glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2019-08-28 10:33:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the motivation. Work is crushing me at the moment. My intention is to just start with some gesture sketching. I will aim to post some work Monday.

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2019-08-28 11:08:17 +0000 UTC]

Here's what I think about that.  How would it be if you waited till Monday to go to the bathroom?  
You think you want to train yourself to draw?  I say you have to practice controlling your mind.  Practice interrupting the OC track to focus a prescribed few minutes on what you want to do.  That is manifest your desire in the here and now, here and now.   
In any event, let me know when you post. 

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2019-01-28 18:00:34 +0000 UTC]

You are too kind! I have been out of action on the creative front. No drawing but I have spooled back up to Chapter 6 on a new attempt at my story. Really just more history before we get into the cosmic action. I haven't put an iteration on here. But you can see it at andycrowley.com

How are you doing?

I will definitely connect with Margriet. 

Always a pleasure being thought of!

Dave 

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-06-19 11:28:40 +0000 UTC]

Work has been brutal, but I persist. I have been reading a lot about story structure and have taken to working to clean up my original draft rather than starting from scratch. 

You could say I am flailing. But something is better than nothing.

Dave

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2018-06-19 12:43:37 +0000 UTC]

Time-in is always good.  
No drawing, though?  Too bad. But, as you say, something is better than nothing.  And at this time it may be smart to refine strength, instead of explore a weakness.  These things seem to obey a schedule of their own.  Rock on.  

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-06-20 10:43:36 +0000 UTC]

I have gone right back to basics with the book. All grounded very little supernatural. More of an origin story. I will build to the crazy whiz-bang stuff.

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2018-06-20 13:08:53 +0000 UTC]

Ah.  The joy of writing.

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-07-01 22:08:59 +0000 UTC]

Taking a new direction. Here is a draft.

Andy Crowley didn’t care that his dad wasn’t coming home this time. Two-thirds of the way through the tunnel-shaped organ solo in Light my Fire and in deep meditation, he had even transcended trying to determine which was worse — dad torturing himself with booze or mom torturing herself with religion. 

He was approaching the möbius bridge, beyond which, the delta quanta churned — outside either imagination or manifestation — in the probability vortices. 

With the white, plastic 20-sided icosahedron squeezed tight in the his right fist, his eyes rolled up and inward to connect with his third eye. The amethyst hues of the mists of Limbo gave way to the bright green glow of his aetheric field, which he gathered and packed tight around his body. Brainmail, Sisyphus had called it.  

“Aum namu nara ya naya,” he murmured. His conscious awareness was returning as it completed the transference from his physical body into his astral body.

He smiled at the now familiar golden grass swaying against the pink sky and stepped onto the spongy, wine-coloured soil of the astral plane. 

When the thoughts of his mom and dad returned with his consciousness — there was no pain in them anymore. For some reason, he was learning, it was easier to process the basic nature of being everywhere in the omniverse other than the material plain of wakeful, everyday existence.   

It was easier to process the fundamental truth that there is nothing but the singular part-less All of reality. That all distinctions and designations are constructs of convenience ultimately nonsensical and illusory.

“Stardust on sabbatical,” he had thought once, as a description for the nature of consciousness while studying The Kybalion. He had also thought at the time that it would be a cool name if ever started a band.   

The “self” is a construct, a delusion. Everything is connected. That his mom and dad suffered for not knowing this should not trouble him. Letting the thought go, he remembered why he had come here.

Deb had been frightened enough by her dream to come to him for help. And if there was one person in all reality, Andy Crowley would do anything for — even if that thing was finding a way to project one’s wakeful consciousness into the dream realm — it was Deb Holcroft.  

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-05-09 13:31:06 +0000 UTC]

Well...

My intentions are noble -- but business has been a time and mind consuming nightmare. There is nothing but toil at the moment.

Do not write me off though. I persist. Leisure and creativity will return.

Thanks for checking in. It comforts me to have a champion for the creative life on my mind.

Dave

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2018-05-09 14:02:25 +0000 UTC]

LOL.  I hear you.  Just think of it as more time "cooking" or "gestating".  Just make sure to do some kind of practice, like daily musical scales, even when you're not concert touring - this to keep the skills intact.

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-06-23 13:00:20 +0000 UTC]

When I started, I imagined going pulp style. I am back to this now. What I have gleaned from you and others will benefit this. There is an appeal to me in the wham-bam, churn it our formula approach. Quick and dirty and out. 1910-1950 dime-store pulp novella! Giddy up!

