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Anyway. Haven't had the will to draw anything for a few weeks now. Brain not firing on all cylinders. Everybody sick, a lot going on.

But one thing I recommend to everyone in the world, and that's What It Is by Lynda Barry. If you ever followed Ernie Pook's Comeek, you know she's an amazing storyteller who can grab you by the heart and throw you to the floor crying, with her "crudely drawn" tales of childhood.

[link]

What It Is is about creativity, with autobiography and discussion of Lynda's own creative struggles.

You can find videos of her doing some readings from it right here.

[link]

her stuff about "images" blows my mind. And it connects somehow with stuff I've been reading in Keith Johnstone and even Eugene Gendlin. It's cool.

Look at the book, go to a bookstore and look at the book and see if it's something you are unable to leave the store without.

And if the bookstore does not have it, slap them.

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]]> ~scriblerus http://scriblerus.deviantart.com/journal/20760602/ http://scriblerus.deviantart.com/journal/20760602/ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:08:22 PDT Discard cleverness
and the people will benefit a hundredfold
Abandon the rules of "kindness"
Discard "righteous" actions
and the people will return
to their own natural affections
Abandon book learning
Discard the rules of behavior
and the people will have no worries
Abandon plots and schemes
Discard profit-seeking
and the people will not become thieves

These lessons are mere elaborations
The essence of my teachings is this:
See with original purity
Embrace with original simplicity
Reduce what you have
Decrease what you want

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"Reduce what you have, decrease what you want" == easier said than done.

How many times have I bought a new pencil or pen instead of actually drawing with what I've got?

How many times have I desperately wanted some gizmo for my computer, when I've got in my bag what would have been tens of millions of dollars worth of computing power a few decades ago, mostly untapped?

Stuff to think about.

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Discuss.

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I just got a couple Copic brush-pens, and I've been having fun learning to draw with them. They're a lot *bolder* than the thin pen lines I usually work with. Fun though.

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]]> ~scriblerus http://scriblerus.deviantart.com/journal/16301651/ http://scriblerus.deviantart.com/journal/16301651/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:53:04 PST
I thought it would be pretty cool but using it for real work, all day?

ouch.

it hurts.

Damn you Steve Jobs. You've spoiled me for other UIs.

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It came with Painter Essentials 3... No ink pens? LAME

And Photoshop Elements, which seems OK I guess.

I think ArtRage still owns me.

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Yesterday my wife told me she's worried about me, because I've been really cranky around the kids and insomniac and all the things that are usually tip-offs that I'm headed for a big bout of depression.

For how long has she been noticing this?

For about 2 weeks.

Huh.

What's up with that?

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"Welcome to Christian Domestic Discipline: Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage"

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I'd want a lot less "lock-in."

I'd want to make it easy for people to customize the look of their site with a distinctive .css file, say.

I'd want to make it possible to find out when new works appeared without logging in all the time. Email notification, and also RSS/Atom feeds, so people could track their favorite artists in Google Reader.

What else would I want?

What else would you want?

Is the "I have to pee" mood smiley an absolute necessity?

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OK, I had just gotten over the whole thing with Zeptae leaving in a huff, and I was starting to branch out and check out new interesting art things, and I found GentlemansClubStock and I was like "this is so sweet! Gotta watch, maybe I can do something with this," and suddenly, blammo, all gone.

Who's next?

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I'm glad that he decided to move on and all that, because in sum, no matter how stupid the administrative action, you know, it's their sandbox. They can be bullies if they want. They own the sandbox. It's just something to accept or else move on somewhere else.

It's a sad fact of the internet that relatively lame sites/services can suck up a critical mass of cool people and then you're stuck -- if you want contact with the cool people you've got to deal with the lame service. It's an unfortunate tradeoff. Trying to fight it, well, that's a choice about where to spend your energy. Is that the choice you really want to make?

That's the question.

dA isn't a huge part of my life, compared to most dAer's, so it's not a big issue for me. Lucky I guess.

]]> ~scriblerus http://scriblerus.deviantart.com/journal/11032955/ http://scriblerus.deviantart.com/journal/11032955/ Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:37:40 PST
I'm also kind of struggling with what I'm doing here, and what I'm doing with this account. I have to honestly admit that I don't quite know what to do with my deviantart self.

To be bluntly honest one of the things I've dug about Deviantart is that subsection of it which consists of gorgeous off-the-beaten-path women, nerdy or fat or gothy or alternativey or some combination of those and other traits, who have fun modeling (often for each other). I love to see the awesome images they come up with. I love them for the art and I love them for the babeness.

That's probably all kinds of obvious from my favorites.

But, I dunno, is that a reason to be here? Do artists want an aging horny fanboy checkin' their sweet booties out? Probably not, at least not all of 'em. This place is about art, not about my taste in women and images thereof.

For a while I was posting the art I'd done on that theme and others and it was fun and I enjoyed people's positive feedback, but that fuckin' ran dry. I've got nothin' these days.

I deleted all my shit a while back in a fit of hopelessness. Well, also, I was starting to direct my artistic energies at some illustration stuff, but the well ran dry there too and I'm not doing that anymore either.

So I just don't know where to go with this. I can't let go -- I've been in touch with some really cool people here and I can't quite let go -- but I'm trying to scale back, not to be "watching" people who I'm never going to get around to giving the feedback or appreciation they deserve, move back to a few people that I actually kinda got to know well or for some other reason have extra attachment to their work, let a lot of cool people go and hope they're not sad about it.

I would really like to go someplace with this account, you know, but I feel like my history of using it for ogling the hotties might seem like some kind of dubious baggage. I don't know.

I mean, that's not *all* it was about but it was important.

I dunno.

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