What lowers self-efficacy?

Tried drawing this shapeshifter, it changes.

Ah, Project resistance. So now with this collection of contradictions from Steven Pressfield and Seth, I shall bring my own take. The only one way to know how to self efficiently do salesmanship is from the gut.

Can contradict, that's how inertia works, though.

• Lowering solvency.
  
  
• Looking beyond solvency and lying about it.
  
  
• Being a hack, without purpose.
  
  
• Get distracted by reference/inspiration.
  
  
• Falling for artifice for the short term, of our object of desire.
  
  
• Seeking gratification.
  
  
• Waiting, waiting, waiting.
  
  
• Fearing of being upstaged.
  
  
• Upstaging everybody.
  
  
• Obsessing for reassurance.
  
  
• Response rates.
  
  
• Navel Gazing indulgence.
   
• Whining
  
  
• Social media grooming
  
  
• Not enough paradoxes
  
  
• Too many paradoxes
  
  
• Indulging in prosumer salesmanship
  
  
• Having 'friends' that bankrupt and burnout.

Wave away, the work remains

This is what is left, the stuff that's redefined and left within the echoes of tomorrow. Into new Bildungsroman.

The mantra of being nothing but the work, to carry on the duty, with what is left. This spiritual task of what is left out of the law is then brought into question.

Wave away, moving on to the next projects, at that singular point where everything matters into the next one. Generations and generations of our time and history trail off into the long line of projects we do.

Droplets, that connect into what is next.

There was an artist who could not handle the paradox of commercialized attention on social media, I completely understand. The process of social media influences to turn artists into salesman or upstagers can be too much.

Reminder of Important Mise En Place

Writing about Reminders, A mere reminder of the importance of what it comes down to when clamping down Mise-en-Place, is another reverberation.

The process of finding that his is the place where all the work is conducted, within the territory that shall be taken inwards, even if it does not love one back. The biggest and smallest thing to matter for everything and singularity to start.

That predetermination is what can do with what is the rudimentary definition of intent.

Realization/Essence Reference

Two references that can be discovered within Pure Reference.

The sight posts can point towards an essence, or an idea, to guide creation.

1. Realization - Mood Board
   
   This uncovering of reference is where the ideas are made clearer, collections that are made where the curated path is lead inwards. Where the mood board leads to the groundwork of, where new concepts are minted from the flesh of the movements.
   
   
2. Essence - Main Art direction
   
   From the desire of self-direction, meaningful projects flourish till the ones that matter. Autonomy expressed with a point of view.
   
   This distillation is where the new ideas of the work, the character design, the environment design, all from a new seed outwards into the void, into the actuality of slither a scene, illustration, or words onto the page. 

Note reductionism, to not write it down.

All those notes, getting reduced to a singular point. Some of them are.

"None of it matters if you don't TURN scenes"

"The most important and least important; writing"

They all centre more to writing as the wash of artistic techniques are merely that, tools. The how of displaying a service fades in the comparison of the why. The how of hackneyed displaying can't compare with a clear, driven point of view that transcends our visions to new aesthetic heights and edifying inquiries.

Into a funnel of points of attention and writing down, where the clearness gets clearer, the help gets seen, and the real is even realer of sensational uncovering.

There's another time where I throw my notes into the bin, with a crisper vision than before. Maybe they will be no notes.

Experience Book Metaphor of understanding tool usage

Past the paralysis of analysis, there is experiential learning beyond the theoretical. With creative writing, the bedrock of the guiding of the directing, even if it's self-direction without reassurance.

Learning blender is like opening the book looking at the dictionary and seeing the concepts opened before one's eyes, all the categorization and the coding is made into the inner sanctum needed.

These complexities and simplicity that are not understood redundancies are the way of the work towards a hobbyist, an amateur's desire of coping with his incompetence.

Little bumps of this management will lead to better oversight. Better and more lucid shall the taxonomy become.

Grant Abbit and Bran Sculpts are two YouTube channels recommended to acquainting towards the concepts to figure it out. Polygonrunway aswell.

The mind of many minds

Gabrielle's De Rico's book had something regarding character development, regardless of how unintentional. It's the treatment of the mind as many minds of conflicting voices. The development of dialogical and multilogical voices that chant and ricochet out, onto the page of expression.

These creations are a gushing of what came before, designs into a signed taxonomy of category do they fall from such little brain branches. Then through such an inception the solution that was laid before me.

