THAT'S IT! I'M LEaving...

[dr_mabeuse]

Hey, chill, love!

I got the impression the Doc was talking about his own skills (or lack of) when it comes to drawing. Not YOURS!!!

Yes. I can only speak to my own attempts at illustration and how terribly frustrating and unsatisfying they were. "What the hell's wrong with her nose? How come she looks like she's wearig a diving helmet? How do I get his arm to look less like a leg on his shoulder?"

I think the ability to draw is something like musical ability. When you have it, iyou take it so much for granted that you can't understand why more people don't do it. When you don't have it, you have no idea of how it's done.

I spent a good 3 years drawing before I gave it up. I loved the feel of the pencil on the paper, and I loved playing with inks and water colors and all the cool stuff they have in art supply stores, but I have just enough visual sense to know that I wasn't any good. I used to draw comic strips where everyone would be crowded into one little corner or hanging over into another frame. Speech balloons would wrap around people's heads like jellyfish, boobs would emerge from women's necks. Still I persisted. I even studied comic book artists, but it was no go. I just don't got it.

I even look over rhino's shoulder in his Av and think, "Geez, look how nicely his figures fill the page! Mine never did that." So now I stick with what I know how to do now. At least when I write I have a feel for what works and what doesn't, and my characters limbs bend the right way.

---dr.M.

 

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