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October 25, 2005
Creative Meeting
After a couple weeks of slacking off, we have reinstated the creative meeting (mainly because we finally feel like we've accomplished something, and wanted to show it off) ("we" being the royal we, of course) (being me, robbi, egoiste!)
10.23.05
Creative Meeting
Matthew Swanson
Robbi Behr
11:19pm
Robbi reported on progress since last creative meeting:
She did some unsuccessful drawings of GWB.
She broke the nib on her pen.
She completed coloring in the disaster grid and placed it in the God HP.
She did an assessment of what remains to do before God is complete:
13 more drawings
9 changes to current drawings (mostly minor changes)
She would like to move some images around to avoid consecutive full bleed illustrations. Matthew will have to see how this works with the writing and narrative flow.
The most complicated remaining illustrations are the progressions of suburbia. In response to an earlier comment of Matthew’s that the suburbia layout resembled a W in a way that he found distracting, Robbi revised the layout so that the second cul-de-sac was not a cul-de-sac at all, but a through street. Matthew agreed that this represented a pronounced improvement.
Today Robbi drew the second progression of suburbia. And the third. Matthew reviewed these and really liked them. He pointed out that as Robbi colors these in she had an opportunity to present the first, tranquil, quiet neighborhood as having very few lights on in the windows of the houses but as the population thickens and the buildings grow more dense, to have more windows with lights on.
Now there are 11 more drawings left to do. Robbi gave Matthew a recap of these.
Robbi is still not certain that the illustration of Adam and Eve making out at the drive-in is the best possible solution to the paragraph it is attempting to illustrate.
For next week:
Robbi is trying to get the suburbia drawings colored in
She will try to sketch out Kyle as Godzilla knocking over buildings
She is going to try do another evening of drawing for fun (in the GWB vein, except [hopefully] better this time)
For next week:
Matthew is going to submit Cops to the City Paper competition
He will complete a revision of In the Jungle
He will present revised Facial Features of French Explorers
... and this is what happened in staff meeting yesterday:
Posted by ribbu at October 25, 2005 08:57 AM
Comments
So. . . how is it that you guys survive right now? Because you both seem pretty creatively prolific, which is really hard to do with a soul-sucking, full-time job. I ask because my biggest, happiest hope is that someday I can not work for someone else, and Steve and I can be a creative genius team. But right now he just uses me to make money while he piddles around in "art" school.
Posted by: marigold at October 29, 2005 12:50 AM
Yeah - we got 2 soul-sucking, full-time jobs here. Your dream sounds the same as my dream (except with Matthew instead of Steve). (Although, come to think of it, Steve is a fair alternative. Let me know if he can turn that MFA into commercial gold, and maybe I'll steal your dream.)
here's a tip: have "creative meetings" every few weeks. It makes it sound like you've done something, even if you haven't.
Posted by: ribbu at October 30, 2005 10:00 PM