This a nuanced me, more separated with conflicts, consistency, and tensions. With polarity circling as with the interests, bring together new character moments.

New character moments that I'm addicted to bring into storytelling scenes. It's inevitable that some of these ideas are going to be cruft, yet that's how creativity flourishes.

Endeavours that branch off to find what's worth posting. This is the A priori uncovering, that's what happens with the crossword. 

Crossword excavation

Susan Haack, and Ernie Bushiller have done this thing with starting a project as a process. I find this methodology of creation a way to applied method.

It's the creation of a few dots around, forming the squares of what is completed. Clues that are discovered via the mise en place of the prior knowledge, newly constructed meaning though the puzzle of uncovering.

Shapes? Words? Bubbles? It's going to start somewhere. Merely with the pre determination of events that what is summoning comes forth. Mistakes unearthed, paid attention to, then left to the next thing.

All this internal passage of time is used out, through the many points of stream of consciousness, out with semiotics, design with varying degrees of imagination.

Done, no regress now it's shipped. The inverse tabula rasu of organized ideas formulated by the journey is revealed.

Nothing like a completed puzzle.

Authenticity Dive

1 hour 25 min

Now its another video that made another thought on the idea of subjectivism and the way it's limited manner of bringing value to the clientele and audience that it's meant to serve.

What does it matter, to the self-determination of the production costs, if it's too unserviceable, it won't resonate.

Eventually, with the interdabbling of ideas, the rejigging them into new forms brings a new glade.

This is what happens with reference and its embrace. Things can't come from abstract expressionism so they are refined with the storm of ideas coming out.

They become apart from the creation process. It's the consistent tracking of the twists that life does not wait, yet throws. That's the mark on the culture.

Chai Commish and the death of the author.

This commission I got.

I commissioned this piece from morninchai, while doing a gift art for there.

I blessed Morninchai with couch legs, gave a couch head too as a quick coloured sketch.

A more faithful interpretation with them at the podium.

Chai's time constraint and mine, we both made something of valued. Made me think of the death of the author in regard to how much effort is made, how much it matters to the end piece to what it's worth.

How much does it matter? Does an alteration with the detail here and there make more of an impact? Does not matter, it ships now, depending on the circumstances. The cost of going through autonomy deliberation was forgotten as Chai's stream uttered into a long lecture of ants that fascinated me.

Intent will matter more in more coherent collaborations. Death of the author.

Style constrast/Scene Directing notes

Another meta-style doodle.

Greg smallwood's style contrast on style consistency. One that's a style on style.

Dabbling with the style contrast is an advanced technique. Illustrators can use that's out of this world.

Another one on the focus on form, though, can show some creative cracks.

Steve Lieber has brought interest into a scene that is crucial to storytelling.

Another one

6 min on style testing before a large project undertaking is done. Clip studio with using models to fit, if the model does not fit the intended stylization choice of illustration, then blender, and other alternatives can be explored.

5 min on more details, there's going to be more.

The best mise en place.

Is the next one. It a posture, shouldn't be infantilized. Diversions happens, it's with the suppleness.

Making it airtight time well spent. Not a magic funnel to get the network one desires, that's the last part. One that trips everybody up.

The moment of planned predetermination can only be controlled, then the merit flows to th application of the self, that stuff can't be reverse engineered or found.

Shipped, the direct response beats happen, uncontrolled and untracked.

Its boring, yet through the calm streams. Its meditative calm of existentance.

Backlash of hype cycle

More data for the skeletal hull of my OC Kyros, what to do.

Bogswollop meme on video essays. I've got more for you to follow.

Collecting vids for more thought on the AI.
 

38 min documentary, to help make a rethink. Austin has been accused by Style jacking by Hbomberguy, yet he's the content farm like everthing else who has to build an audience.

This is going through a hype cycle.

Technology trigger to the highest visibility

It's likely there's going to be another AI push after this one, because I've been using shading assistant on my own work to streamline the CEL-shading process (with varying clumsy application) as that the ai? Is using this spell-checker AI too?

The moment you templetize a process, the moment it can be put into AI. There going to have to be skills that can't templetized, then It'd be put into ai.

This is the matter of normalization, and the Artificial generation will go through the currents, interweaving with our lives once more. The constant debate of copyright infringement will still continue, with the arguments over social status and tenures being in question once again, instead of doing the work.

