about 3 minutes :)

Artwork: E3A goes EGC 2008 (2008-05-29)

The european go congress 2008 will take place in Leksand, Sweden and emptytriangle.com will be present this time :) This picture I made to function as an invitation to come and meet me there - I will sit around somewhere selling t-shirts and posters there, so stop by if you are interested, or just want to say hi! I drew this using copic markers, and since it is my first pic using these, it turned out a bit clumsy.

Artwork: No Komi?! (2007-05-17)

After a looong time, a coloured artwork :) This picture was originally just a sketch - a friend asked me to draw something on his paper fan (what an honour), and wanted it to be something unusual.. so after one thoughtful night I came up with this. He liked it, so I transfered it to his fan - this is what it looks like - quite unusual, I'm pretty sure they don't sell fans like that at the Nihon Ki-in :D When I came home I decided to colour the sketch; and this is what came out.

Artwork: Blansko I. (2007-05-01)

Impressions from another awesome tourney in a small town called Blansko - there's me falling off the train, some DDR-playing guys, me showing #010 "shirt" to the guy on it... I hope I get to finish the second part of it one day :)