tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post8070623918422167466..comments2024-03-28T21:02:46.485-05:00Comments on A MOMENT OF CEREBUS: 2000 Bad DrawingsA Moment Of Cerebushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02718525538144698138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-41179889948875699012013-01-15T09:28:54.234-06:002013-01-15T09:28:54.234-06:00One of my favourite parts of the guide, when I rea...One of my favourite parts of the guide, when I read it for schoolio I actually wrote out this whole excerpt.dylanio21https://www.blogger.com/profile/13601626215230972257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2837001751311078781.post-84232690624608047282012-06-26T04:32:30.559-05:002012-06-26T04:32:30.559-05:00I loved the Guide so much when I got ahold of it (...I loved the Guide so much when I got ahold of it (that thing is battered beyond belief now but still hanging in there). I didn't actually know there was one until I was trying to find some of the notes from the presidents that I was missing online to see if someone may have posted them (since I was having trouble tracking down the issues at the time) and someone had mentioned they were collected in the CGtSP with extra stuff added.<br /><br />Anyways, battered and beaten as it is, I hold it near and dear to my heart because it caused such a shift in my approach to my art.<br /><br />I used to tight-pencil the heck out of my art until I got into my thick head that penciling is the blueprint and inking is the finished art. My inking became a lot better (and/or at least a lot surer) once I wasn't trying to trace what's already there. Of course, I can barely pencil now because I've gotten so used to just putting the bare minimum on the page and going to town but I'd take that over the alternative.<br /><br />I think the biggest influence the Guide had on my art was 1) "It's a slide damnit/it's a Dave Sim hand" chapter because it both got me out of going back and reworking/wasting time instead of moving forward as well appreciating that it's okay to draw like me. I'm technically better now (I guess?), but man I miss that kid that wasn't killing himself to match the "house styles" of the big two because that kid used his imagination and went all out for ideas and experimentation.<br /><br />2) "It's nice to take a cool dip in the pool but you don't want to live in it" That made me keep it in my head what I wanted out of my career and being a company-lifer wasn't one of them. Get in, get out was always the plan.<br /><br />3) The text posted in this very thread. "Get a life. Man I got a life." That always stuck out for me because it's so stinking true. People who don't draw/aren't artists don't get it and won't get it. I've noticed how free my life is/feels now that I don't have that constant badgering in my ear because I've tuned them all out.<br /><br />There's more but I don't think you all want to read a bookpost on how the guide changed and helped me. So suffice it to say, thank you.<br /><br /><br />PS: RE: The television section at the end...about screens taking over everything. Do you hate being right?Masnoreply@blogger.com