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January 21, 2004
Am I Doing Something Wrong Here?
So today thumbnails were due for our first illustration... a weasel. Basically it was supposed to be an illustration of a story that describes a weasel as a metaphor for life. Sounds great, huh? So anyway, I think and think and sketch and sketch, and I come up with some thumbnails. However I was pretty convinced I didn't have enough thumbnails... so I just sketched down some quick stupid pictures, one of them which I call "Manweasel." Now, manweasel was meant to be a joke... but instead of laughing at it and just passing over it, the class thought it was one of my strongest ideas.
Now, this may seem like an isolated fluke, but actually every time I do a stupid joke thumbnail it ends up being my best idea for the piece. That elephant on my website? That was a joke idea from sophomore year. The Paint-a-thon lizard? He's the evolution of Paint-a-saurus Rex, my rejected caricature for that project (along with Paint-o-tron).
So I guess the lesson of this story is simple: always treat your work as a joke, and you will succeed.
Posted by dminky at January 21, 2004 06:16 PM
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