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YOU EAT A DICK NYUGA!!! YOU EAT A DICK!!!!!
Monday, January 2, 2012
You'll never work in Tokyo again!
Eh. I've done a million online videos and message board posts. I guess I can live with that.... XD
Drawing Process Strategy
So just today, as in just recently, I've realized I should probably start incorporating strategy and strategic elements into my drawing process. For pencilling and inking if nothing else. And your pencilling process starts with the art and drawing supplies you use. I've realized my pencil methods up till today had been primative and ass backwards. I used a mechanical pencil for pencilling my pages. No wonder I kept messing up the lines. Until today, I didn't actually wrap my mind around the fact that good pencilling often happens in stages and revisions, not all at once. For my pencilling first draft, I've begun using a light blue Prismacolor pencil for pencilling first attempts.
Sure, it has its drawbacks (you can barely see the image your pencilling at first, the line is so delicate and light, no matter how hard you pencil.)
But once I went over the blue line first draft pencil sketch with a cleaned up darker pencil, I made noticeably fewer mistakes with my line textures, and my pencilling line was more clean and less shakey.
Worked like a charm! I can't believe I never tried to incorporate strategy into the drawing process itself before. Drawing supplies need strategy too, if you want to take art seriously.
And this is after only 2 to 3 attempts and very simple sketches WITH the light blue Prismacolor erasable pencil. It really did make that much of a difference in my art. Just thought I felt the need to write about it, to help other artists who might be heavy handed and have problems with line weight.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Well,
I've survived off of parental employment / generosity, social security, and luck, and managed to keep off the streets and away from Death by not being too unfortunate for this long. I doubt I'll make a living on my aspirations either. It's just like being a hobo and vagabond, except I live in a North American house and always stay in one place. No one's going to give me jack shit other than what already is provided me.
My Google Adsense "Salary". How much Google actually pays me for what I contribute...
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2012 Entries: Money
Back on the subject of money. If you're just starting off as an artist, or want to become a Master artist like myself, don't worry about money. Concern over getting paid will only take away from your art, distract you from your art and get you into trouble. Plus it will reduce the quality of your artwork. Many of the best drawings I did when I was thinking about enjoying drawing. Money had nothing to do with it.
Leave money worries to your producers, agents, publishers, studios, and editors. Let them assess things financially, and your agent as well. Don't strategize about money if you're just an artist trying to do good work. Money gets in the way of quality, far as art is concerned. Thinking about money will do nothing more than simply always and inevitably lead to you realizing you're never getting paid enough, or what your worth, or at all. Money concerns don't help people become better artists.
As for the market! It's simpler than it looks. TV works like this: Whoever is actually on TV, whoever has the show that YOU'RE WATCHING on TV is doing pretty well for themselves. Is Spongebob constantly in your face yelling things at you through your TV that annoy you. Well, the Spongebob staff's doing pretty well for themselves if that's the case. Is Steven Colbert and Seth MacFarlane lecturing you again. Gee, wonder how they got so rich. In TV, in big media business: Getting airtime and viewer attention (but only on a contractual basis) = a bigger paycheck. Whoever's got your attention on TV is the one making the most money. It doesn't necessarily work that way most of the time online though. The pay structure on the internet is a little more shady legally, and a little more harsh. Scratch that. A lot more harsh.
As for the market! It's simpler than it looks. TV works like this: Whoever is actually on TV, whoever has the show that YOU'RE WATCHING on TV is doing pretty well for themselves. Is Spongebob constantly in your face yelling things at you through your TV that annoy you. Well, the Spongebob staff's doing pretty well for themselves if that's the case. Is Steven Colbert and Seth MacFarlane lecturing you again. Gee, wonder how they got so rich. In TV, in big media business: Getting airtime and viewer attention (but only on a contractual basis) = a bigger paycheck. Whoever's got your attention on TV is the one making the most money. It doesn't necessarily work that way most of the time online though. The pay structure on the internet is a little more shady legally, and a little more harsh. Scratch that. A lot more harsh.
The Power List Propaganda: And Why It's Bullshit, Why You Shouldn't Ever Draw For Money
I used to be fooled by propaganda, just like everyone else.
The media wants us to believe that the only people whose art is worth anything are the ones that get media attention, press releases, and paychecks.
Bullshit I say!
Money does not define how good an artist is. It never has and it never will. Only art does that. Just because another artist is famous and more powerful (i.e. makes 1,000 more profit and money) does not make him or her better. That's the biggest crock of shit I ever used to believe, just like most artists do. It's a lie. It's a fantasy. Money does not define worth in art. It never has and it never will.
You want power media? You want fucking power???
OK. Here goes.
Barack Obama. Anonymous. Me. Steve Jobs. Charlie Sheen. Britney Spears. Mark Zuckerberg. Justin Bieber. Twitter.
You control thee conversation, you control the power. You ARE the conversation. You ARE the power. The media's too full of shit to tell you this.
If all you can do is talk about or mimic me, then that really only means I have power over you, doesn't it. Just because you're dissing me doesn't mean I'm not controlling your conversation. Controlling ALL dialogue and conversation really. That is what I do. If all you can do is talk about me and only me every 5 minutes, that means I'm the one that controls the power. The subject of the conversation, the one who is responsible for the conversation, the subject being discussed, is the one WITH the power. NOT the losers discussing it.
You want power media? You want fucking power???
OK. Here goes.
Barack Obama. Anonymous. Me. Steve Jobs. Charlie Sheen. Britney Spears. Mark Zuckerberg. Justin Bieber. Twitter.
You control thee conversation, you control the power. You ARE the conversation. You ARE the power. The media's too full of shit to tell you this.
If all you can do is talk about or mimic me, then that really only means I have power over you, doesn't it. Just because you're dissing me doesn't mean I'm not controlling your conversation. Controlling ALL dialogue and conversation really. That is what I do. If all you can do is talk about me and only me every 5 minutes, that means I'm the one that controls the power. The subject of the conversation, the one who is responsible for the conversation, the subject being discussed, is the one WITH the power. NOT the losers discussing it.
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