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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on August 13, 2008, 10:34:12 PM
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Brain usage and cartooning
I read an interesting article in the September, 2008 Walrus ?The Quiet Art of Cartooning? by Seth. He says when he is writing/drawring the strips:
?Writing requires a special kind of focus. Your mind must be utterly devoted to the task at hand. When I?m breaking down a strip or hammering out dialogue, I am using that writer?s focus. But drawing and inking are different. That uses different parts of the brain. I often find that when I?m drawing, only half my mind is on the work ? watching proportions, balancing compositions, eliminating unnecessary details. The other half is free to wander??
Do you think this is true Roger? Is Andrew using only half his brain?
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Absolutely true. Andrew listens to plays on the radio while he's working which is something, for obvious reasons, I can't do. I pretty much work in silence. Peeps, Tarks and Malc all write AND draw so they will have a more complete view of this.
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What was the question again?
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I can draw while music or the TV is on, but when it comes to writing something, I have to have silence, with no distractions.
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And that's just his shopping list.
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I even have to send birds home.
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I even have to send birds home.
I like the way he manages to sneak the plural in! :o
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Threesomes, eh? Shocking!
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it probably takes two of them to get him out of bed.
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Like it, Peter!
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"Birds getting me out of bed". Now there's an interesting concept...
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I have to have complete silence when I'm writing. I cannot for the life of me work out how anyone can write whilst listening to music or the racket from noisy neighbours, etc, I can't.
When I wrote scripts I had to be in a virtual isolation tank. This may seem a little self-important, but stuff that I wrote when subjected to noise and frequent interruptions was unfailingly (on re-reading it) kack .
Anything I ever wrote that was half good was done in solitude.
Drawing is a different matter. When I was an assistant animator I could work all day, turning out hundreds of drawings whilst listening to music on headphones. That's because assisting is more like production work.
However once I became a Key animator I had to have silence, and most other animators were the same, because the job required planning and preparation (writing, if you like).