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sincerely_helene said:
I don't comment much because I'm jealous. I can only sketch head shots, and it would be nice to have my models do something kinky on occasion too.
I used to hide their hands and feet. Hands and feet are hard, I told myself. It was like most of the things I thought were hard and all the ones I thought were unattainable: You just have to give yourself permission and then PRACTICE.

Open the doors in your head! Talent is an illusion, altogether. People use the word to classify for themselves that there are things they can't do.

Think of Isiah Thomas! He got really pissed one day, on camera. Someone said the black athlete was a natural for the game, and he said crap man I worked for this. Every day I work out, hours of weights training and practice day after day. You could never handle it man; and to hear someone say oh it's easy for him, he's black!-- it devalues all that. I earned it, I put in the work, I had to get up the dedication!

And he's right. Talent is just an excuse word. I lack it, so it's no wonder the other guy is better, is the subtext.

People who say, I 'm no good at math, or I've never been musical-- that's just shutting the door in your head, telling yourself you can't do something, when your potential is probably unlimited, especially compared to what you've been telling yourself. I know, because there is nothing special about me. I just let myself try it and learn it the best I could, that's all.
 
Ok, this is so wrong. I should be studying or at least write on my NaNo, not posting!!!

But the topic has my heart. I so agree about talent being only part of achievements.

Taking myself, I loved to draw and wanted to learn how to paint and all. I only managed that after I left school and went to some drawing classes. I amazed myself with what I could do by simply taking the time and by studying instead of merely passing my eyes over something. :eek:

Um, why did I ever stopped? LOL I find I am better at writing, but perhaps I should try to get back to drawing as well.

Setting yourself goals that are way too high is a perfect way to block any and all attempts. It can also be a good excuse to not even try someting.

Back to RL. I'll have more time to respond after December 1st. But I am watching and enjoying. Honest.

:D
 
It's good to hear the voices, though; I'm an approval junkie, like most house apes.

I knew people were looking, because the download count goes up. Not to the whopping numbers a pretty girl's pictures can do on the amateur photo boards, of course. But that sort of thing is actually interesting!:devil:

Come to think of it, I could likely have gotten more and more consistent approval by spreading the posts out a little more. What a dummy.

Now, to reach that level, I'm going to have to produce more stuff, I guess!

cantdog
 

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Illustration for my Jip story, now truncated to Chapter One. This cut out this scene altogether. So the illo is now in reference to a scene that's only on my hard drive.
 

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Another experiment -- trying something to see if there's a way to get the illustration "hosted" without also having to download.

showthread.php


If it works, it would require the poster to edit his/her post and add the "img" code.

Edited: Poopy! Didn't work.
 
Ok, Cantdog. Here's your morning fix. ;)

I don't know what you did with this one, but I love the fuzzy patches. Sorry, don't have the time to find the proper English words. But you'll get my drift.

I like the contrast between the sharp clear lines and the shadowy parts.

:D

After looking again, did you do something with water colors and pen?
 
Black Tulip said:
Ok, Cantdog. Here's your morning fix. ;)

I don't know what you did with this one, but I love the fuzzy patches. Sorry, don't have the time to find the proper English words. But you'll get my drift.

I like the contrast between the sharp clear lines and the shadowy parts.

:D

After looking again, did you do something with water colors and pen?
Yes, it's the contrast which is the good part, isn't it? Pens don't erase, so the pen work is a little screwed; the diluted-ink doesn't erase, either, so there are numerous fuckups there, too, but somehow the contrast is pleasing all the same. I swapped to a colored ink for the walls behind them, and that really looked awful! But when I had the image converted to grayscale in Graphic Workshop it looked okay again. So I guess it's three experiments.

I'm feeling limited by my reliance on line and my fear to lay down color, just color, no boundaries. I've never worked that way since I was a child. It leaves me feeling beyond my depth.

But by telling you all so forcefully to open the doors you close by telling yourself there are things you can't do, I seem to have trapped myself. Now I have to conquer some new ground.

I bought acrylic paints. Hoo Boy. Some of this is going to be very rough-looking indeed, and I know there will be hundreds of them. I promise to destroy the stillborn ones and only show you the hopeful signs.

cantdog
 
This is the very first mention of it, for me, imp. I'm a little busy right now, too, getting acrylics on the floor and furniture, so I'm not even curious. Sorry; the timing is wrong, I guess.

cantdog
 
impressive said:
Curious. Have any of the artsy types read this book: Flying Colors? If so, what is your take on the method?

(The book is a good read, regardless. I highly recommend it.)

The author's Web site is: Artistic Realization Technologies

No, but it seems to ring a bell somewhere.
Right now, I'm swamped with studying so no other books to add please. :( Not even for fun.

:eek:

When I do find some spare time, I devote that to improving my love life and writing.

:D
 
Crap. Paint has no frickin discipline. How the fuck do people do that shit?

Van Eyck and some of those guys, such incredible detail and texture. Did they use one hair? They must have.
 
cantdog said:
. . . I'm a little busy right now, too, getting acrylics on the floor and furniture, so I'm not even curious. . .

cantdog

Are you painting naked? You're not getting acrylic on your body anywhere, are you? :eek:

'Cause, ya know, that could be uncomfortable.
 
Really? I got nicotine patches, they leave a red mark for sure, but I never knew acrylic was especially irritant.

Except that it doesn't co-operate with me any too well.
 
cantdog said:
Really? I got nicotine patches, they leave a red mark for sure, but I never knew acrylic was especially irritant.

Except that it doesn't co-operate with me any too well.

LOL!

Here I was attempting to be discrete.

I meant it would be irritating if you got it on your dick!

(Ya know, and then it dried, and then you got excited, and so on, and . . . )

leaving the room, muttering about artists, gifted yet highly driven . . . mutter, mutter, mutter . . .
 
Subtlety. Ohh! I getcha!

I thought of that, but the stuff flakes off pretty easy. It would be weird to be licking pussy and then finding a flake in my teeth or something...

Like the Cat in the Hat, all that color spreading. Can't clean one thing without making at least one other thing dirty.

Dammit, you got me babbling again.

:heart:

cantdog
 
Another T-shirt design, too big for the scanner. The caption is

Latte, Babe?

The ox would be blue.
 

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I kissed a woman who was a little less than 150 centimetres tall, and then I saw The Wizard of Oz. Midgets evidently were gathered from all over the place to make this movie's Munchkin sequences, and none of them were used to seeing other little people around. The story goes that they fucked each other like bunnies all over the lot.
 

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Role playing gamers

Gawd. I found this old thing in colored pencil and Flair pen. A party of wanderers in my game world (I was always the GM).
 

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