it's not even nine o'clock and i am already losing control of my day ~

[lookingland]

the definition of crazy is doing something over and over again expecting a different result.

the art of practice is doing something over and over again until you get it right.

is it just me or does anyone else see that the difference between these two things is merely a presupposition of success?

: o p

i promised myself that among my new year's resolutions i would stop making big pronouncements about the direction of my writing and art and try to work harder at resolving the problems i have with committing to a shape and a scope for what i want to do with the world i have created and in which i invested half of my life.

so instead of kicking myself today for feeling wholly inadequate to the task, i'll just share this morning's sketch.


the weirdest thing about drawing this was trying to flip the part in his hair to the right instead of the left. i was experimenting here with the glass/reflection aspect. the truth is, doing "effects" is easy with PhotoShop or Corel Painter. my problem continues to be the artwork itself.

i dunno what i am going to do with this. it's the composition for the first illustration for Stars in Their Courses, which, having finished at 22 pages (zooks!), i am now trying to cut. a good illustrator can draw things that the text then doesn't need to cover. i'm hoping to extirpate a lot of the narrative exposition by the time this is done, but it's going way slow. especially considering this was supposed to just be a little "throw-away" incident in the grand scheme of things.

i dunno.

i'm just going to plod at it and see what happens. at least, for a change, i have a "text" to work with that i feel is generally finished, even if it is mildly pointless.

edit: i am posting the sorta maybe final of this image (under a cut). not sure how i feel about how it came out.
i frutzed with the color a whole bunch, but me and color...well...yeah.

: o p

Comments

[msmcguire.livejournal.com]

Re: definition of crazy vs. art of practice: I think about this all the time, and am often not sure which one I am engaged in. Ahh, writing.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i think "practice" is the word we use to console ourselves when we know we're really just loons.

hahahahahaha ~

: D