bus doodles and realizations

[egypturnash]

An idea I had last night: Noir Fleischer. Does this qualify as 'furry'? Because it's in the 'no furries' sketchbook. Near the end, but still in it.
"She was a hell of a dame, a real bombshell, but she just wouldn't stop bouncing to that beat. Watch her long enough and the whole world seemed to bounce along with her. I couldn't concentrate on her case. I couldn't concentrate on her body. Just that damned bouncing."


Yes, I was listening to Daft Punk.

After drawing this, I realized that my drawing style seems to be undergoing another one of its regular, subtle changes. Anatomy is fusing with rubber hose, and it seems to work. The bones are there when I require structure and angularity, but when I want flowing curves, they dissolve into fluid.

There's still a lot of holes in my anatomical knowledge, but what I know well (mostly arms, especially shoulders and hands) has become a tool that I use, rather than a goal in and of itself. I have to wonder what would come out if I did some life drawing now... Unfortunately, this tool isn't necessarily at my conscious command. I just draw. Some instinct tells my hand to be flowing, or to be anatomical; it happens with absolutely no real decision on my part.

After thinking about that some, I drew some hands without any reference. And while doing this, I managed to trigger the Centipede's Dilemma in myself! I looked at my hand, pondering the grip I use for putting the tip of the point on the paper (as opposed to the one for the side of the point). I idly tried resting it on the first, then second finger, instead of the third as I normally do, and then couldn't get it into the normal grip! Luckily, flipping it around to the eraser, then to the point a few times got it into the proper position. So much of drawing happens beneath the conscious mind, in reflex and instinct. Reflex built by careful, conscious practice, but reflex nonetheless.


Also, the track listed as 'current music' on this entry has the best guitar solo ever. About four and a half minutes in, you hear Belew murmur 'Play it for me, Spider-fingers', then these bizarre piano runs start. Bizarre because they're not phrased like pianos normally are, bizarre because there are slurs and slides, something quite impossible with a straight piano. It's not a piano. It's a guitar. Controlling a synth with a piano patch. This scattering of notes continues to the end of the song, resolving into chunking piano chords.

Comments

[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

I recommend a 5th of Jack and a bottle of... Prozac.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Agh! Midi guitars! Actually guitar sequencers can do some interesting stuff, but I'm first and foremost an analog man, I like to hear the pick noice and the feedback and the intagibles that you can't get with a digital sequencer.

I do want to hear this song now, though. can't go wrong with King Crimson. :D

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Personally, the frame of mind you enter when you draw is something I aspire to, and do sometimes myself. I don't want to think about the mechanics, or really, anything about the process at all. I want things to come out as clearly as possible from head to paper. And I think that various bits of knowledge are tools and that that's how one knows when one has started to master things; when you don't have to think about them at all. Of course, some also think that this is when to move on to something else so as not to get stuck in one groove.

Be comfortable with your work. We are. :"D

-T'