Johny Hart died last weekend. in a profile I read of his years ago he (I paraphrase here because I can) said that his B.C. comic was much harder to draw than other strips because he used minimal background. if you draw every leaf on a tree, no one notices if they aren't all perfect, if all you have is a horizon line, it better be in the right place. I instantly started to teach myself(Unsucessfuly) to be a minimalist.
Last night kurt vonnegut died. I read slaughterhouse 5 because john lithgow called it perverse and obscene in "Footloose" (forgive me) I read everything else because I found something that spoke to my cynical hopefulness. and hoplessness. I also learned that even the most secondary background character in every story has a life, a story, loves, fears, dreams and doubts.
these things come in threes. I don't know who is next, but this has been a sad week for me.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Sunday, April 08, 2007
illustration friday "green"
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