Concord retrospective

So Concord went its final bow.

No, it's not coming back, I don't think the character designs are that bad, they merely did not have time to breath in the direct market because it's brutal.

A productive conversation! It's perfectly acceptable to argue the other direction, I don't like Teo's design the most. (Too clean, corporate in art direction and intentless. Unlike the tongue-in-cheek way Going Under is. That has comedy and handling of repulsion in a positive aspect.)

I've brought my own linear Ingres\ Arthur L Guptil to it. Contrasting the iconoclasm with Teo with the By-the-book look with Gaz.

Even realism could work, I don't know though (thinking Witcher, Rembrandt Romantic style).

Mass-market entertainments is always tough, I don't know which salesmen who greenlit it. If it's the blame game, though, it's them. 🛋👉 No blame on the studio. 

The axiology is not whether it's entertaining or beautiful, its axiology is made by robots and marketing platforms. 🤖📊 The direct market is what it is, frustrating. No constructive criticism could change that.

This had an unceremonious end though, tsk tsk. So I'm trying to be charitable to studio.

Aokimadu from furaffinity shares his own insights.

A joke/contradiction, now meaning.

 Apparently they stole my moustache.

When the beliefs system based on paradoxes contradictions and whatever is serviceable at the time fades. Why are you left with, it's a thing something to hold until a bouy to be consistent with.

This simple sign of of meaning is to be held onto for the days ahead with what could be on the surface a long term plan or guess.

How is this a gag, entertainment, or a clown show any more. You can't wear a clown suit when it comes to a business dealing. Especially when one has to deliver an audience from one place to another with the platforms holding their arms up and not going to do anything. (I know Couch Gregor, You're not meant to entertain anything other than get paid first, yap yap.)

Yet how is it that Twitch's celebrity endorsements vs understand the impossibility of reverse-engineering virality. You can't magic wand away a mystery.

Gatekeeper/Folksonomy+Natural Selection

Two modes of distribution

Gatekeepers

Within commercial entertainment, there's a state of power-brokers who still hold to the status role of artist, entering their masters and not the culture. From the disk jockeys, broadcasters, record labels, syndicalists, and curators. Their own time to making a directed stream of attention, being the rawest form of the mercantilism.

All this treats the non-measurable thing, attention, as the product. A product expected to make a return by a direct sales, reading this right here.

They still exist, especially within the industry. I'm not sure if the job-hunters will be able to test their luck with their resume's though. They have less power and meaning though due to the last two.

Folksonomny+Natural Selection

Most of the internet now operates within this systemic means of recognition, via a tag, forming communities of practice with their own status roles to allow governance.

Yes, this will be the way going forward now, mostly when it comes to the internet. I'm not sure how this distribution will change with the mishap that is our gig-economy in regard to freelancing.

With the moment of tagging and scrolling, including this post. Points of knowledge and info are interlaced within the words of today and create the meaning of tomorrow. Merely to show to fact of how everything on the internet that has changed.

One of the reasons why do these influencer sources seem to fail at is deciphering a correct essentialism to deciphering a qualia within an algorithm, which gets more zombie like, and a robot without a conscious thought. So this weird system of how to game it, doens not 

On-gaku our sound : Too late for what?

Aya: Good luck

Kenji: Good luck for what?

There's a scene on On-gaka: Our Sound on the piece of performance, that it's still a gig-economy and that the strategy of being picked, Luck have nothing to be made as those when it comes to doing it as a hobby.

When keeping it in mind of the mental fulfilment, the selfishness could be a virtue of self-love with the means of hobby being the only piece of sanctity with all the amount of work.

Better an amateur that a hack I suppose

36:20 min for the source

Reflections on the best early access joke

8:00

I keep going back to one of the best meta-gags, That's with sunk-cost of the prices to be added towards it.

Even with the facetiousness of the mise en place, he still showed up and delivered on a promise, a promise that mega-commercial enterprises could not deliver. Of why, I am not a gamer, another reason into the mix.

Even with the non-delivery done without a price is more priceless than non-deliveries with a price.

Where the trust lands, the moment the direct deposit that is demanded, things change.

