DRAWING IN CIRCLES

I really enjoy driving around a foggy Seattle listening to this. The video this guy made is surprisingly good

The artist is engaged in a perpetual struggle against the positive-feedback loop of the brain, desperate to create an experience that no one has ever had before. And while the poet must struggle to invent a new metaphor and the novelist a new story, the composer must discover the undiscovered pattern, for the originality is the source of the emotion.


If the art feels difficult, it is only because our neurons are stretching to understand it. The pain flows from the growth. As Nietzsche sadistically declared, "If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in; only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory."


This newness, however torturous, is necessary. Positive-feedback loops, like that shrieking microphone, always devour themselves. Without artists like Stavinsky who compulsively make everything new, our sense of sound would become increasingly narrow... ...Works like "The Rite" jolt us out of complacency. They keep us literally open-minded. IF not for the difficulty of the avant-garde, we would worship nothing but that which we already know.


-Proust Was A Neuroscientist

CamdenLikesGreen's koala

My version:
 

Dear Left 4 Dead, I re-installed you for the 3rd time yesterday. Being productive all the time is nice, but if I don't have a method to unwind I end up getting bummed out a lot. I keep trying to quit you, but the other games just don't got the stuff you gots baby.

Jeez of all the stupid weeks to have an important thing at work due. I'd kill to be able to take tomorrow off and get stuff finished in time.

Oh shit I've only got a week left!

I'm currently taking a caricature class online at Schoolism.com from Jason Seiler. So far it's alright- the polished value painting I've been doing for the last two assignments has been actually incredibly informative despite that it's so hard for me to focus on. I don't think the caricature ability switch has been flipped in my head quite yet, but there's vague signs of it.

Here's the current monochrome painting I'm working on for the class:

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I'll see all of you in fucking hell.

The game I worked on came out today(ish) at GameStop. I guess it comes out everywhere else on Friday. Store exclusives and all that malarkey.



Woot!

An attempt to tweak the Wacom pressure curve for Photoshop to make it act more like SAI's incredibly fucking awesome pen tool. It's still not as good, but I do think it's an improvement.

Scobot gave me this.

I gave him this:

January's over. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, though I wish I could have setup a better lighting render. Zbrush disables interactive lighting for renders if you use one of their MatCap materials.