Lenscrafters sent an ad in the mail addressed to my sister; the one person in our entire household who DOESN'T need their products.
That makes a wierd sort of sense. Why advertise to the rest of you? If you need glasses you will show up sooner or later anyways. Your sister, on the other hand, needs to be convinced that glasses are for her.
Without prescription lenses those glasses become a lot cheaper as a fashion accessory.
Well as it turns out my sister did in fact get glasses from them a few years ago. She's just never worn them around me.
Have you ever taken a break from something only to come back to it better than ever? I've been drawing entirely digitally for the past 8 months and I was starting to feel a bit restricted. Like, I knew I was better than the level I was drawing at. This morning I just started doodling randomly in a sketchbook with a mechanical pencil... I've filled about twenty pages packed with sketches. My anatomy is better than ever, my faces are more expressive and I feel much more flexible in terms of style. So I think I gotta add pencil work to my practice rotation.
It's getting a little hard to do a practice hour of everything a day now though. Between motion graphics, traditional art, digital painting, writing and 3d models, plus watching tutorials for all that stuff on top of it as fast as I can find them, I'm starting to feel like I'm shoving too much stuff into my brain. And now I have to learn InDesign and figure out how I'm going to ink things...
It's getting a little hard to do a practice hour of everything a day now though. Between motion graphics, traditional art, digital painting, writing and 3d models, plus watching tutorials for all that stuff on top of it as fast as I can find them, I'm starting to feel like I'm shoving too much stuff into my brain. And now I have to learn InDesign and figure out how I'm going to ink things...
I totally feel the same way. I am interested in a lot of things, and I've been studying hard from books and in practice. Lately, it has been Zbrush, human anatomy, Japanese, fiction writing, comic composition, Unity, photography, color theory, and plain ol' environment modeling. I need to concentrate on one at a time, otherwise it will be bad and it will not stick in the ol' noggin.
It's getting a little hard to do a practice hour of everything a day now though. Between motion graphics, traditional art, digital painting, writing and 3d models, plus watching tutorials for all that stuff on top of it as fast as I can find them, I'm starting to feel like I'm shoving too much stuff into my brain. And now I have to learn InDesign and figure out how I'm going to ink things...
I totally feel the same way. I am interested in a lot of things, and I've been studying hard from books and in practice. Lately, it has been Zbrush, human anatomy, Japanese, fiction writing, comic composition, Unity, photography, color theory, and plain ol' environment modeling. I need to concentrate on one at a time, otherwise it will be bad and it will not stick in the ol' noggin.
At the risk of sounding like preening, I think that any sufficiently versatile, intelligent creative person eventually hits this wall. I suspect that the solution is to ruthlessly specialize and drop some interests or else become a jack of all trades/master of none type, which is what happened to me. I can sort of do a lot of different creative stuff sort of well, and no single thing spectacularly. In retrospect I wish I would have focused.
I am selling art, learning a third language and new skills (glassblowing and welding), and working toward my PhD in molecular bio. I haven't encountered a wall yet, nor do I expect to.
Wall may not be the precisely correct word, but there are only so many interests that one human being can reasonably master. If you want to be the 100th best X, then you may have to prune a thing or two. If being the 101st best is cool, then that's likely not a problem.
Not that creation is necessarily or ideally competitive, but that's about as precisely as I can word it at 10PM with a little rum in my belly, stoking a wood stove, dry brushing some small sculptures with metallic paint, photographing some jewelry pieces, and getting ready to sleep. Sorry I'm not much of a lawyer. :-)
Have you ever taken a break from something only to come back to it better than ever?
This isn't such a long break, but when I was taking piano lessons, I would start a song in class and suck at it, never touch the piano over the week (because I was/am a lazy fuck), and then was able to play it reasonably well in next week's lesson.
The worst part about doing web development is having to deal with IE and its fascinating ability to render things totally wrong one day and then be fine the next day without changing our site whatsoever.
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It's getting a little hard to do a practice hour of everything a day now though. Between motion graphics, traditional art, digital painting, writing and 3d models, plus watching tutorials for all that stuff on top of it as fast as I can find them, I'm starting to feel like I'm shoving too much stuff into my brain. And now I have to learn InDesign and figure out how I'm going to ink things...
Not that creation is necessarily or ideally competitive, but that's about as precisely as I can word it at 10PM with a little rum in my belly, stoking a wood stove, dry brushing some small sculptures with metallic paint, photographing some jewelry pieces, and getting ready to sleep. Sorry I'm not much of a lawyer. :-)
I also made a handful in primary colors without any drybrushing, but I'm not happy with them.
WARNING: POLITICS.
Mostly not me, but still!
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