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October 19, 2005
Almost Bushed
I often, selfishly, find other people's bad art to be greatly encouraging. When I see someone struggling with a nose, or a hand, or an upper lip, I secretly heave a sigh of relief. It's nice to be reminded that I am not the only person who sometimes really can't draw. I know it's extremely irritating to hear people who can draw say that, but some days really are better than others.
So - in the interest of those of you out there who are cripplingly, miserably selfish like me, I am posting some BAD drawings I tried to do last night of George Bush (the latter) (and, hopefully, the terminal) (no politics here!):
I have to be careful not to fall into being a caricaturist - mostly because I'm not that clever or up-to-date. I am (sadly, tragically) mainly informed through Howard Stern, John Stewart, the cnn home page that pops up by default as a screensaver in OSX (and even then I find myself drawn to "Woman bears 15 children, 16th on the way!" (you know you looked at it too) "Madonna breaks leg, tour postponed, daughter in tears!" or, my most recent favorite, "Nut-cracking gorilla surprises scientists"). Also, I think it's just a different art form. I don't want to get pigeonholed into something I'm not really all that good at (says the egomaniac - would that I even had 1 (one) job right now...).
I especially like how as time went on, I started really taking it out on poor old GW - the snaggly-toothed dracula being the one I liked the best. Perhaps I need to work out my feelings with a psychologist - anyone care to join?
oh, and ps: the second image really looks like Mongomery Clift, yes no?
Posted by ribbu at October 19, 2005 02:13 PM
Comments
Yes.
Posted by: marigold at October 29, 2005 12:39 AM