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Aug. 7th, 2003 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashYesterday and most of today, I read Bruce Sterling's 'Schismatrix' on the bus. Well, actually 'Schismatrix Plus', which contains both the novel and the several short stories set in the same timeline.
Today, Eddie noticed and complimented my new backdrop at work - the jumping girl I just did. He was quite impressed when I showed him the original rough, and told him I go directly from that to the final, painting atop it.
I was thinking about the techniques I used in the sketch, and about how anatomy has become just a tool for me, to use when I feel like it, instead of a goal to strive for in and of itself. I don't claim to be a perfect goddess of anatomy, not by a long shot, but I know enough of it that I can merrily ignore it at my pleasure, and make the image work anyway.
It was with this in mind, and having finished the overstuffed haikus of Sterling's prose, that I did four strange full-page scrawls on the second half of the ride home. I feel vaguely that these may represent some sort of new direction for my art, although it's visual language I've been evolving for a while.
Kinda Drowning City thoughts. Also kinda Elric. Any drawing of a scrawny pale guy with a big sword is kinda Elric, though.
I think that's some sort of mind-control parasite at the base of his(?) neck.
Today, Eddie noticed and complimented my new backdrop at work - the jumping girl I just did. He was quite impressed when I showed him the original rough, and told him I go directly from that to the final, painting atop it.
I was thinking about the techniques I used in the sketch, and about how anatomy has become just a tool for me, to use when I feel like it, instead of a goal to strive for in and of itself. I don't claim to be a perfect goddess of anatomy, not by a long shot, but I know enough of it that I can merrily ignore it at my pleasure, and make the image work anyway.
It was with this in mind, and having finished the overstuffed haikus of Sterling's prose, that I did four strange full-page scrawls on the second half of the ride home. I feel vaguely that these may represent some sort of new direction for my art, although it's visual language I've been evolving for a while.
Kinda Drowning City thoughts. Also kinda Elric. Any drawing of a scrawny pale guy with a big sword is kinda Elric, though.
I think that's some sort of mind-control parasite at the base of his(?) neck.
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Date: 2003-08-06 09:34 pm (UTC)His name is "Dr. Cucumberous" and he plots to rule the city with his evil legion of satanic pomeranians wielding mayonnaise rifles. And when they spray people with their weapons, they turn into.....squash-people that feed off the brains of virgin postal workers.
The squash people cannot think for themselves. There is only one single thought inhabiting thier deteriorating minds: Country Music.
Gathering as many banjos and harmonicas as they can, they march to Florida where they will aquire Skittles. And using wooden spoons furnished to them by the itchy garden gnomes of Alaska, they push forward until...
Well, i'm not really good at stories. But that may be a great start....maybe.
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Date: 2003-08-06 10:29 pm (UTC)ahhhh...
yeah.
I think you have a very different idea of where 'Drowning City' will go than I do. *grin* Actually, almost nobody beside me really knows where the story's going, and my understanding of it is still pretty vague at times.
And yes, I know you were joking.
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Date: 2003-08-06 09:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 09:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-06 11:14 pm (UTC)THE KING IN YELLOW!
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Date: 2003-08-07 01:33 pm (UTC)I'm really not much of an author. o_0
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Date: 2003-08-11 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-08 10:41 am (UTC)All of them are cool, though. Definatly something to adopt to your style if you like it.