#this honestly probably means that if most modern staliens tried to write on clay traditionally itd look a bit slanted and sloppy

[chisatowo]

Scribbling ideas for stalien numbers and god this is breaking my brain fgnsjdnd

#rat rambles #oc posting #probably wont post it since Im not sure I wanna fully make official characters for them yet since again graphic design isnt my specialty #well more so Id need a lot of stuff I dont have to rly get the ~realism~ #for example stalien hands lol #mainly what Im stuck with is weather their characters would have any curves or not #their writing is traditionally carved with their thumbs so I feel like theyd naturally arc #but most of the actually movement is usually done with the arm #which I think would still probably have an arc but idk #also the shape of the fond itself rly depends on how indented it would be given that its done with their finger tip hoove nails #now either way I imagine itd look different if it could be seen on their like messaging apps and such #since usually most touch pads made for writing on their phones or computers are more made to be used with just movement of the hand #not that stalien tech has visual screens that you could see the writing on but still #this honestly probably means that if most modern staliens tried to write on clay traditionally itd look a bit slanted and sloppy #again I cant rly know for sure though since yknow. I dont have stalien hands gxngskdh #but yeah the bigger thing is abt actually knowing what to write for whatever numbers #because their number system is broken into threed and sixes #and also another part of designing the initial 5 numbers I need is makinf them all stackable ontop of eachother since thats how they write #double didgits and such #for example their number for 6 would be their 1 and 2 overlapped and up til 12 would be followed by the other single digit #and then once reached 12 the 2 in the combined number would be switcher with a 3 #and once they run through that past the 5 digit the first 1 would be switched to a 2 and would be overlayed by a slightly deeper 1 #oh and the second number overlayed is enscribed deeper to differenciate #oh and if both numbers are the same the second is made a lil shorter #and this goes until we get past 5 5 at which point the 5 5 is preserved and another 1 2 is added #and yeah you can see why this breaks my brain lol #its hard enough to read let alone write a specific number intentionally #like smaller numbers arent too hard but I think once you get past like 36 it starts getting rly confusing #cause thats when we enter the 3rd digits #wait itd actually be 43 my bad hmdhdkhd