I hope I'm doing this right, but I'm fairly certain I'm not... Well, this is my latest, perhaps dumbest creation... It's the first, hopefully, of many... hopefully not as dumb...
His name so far is Grizz, but that's pretty much what you would call a "working title" sort of thing... Some friend/family types have confided in me that they can discern that it's the very poor depiction of a bear, so I'll proceed with that assumption...Hence the moniker, short for grizzly...What can I say? I'm the perpetual sucker for the obvious...
How he came into being was that I found myself out of work as so many in these troubled times (frankly, it's not such a sob story--I'll cover it one day, if this thing goes anywhere), and consequently, had gobs of time in my hands, an exacerbated sense of loss and a very low threshold for personal fulfillment and purpose.
You might say the ground was fertile for creative expression... Or further disappointment.
Many, many...many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away a bunch of friends/acquaintances would kindly comment on my artistic prowess, to which I would shrug, fain indifference, act like it was no big deal...
Truth be told, I was flattered, and thought how cool it would be to have any of my works actually published...
Alas, time, a long period of substance abuse (honestly, can't say it's quite over yet), normal/everyday family dysfunction, financial responsibility and, ultimately, marriage would stand in the way of my dream...
Nah, my dream sound too ethereal... And ambition seems so shrewd and mercenary... My aspiration sounds more humanistic and has an altruist ring to it...
Yes, all those factor got in the way of my aspirations... Or so I rationalized.
Bullshit...Truth is, my biggest obstacle was myself.
Guess it was time to get some real feed back and see if my shit was worth a damn...
My first step was to begin using my computer for something else than just checking out porn and silly videos (I mean, not just...), and started checking out some graphic design software, and then something astonishing happened: I realized I'm a total moron and have no idea what I'm doing...
As a matter of fact, I'm sure I'm doing something right now that anyone with medium level savvy in Internet functions would deem both neophyte and neolithic...but I suppose at this point, my sense of disorientation is stronger than my sense of... well, than any other senses I have!
I began to toy around with those programs (the aggravation I suffered was epic!), trying to figure them out, messaging with more knowledgeable friends (short list) and basically pulling my hair in desperation until the PC would work out on its own, literally out of pity for me...
And that's how I arrived at the illustration above...and how proud I was to have completed it. Nah, no big deal...
After a while, It ocurred to me that I could develop a sort of comic strip, or even post other projects that are a bit more complex...It would be a start...and here it is.
(The following are notes for my possible demographics)
-To friends: Sorry it took me so long to finally put my shit out there to be trashed by all, but I'll follow your advise and delude myself into believing I got any talent whatsoever...Hopefully you'll all get off my back already.
-To family: Uh,well...What can I say? Hi Mom...Hi Dad...You guys will probably never see this 'cause you're both PC illiterate, so there... To those of you who always believed in me, here's me trying...To the others, love you anyway...
-To anybody else: You must've been google-ing something cool and accidently arrived here...It's okay, don't panic... but you're here, so might as well trash the place...Peace.
And here's what I got so far...Remember: this is just an exercise....
How he came into being was that I found myself out of work as so many in these troubled times (frankly, it's not such a sob story--I'll cover it one day, if this thing goes anywhere), and consequently, had gobs of time in my hands, an exacerbated sense of loss and a very low threshold for personal fulfillment and purpose.
You might say the ground was fertile for creative expression... Or further disappointment.
Many, many...many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away a bunch of friends/acquaintances would kindly comment on my artistic prowess, to which I would shrug, fain indifference, act like it was no big deal...
Truth be told, I was flattered, and thought how cool it would be to have any of my works actually published...
Alas, time, a long period of substance abuse (honestly, can't say it's quite over yet), normal/everyday family dysfunction, financial responsibility and, ultimately, marriage would stand in the way of my dream...
Nah, my dream sound too ethereal... And ambition seems so shrewd and mercenary... My aspiration sounds more humanistic and has an altruist ring to it...
Yes, all those factor got in the way of my aspirations... Or so I rationalized.
Bullshit...Truth is, my biggest obstacle was myself.
Guess it was time to get some real feed back and see if my shit was worth a damn...
My first step was to begin using my computer for something else than just checking out porn and silly videos (I mean, not just...), and started checking out some graphic design software, and then something astonishing happened: I realized I'm a total moron and have no idea what I'm doing...
As a matter of fact, I'm sure I'm doing something right now that anyone with medium level savvy in Internet functions would deem both neophyte and neolithic...but I suppose at this point, my sense of disorientation is stronger than my sense of... well, than any other senses I have!
I began to toy around with those programs (the aggravation I suffered was epic!), trying to figure them out, messaging with more knowledgeable friends (short list) and basically pulling my hair in desperation until the PC would work out on its own, literally out of pity for me...
And that's how I arrived at the illustration above...and how proud I was to have completed it. Nah, no big deal...
After a while, It ocurred to me that I could develop a sort of comic strip, or even post other projects that are a bit more complex...It would be a start...and here it is.
(The following are notes for my possible demographics)
-To friends: Sorry it took me so long to finally put my shit out there to be trashed by all, but I'll follow your advise and delude myself into believing I got any talent whatsoever...Hopefully you'll all get off my back already.
-To family: Uh,well...What can I say? Hi Mom...Hi Dad...You guys will probably never see this 'cause you're both PC illiterate, so there... To those of you who always believed in me, here's me trying...To the others, love you anyway...
-To anybody else: You must've been google-ing something cool and accidently arrived here...It's okay, don't panic... but you're here, so might as well trash the place...Peace.
And here's what I got so far...Remember: this is just an exercise....
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Saludos carnal!
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