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So, wish I could say I've been keeping up my steady hard work from the last couple posts, but no, not really. Relapsed into a couple old addictions(damn you, videogames!) and, once I finished up a drawing two days ago, I didn't have any images in my head I wanted to draw. I think I've finally reached the point where I draw faster than 'inspiration' strikes me, so hopefully no more of that crap where images get stuck in my head forever and I can never express them all. On the other hand, this means I need to find someplace to draw images from that doesn't rely on waiting for a picture to pop into my head. When I'm passively waiting for inspiration, I get wrapped up in Baldur's Gate II again and waste two freakin' days.
I'm not sure yet if this is just a matter of changing my artistic process(how I draw) or of changing my mental process(why I draw). Should I be looking for more inspiration, a purpose beyond just 'what looks good in my head'? I want to affect people's lives with my art, help them somehow, eventually, but right now I can't think of ways to do that without getting... Preachy. I think I'm okay with a drawing sucking, because I'm at a decent point in the S-curve where I understand why and how I fail, but I'm really afraid of making a comic and having it suck. I don't know shit about making comics. What if I don't know how to improve? I suppose I just need to dive right in.
Also, I found out today that Chuck Norris believes in intelligent design and is against gay marriage. I've never strictly been a fan of the guy, but he seemed pretty cool and he added a lot of fun to modern pop culture(the Walker, Texas Ranger lever was always the best part of Conan O'Brien). He never really seemed great himself, but he had some unintentionally great effects. So I guess this bothered me, but not as much as Orson Scott Card. The main thing that bothers me about the Chuck Norris bit is that he says he is against homosexuality because Thomas Jefferson was against homosexuality. Basically, if we ever need a lesson in morality, we can just look to the Founding Fathers. I really want to know how he reconciles that with the whole, y'know, slavery thing? After reading his little opinion piece, I really wanted there to be a field for comments or something. I'm not going to go out of my way to e-mail the guy, but if there was a comments field I would have asked.
I'm not sure yet if this is just a matter of changing my artistic process(how I draw) or of changing my mental process(why I draw). Should I be looking for more inspiration, a purpose beyond just 'what looks good in my head'? I want to affect people's lives with my art, help them somehow, eventually, but right now I can't think of ways to do that without getting... Preachy. I think I'm okay with a drawing sucking, because I'm at a decent point in the S-curve where I understand why and how I fail, but I'm really afraid of making a comic and having it suck. I don't know shit about making comics. What if I don't know how to improve? I suppose I just need to dive right in.
Also, I found out today that Chuck Norris believes in intelligent design and is against gay marriage. I've never strictly been a fan of the guy, but he seemed pretty cool and he added a lot of fun to modern pop culture(the Walker, Texas Ranger lever was always the best part of Conan O'Brien). He never really seemed great himself, but he had some unintentionally great effects. So I guess this bothered me, but not as much as Orson Scott Card. The main thing that bothers me about the Chuck Norris bit is that he says he is against homosexuality because Thomas Jefferson was against homosexuality. Basically, if we ever need a lesson in morality, we can just look to the Founding Fathers. I really want to know how he reconciles that with the whole, y'know, slavery thing? After reading his little opinion piece, I really wanted there to be a field for comments or something. I'm not going to go out of my way to e-mail the guy, but if there was a comments field I would have asked.