I recently shared how what I do now for ‘drawing’ is basically high-tech tracing. (Roto-scoping for we film snobs) And Straff has shared his journey to learn how to draw at an advanced age. I used to draw when I was young. Here is a nice wholesome example:
But, I was also pretty much always a Glib:
I have kept some of the drawings I did in my youth, mostly they seem to be from about 13-17. Much of it was just trying to recreate things I was interested in at the time. Like comics:
Or album art:
But I did do some ‘original’ things.
As the years went on, this disused skill shrank, and now my drawing hand is arthritic. So I learned the technique I showed you last time. Because as Master Splinter says ‘Work smarter, not harder.’
Maybe you could collaborate with “Two Giraffes and a Hyena” Hyperbole and come up with something?
I wasn’t included in his conspiracy board. Fuck that guy.
Isn’t that the best way to remain active in the conspiracy?
Fucking him? Seems extreme.
Adult Coloring Books, this is a thing,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ry9FLUxnP1i3X9Yj8
I was always shit at coloring. ‘Stay inside the lines’ They say. ‘Fuck you! Don’t tell me what to do!’ Says I.
I have to use a magnifying lamp for most of them, I’mma Blind ya see!
Yeah, they’re good for stress relief.
Nice work.
I doubt I have any of the scribblings/drawings I did to pass the time in high school.
Can Australians draw a line?
Australian police raid a cemetery to arrest and fine people paying their respects to deceased family members.
That pretext is pretty sketchy.
What in the hell?
Then ponder that there are plenty of Americans yearning for that to happen here.
This place is rotten with talent.
I can’t draw for shit, but I sure do admire those who can. Nice job and thanks for sharing these!
No artistic talent here!
I am not licensed to do art, and am known to cause cancer in the state of California.
Indeed. I am impressed and embarrassed by the talent of other Glibs.
Was supposed to be a reply under Tundra. Can’t even thread right.
A member of the P. Brooks conspiracy eh?
What if I never find my talent?
Is that like your special purpose?
I was setting up people to run with this more. Or all sorts of fun comments, I mean that was a softball comment right there.
https://youtu.be/_m0bI82Rz_k
I remember when this was in rotation on MTV.
Great song.
If you haven’t followed Collective Soul since the, Now’s the Time.
What? No Asia album art trace?
I am disappoint.
Heat of the moment decision.
The album nobody remembers but is probably the best of the bunch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDSb8KJ-l1g
If I want to hear Trevor Rabin’s falsetto I may as well just listen to Yes.
YES – Owner of a Lonely Heart
I made a silk screen print of this horse in my High School graphic arts class.
Turned out decent.
I trace now, then it was free hand drawing. Asia was before my prime time for drawering.
I must be old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARERFbiqCfk
I’ve done that, but I gave it to someone and if I did take a photo of it, it’s lost.
I recall making a silkscreen of the eagle from the second album.
The police are here, investigating something that happened out front last night.
I have an alibi. 😛
I was never very artistic. *sad trombone*
Quick, send me the rest of your Chili stash!
LOL
What are you a Geno’s fan?
Witness video shows early moments of deadly fight outside Pat’s King of Steaks; 4 suspects sought
Neat. I don’t sketch too well but I did hand technical drawing in HS. Now I use CAD for a living.
I took drafting in HS. I was terrible.
Being a lefty, I drug my hand over the top of everything I wrote or drew, smudging it and making a general mess.
But I was very good at the technical aspects, which translated well into reading and understanding plans and doing things like CAD.
OT – Prove it, hospital asks unvaccinated employees claiming religious exemption
So if Wiki and my recollection are correct – acetaminophen was tested on humans in the late 1800s and essentially developed in the 1940s and 1950s. I’d like to know what fetal cells were used in creating it. I suppose some kind of fetal tissue testing could have been during safety testing.
Hope these assholes realize stunts like this do nothing to increase compliance and only further alienate people.
I’m convinced that the vaccine mandate is because — with 70% of the population now with resistance — Biden has to justify his even worse covid numbers.
Republican states will shoot this down making it their fault according to Democratic rhetoric.
CWA!
Cover Whose Ass?
Clean Water Act?
Communist Workers of America?
Christ
What
Assholes
Thanks.
Cos-play With Animals
Leave me out of this.
OT — This Sussman indictment looks way juicier than I thought.
And now I have Fastball stuck in my head…
Thank you for that.
Seeing my daughter go through art school trials and tribulations has been quite the experience. I’m hoping all of the time and money invested in it aren’t going to go to waste. We’re trying to steer her more towards digital art. Possibly even going into animation. It’s really hard for me because in my head she’s just some kid, but in reality she’s a junior in high school. We/she needs to figure something out along the way. We’re looking at what or where she should intern next summer.
