I’m joking kids. Drink sensibly, have a designated keyboard operator.
Graphics tablets… I’m wondering if one will help me draw things quicker, but I know it won’t help me draw things better.
It certainly won’t make me a better artist…
What would?
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I was thinking the other day that I’d probably be a better writer if I drank more. Or used cocaine. They seem to be a commonality among good writers.
Time and experience make for better artists. Although you’re already so good you won’t need much of either to produce something fantastic.
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Flattery makes me a better artist!
Thanks, lady.
I’m not sure about the alcohol and writing… mostly because reading whilst drunk is horrible.
flattery is indeed a fair muse
I full agree with the sentiment about the art.
Cocaine does not make for better writing; it just makes for more writing, more quickly. Alcohol leads (or aids) the soul-crushing depression that ultimately makes for good, if posthumous, writing.
That’s funny. Diagnosable mental disorder is known to fuel works of everlasting depth and analytical substance.
And a good PR person.
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well, it takes some practice to use a tablet properly, but if you’re ever interested in coloring things digitally i hear it’s the way to go.
as for me, i’d probably get better if i had more time, or just learned to get things done more efficiently. i don’t get enough sleep.
I’ve heard they can be a little tricky to begin with… do you have one… and if so what sort?
And what is it ,Tia, that keeps you awake at night?
my sister got a wacom tablet used. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but it was pretty cheap.
homework, coupled with procrastination. i spend too much time daydreaming
Time and space. Not in the hippy-trippy 2-of-3 dimensions way, just the literal sense. Time to work and a space to do it in.
I am in short supply of both at the moment and the art is low …
Failing that, I shitload of coffee and travel.
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Oh, coffee, that’s a classic artist drug… no of this depressing alcohol stuff…
I agree with the time and space thing. Having just got myself some decent studio space.
The upshot of this is that I don’t have to sleep in the same room in which I conduct me (mostly toxic) art experiments. Happy times.
What’s restricting your space and time at the moment?
I feel your pain… a full time job with a commute, and I’m still conducting my toxic artistic experiments in my bedroom. Space can make such a difference.
I love that you and i JUST had this conversation about my eyePhone.
Yeah, next week on spot the influences: Television.
Seriously though, I often just repeat conversations I have with people.
Of course you know all about drawing under the influence:
http://drunkdrawn.blogspot.com/
As for drawing under the influence… I think this might be the way to go:
http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html
Inspiration is the single most important thing. No amount of talent and technology can make up for it.
This is interesting, even if you don’t agree completely:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/453
what is that, tho? is it magic? that’s too unreliable for me. i’ll take lots of practice
Inspiration is no good without the practice to have the skill to utilize it, right? You can have GREAT ideas, but if you’ve not developed the skills to get that idea onto paper the way you see it in your head, no one but you will ever appreciate it. I’m with Tia — give me lots of practice, and the inspiration will come.
Tia, Roo.. Sorry if my comment sounded pretentious.
It’s the difference between being able to speak, and having something you want to talk about. No amount of practice can make you feel strongly about something.
How many people can play guitar? How many of those can write a good song? Not a song that sounds like a song, but a song that gives you goosebumps.
No worries Abhijit — I know what you mean. I’m just trying to point out that you need both, and, at least to some degrees, once you’re good at something, you’ll use that skill. There are a lot of very skilled artists that never get beyond what I would consider very boring landscapes and still lives… but what ever floats your boat, right? But it’s not the spine chilling inspiration of a Bacon piece, this is true.
Exactly what I meant. Except the bit about bacon.
You don’t like Bacon?
Oh.
I thought you were talking about bacon bacon, AND that you were being sarcastic.
I haven’t seen his paintings. The only painters I’ve ever explored are Van Gogh and his contemporaries (mostly because of the fict-bio ‘Lust for Life’), and M.F. Hussain, because of the controversy his paintings had generated here in India.
That painting is grotesque (in a good sense). He must have led one crazy life.
Oh man…. nothing more modern than Van Gogh? Read a bit about Francis Bacon, it’ll make you happy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter)
You might have stumbled into a situation where you mind will be opened. Painting has come a long way since Impressionism. This fellow might interest you a bit, and maybe this fellow or this one. And and… man, well, a lot’s happened, and is happening. Good exploring too.
(That Bacon link isn’t working quite right: should go here.)
Hey hey hey!
I’m not that bad. I do know Dali.. Love his work. I’ve liked a couple of other painters as well. I just don’t know their histories, the evolution, when they were around, all that.
Thanks for the links, though.. I promise to educate myself.
i went to a champagne breakfast the other day, skipped the breakfast part but not the champagne part, and went home to write an essay slightly tipsy. i haven’t got it back yet, but i will be interested in the results; i think i may have discovered how to get through my uni course.
Yeah… I’ve totally done that. The class “Industrial and Organizational Psychology” required massive amounts of alcohol to get through.
‘Yeah I majored in being a lush…’
Didn’t Keith Richards once say: “I wrote the best songs but also the worst crap when using cocaine.”? Or something similar. I’m a tea person myself, none of that fancy ‘coff-ee‘ or ‘weed’ that the cool kids snort these days.
yeah, you don’t want to snort coffee… brown lung is a real possibility
To be a good artist, you need to be excellent at bullshitting.
I feel like that has more to do with being a successful artist, rather than a good one.
To be successful at anything, you need to be good at bullshitting.
You’re probably right. But being good at bullshitting rarely goes amiss.
I bought an A4 sized tablet for photoshopping, etc.
The pen broke, so now I am desinging a new pen for it.
To answer your question, I think the tablets are great, but they are different from using a pen and paper.
Personally, I think your drawing is great as it is.
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I’m not going to stop using pen an ink for my comics… It’s more for my animation work. I’m doing some frame-by-frame work at the moment, and it’s taking ages with a mouse. Plus I don’t get the benefits of pressure sensitivity.
Actually, that’s one thing I’ve noticed… the pens all seem a little flimsy…
they’re too fat for my taste, or maybe that’s just this one.
Yeah, I noticed that they were uncomfortably fat to hold.
My remade one will be even fatter, but atleast it will ergonomic.
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Why does TFFU website want me to install some add-on for adobe or something or other?
Gah. Internetuals.
Uh, I have a graphics tablet, but I don’t use it. I can’t draw anyway, so it won’t improve anything >.<
That’s not true… I know you can draw
As for the adobe thing, I installed a new Twittermejig in my sidebar… it’s probably just that, and unless you want to hear my day to day waffle, you can safely ignore it.
That said if anyone else finds it a hassle, let me know and I’ll drop it.
Haha, thanks.
Ah, okay, I was just checking I wasn’t missing some essential adobe-based thing. Eek, that’d be scary!
Adobe is slyly taking over the world, behind the back of MS.
Sinister forces are at work.
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Graphics tablets: take two and call me in the morning.
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I was at a picnic for geeks this weekend.
I thought you all might enjoy a photo that I took…..
Clicking either my name or the last post link should display it…..
Enjoy.
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That’s awesome, Ben!
Geektastic, even.
Geek Picnic, bring your own coil… genius.