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End of the Line
weird week. had a mini crisis of ‘art’. work on the comic, work on paintings….. work on what you want to improve at, and the jack of all trades masters nuttin’.
and what i mean to say, is that i decided i should pull back on trying to be some fancy concept painter for kicks, and recommit to drawing. i know it all seems like it’s in the same wheelhouse, but you’ll get to a point with most things, where going forward means specializing, or spreading yourself so thin you seemingly make no progress. painting is leg day. i tried not to skip leg day. now i’m thinking, i should skip a few leg days.
so, i make this sort of realization, and decide to practice some more line drawing. pen and ink, black and white, back to basics. i look up some more reference, try to buckle down and work on the fundamentals. i start watching some videos and works from kim jung gi, a long time inspirator of mine (i know it’s not a word, shush your butt).
things are great for a few days, and then on a reference hunt, instead of images that pop up, it’s articles. at 47, kim goes ahead and has himself a heart attack boarding a plane, and dies. i’m calling BS. that’s too young.
now, i never met the man, and cause i never like to know more than i need to know about people i like online, i never learned anything about him. that’s just self preservation. i’m not brave enough to do a deep dive on famous people, cause you will more than likely find something out about them that will sour you on them, so i just tend to avoid it. BUT, i will say that at 47, this guy left a body of work that would amaze someone if you thought they lived 3 lifetimes. do yourself a favour, look him up, and enjoy his work. i also did a sketch of him, and posted it to my patreon, and my instagram. he’s getting a lot of memorializing in art, so i thought i would add to the pile.
anyways, i thought i’d share that coincidence with you all. now i will return to my magical incantations to harness his power. what?! he’s not using it anymore……
Yeah, it was a good sketch. I’m not great at consoling people I don’t know personally, so maybe I can give you something to distract yourself with?
Clicking on Comic 559 just reloads the same page instead of moving to 560 like it’s supposed to. 560-562 all redirect to bb-00 instead of the next page.
Other than that, maybe you could research new colors? Kris Station could read an orange Julius comic in which Julius reads something green and black?
Words are what they are, Alice in Wonderland was written by a brilliant mathematician precisely to underline that point, even while playing with them … unless Tweedledee and Tweeddledumb were right.
Sometimes the universe sends us the weirdest kicks in the ass to get us going. Sorry you lost someone you admired.
well, i admired his talent. i really didn’t know much about him. it’s more about the coincidence and the fragility of the human body. then you’ll watch some real murder youtube show about someone taking multiple hatchet chops to the head, and surviving to defend her son who did it. pure chaos.
Heart attacks do happen for relatively young people. A cousin of mine died of a stroke before he was thirty, it was just happenstance. Something happens, something goes wrong, and that wonderful machine that it is us goes kaput.
And words are what we make them. Just read Alice in Wonderland.
sorry bout your cousin. that’s super young. yeah, we’re just a mass of crossed zapping wires. we’re all an air bubble away from being a previous, as opposed to a current.