To do the work, with more a better tools to the creative Zeitgeist will remain. With wabi sabi rust that will remain.

1:06 hour of the driving cause of this, convenience being served with the business model behind it, with an obvious bad guy.

Another 22 min take on the rise of junk data provided by this escalation. Leadhead, the postmodern analyst.

(Edit, fixed the links. When editing this on my smartphone it seems to delete the YouTube videos. That's some new information.)

Celebrity Network Priority's

Try to make a networking strategy and follow it, of how to fire and hire each communal interlocking moment.

A professional Network should be lean, inspiring and morale boosting. You can't work more hours in the work of the net. This is a means to help be specific those who to spend the time with.

Is the network Realistic? Enjoyable and Flexible. Ref it by Eric Helms, He used this for exercise schedules, yet it applies for networking schedules.

Realistic: Can you fit it within your schedule without exhausting you out? Optimalism ain't the point here.

Enjoyable: Are the meetings a burden and lower ones status rather than curating it higher? You may have to check response rates and go through them with a fine-toothed comb. These are response rate simulators for the advertisers who have no oversight.

Flexible: Do they miss you when you're gone and don't direct message? Treating their time and attention as a valuable resource. At any time.

There is another U to add to the acronym, U is to be useful. To have the mutually beneficial business relationship for fundraising reasons. This is the most important one to keep your business mission close to supporting your creative endeavors.

It's important to have that for the network to financially support you, not have it looks like a spider's trap of MLM, or a ponzi scheme.

Whats a useful network?

Herschel Gordon Lewis Celebrity rules apply to any of the network usefulness. To help you manage to direct response necessary for it. To campaign for paying clients. Be who to prospect and rely on.

It's also successful advertising that can reach the most amount of people who are willing to buy. At the least amount of resources. (Time, attention, and funds)

"The Celebrity Match-up Principle : Matching your spokesperson to what you're selling accelerates your targets individual's acceptance of what the celebrity is pitching

The Celebrity Waste Factor: Having a celebrity move out of character is an artifice that exposes itself to the viewer or reader, a professional athletic can keep credibility endorsing athletic equipment or beer but not alkaline batteries; and an actress may keep credibility endorsing fashion or beauty aids but not machinery or automobile muffler installations."

Even then, the large numbers may not lead towards more of a direct response. That pesky only measurable form of marketing!

REFU

Pin-ups-ville and drawing comfort zones.

Oh no, where to leave the playboy manshions.

"Your portfolio may show lots of cute pinups of hot chicks, but you are going get a story with a car chase in it, tons of gritty city backgrounds, and a crowd scene in a restaurant, and the fun's over, man.

I think this is why so many people burn out, the technical requirments of the job mean you will spend endless hours drawing things at which you do not excel, you have to love drawing and storytelling for it's own sake, and some people really don't.

I could be here all day going over stories of writers who have had their scripts butchered by artists who decided to script was too hard to draw, so they cut a six panel page and made it into a splash, both to make it easier to draw, and easier to sell.

So you get people who have portfolios full of really pretty pinup art and these people sometimes grumble at folks like me who have career longevityand maybe not as much flashy pinup art, And that's because the writers KNOWS I'm an artisty who will tell the story as written.

Cartooning isn't pinups, Cartooning is storytelling, I love pinups and gorgous covers, too. But a cartoonist has to eat the frog, do the hard part, That cityscape 27 times per issue, the newsroom with the people sitting and talking around the table, the car chase. Tell the story.

I got mas respect for the people who can do those gorgeous dynamic covers, the cover art in comics has never been better. But the interior art is hard-core, often thankless workmanship. Which is why fewer people want to do it. But that's where the cartooning is." Colleen Doran

 

Colleen has done his advice, I'll have to give my take with it. It's coming from the perspective of a professional within the commercial side of the industry of comics.

Unless specialized otherwise, the illustrator/pinup must be In sync with the writing, or it ain't cartooning

It's only professional to be able to deviated from pinups, even then there are times when it's imperative to know. None of this has to be followed, what matters more is getting true fans to fuel the creative work the artist has to do. That overrides all of it.

This could even be in the theme that's a fig leaf to the body perfection of fantasy, best deserved to be celebrated that tortured.

If one wants to communicate more than a strip tease as an adult, one must show it and categorize it properly, with stories and scenes there's a message now. Cleverness for its own sake with the inclusion of the art-directing getting in love with the art direction is a liability to the story and the prospective audience.

