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The moral of this story is to commission your favorite artists now before their style changes. Artists die every time we stop and start again. I'm relearning how to inkwash with these before I resume commissions as usual. My hand has lost its touch and it hurts to do it for too long.
That IS my attempt at imitating his style. He did have hair at that point. This was the board on which he drew classic after classic and it's a legacy of sorts, it feels like. (He left a career in missile physics to draw New Yorker cartoons and marry the attorney General. He's a story.)
I also rewatched the Szukalski documentary again. I'm glad my obsession with the guy is waning, he's kind of a terrible example of a human being, amazing as the art was. My conlang groups love his script face, but are aghast at Protong. "A language so primitive it has no grammar except it's all polish." "LiLaK AUnTse" literally means "The pouring, the pouring, you and me and them all were caught." It's too easy to get confirmation bias. I had a fun time translating everybody's name and seeing what came out.
I also made fried rice, and am kinda proud of finishing a recipe with so many steps.
Look, I promise once I interact with people again there will be dialogue in these. I haven't left the house since Wednesday. And what is the use of a comic, Alice thought, without pictures or conversations?
That IS my attempt at imitating his style. He did have hair at that point. This was the board on which he drew classic after classic and it's a legacy of sorts, it feels like. (He left a career in missile physics to draw New Yorker cartoons and marry the attorney General. He's a story.)
I also rewatched the Szukalski documentary again. I'm glad my obsession with the guy is waning, he's kind of a terrible example of a human being, amazing as the art was. My conlang groups love his script face, but are aghast at Protong. "A language so primitive it has no grammar except it's all polish." "LiLaK AUnTse" literally means "The pouring, the pouring, you and me and them all were caught." It's too easy to get confirmation bias. I had a fun time translating everybody's name and seeing what came out.
I also made fried rice, and am kinda proud of finishing a recipe with so many steps.
Look, I promise once I interact with people again there will be dialogue in these. I haven't left the house since Wednesday. And what is the use of a comic, Alice thought, without pictures or conversations?
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I was going to liken it to transitioning. X-year-old Lilac observed and studied and experimented and trialed and struggled and practiced and distilled until they presented a style truer to the one they once could only envision mentally?
(I was going to delete this comment, because it came out weirder than I intended and I worried I didn't examine all the implications of my analogy enough, but I also worried that hiding it would give a bad impression as well.)
(I was going to delete this comment, because it came out weirder than I intended and I worried I didn't examine all the implications of my analogy enough, but I also worried that hiding it would give a bad impression as well.)
No, that's... you actually pretty much nailed it. (I'm slow to comment because I post these all right before I fall asleep.) We learn to draw what we didn't know how to see yet. I just gotta have faith people are still improving- lots of artists I see go stagnant and I don't want to ever do that.
Nice work on the organization! <3 I hope you manage to make your dream workstation, there.
Is that your dad next to the 'budding' version of you, with Byrnes' desk? What animal did you make your father? Seems like a mustelid of some kind? :} - Also, it's cool that you have that desk!
I kind of agree with you and I kind of agree with SilverGriffin, it's both death of the past self and it's evolving. It's just that evolution involves the death of the past, but I mean.. that's not a bad thing. Life is growth, or it should be.
Also, your final thought of needing to live up to your past self, I think that's an unhealthy way to look at it. You are what your past has made you. Maybe you're a little rusty right now, sure, but you'll regain your practiced ways with practice. You haven't truly lost anything, and even if you had, your regaining of it will be faster and made better by the prior and new experiences, and it will all be part of your growth/evolution. It will all inform your style, your future.
I sometimes struggle with the thought of not living up to things I've done before, and it's not helpful, at all. You can only move forward, there is no way to do anything but be how you are right now and do whatever new thing you're doing, now.
Is that your dad next to the 'budding' version of you, with Byrnes' desk? What animal did you make your father? Seems like a mustelid of some kind? :} - Also, it's cool that you have that desk!
I kind of agree with you and I kind of agree with SilverGriffin, it's both death of the past self and it's evolving. It's just that evolution involves the death of the past, but I mean.. that's not a bad thing. Life is growth, or it should be.
Also, your final thought of needing to live up to your past self, I think that's an unhealthy way to look at it. You are what your past has made you. Maybe you're a little rusty right now, sure, but you'll regain your practiced ways with practice. You haven't truly lost anything, and even if you had, your regaining of it will be faster and made better by the prior and new experiences, and it will all be part of your growth/evolution. It will all inform your style, your future.
I sometimes struggle with the thought of not living up to things I've done before, and it's not helpful, at all. You can only move forward, there is no way to do anything but be how you are right now and do whatever new thing you're doing, now.
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