Things I pick up as I go along
Stuff from the internet and stuff
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Photo reblogged from Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams and me, October 1983, back when I was a 22-year old Journalist. This was a test Polaroid that Henry the photographer gave me, taken while he was testing shots. I’m glad I still have it.
(This was back when I wore colourful clothes and also back when I smoked. And I wore tinted glasses because I thought they made me look older.)
Douglas is playing Marvin the Paranoid Android’s “How I Hate The Night” song on the guitar, but you can no longer hear him singing. It was too long ago.
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Another entertaining and provocative article by Sam Kriss
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Photo reblogged from Today is Caturday
At least he eventually got up and out of the rain.
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For CN’s Stop Bullying, I designed a month long course about self expression!
This is the week you get everything out of your system! Draw, or write, or sing, or dance your guts out. This is not about skill, just raw guts!
Suggestion- I like to put on music and draw furiously to try and get as many drawings done as possible before a song ends.Try to draw so fast you can’t even think!
Another suggestion- write about your day & how you’re feeling, but when you’re done, keep going anyway, until you’re writing about something you didn’t even know you were thinking about.If you’re mad, sad, scared, happy, whatever it is, express it and don’t worry if it’s not pretty or polished. Save the drawings/writing, or record your singing/dancing, keep it and don’t show anyone yet. This is just for you, for now.
Save this to come back to after week 4!
Hope you will do this with me! Week one starts NOW!
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1. Don’t shy away from finding inspiration for characters in yourself and the people you love.
“If there’s a character that you like in something else, they probably remind of you someone you know or yourself. So if you can zero in on that and then use that to make your own original character that has those qualities, but maybe even more specific to you, then do that.”
2. You can find inspiration through the things you enjoy, especially when you’re facing a creative block.
“I love to just put on music and draw, when I get stuck, sometimes I’ll do that. I like looking at art that’s not the medium of cartoons, and kind of absorbing that, and making cartoons while thinking of that.”
3. Even though it’s not the most exciting work, learn fundamentals and traditional drawing skills.
This is excellent advice Rebecca’s received from comic artists like Eric Larson, Mike Mignola, and Eric Powell.
4. And most importantly: Make. More. Stuff.
“And the ones that are working, you’ll quickly start to see like, This is what I want to do. You might not even know until you just do a lot of things, and then it will just come into focus.”
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Really interesting interview - I only found this because I ended up trying to find the meaning of their song Busy Earnin’, just to make sure I hadn’t misunderstood it. Just chucking it here so I don’t lose it forever.
“We live in culture where the Internet and Facebook and Instagram and Twitter mean that people are always searching for accreditation for their opinion. It means that no one actually gets a true response to what they’ve posted. If I posted a JUNGLEsong on Facebook, people aren’t going to be honest because its came from me, from a direct source.”