So yeah, coming from that background I'm continuing to do that ad I remind myself with each illustration I do.

Illustrator's Summery

Comparing to the end of the year, the artistic exploration past the twenties have been wondrous.

Now that I have it, I'm obsessed. I'm not gonna care if I'm going to get traction for doing what I love. I'll do the artless hackneyed work for the twitch advertisers if they want there traction for there core gamer demographic.

This commitment is here now, needing to be sated.
 

Channeling out, reflection of head apple meme.

Four quadrants, the left positioning being the most effective making, right is the foggier states with physical and mental availability.

I thought of inducing a state of hyperphantasia with this positioning grid. Only hyperphantasia being alone at my computer, aphantasia at the treadmill or listening to work.

Another means to blank out the inner noise with load music, this gym and treadmill does it. Stephan King does it with rock. All the means to get into the creative process and do the work.

It connects withe imageless mental state and the proceeding to gush out stateless mental state. High intensity music to stimulate a placebo of pulling it out and placing it on the page.

Then the editing process of putting the clothes and tidy upping the writing comes. Along with making it prepared for publishing call..

All over reference usage.

Reminds me of a meme with Hyperphantasia/Aphantasia by "@AlmakRowan
Hyperphantasia Have a detail vision of how the drawing is supposed to look like there human limitations of skill level hit hard
vs
Artists with aphantasia can't see (stuff) in ther heads, Pure Vibes and joy of creating"

This phantasia can vary, it's predetermined noise that ends out of external output with the mise en place. It's important to get into the process before any of the work can be done.

Whatever the scale and scope of Phantasma one has, one has to bulldog it through it.

A Pro, Neatural and Negative for artificial generation

One pro this has done is the death of the hackneyed work. Of the high school essay. In some way, it's going to be a lot easier to spot out hacks within the industry now. Disover to rote, direct intention and move on.

A neutral

Along with that slush pile of self-publishing getting a boost. Because in a cold, mechanical business sense. 1000 true fans is what it is needed to make it creatively. That's what the amoral commercial value could do.

Now for the negative,

The eventual image extruded references with content farms. Even with that, the AI detection will be its own can of worms of ethical dilemmas.

@jamesnelsonart.bsky.social
"I'm very glad I have a big folder of ref images, I encourage you to get one if you haven't because image search will soon prove unreliable for accurate refs thanks to AI seeping in."

@mannequinrentals.help
"totally great that AI images are among top image search results, nothing concerning about this, no notes about how it's not labelled as AI generated and is visually prioritized over actual real photos of the dog breed i searched for, this is fine, everything is fine and normal and ok"

As the top commercial publisher push So will there be a 'pipeline' and 'content' with SEO maximization that will not be good, yet game an artificial system then call it art.

As this reshifting of the roles will occur, it's only a matter of time.

Inner Drive

More experimental amateur therapy advice.

Steven Pressfield, others that motivate ones with self-determination theory. Mystically, they call this thing that drives them, despite the many lonely hours working on the project.

It's called the daimon, or what is called a genius, is that what it takes to be content with this passage of time, with no promise of profit?

That's life within this gig economy that is the net, work within the faith and see what comes out, within bringing forth the culmination of experiences and intuitions out.

It only helps to embrace this impostor intuition, and to press ahead with establishing the connections ahead with one's own workload, small and viable to allow self-care.

This inner drive is the only blind faith the serves our journey.

Stapleton kearns is added

(Artistic nudity in link)

Yep, these blog posts back in the 2010s resonate now, in this age of marketing advice especially.

A good work of art, the with a living and adverting handled, (especially the smallest, viable audience) are important testimonials of a man working in the field. A good work comes first, then the marketing, not the other way around. I've found his ways of wisdom with interacting with commissions entertaining.

His rants and rambles don't always hit the mark, even approaching ableist inclination, including the time management which is off-the-cuff. (I recommend RE-Work for that.) Dreamers vs doers? Inspiration porn. I can still constructively recommend him with caution. 

Why? He is a worker, in the creative business sense. The thing about business, that effective business can be appreciated from a hackneyed direct marketing point of view. Professional business advice on a lateral level is to be respected with how he handles his craft.

There are cross-applications that can be generally applied, wisdom with assertions disagreed with a man who works with the field.

I have to, since his Ingres ramblings have influenced my artwork.