I’m welcome to any ideas.
Keep her far away from the Japanese animation industry.
On the corporate side the pay is low and the hours horrific. On the independent side the price per frame ridiculously low. But because the of the popularity it is relatively easy to find people who want to do it.
I’ve no idea what it’s like here in the US.
The Way is one of the best modern pop songs ever written. Fight me.
I think Are You Ready For The Fallout was better, but it got less air play.
Agreed Sheldon, Wendy and my favorite travelling song.
I didn’t recognize the band or the song title.
But, yeah, as soon as I heard it came back quickly.
A great tune indeed.
Fighting over art is stupid. Better to share more perfect pop songs.
Like this.
And this.
Bonus excellent YT comment:
This is what I remember from the 90s.
On of my all-time favorites.
Always chuckle.
The Offspring – “Come Out And Play”
Great band.
Makes me think of these guys. (80’s, though)
I was listening to the local oldies station a few weeks ago (the only option in my Z).
A tune came on that I recognized, and I thought “why are they playing that? it’s not old”.
So a quick google check said the tune was from 98. And then I thought “fuck I am getting old. even the new tunes are 20 years old.”
Roughly the same as Z chassis.
And the new one is basically that same chassis again.
I am perfectly happy with my 06 Z. The chassis handles very nicely, and 300 hp is more than enough to make me nervous.
I never cared for the looks of the 370Z. And the 10% boost in HP was never enough to buy a new one.
But I expect that the 400 HP turbo on this chassis will be invigorating.
Whatever do you mean? Though I prefer the old Rush, the new stuff post Grace Under Pressure is still very good.
(Explaining the ‘joke’ for you philistines like MikeS, Grace is 1984. Sigh.)
Love The Way! We used to cover that and throw the chorus of My Little Runaway in the middle, then segue back to the last verse. Good times!
Dude, it doesn’t even have autotune.
Dear God no! It’s filled with perverts like me!
NEEDS MOAR TENTACLES!!
Go for the “two-fer”: encourage her in learning commercially valuable software skills/packages like AutoCAD and its many, many derivatives out there, and much of her skillset will copy over almost without additional effort into general digital animation. (As a bonus, you can also mention that she should take additional fun courses such as painting and drawing, because they’re foundational to the visual arts regardless. Avoid theoretical courses in things like Aesthetics — no-one ‘cept philosophy nerds care [speaking as a one-time philosophy nerd]).
A slight variation on this was something I used to tell Uni students in Computer Science, back in the day when I was still a partner in a software-development firm: learn the boring stuff, such as database, accounting and transactional programming, and you’ll never be out of work (and most of it maps over into cooler shit anyways).
She currently has 4 art courses. So, it’s really not drawing and creativity I’m worried about. After scoping a few intership requirements, things like python and other more technical items may need to be in her future.
She’s also expressed interest in becoming a lawyer… Artist… Lawyer… either way it’s going to be a tough road to success.
I’ve keep encouraging her to move forward. You don’t have to make some massive choice this early in life, just don’t stop growing.
Given the rather ridiculous demand for girls in art/gaming positions, I’m tempted to steer her in that direction. But I’m not sure that’s a really mentally healthy group of individuals.
I’ll jump on the bandwagon; that is some impressive stuff. Of course, I cannot even draw a decent stick figure so am probably not the best judge. But I know what looks good to me. This does.
Nice work, CP! Thanks for sharing.
I can’t draw at all. I have terrible handwriting, too – only class I’ve ever failed in my entire academic life was 2nd grade penmanship.
When I took tech drawing in college, that was the hardest D+ I ever got. The prof was cool – he was like, “I know how hard you’v’e worked at this Ozy, but… well, maybe consider some other career.”
Yeah, Pal, maybe consider CAD is making your profession obsolete!!
(Actually, I was grateful for the D+ and he was a solid dude).
F-F-Fucking so much this.
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve always admired folks with art skills (drawing, painting, etc). I never could get the hang of it.
Nice work! Takes me back to my high school and college days. Unfortunately all that old work was lost when my basement flooded a few years ago.
And while I do like your drawerings, don’t look at my bum, nor my twig and berries, nor my meat and two veg. Bum looker.
Cheeky monkey.
You left out “wedding tackle”.
OT. As we all know, boys will be boys. But this is a bit over the top.
https://nypost.com/2021/09/17/teen-gets-usb-cable-stuck-in-penis-in-attempt-to-measure-length/
“I was trying to measure it,” is the post-millennial version of “I slipped getting out of the shower and fell on my cellphone.”
