Wednesday September 3rd, 2008

TheAuthor · Wednesday September 3rd, 2008

Can't say I'm 100% happy with this page...more like...10% to 30%.

Tomorrow is my last day of work before I go on my ten day birthday vacation to celebrate...something...and updates will be happening. Hopefully I will be opening up a contest if people want to join in and also get some GF work done.

Speaking of GF work, I just ordered some comic-grade paper and some fancy-schmancy comic pens that should show up sometime soon and I'm hoping they will improve some of these shitty lines I can't seem to shake. Be on the look-out for trials, errors, frustrations and eventual failure pieces in my deviantART gallery (link)

Also, I really do appreciate you guys hanging in with me. I'm not the best artist or writer or friend or person, but it means a lot to me that you're here.

KitFang

Happy to be of help! ^_~

veridian

You're a better artist then I am Smile

Plus you're comics amazing, it's the one I check for updates all the time on.

TheAuthor

veridian

The only way i can draw is to spend hours upon hours on it. I do have my luck though with anime ever six or seven pictures.

KitFang

Yea, it takes me eons to draw anything too... -_- Someday I'll improve my speed....someday...

veridian

I think we just need more practice.

KitFang

True...but that is so hard to accomplish when every drawing takes so long to do. ;_;

Yea, I know...stop making excuses and DRAW. Pfft...I'm so lazy.

veridian

I'm to lazy, it's just I don't have barely any time anymore with the dogs and my nephew and forums Smile

TheAuthor

I was in a bit of a dip for a while (read: the hiatus) and I really didn't even feel like continuing drawing, writing or painting. I didn't see any point in it. I'll never be published or famous or well-known. I was artistically depressed, I suppose.

I wish I could share the secret of getting out of it, but one day I was like: "this is ridiculous. I don't care how bad my art looks, I feel great doing it. I know I've got a few readers and I can't handle disappointing people. Fuck this emo BS I'm going back to work."

So, yes, once in a while I do start to feel hopeless again, but now I've got this thing in the back of my head that says: "Fuck it, just do it."

Life's too short to lay on a fainting couch all day and wait for hot Greek men to bring you candies, fame and money (and their man meat). You just need to go with the motto:

FUCK IT. DO IT.

veridian

That's a good motto. I never feel really terrible about my writings or drawing because I know my brother sucks more then I do Smile

He's just starting out with basic writings, of course he's thirteen but I wrote my first novel at that age.

TheAuthor

That's step two: Find someone crappier than you and make it easier to roll around in your own crapulence.

Like being fat and seeing people fatter than you!

veridian

It's what I do... Anyway I don't consider my self fat, I consider myself prepared for winter.

TheAuthor

Round IS a shape, afterall.

veridian

Exactly, I'm in a shape... Smile

KitFang

I need a little more of that motto in me... I obsess forever on tiny details and then never get the damn thing finished. I need a drawing coach or something. lol Someone to sit there as I draw and be like "Ding! Time's up, move on to the next thing!"
"B-but the fingernail doesn't look right! Just let me--"
"Nope! Next!"
"But..."
"I said next."

rofl... "prepared for winter"--I like that. XD

veridian

Thanks, i think it's a pretty good excuse.

TheAuthor

I had to learn to draw fast and not fenagle with details in high school when classes were only like...50 minutes long or whatnot.

This practice doomed me in my 4 hour class where I had to learn detail (i.e. completely ruin a good piece because I had 3 hours and ten minutes to spare and needed to look busy).

You can practice yourself, y'know. Just get an egg timer. And if you're going to keep beating yourself up for failures and use them as anchors against working on other projects, you need to lighten up. Cut some ropes and shove off from the shoals into the ocean.

Watch out for hurricanes, ice bergs, sharks, the Bermuda Triangle and pirates while you're at it...

veridian

I don't have an egg timer... I guess I could cook a three pound turkey in the mircowave....

KitFang

Yea, that may be where my detail obsession began... In highschool, we had block scheduling, so classes were like 90min long. And some projects we'd work on for several weeks. I think I do pretty good work sometimes when I put the time into something, but I long for the freeness and playful lines of faster, more prolific artists.

You're very right. I do need to cut some anchor baggage...I shall endeavor to start right now! I was working on a drawing and doing well (pretty speedy by my standards--only like 7 or 8 hours to complete the posing, layout, sketch and half the coloring...) but then I had to decide how to do the details on something and have been stuck & unable to push forward for like 2 days. :/
Time to just do it. ::nod::

. . . I'm not sure it's possible to cook a turkey in the microwave... and I'm even less sure that a 3 pound turkey actually exists. o_O

TheAuthor

She could always use a capon. Mmm mmmm, bitch.

veridian

If not, I can just bake a cake. Food is a great time, especially when you get rewarded at the end. Very Happy

TheAuthor

I think eating the food is the reward. So really, unless you mix poorly, you can't lose with cooking.

veridian

Yep, too bad i can't time other things too. Timing my language studies... I wouldn't learn a whole lot but I wouldn't be hungry either.

TheAuthor

Tonight's dinner menu: Sirloin steak tips with Montreal steak seasoning. Mashed cauliflower. Microwaved brussel sprouts.

Honestly, I don't need to hear whether you like these things or not. I thought I'd give you the list in case you read in the paper "Frantic girl with mayo cake and steak tips burns self to death in idiotic way"

veridian

I doubt a paper would use the word 'idiotic' 'peculiar' maybe.