A proud hack job

 Cussy Condemnation by Jim sterling. If there was a return with the engagement rates. Or any return.

6 min

There is always going to be a demand for product, for mass consumerist product with standardised taste. This was the start of our developer quickening of our attention. With to the point of what happened to platform holders that making their efforts to capture the direct response within it.

How it is designed for 'live services' and the indie slush pile, only some show up with the effort, maybe there some gems in the commercial glut. That was the writing on the wall for me to leave the demographic.

Going to be this to the reading list.

Yeah, another rant.

Character design Blitz

Is this a promise I'm able to keep? I haven't signed an agreement that's lead to this decision.

Dream projects don't wait for nobody, especially if that dream project is shared by a platform that can't understand that the work expressed by the artists with their parasocial ain't teaching them to be self-directed.

Throwing my pillow into this to see what bounces back, any non-profit still has to take some tools off the commercial toolbox in order to cover the living/production costs. This is a mutual partnership between audiences allowing a cross-pollination of ideas.

That's it.

If it's a sunk cost, then it's a sunk cost. To a shared dream project, it is the most important.

Skai Doodle, thoughts day.

Doodle of Skai's birthday.

Leaving it here, Since these self-important days are merely that, something that feels important, yet it's now. The prospective customer wants a voice to be seen and resonated amongst the lands, that's the network of social interaction, of being seen such a special bean.

So it shall be repeated today, and tomorrow, even if it's the spur. The parasocial illusions will keep persisting when I know what only really matters is the response going back to my own tenure with this social media's tenure mattering the most.

These direct-action barometers exist, yet they only beep indiscriminately with mindlessness.

Huzzah.

Reverie reflections

A reverie Sketch of expressionism, it's not going to pay off. That's the point.

Before I started, I tested for abstract expressionism. It's something that's like poetry, free from categorization. Playing with marks as a means of anti representation.

Some dwindling relief or tingling sensation passes. A process of representation may be discovered and put into the workflow with this style test.

Curious exercise that can be done daily, for about 15 minutes, then left once a sunk cost.

This is the technique test pad. Which can lead to style testing for one to weave into something consistent later on.
 

2021. That's where I had the Gregor Murphy name initially. This attempt to rebel against representation was a conceptual monkey gym.

Does it matter that I give these marks meaning through contextualization. Or shall your interpretation carry the story? Best to leave what is said unsaid.

Play before industrial category can commence.

Anti-representation was the nurturer to take back the path.

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.
 

500 streaming bonaza.

500?? Why? Why. The tired must be there.

Another victory lap, this time it's with streaming. It's been sustainable since I've managed to do it with subjects I enjoy. The tension to perform to twitch algorithms designed to please the masses for advertisements was too much.

It did not feel as much as an overcommitment, rather as a low-effort thing that I was able to do. There was not much traffic though.

Funny how gamified twitch has become, with our own self-appointed brands the with the commercialism. All the lures it needs with the lottery winners on the front page. Another lottery, what a way to go.

Streaming more have made me more of a user than a product. This has to be treated as a business opportunity rather than a medium.

Won't count it as a lost day if I miss a day, though. This is more exhausting to raise the response rates.

Collapsed fence

Rough 10 min Trace from my smartphone.

The winds were fierce last week, causing something to make a fence collapse on my way to the gym.

Collapsed, meaningless walls, such as this with many forgotten details, there were so many cans of people who threw them over as this got over. It was a junkyard of mess, and there's a fence and crew now. The construction was saying that I was in the way.

It makes me wonder how I got back up from burnout and shouldn't put myself down despite other temptations, Them cans symbolizing the wreck and brought of many of the breaks that were taken at many of a night.

Everbody is too busy to see what an impact that has on ones own quality of life that burnout can do, and that's okay.

There's this self-deprecating bingo card that I noted with its ways for humor. Yet I can't blame myself fully now, it's all the wind with the market forces having its way with its hustle culture. That's merely what it means to make a comic.

Not worth it, with the market one could only make guesses and see what works as a business. Not my problem as the weather and the thing without autonomy does the act the way, only way is to jump back. It's all better now.

The Monomyth Joseph Campbell

A look it as a face, to a way of a hero's journey.

