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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Started conversation Aug 14, 2003
You have posted on everyone elses... I thought I'd pop round and say hi.
Need to do c-cartoon... drag myself away from life... Arh!
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Tonsil Revenge (PG) Posted Aug 19, 2003
Oh, sorry, just found this.
Cartooning IS life!
At least to some of us.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Aug 19, 2003
Watched 'Real World' again last week.
Funny how when it came out, I liked it, but I dissed it for being so much like Roger Rabbit. I may have used the word rip-off. Silly me.
It is so much better tha RR is some respects and lack-of-respects. In the latter I find it on the whole, more my cuppa than Roger. The chick is much more attractive too.
I can't quite explain what I see in your cartoons. But they have a therapeutic effect on me as well. Let me encourage you to pursue them, your 'style' is evolving. I see symmetry and harmony and a cornucopia of insinuated detail. I like them.
peace
jwf
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Tonsil Revenge (PG) Posted Aug 19, 2003
What you see is the results of a fellow who hasn't yet learned how to use his Paint program to it's full potential.
What you also see is a fellow who is sending his first draft off to Shazz.
I have a stack of rejection letters for more polished efforts, including one attempt at syndication years ago with a strip.
You have to submit six weeks worth of dailies to the syndicate.
It took four months to create them.
I think it is the "off the top of my head" loopiness that attracts you, along with the basic inability to draw in any conventional manner when I'm doodling.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Aug 19, 2003
>>.. it is the "off the top of my head" loopiness that attracts you..<<
Always has!
As for your abilities, I see perseverance in the face of new technologies, and I see 'master strokes' with crude tools. Not just beginners luck, I had some of that myself when I played with a paint program for a while.
Yes, in yours I see a quality of dedication that strives to overcome the techno-limits and points toward a resolution of elegance and simplicity reminiscent of Picasso's most 'child-like' strokes.
To reach that level requires much study and practise and dedication. I can sometimes see evidence of choices and compromises you have had to make. And I applaud you and encourage you to carry on until your renderings become so simple, so boldly innocent, so universally true, so elegantly meaningful or beautiful that everyone else will have to appreciate them too. Especially those of us who gave up on the aliasing of crude paint programs and denied the world our genius, at least until such time as a more efficient means of taking what is in our brains and putting it down on paper is made available.
peace
jwf
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Aug 19, 2003
I thought we all did that, I can't draw but I get lucky and sometimes it works.
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DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) Posted Aug 20, 2003
Photoshop and Corel Draw?
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- 1: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Aug 14, 2003)
- 2: Tonsil Revenge (PG) (Aug 19, 2003)
- 3: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Aug 19, 2003)
- 4: Tonsil Revenge (PG) (Aug 19, 2003)
- 5: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Aug 19, 2003)
- 6: DoctorMO (Keeper of the Computer, Guru, Community Artist) (Aug 19, 2003)
- 7: Tonsil Revenge (PG) (Aug 20, 2003)
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