AS A NON-PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATOR, THE THING IS …
whenever I decide on a subject I invariably run through many many iterations before I land on an image I think I can work with.
The result of that methodology however is I’m left with literally hundreds of otherwise perfectly good images which, for one reason or another, don’t equate with the concept at hand.
So … now and then I’ll run through those images and play with them using various techniques I otherwise haven’t utilized.
Here’s an example …
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming!
Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
WB Yeats
There’s truth to that, but then again perhaps you get annoyed when folks condemn Muslim Terrorists. Both terms, viz.: “White” and “Muslim” while not technically false are overly broad and lead to generalizations that are potentially harmful.
I'm not a lawyer or anything, but if these people are going to prison for making illegal contributions to Senator Susan Collins, shouldn't she be going too?
And shouldn't she be concerned?
I think she should be.
https://t.co/415wJpkC4k
There are a lot of new followers, so this seems like a good time for a periodic reminder that any bullshit, pro-gun replies will result in an instant BLOCK. I’m not kidding. I’m done. Spew that crap on your own feeds. I’m not putting up with it on mine.
#BanAssaultWeapons