Spleck: Creyonah Special #4

He's scared of her because she is different, more complex an dreal than he is, because let's face, a sentient pencil is pretty out there don't you think?

And cartoony, which is not the style that I would draw in if I was able to draw the style of the woman.

Though clearly I am far from making her look as good as the example I was drawing from.

Thank you Christopher Hart, writer and artist of a great series of books that help people to draw. I don't know that I'll do it or him justice as I'll never draw my own comic book or graphic novel, but if I could continue to improve and could draw a an impressive looking character standing or posed in action, that would be good.

Now don't come along and say don't get down on myself, that's not what I'm doing at all.

I'm just being real.

My place at the table is not to draw a comic book or graphic novel.

I will continue to draw the Splecks for years(?) to come. My hope is to get better at drawing the same characters repeatedly and do more with them.

Or if I had the monies from having enough subscribers for my upcoming website, I could hire an artist's artist, which I am not and never will be, not at my age, with a certain resistance to learning set in stone and make something more of the Splecks, or one of the numerous other ideas that I have in my head or that will come along.

But for now, I will be content to practice at this more serious style, because I can't just say to myself, "Self, we will abandon any idea of drawing people any better than the awful that I do with my current level", which is in the sub-basement.  

Now it would be helpful to have some feedback on my progress, but asking artists on twitter to comment on my drawing is like pulling teeth.

Though I'd have to go to school for that for years and that's the last thing that I want to do.

Suffice it to say, that goes along with a lot of the ideas that come out of my head, they go nowhere.

So I have to rely on me.

However, if you want to surprise me and offer up some constructive criticism, by all means, do so. I ain't going anywhere before the year is over and I will be sure to point you in the right direction when I do leave here.

Yes, I will be dropping the regular blogging after six months without missing a day.

Well, I hope it will be six months, I can't promise I'll be able to continue posting from the States when I am away for Christmas.

But surely until then and once I am returned to Canada, I will be sure to post my drawings, with some writing as part of them, though not always.

I won't be as hard at it during the 12 Days Of Christmas as I'll be familying and so long as I thousand+ up, ideally closer to the camp at the base of Mount Kiri-I-ystra than not, but if I have me a string of 3rd Peak days while I am here, then I'll have even less of a need to write hard.

Though writing less than a thousand is never going to sit well with me again.

It would have to be an exceptional circumstance.

I am drifting aren't I into Book Of Fish territory aren't I?

I should be guided by the art that is up at the top of the page and that has nothing to do with the thoughts of this writer.

Not that I know the character of the pencil above. I haven't even given him a name.

Or settled on the step by step nature of him so that he is always the same.

Ugh, there's a long step for me.

But I think that I will get there. Or as close as I can with my set ways.

For now though, I think that I am done, at least with the blog that I've already posted so this is me, wishing you well.

I'm not done by any means, I'm just done here.

Be well eh?

Charles Petrie

Date
11-14-19

Time 
Uncertain as to when I started so it matters not when I ended

Word Count

723