X-Google-Thread: 10ca6d,5432856e62432da9 X-Google-Thread: f996b,5432856e62432da9 X-Google-Thread: fa841,92c0fe25b6b47e2a X-Google-Thread: fe9fa,92c0fe25b6b47e2a X-Google-Attributes: gid10ca6d,gidf996b,gidfa841,gidfe9fa,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:04:57 -0600 From: Dead Kitten Reply-To: ic9bnj502@sneakemail.com Organization: Small Pine Box MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: misc.creativity,alt.ascii-art,alt.suicide.holiday,alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk Subject: Re: my last week has been absolute fucking shite. References: <433tr4pkpc1q459hdon0gdfqkbe7ec2bm8@4ax.com> <9115cb3b-5cd4-4233-8664-55ff1c922235@v38g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <49E4CA02.401D2D7E@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49E4CA02.401D2D7E@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: $$$iwdl_injb7m53.news.x-privat.org Message-ID: <49e5249e@news.x-privat.org> Lines: 31 X-Authenticated-User: $$vtzo$6u2$oo1fc5o-su28nz X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.erje.net!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com misc.creativity:85 alt.ascii-art:728 alt.suicide.holiday:91148 alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk:57438 Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > It's like when most people try to draw things. They have an image in > their head of what they want to draw, but the drawing that actually ends > up on the paper doesn't come anywhere close to the ideal in their head, > so they get disappointed and say "This picture sucks! I suck at > drawing!" and then they throw it away and refuse to try again. > > The ones who keep drawing are: > > 1. those who just don't care what the result looks like > 2. those who practice, practice, practice when they are alone > until they reach the point where the image on the paper > looks like the ideal > 3. those who realize that other people haven't seen the ideal > and have only ever seen the picture on the paper, and thus > judge the image in a very different way than the artist! > > I belong in the third category, and I think I must have been about eight > years old when I figured it out (and made a concious effort to look at > my own creations as if I hadn't seen the ideal image and only what is > actually *there*). > > This is also one of the things I like about ascii art. Because it's so > difficult to even get things to look like something, a proof of quality > is when other people can see *what* it is you meant to draw. Making the > picture pretty is something you *might* do, some time in the future. Or > Not. In your case: Not. Your ASCII art sucks dog ass and it always will. Trying to tell yourself otherwise is a lie.