Gallant Efforts

[Naboka]

It's either a rhino or not a rhino. There's no such thing as a QUASIRHINO.

the game actually accepted quasirhino?

what a crackup.

great find.

what was it worth? 24 points?

wonder if you can pluralize it.

never, ever, ever heard the term. (apparently neither has google as a recognizable and defined word.) wonder if it has something to do with something appearing noselike, but not.

still...

the things accepted and rejected still amaze me.

[crazykate]

It's either a rhino or not a rhino. There's no such thing as a QUASIRHINO.

I'm pretty sure they exist as plushies, though. I think my daughter has a quasitiger and a quasigiraffe.

[DrPlacebo]

It's either a rhino or not a rhino. There's no such thing as a QUASIRHINO.

[crazykate]

In case you ever find yourself wondering whether a "sandalmonger" exists... no, they don't. But if you ever find the word on a board, there's probably a C right next to it.

[dannyb]

NECROMETEOROLOGIES doesn't count, unfortunately.

Then again:

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warning
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing
I heard ten-thousand whispering and nobody listening
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing
I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard
It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

[dannyb]

Hey that's what I yell when it is raining zombies.

[DrPlacebo]

NECROMETEOROLOGIES doesn't count, unfortunately.

[JedMedGrey]

Hear, hear!

[lalatan]

BACKSTABLESS, sounded like a good workplace to me...

[crazykate]

BRATSCHE doesn't count. I didn't really expect it to, but it's still a disappointment because I see the word so often at the top of orchestral and chamber music parts. (I play the viola. Bratsche is the viola's German name.)

Hi there, fellow viola player!

[DrPlacebo]

BRATSCHE doesn't count. I didn't really expect it to, but it's still a disappointment because I see the word so often at the top of orchestral and chamber music parts. (I play the viola. Bratsche is the viola's German name.)

[dannyb]

"Originally posted by Naboka"

Pen and ink is tough. Have to respect anyone who masters that.

Pretty far from a master. I do simple line drawings in pen and ink using a LOT of negative space.

I used to do some calligraphy also. My wife is better than me doing calligraphy (so I stopped). My wife also does quite well with sumi painting. I couldn't get very good with that. She hasn't done any art in a few years. She has been working long and hard writing a history of her mother's family. I think this book of hers is becoming a Sisyphean task.

[Naboka]

Pen and ink is tough. Have to respect anyone who masters that.

Crumb was a bit of the George Carlin of cartoons. His insight into our world made him special.

Something worth noting in Crumb's storyboard: the amount of change required to produce a dramatic difference. Initially, small changes make a big difference. Later, more change is hardly noticeable. Happens a lot in life. Even in lighting.

If you're doing black and white, have you watched the "Mind-Blowing Realistic Shading Tricks" by Dorian Iten on youtube? He talks about how much change occurs on the gray scale as you increase the angle of incidence of light falling on an object. A 30% change in inclination (the range is 0-90 degrees) only decreases the amount of light hitting the object by 3%--you're still seeing 97% of the light reflected.


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Though cartoon lighting often has little to do with realism. For dramatic effect.

Here's the story board. Jonie is an incredible artist. HBO has a documentary about the numerous artists that lived up on one of the canyon streets in LA. Forgot the name.

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[dannyb]

Wonder if you've tried other media. One of my cartoonist friends has gone strictly to digital rendering. She says it's far far faster. And easier to correct mistakes or make changes.

I work in black and white. Pencil, pen and ink, charcoal. I used to paint when I was younger (in color) I stopped painting in college. I started drifting to black and white.

I thought about getting "the pencil" for my iPad. I should at least try it. The screen size would be a perfect size (for me) for a single panel. But there is something I love in just sitting at my desk with my sharpened pencils drawing and shading, erasing and fixing.

There is a cartoon, "A Short History of America" by R Crumb that my give you an idea about how I view black and white. It was done in 1979. Mr. Crumb later expanded the cartoon and then colorized it in 2003. It is getting difficult to find the black and white version. I would add a link here but this message would get flagged. So Google Klauston's Blog An analysis of "A Short History of America" by Robert Crumb and scroll down to see larger images of the panels. For fun, on YouTube, there is the colorized version with Joni Mitchell's live version of "The Big Yellow Taxi" playing in the background. Makes a nice comparison.

[Naboka]

Naboka, it may be just an "illusion", but you have to admit that those are some pretty numbers to look at.

I Just started fleshing out the last four stories of my comic book. Going to buy some new pencils for the art. I dislike using pencils once they are more than half way down the shaft. Why? No idea. I can see not using "nubs" but I just stop using them at half-way. I put them in a can on my wife's desk. Just looked over at her desk. There are a lot of pencils in that can. I will be drawing the last half of the month. My goal is to finish the comic book by Halloween.

An aside: I drew a cartoon of Superman in his costume without his cape holding a rooster. The caption is, "Superman with his capon". A friend looked at it and said, "Hey, Superman isn't wearing his cape, and why is he holding a chicken?"

Just finished writing a short story based on a line I saw in the news paper: "A woman who loses a husband is a widow. A man who loses a wife is a widower. There is no descriptor powerful enough to attach to a parent who has lost a child."

When I first started playing this game, those numbers were so far beyond reality that it wasn't even an aspiration.

Hilarious about Superman and the capon. In high school, had no clue what capon meant. That was before words and meanings were interesting. Trying to memorize the seven stages of man speech was about as easy as memorizing Mandarin.--and as meaningful.

Can sympathize with your friend for not getting it.

Fascinating about widower, widow and having lost a child. Never thought of that before. Curious that we have no words for it. (At least that I know of.)

Love colored pencils. They can be a work of art in and of themselves.

Got the full set Caran D'ache Museum Aquarelles in a wooden box. They were so beautiful I couldn't bear to use them. had to buy another set of them for use.

Also have a couple of full sets of their Luminance. So friggin' pretty. And a joy to use.

Had to get the Derwent Lightfasts when they hit the market. Another beautiful pencil, with pigments designed for museum preservation of artwork.

Econimcally, when any of those pencils get halfway or less, you have to resort to pencil extenders. Insert the shortened pencil into the extender and you can use it down to an inch or two.

Used to be a fad among colored pencilists that when their pencils got to nibs, they'd accumulate them in a glass container. Something of a badge of labor.

Wonder if you've tried other media. One of my cartoonist friends has gone strictly to digital rendering. She says it's far far faster. And easier to correct mistakes or make changes.

For physical media, pigment is pigment, whether it's water color, acrylic, ink, pastel, etc. Just a matter of getting the pigment to the surface in a manner that 's pleasing.

One of the advantages I find using watercolor pencils is how quickly you can spread the pigment over larger areas. (Not large, just larger than lines.) But nowhere nearly as quickly as the Daniel Smith watercolor sticks and tubes for that. The Derwent Inktense pencils, being ink, lay down really deep, rich colors and behave like watercolor. The Caran D'ache Neocolor II's are bascially watercolor sticks that work nicely-but probably aren't precise enough for cartoon outlines. Just fill in.

Excuse the rambling. An artsupply hoarder be I.