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Sep. 2nd, 2005 04:47 pmProd is going to be tricky. It's an action story about art, and God knows i've dug my own grave here. I've decided to do it, and i have everything prepared except the actual action. PLus, i'm really bad at drawing special effects =P.
The art world has grown exponentially. With all the artists out there biding for a piece of the pie, it's hard to tell who's doing it for the sake of art and who's just trying to make money. Pluche says that success is like poison to an artist. You can't be both. And so many young people are trying to learn, trying to grab whatever little scrap of fame they can. And New York is so overcrowded (because if you're anybody, that's were you live) with art students and art dealers and artists, and it used to be that you could only be an artist if you had the raw talent and could master the technical skills. But now it's done a complete 180, and if you draw really well it just doesn;t matter anymore. I could draw something so perfect it looked real (not really, just as an example), but it wouldn't matter unless i understood the 'why' of it all, unless i had a deep and philisohpical concept behind it. Photorealism isn't desirable, obviously, because to the camera. And i hate people who draw from photos, because really, that's practically like drawing nothing.
There are too many people walking this earth who don't understand what they're really doing. Too mnay pencils being ground to the hilt drawing crap. Too many hotheads, and all of them are going to be famous someday, because that's what the people want; someone wild, rebellious.
Prod is an okay drawer, who tries with all her might to be a better artist, but has doubts that she even has the grace of the true master to ever be great. They the like what, .02% of the population is successful. If you aren't consitantly the best, than who the fuck are you? And there are so many people who threw their lives into their passion, but they're failures now because New York just doesn't have room for them (not just artists; musicians, actors, writers too).
Prod wants it, wants it so bad, but she can't see herself obtaining it. In Winsor Town, it seems different, but it's exactly the same. Only one person can be the champion, and she's not that champion, yet.
Prod is good at fighting in Winsor Town because she's good at drawing in our world. How will that translate? A basic skill in drawing is measuring. Sizing up the competition? No, that's part of critique. There's markmaking-- fighting style. There's cartooning, which is like kung fu fighters who have sold out and work as stuntmen.
I dunno. I'll sleep on it some more.
The art world has grown exponentially. With all the artists out there biding for a piece of the pie, it's hard to tell who's doing it for the sake of art and who's just trying to make money. Pluche says that success is like poison to an artist. You can't be both. And so many young people are trying to learn, trying to grab whatever little scrap of fame they can. And New York is so overcrowded (because if you're anybody, that's were you live) with art students and art dealers and artists, and it used to be that you could only be an artist if you had the raw talent and could master the technical skills. But now it's done a complete 180, and if you draw really well it just doesn;t matter anymore. I could draw something so perfect it looked real (not really, just as an example), but it wouldn't matter unless i understood the 'why' of it all, unless i had a deep and philisohpical concept behind it. Photorealism isn't desirable, obviously, because to the camera. And i hate people who draw from photos, because really, that's practically like drawing nothing.
There are too many people walking this earth who don't understand what they're really doing. Too mnay pencils being ground to the hilt drawing crap. Too many hotheads, and all of them are going to be famous someday, because that's what the people want; someone wild, rebellious.
Prod is an okay drawer, who tries with all her might to be a better artist, but has doubts that she even has the grace of the true master to ever be great. They the like what, .02% of the population is successful. If you aren't consitantly the best, than who the fuck are you? And there are so many people who threw their lives into their passion, but they're failures now because New York just doesn't have room for them (not just artists; musicians, actors, writers too).
Prod wants it, wants it so bad, but she can't see herself obtaining it. In Winsor Town, it seems different, but it's exactly the same. Only one person can be the champion, and she's not that champion, yet.
Prod is good at fighting in Winsor Town because she's good at drawing in our world. How will that translate? A basic skill in drawing is measuring. Sizing up the competition? No, that's part of critique. There's markmaking-- fighting style. There's cartooning, which is like kung fu fighters who have sold out and work as stuntmen.
I dunno. I'll sleep on it some more.
