Dreams of Pastel Defender Heliotrope

[laura_seabrook]

I swear this morning as I awoke, I had dreams of Pastel Defender Heliotrope! Seriously, everything was in the painted style that Jennifer Reitz uses to render it in. Also, it seemed that scenes would be interrupted "close ups" of the same scene, or images of obscure technical detail from those scenes.

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[rashelleym]

I could see a different style in your current userpic. Frankly, though legendarily a different part of our owners' different "brains" (left-brain/right-brain etc.), when I'm writing I catch myself taking on the tone of what I happen to be reading: bombastic, technical, historical, tutorial, adorable ("howcute"), edgy, militant, etc.

So it doesn't seem surprising to me that such imitation or really "recapitulation" of stylistic tones might be visible in a practice of "visual representation." Which of course typing and reading "obviously" are not.

Every time I start to writhe "a story", the same thing happens. And I can see "the same thing" having happened, in detail, with the Pastel Heliotrope "world". (Which by the way is a tiny increment of "motivation" for me to "graduate from" a dial-up internet connection and a monitor big enough to see everything left to right without scrolling. Our owners' LJ itself of course being another such increment...)

What comes to mind to writhe (in conclusion)... "Eet... ees'... ALIVE" (which would be a parody of Gene Wilder's line in "Young Frankenstein", itself a parody of older films nominally "based" on Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein," which itself is an "obscure comment" about 19th century European power-relations.

Those worlds do in fact have a distinct imaginary reality that don't really seem to essentially depend upon present reality. I admire the approach your "webcomics" show to this, sort of, creatively-universal tension (between "present" and "imagined" experience).

[laura_seabrook]

The different user pic is taken from the DARIA tv series, rather than the CAT & GIRL strips.

Those worlds do in fact have a distinct imaginary reality that don't really seem to essentially depend upon present reality. I admire the approach your "webcomics" show to this, sort of, creatively-universal tension (between "present" and "imagined" experience).

Not sure I know what you mean.

[rashelleym]

Ok. So now I'm understanding that the current pic is this Daria. And?... that some or other pic I just assumed that you drew is actually from Cat & Girl. And?... that just because a person posts self-drawn things doesn't mean that every picture they post is self-drawn. I apparently didn't, before.

Also, I can't believe I used the word "admire", though obviously I did. "Enjoy" is probably closer to what "I meant."

Yes...

[laura_seabrook]

...however, the following icon is self drawn:

Re: Yes...

[rashelleym]

Since you pointed it out, the stylistic difference is perceptible. It wasn't before. I mean, I just supposed they were drawn by the same person "using different styles"! (My "visual perceptual system" is probably "a tad undependable" or undeveloped too--not sure--the "difference of sizes" of small objects sometimes is not as clear as at other times to me.)