Modern Life is Rubbish
NEW SERIES:
POPULAR MUSIC: from the 50s to the 70s, I still love it, and even the sometimes-sterile 1980s gave us quite a few creative sounds...come the 1990s, the quality just seemed to dip and tail off regarding modern music [maybe my youthful time had naturally passed, of course] : although some stuff like the KLF, Suede [NOT Slade!] and the Verve were up to scratch creatively, I thought......
------Mass-produced fare like Spice Girls or Oasis never did much for me sonically, nor did public-school fake yobboes BLUR ......however, Blur did come up with an early 90s album title that I regarded as really rather spiffing:
MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH
......This is a sentinent I wholeheartedly agree with, and I have shamelessly nicked this title for a 'brand new' cartoon series, which wil be illustrated by the Boomer Crowd------no more brand new characters at the moment, I have more than enough to contend with at present.
Anyway, this series will be taking a look at the many modern ills that pollute our Modern World, from internet sites, nightmarish traffic on the roads and MP3s to name but the obvious.
First up:
UN-NECCESSARRY, EXPENSIVE ART EQUIPMENT:
-----This is the single-biggest attempted con-trick, and easily the most needless, pointless load of useless old baloney ever inflicted upon the aspiring cartoonist: first and foremost, an artist needs an original style all of their own, ---unless they are content to slavishly copy the style of others, but they will never attain 'true greatness' doing this---------as well as having good ideas and natural talent: these essential commodities are elements YOU CANNOT BUY irrespective of what is on 'daddys' credit card', or even worse: squandered with cash earned from taking on dead-end jobs in order to fund useless gadgetry.
Worse still , this farce is backed up and 'legitimized' by several 'experts' on cartoon chat-forums, none of whom are doing anything especially original: at best, modern cartooning is tarted up with glossy color and technique---some of which looks great, it has to be said-----but first and foremost, GOOD IDEAS and DRAWING ABILITY are MUCH, MUCH, more important:
-------- the aspiring cartoonist needs to get to grips with these first: the computer-embellishments can follow on later: and even here, perfectly good FREE computer image-manipulation programs are easily availble, there is no need to splash out muchos loot for 'posh' programs: I regularly sell cartoons without wasting cash on expensive stuff like Photoshop ..... more on this subject later.
Part of the purpose of this site is to expose and pinpoint the many levels of bulls*** which is deliberately spread around by a fair few self-serving cartoonist-musos, who are only interested in strengthening their own limited 'status'. These people are----in my view and experience, at least------- retarding real progress in the cartoon field ---either by design or default-------and they are trying to make out all aspiring cartoonists require needless, expensive gear......., however on here I ably prove that good results can be achieved for next to nothing: even this blog is 'free': or rather, it comes as part of my computer service fee.
For this very simple drawing seen below, I needed only:
FREE [RECYCLED] PAPER
STEEL NIB AND HOLDER [at least 10 years old]
PENCIL [over 5 years old]
RUBBER/ERASER [also yonks old]
BOTTLED INK, [purchased in a large bottle at least 12 years ago--still going strong]
TOTAL COST: Negligible, almost nothing, which leaves me with cash for some of the other good things in life. [some of the best things in life really ARE free, of course!]
DO NOT LISTEN to these pretentious wafflers on dubious chat-forums who insist you must spend hundreds of pounds on posh drawing gear: these people are trying to CON you and make out they are 'superior': THEY ARE NOT!!!!!!!
-------: LOOK AT MY DRAWINGS ON HERE, they were and are ALL done on a SHOESTRING, even the very best full-color ones!!!!!
This is ALL you need to know about the cartoon biz: you need TALENT and IDEAS above all, not useless and expensive 'drawing gadgets': YOU are the most important 'drawing gadget' needed to do this stuff!!!!!
DON'T waste your money on consumer junk: Just DRAW, DRAW, DRAW!!!!!!! [the natural method----on paper.]
Creating and Selling cartoons can cost NEXT TO NOTHING: DON'T be a slave or sucker to consumer trash or dodgy 'experts!'
MANY so-called 'cartoon artists' have spent hundreds of pounds/dollars on pointless equipment, but their 'work' is often so-so, and in some cases, downright poor: FACT!!!!
[this is fair enough if cartoon devotees are just wanting to pursue an expensive hobby, however some of these people doing the preaching are putting out stuff that is not that great, and making on you have to follow their less-than-shining 'example' if you wish to succeed as a cartoonist ': this is what I am really up against].
Customers who buy cartoons DO NOT CARE and ARE NOT INTERESTED in how your drawings are put together: ALL they are bothered about is if the END RESULT is ANY GOOD or not. FACT!!!!!!