Some meanings are glossed over, I managed to get through it though.

It's a book, one diving into what is seen as cosmological yearnings, diving into the subconscious and making it all weaves together with tales of going out.

This mythopoetic take on what it means to tell a story. With a nuclear unit, that passes to the teleology of genre storytelling. Surpassing all literature and commercial endeavours, to the big unknowing and the beyond. It's been, what is to say, spiritual. Codified into a praxis for other writers and storytellers.

It's got mythological, mythical literature up the wazoo. Am I consciously hitting these cosmic keys. The key to unlock all storytelling greats yet not so.

Directly and at the moment, no, our in-the-moment minds are taken aback. Making bold claims to our specie's intent and desire to write and create.

It's something that's been constantly recommended by editors and entertainment storytellers, I now get it. In a basic, rudimentary sense, as a means of motivation.

Many an artist have not followed it tough, and still became successful. It's a got anthropological samples of stories all around the world. Particularly the chapters on sex could be questioned.

Of Odysseus from Aristotle, it reflects ultimately from the western view of storytelling.

Not so sure if I'd recommend this on storytelling, as much as I do on the story grid. It's one of those backlog books which has its information/cheat sheets provided online. Useful if you want it to be.

For a less euro-centric-male centric perspective, check out 1001 Heroine with a thousand faces.

Hoisin duck fries and birthday sketch

Hoisin duck fries, Cappuccino and a caramel biscuit.

 

Did another birthday sketch, for DA. Out of lurking for several years and coming out.

Good enough, I hope. Did it within a 2 days.

When I'll stop doing this, according to Steven Pressfields standard, (cussing link) when it stops being fun.

Maybe I'll never be asked to do another birthday, deep in my soul, did I really do it for a direct advertising return? No, I did at a whim of a bara artist that I lurked within my twenties and kept at it, this is my thanks that I managed, A little messy yet it's out there. The message of a horned couch went through.

Lantern parade reflections

It certainly was an event, I must confess. My obsessiveness of a professional schedule to build my body of work had me wrapped up. I lied last time and did not come, yet family here comes first. All this streaming and social media work really is a crap shoot of a competitive attention environment compared to the memories I could have made.

Luckily, I rescheduled for the irl fun, it meant something this time.

There was a cold, sneezing as I was working on a small scene, formatted within a two-page comic format. It was a journey to make me experience time differently from this professional pursuit of my ideas.

Is this what has come of me, all this time now, with my pursuit. We didn't have the pursuit back in the Stone Age, since industrialization we've been pushed, continuously, to create and compete.

These moments are where we contemplate time all forevermore.

This is the lantern i carried, premade.

There was a walk on a football field and rive behind the pubs, with plenty of old projects behind the trees.

Buttered potatoes, three in a small cartoon. Bringing this  event to a close.

 

Marciy Marie, Cush Monty, revision

 The only AFAB design.

Am i designing a token supporter? I better not, unless I'm designing an MLM gay flick.

The barest minimum of what is takes for a character sheet, two three fourths of a view with only small standardization. This design can be 'off-model' for continuity purposes, with the theme.

Now for the style, meant for intermediates and advanced folks.

High rendered frisket, experience being; great for a one-off illustration, for a freelance storytelling project? Not so much.

Imagine the time making every panel an oil painting without being reductionistic. It all makes me respect cartooning more due to this. Love them colours.

Characters and style experiments

WOW! THE FIRST ART POST WITHOUT THAT SKETCHY THUMBNAIL! 

A moment in history.

I'm still working on the odd couple dynamic with Danny and George.

Could have added more detail to add immersion into the background, yet that's the dilemma of the cartoonist, to control the articulation of the detail.

Once named Vixona, with my own affinity of xs as the writer. Then I picked Vere, I picked through the name generator Locke. The name database and its names has its ways.

"Very Lucky?" Nah.

First my art post

Time to announce a new tag, a my art tag. Minimal words, reposts of my work and current work.

The character is a collection of all the gender dysmorphia I had, yet another snipped that I had worked with at the time.

2022 - 2023 to this current day.

With revisions to his current image and name.