It’s 2021, kids. A whole cornucopia of safe, sanitary sex toys are just an Amazon click away. This is one area where DIY is not a good idea…
*visible face twitch*
You’re bringing back memories of those “sounding” images that used to show up on r/wtf
“A UK teen had to undergo emergency surgery after a bananas attempt to measure his manhood resulted in him getting a USB cable lodged in his urethra.”
Bananas attempt… heh. Give that guy a promotion.
My wife works in an Endoscopy department in a small hospital. A few times a year a dude will come in for having fallen onto something that went up his arse.
+ Million to One Shot, Doc
I, for one, am unclear on how sticking a usb cable in your urethra delivers a measurement of penis length.
Since they kindly provided the radiology imaging, two thoughts:
How the hell did he get it so tangled up in his bladder(?)
Honestly, I don’t think he has anything to worry about, endowment-wise.
Those are god-awful CPRM! Terrible!
After a month of art class, I’ve come to realize that this isn’t enough of a passion for me to seriously pursue, as I had thought and hoped. I’ve stopped writing because my well is dry. Right now I’m just cross stitching and enjoying myself, enjoying that I have my love for stitching back. It took me decades to be able to write a decent book and I was compelled to write. It will take me decades to get to where I want to be art-wise, and that compulsion just isn’t there.
Self-awareness and being honest with yourself are wonderful things. I think a lot of people have this idea that it’s wrong to quit things. Personally, I’ve put down the guitar for over a year now. I’ve never been great at it, and there are other things I’d rather to than stress about not practicing enough. I have a friend who was a serious musician, and recorded some stuff, but now he loves photography and that’s where he’s spending all his free time.
I’ve also come to adopt the phrase “right now”. As in, “Right now I’m into painting a lot”. “Right now I’m not playing guitar.” That’s how things are now, and they might or might not change in the future. It’s very liberating.
I’m still interested in watercolor lessons, but I need to get a webcam.
I’m still here and I’m still willing. Whenever you’re ready!
Looking at this, I’m reminded I had trouble staying in the lines in coloring books when I was young.
Really nice work.
Add me to the “terrible at drawing” club.
Nice work, young CPRM.
Since Sensei brought it up, Owner of a Lonely Heart is likely one of my favorite YES songs of that era. I blame nostalgia, since I was a teen when that album came out.
Thats also one of my favorite videos (prolly nostalgia, too) with its overtones of authoritarianism. For another screeching falsetto, with a similar theme, have some Jimmy Sommerville.
90125 got me to buy older YES albums. And so it is pretty directly responsible for my love of Prog Rock.
Leave It is still one of my all-time favorite songs.
But this.
And this.
That last is only a semi-joke. DO NOT LISTEN TO THE LYRICS.
Another 80s YES classic that I hate that I dont mind- Shoot High Aim Low
They started reminding me too much of Alan Parsons, but I suppose thats the whole point of prog-rock.
I question whether 80s YES is really prog. I like both 90125 and Big Generator, but they arent the same as earlier YES. They sort of went back with Union.
It’s not. 90125 is just pop songs. Really well-written ones.
I didn’t care for Big Generator, lost interest after that.
90125 is the catalog number on the bar code. Cracks me up.
Semi-serious question. How good of an artist do you have to be before you start making “non-sense” art? Examples being Picasso or Pollock. I think Picasso was able to do “good” stuff and even I would consider his weird stuff good because I wouldn’t be able to do it. I don’t know about Pollock but I sure as hell could splatter paint on a wall.
Relevant.
It’s more about the salesmanship.
I’d agree. I could think of cases where a person was good at realistic/traditional art and went on to something different, and cases where a person didn’t start with realistic/traditional art, but in both cases they were commercially successful. I’ve also known people who were incredibly good at realistic/traditional art but had no commercial success.
An interesting fact: Jackson Pollock was Thomas Hart Benton’s student. I bet Pollock could draw something more “traditional.”
Thomas Hart Benton had an interesting style. He lived here and his home is open to the public. He was my dad’s favorite artist, and I put Benton on a complementary plane with Aaron Copland.
I like Benton, always look for his works in museums around the country.
Picasso did a lot of traditional art before he turned nonsense.
My favorite artist to hate is Barnett Newman. GTFO, dude.
Yeah, OFFS.
I remain convinced that the entire market for modern art is supported by the ease with which it can be used for money laundering.
There’s a chunk of vanity in there, too, but given the stupidly high prices for that stuff, I have to believe money laundering is in the mix, and not just a little.
+1 “Voice of Fire”
Forgot to put up the psalm of the day in the mourning lynx, so we’ll have to settle for the post-lunch proverb:
Proverbs 23:4-5
If you wanna be rich
You got to be a bitch.
*checks accounts, nods sadly*