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The Beatles!
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Wow, that's a toughie. Probably Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. I know that's definitely the one I've read the most times. :)
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No! But I do have a white Stetson.
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First and Last and Always, Sisters of Mercy
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Aagh! My brain! All the bad songs are flooding into it! 0_0
After some consideration, I'll have to go with "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band. Quite possibly the most cloying pop song ever written, arranged and sung in the worst possible way. It's all that was bad about bad '70s pop all rolled into one horrible song! -
Well... I don't know if you mean living or dead! If it's anyone of any era, certainly Rembrandt, no question. He was the greatest painter of all time in my opinion, from the standpoint of applying paint to a canvas. On the other hand, to have been at Pyle's Brandywine school would have been amazing as well. :)
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Yes! I use a light box a lot. Often after I do a sketch I'll scan it and make adjustments in Photoshop - correcting anatomy, relative sizes and placements, that sort of thing, mostly by just selecting and moving/rotating/resizing, and sometimes drawing over it. When I've got it beaten into shape, if I've made big changes, I'll print it out and lightbox it to make a final sketch. That method saves a lot of time in the long run, I think, by getting the structure of the picture right before I start to render.
I bought a good projector about 9 years ago to do a very large painting (it was about 7 feet high), but I didn't like it, and I never used it again so eventually I ended up selling it. -
A comic book company!
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Time Travel. The sort where you can go to any time or place and actually change things in the past. I could fix mistakes I've made, and maybe make the world better.
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If I knew that, I'd be making money from the answer, not sitting here drawing pictures, believe you me.
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Pitch it to a studio, baby. That thing's got "summer blockbuster" written aaaalll over it.
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Pitch it to a studio, baby. That thing's got "summer blockbuster" written aaaalll over it.
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If I knew that, I'd be making money from the answer, not sitting here drawing pictures, believe you me.
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I'd be dead on any of them, which would be fine.
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Cats! Because they seem to like me but they don't think they need me. :)
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The most important thing is that I do most of my art on deadlines! So that's quite an incentive. You really can't afford to have a "block" when your livelihood is on the line - and your reputation!
I always have several things to fall back on - storytelling tricks, compositional ideas, interesting color schemes, etc., which are good places to start. Another thing is that if I'm stuck for an idea - say, more than 10 minutes trying to come up with something interesting and nothing happens - I just drop it and go to something else. That way I don't hit my head against a wall and get frustrated.
Charles Schulz said this about writing but it applies equally well to art, and I took it to heart years ago: "there's no room in a professional's life for writer's block." That's the long and short of it! -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiSxkrqMgM I live by the words of Bill Murray. And that's why chicks dig me.
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Inspiration comes from allowing yourself to be inspired.
Inspiration is the ability to give yourself permission to accept that your ideas are good, and act on them. And ideas can spring from ANYTHING. -
That's sure a common thing with artists. Sometimes I like to take an assignment and do it in a different way, for instance in a color scheme that I don't usually use, or using new tools. Sometimes I'll try to do it emulating a picture by another artist I like, trying to do techniques or solve problems the way they would. This can really start to engage my mind in new ways, and I learn things, too!
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