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2018-06-23 14:22:49 +0000 UTC]

Well, you didn't start using a formula, so the attempt was to tune you into dramatic framework and planning, which is the foundation of all formulae and style. My thought was that once you filled in the gaps, you'd be better equipped to carry on. 
One note - any practice is better than no practice.  And practice is the gateway to production.  But practice is not production.  I say this because I am now in the process of clearing out my archives - a wall full of binders stuffed in milk crates.  And while there is much at which to marvel as I thumb through these practice pages, there is yet precious little (if anything at all) to keep, let alone to frame.  haha. 

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-03-20 11:22:47 +0000 UTC]

i'm trying. The workload is insane for me right now. I need a break from writing I know that. You are a motivator though. I will commit to doing some timed sketches tonight.

Sometimes I flail. I get so bogged down in the "how to do" I forgo the "do".

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2018-03-20 15:46:35 +0000 UTC]

That last part sounds like me with layouts.  But behind every complicated truth there is a simple lie.  (Or is it behind every complicated lie there is a simple truth?  Hmm. . . ) In any event, when I "can't" do something, it's always because of an element of resistance on my part that I'm defending, instead of uprooting.  That divides me, instead of unifying me.  That little me may be the source of strife in this world, but it's all we got to connect us with life, so unifying it is essential.  "In the end there shall be only ONE" (according to the Highlander.  LOL).  So for me the work is partly psychoanalytic in terms of rooting out the resistance - identifying it, finding out what caused it, what maintains it, and what would happen if it wasn't there to serve its purpose.  The other part of the work, the writing and the art, is actually pretty simple when it's broken down into small enough steps.  Head-shrinking helps there, too.  

If you can, start the day with the timed gesture practice.  That should be easy to manage, since the time limit is given.  The only thing that may be difficult to control is switching "head" gears, going from the one you start with to prepare for work to the "art head."  But once you get the hang of it, you'll always be up for some quick studies and exercises between other things.  Believe me, that part is all psychological.  That 20 minutes is already in your morning schedule waiting to be used for art practice and it's just going to waste.  Start the day with croquis practice and see how it changes your life.  If you like the change, keep doing it. 

Any questions about drawing, gesture, etc., just ask.  Always happy to pontificate. LOL.  Kimon Nicholaides "The Natural Way to Draw" outlines and explains the main exercises and how to organize them according to schedules.  And Karl Gnass has a book, Spirit of the Pose, that I would think is excellent, based on what he says in this talk and demo youtu.be/SsxBiylAMNM  I would google Gnass and check out everything on him.  You may even be able to download his sketchbook and texts as pdf.  (If I find any good stuff, I'll send you the links.)  The other references i gave a while back should also help.  Read a little and it makes for confusion; read a lot and things break down and become clear: it all sounds the same - because it is. Just got to get to the heart of it to realize that. 

BTW - what kind of work do you do? 

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glassgrimoire In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-03-21 10:29:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for all this! I am taking it all in as someone grateful to benefit from your experience.

I have been working for years in a marketing role attempting to get a disruptive wastewater treatment technology to market.

Grim.

DM   

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Sol-Caninus In reply to glassgrimoire [2018-03-21 16:36:05 +0000 UTC]

Cool!  So writing and illustration are right up your alley, professionally?

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WaldenWong In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-01-23 04:53:26 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the shout out! I appreciate that!

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Sol-Caninus In reply to WaldenWong [2018-01-23 05:30:26 +0000 UTC]

Well, then, how 'bout showing appreciation by critique?  Dissect something, or summarize from a sampling of pieces.  Critical analysis.  No praise, just observations. Did lots for Inktober and Noirvember.      

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WaldenWong In reply to Sol-Caninus [2019-02-19 07:34:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Found out I was nominated for two Inkwell Awards  under the “Favorite Inker” and the “Most Adaptable” category. Please vote for your favorite Inker and help spread the word! Ballot voting is open from February 15th - March 1st. Get your votes in today! 
www.inkwellawards.com/?page_id…

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Sol-Caninus In reply to WaldenWong [2018-01-23 05:17:04 +0000 UTC]

aww.    

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WaldenWong In reply to Sol-Caninus [2018-12-06 04:23:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
Sub me on www.youtube.com/waldenwongart

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glassgrimoire In reply to Kriskullet [2017-05-10 23:12:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much for the welcome and the Llama! I hope you might read my story. I looked at some of your work and I think we are into the same sort of stuff. See you around! Dave

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Kriskullet In reply to glassgrimoire [2017-05-12 03:09:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'll give it a read!

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glassgrimoire In reply to edenartfactory [2017-05-10 11:55:49 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much for the welcome! I hope you like the story. I am at the moment enjoying your visual work. Just heading out to work and will look more closely later. I like your style! Please let me know what you think of what you read. Dave

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edenartfactory In reply to glassgrimoire [2017-05-10 17:00:07 +0000 UTC]

of course, thank you!

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