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this is a drawing of a hawk or eagle smiling… it was done with an ink pen on a piece of paper. Line weights were hard to control but most people just used a rapidiograph of varying widths to achieve the differences. there was no %800 percent zoom, so you couldn’t draw anything vanishingly small. In illustrator you can zoom in 3200% or some other ridicules number. This flys in the face of logic. The human eye is unable to see anything that small. it blends shapes together. I imagine someone could create an image that was meant to blend together but that would be a novelty and not the norm. As you can see the points on the corners aren’t laser sharp. things aren’t tweeked to minute perfection. Lines are put approximately where they should be. The computer allows one to move lines after they are put down and move them some more and again and again. creating a cycle of infinite changes. This allows the designer to second guess himself. and second guessing your art means death. None of it makes perfect sense. Hopefully someone will look at it. but other than that it captures a place in time when someone thought this looked cool.
I am always interested and amazed to see what people come up with. From the simplest scribble by a child to a labored over illustration, it tells alot about who made it. A peek into their subconscious mind. I guess that is why people are afraid to create art, they don’t want people to see the real person behind the mask. and that is the ultimate shame.
Like this:
everyday for a year or so I made it a point to draw a comic strip…
my dad always thought I should be a cartoonist, I wanted to see if I could do it…
I developed some characters but it is hard to stay focused on something like this for a whole year without wanting to do something else… anyway I will present these works on my blog in the upcoming weeks — enjoy? or suffer … let me know which
my link yesterday didn’t work out like I planned
the thumbnail doesn’t work
so when you click on the small version it doesn’t go to a large version
not sure where it went wrong
that is the problem with new software. it never works like the old soft ware…
instead of tweaking the interface and improving proformance, they usually ad new features, that may or may not work. and usually work slower. I do the same exact work I did ten years ago, on a machine that is four times faster, but it is just as slow as the old way, because the software is bloated. they need to make this stuff simpler and less complex, but stable.
a nintendo cartridge never freezes… why can’t a computer work like that?
maybe make two versions, a stable simple version, and a complicated fucked up version with a bunch of useless features like adding flash to illustrator, I am sure some people use that, but I don’t ever, so why do I need it?
anyway my first graphics computer was a mac II si with an 80 mb hard drive and 5 mb of ram
nothing better than the sheen on a nice set of cans. The light defines the shape and makes it look more dimensional. yes nothing this old boy like more than see a beautiful can or two..
make it worth getting up in the morning….
“oh dear, I hope the internets doesn’t find out about this!”
“although I shouldn’t have been looking at sexy scrap metal web site again”
“the internets are indeed a source of evil, for the lonely robot”
I worked at NCE like ten yrs ago, and people would come to the art department and request big cards, for everyone to sign. so we would make a 11 x 17 inch card and pass it around the company. I knew Sandi and said hi to her everyday, then she got sick, so I was tasked with making this card, So I wrote up this little poem, and drew these flowers. She ended up having brain cancer, and eventually lost the battle. at the funeral, her husband thanked me profusely, saying sandi loved the card and kept it with her until she past.
I always felt like I did something good with that card,