THIS HAS BEEN A PUBIC SERVICE BROODCAST
POPULAR MUSIC: from the 50s to the 70s, I still love it, and even the sometimes-sterile 1980s gave us quite a few creative sounds...come the 1990s, the quality just seemed to dip and tail off regarding modern music [maybe my youthful time had naturally passed, of course] : although some stuff like the KLF, Suede [NOT Slade!] and the Verve were up to scratch creatively, I thought......
------Mass-produced fare like Spice Girls or Oasis never did much for me sonically, nor did public-school fake yobboes BLUR ......however, Blur did come up with an early 90s album title that I regarded as really rather spiffing:
MODERN LIFE IS RUBBISH
......This is a sentinent I wholeheartedly agree with, and I have shamelessly nicked this title for a 'brand new' cartoon series, which wil be illustrated by the Boomer Crowd------no more brand new characters at the moment, I have more than enough to contend with at present.
Anyway, this series will be taking a look at the many modern ills that pollute our Modern World, from internet sites, nightmarish traffic on the roads and MP3s to name but the obvious.
First up:
UN-NECCESSARRY, EXPENSIVE ART EQUIPMENT:
-----This is the single-biggest attempted con-trick, and easily the most needless, pointless load of useless old baloney ever inflicted upon the aspiring cartoonist: first and foremost, an artist needs an original style all of their own, ---unless they are content to slavishly copy the style of others, but they will never attain 'true greatness' doing this---------as well as having good ideas and natural talent: these essential commodities are elements YOU CANNOT BUY irrespective of what is on 'daddys' credit card', or even worse: squandered with cash earned from taking on dead-end jobs in order to fund useless gadgetry.
Worse still , this farce is backed up and 'legitimized' by several 'experts' on cartoon chat-forums, none of whom are doing anything especially original: at best, modern cartooning is tarted up with glossy color and technique---some of which looks great, it has to be said-----but first and foremost, GOOD IDEAS and DRAWING ABILITY are MUCH, MUCH, more important:
-------- the aspiring cartoonist needs to get to grips with these first: the computer-embellishments can follow on later: and even here, perfectly good FREE computer image-manipulation programs are easily availble, there is no need to splash out muchos loot for 'posh' programs: I regularly sell cartoons without wasting cash on expensive stuff like Photoshop ..... more on this subject later.
Part of the purpose of this site is to expose and pinpoint the many levels of bulls*** which is deliberately spread around by a fair few self-serving cartoonist-musos, who are only interested in strengthening their own limited 'status'. These people are----in my view and experience, at least------- retarding real progress in the cartoon field ---either by design or default-------and they are trying to make out all aspiring cartoonists require needless, expensive gear......., however on here I ably prove that good results can be achieved for next to nothing: even this blog is 'free': or rather, it comes as part of my computer service fee.
For this very simple drawing seen below, I needed only:
FREE [RECYCLED] PAPER
STEEL NIB AND HOLDER [at least 10 years old]
PENCIL [over 5 years old]
RUBBER/ERASER [also yonks old]
BOTTLED INK, [purchased in a large bottle at least 12 years ago--still going strong]
TOTAL COST: Negligible, almost nothing, which leaves me with cash for some of the other good things in life. [some of the best things in life really ARE free, of course!]
DO NOT LISTEN to these pretentious wafflers on dubious chat-forums who insist you must spend hundreds of pounds on posh drawing gear: these people are trying to CON you and make out they are 'superior': THEY ARE NOT!!!!!!!
-------: LOOK AT MY DRAWINGS ON HERE, they were and are ALL done on a SHOESTRING, even the very best full-color ones!!!!!
This is ALL you need to know about the cartoon biz: you need TALENT and IDEAS above all, not useless and expensive 'drawing gadgets': YOU are the most important 'drawing gadget' needed to do this stuff!!!!!
DON'T waste your money on consumer junk: Just DRAW, DRAW, DRAW!!!!!!! [the natural method----on paper.]
Creating and Selling cartoons can cost NEXT TO NOTHING: DON'T be a slave or sucker to consumer trash or dodgy 'experts!'
MANY so-called 'cartoon artists' have spent hundreds of pounds/dollars on pointless equipment, but their 'work' is often so-so, and in some cases, downright poor: FACT!!!!
[this is fair enough if cartoon devotees are just wanting to pursue an expensive hobby, however some of these people doing the preaching are putting out stuff that is not that great, and making on you have to follow their less-than-shining 'example' if you wish to succeed as a cartoonist ': this is what I am really up against].
Customers who buy cartoons DO NOT CARE and ARE NOT INTERESTED in how your drawings are put together: ALL they are bothered about is if the END RESULT is ANY GOOD or not. FACT!!!!!!
THIS HAS BEEN A PUBIC SERVICE BROODCAST
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