Post Spam #3: Bold Strokes
Jun. 3rd, 2008 10:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talktoolooseIt's a source of fascination and frustration to me that I can't draw better. I gave up drawing my comic book for two reasons: first, it takes too long to tell a story that way and I have too many stories to tell. Secondly, I can't soar in that medium the way I can when I write fiction or compose music.
It's mysterious. I know comic art really, really, really, really well. I could write dissertations on page composition, inking styles, dynamic anatomy. I can spot good art at a distance of 3.7268 km. But I can't make the visions in my head appear on paper. I can draw okay, but it takes everything I have just to reach "okay". And furthermore, the gap between my skill level and a skill level I could one day reach is too wide. It is not given to me make a character live through line the way I can make him live through prose.
Not that I'm complaining; I don't have time to work in so many media. But it is strange to me to understand something so well and not be able to acheive it.
It's mysterious. I know comic art really, really, really, really well. I could write dissertations on page composition, inking styles, dynamic anatomy. I can spot good art at a distance of 3.7268 km. But I can't make the visions in my head appear on paper. I can draw okay, but it takes everything I have just to reach "okay". And furthermore, the gap between my skill level and a skill level I could one day reach is too wide. It is not given to me make a character live through line the way I can make him live through prose.
Not that I'm complaining; I don't have time to work in so many media. But it is strange to me to understand something so well and not be able to acheive it.
