"where the line is drawn"

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Fly this

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I decided to emulate Saul Bass's poster for Man With the Golden Arm for this year's AnimeHELL fliers. So, I built my own version of it in Inkscape. Now I just need to figure out the center element.

I may just do the next flier on the Vertigo poster.



Looking forward to Kaiba. Looks like I'm not the only one.

Misguided thoughts are crowding my mind. I post sketches and comics and get maybe a half dozen replies, which is pretty nice, actually. But mostly I get a seemingly indifferent silence. Which I find rather discouraging. I guess I really need to get over that. Draw for myself and nothing more. Achieve some sort of zen mastery to ignore that feeling of not being accepted, and maybe even rejected by others. Create in a vacuum? There is something to that. I do a lot of good work when I'm isolated and away from people and phones and other distractions. But I'm sure it's that way for most people. Work environments are something that are part of the process, something you can't always control. Or maybe you can.

Draw it like you own it.
Posted by Unknown

3 comments:

d.merrill said...

Well, for one thing, a lot of people who read your LJ might not know about your Danno! blog, and vice versa.

I know that on places like Deviantart, the people who get a lot of feedback on their art are people who also leave a lot of feedback on other people's art. It's a two-way street, I guess (I don't spend a lot of time on deviantart).

You also may be spreading your content over so many different blogs and sites that there's never enough in one place for anybody to really get a handle on your work. I mean, look at the links on the right - I count 21 different links that you provide content for. That's not even counting work for Otaku Hell and HNK, and other projects. So you may be spreading the work a bit too thin.

And still, getting feedback on artwork is like pulling teeth. I hardly ever get any feedback myself when I post artwork. I'm okay with that because honestly, I'm doing the work I want to do and what other people think of it... well, it matters to me, but not that much.

I think you should do work that pleases YOU, and let everything else take care of itself. Chasing after warm fuzzies on the internet is a fool's game.

3:39 PM
Unknown said...

I guess I'm still working through this idea. The realization that there isn't a response. I didn't see the disconnect between the enjoyment I get from my artwork and why others didn't seem to get any enjoyment from it. I've been going, "I like this," and wondering why no one else seemed to like it. But I'm trying to come to terms with just going, "I like this," and accepting that alone.

On the other hand, while I'd been working this out I noticed that a number of other artfolk that I like and respect also seem to get very little to no response to their artwork posts. I've been taking some comfort in knowing that I'm in good company.

The only warm fuzzies I can count on are the ones I get when I lift up my brush and sit back and think, "That turned out pretty good."

9:49 AM
d.merrill said...

Well, just because you don't get a comment, that doesn't mean people didn't see and enjoy it. As they say in the UFO conspiracy world, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

But it's true, the only satisfaction you can truly count on is that which comes from finishing a piece to your own liking.

3:01 PM

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