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You know, just to see it in writing to motivate myself, I thought I’d record where we are with this goal:
NOWHERE.
Yeah, that’s right, Go Me. I turned totally wimpy and have not submitted a thing. Not even just sending my URL to art directors that let you submit your stuff that way. Isn’t that great? How driven I am. *le sigh*
Well, to be fair to myself, I should say that it’s not really a matter of not being driven– it’s a matter of being a big fat baby. I’ve completely lost my nerve…it’s so silly. I mean, it can’t hurt anything. Even if everything I’ve done sucks and is rejected no one will yell at me or, like, blacklist me or anything. :) And yet I still can’t bring myself to do it.
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I’ve managed to squeeze a little time for artwork inbetween library assignments; getting to do something a little creative helps get my mind off of how tough things have been in the last few months.
I’ve done some rough sketches for the animation thingie I want to do and even made a *very* rough start on a scene…I’m excited about it– if only I had a little more time for it so I could progress faster than getting one second of animation done in a month… :) Anyway, here are a couple of sketches of the main character:
NOTE as of 5/12/09: Where have all my pictures gone?! It’s so aggravating. They’ve all just disappeared into the internet ether, and I see someone was viewing this screwed-up page just a couple of days ago, which must’ve looked totally lame. *sigh* So, uh, anyway, this note is to say, “coming soon,” I guess? eh heh heh.
I haven’t had time to do much work (read: none) thanks to library school, which is super frustrating, but I do have some scans to post…these are just some rough sketches for some more pieces in the Orangutan series: the Tyrant, the Drunkard, and the Shaman! (Sorry for the poor quality of the scans; the sketches are a mix of pen-and-ink and pencil, which is hard to scan–the pencil lines tend to get lost because the ink is so much darker.)
Anyway, here is the Drunkard:
The Shaman (this one is particularly badly scanned, sorry!):
And finally, the Tyrant…I just love him! He is really quite creepy; I can’t wait to finish this one…
Well, you know, gotta keep expanding the ol’ repertoire, right? Why shouldn’t I make a cartoon?!
…….Oh, right, because I’m not a team of animators…I don’t have a bunch of drones at my disposal to save me from having to do the thankless chore of drawing a million in-betweens….hmm…perhaps there is a flaw in this plan! I don’t care, I’m still interested in trying it.
I’ve just recently had this idea for a cartoon kind of thing set to Berlioz’s “Ronde Du Sabbat,” which is a really fun, scary-yet-whimsical piece of classical music… I think once I have some time to fiddle around with it I’ll be able to accomplish what I have in mind with just scanning in drawings, working on them in Photoshop, and then using Windows Movie Maker to animate it. Not sure, but I think it’ll work. I could use Flash, but from what I’ve seen online, I don’t think that would have the look I want. Too smooth and computer-generated looking– I really want it to be rough and to make sure it has the look of my drawings, not an artificially smoothed-out Flash drawing, which has a very distinctive look of its own. Anyway, something fun to do when I can get to it…I have some very rough sketches which I’ll scan in and add to this post later.
Just wanted to get this down somewhere before I forget about it– I don’t have time to work on anything right now because library school is turning out to be EXTREMELY time-consuming, so I have to write any ideas I have down until I can work on them at some point… Of course, that only works so well, because so often a new idea that seems super exciting and inspired and fabulous at first turns out to seem really dull and stupid if I have to put off working on it and come back to later.
Anyway, we were on the beach and saw this awesome piece of driftwood, about six or seven feet long, that looked *exactly* like a gigantic femur; so I was imagining how cool it would be to make giant driftwood skeletons… That’s out of reach for me, because I have no way to transport giant pieces of driftwood–or finished giant sculptures either, for that matter–but it got me started thinking about how skeletal sculptures could be really neat… So I want to do a series of Sculpey (or Das, I guess) skeletons of weird imaginary creatures… I think that could be so much fun! (gotta remember some of the tips I picked up from that site I linked to last week (A Dyin Art) about hardening delicate pieces a bit with a hair dryer as you go…that’d come in handy with little things like bones.)
Haven’t worked on this one yet, but I want to write it down so I’ll feel guilty every time I see this and think about not getting anything done on it… I’ve been reading about how to submit picture books, and I need to make a dummy for the Lettuce Rancher; now I know how to do it, and it’s going to be easy (have Kinko’s do it! Yay!), but I found out that the Lettuce Rancher as it is now is probably not in the best format for a picture book. Apparently, they are almost always 32 pages and if you differ from that, it gives publishers headaches. So I’ve reformatted it so that it’ll be the right length, but it’s gonna need a few more pictures. You only submit it with two or three finished illustrations, but you do need rough sketches of all of the pics for the dummy.
So, the next thing to do with the ol’ Rancher is to do sketches of all the illustrations, and then to do 2-3 finished drawings. It’s not that much to do, it’s just that I feel kind of “meh” about working on it more. I wish it was done. I’m still battling feelings of insecurity about even trying to submit things– must stop self-sabotaging!! That’s my mantra; I ought to start meditating on it every day…
