|
|||||||||
|
itsablog
shiny objects last modified: Saturday, March 19, 2005 (2:54:09 AM) I don't know if I'm figuring this out too early in life or too late, but learning things is quite rewarding. There's a certain power in being able to create something anywhere you go.
This leads to the shiny object problem. I just bought a digital piano. It was... costly. But I don't regret it because there was no way I can play seriously with my crappy spring-loaded Casio. Maybe I'll start taking requests for tips to pay for this monster. Anyone want to hear an quick and dirty arrangement of their favorite opening or ending song? I've got so many interests/hobbies now that I don't watch TV or play video games anymore. I spend at least two hours a week on each of the following activities): - Piano: above-average, but below-average for someone who took private lessons for 12+ years. - Illustration: not sure how well. Illustration is for patient, big-picture people... two qualities I do not posess. I brute force things, filling up hundreds of pages with badly drawn heads, hands, and other objects. Need book suggestions for a formal education in perspective. - Writing... ask me how this is going next year. I'm considering a project that may take 3-4 years to complete. That scares me, but it incorporates every last one of these hobbies. - Music compostion: Bad. I make ridiculous, wrong-headed assumptions about modern orchestral composition. I need a few books or a college class. If anyone out there has any book suggestions, please let me know. - Programming: clever, not smart. I've accepted that I will never be brilliant but that I can be resourceful. There's something warm and fuzzy about knowing that I'm typing this out on something made from nothing. Rubberslug's come a long way, but the "real" long-term plan is just getting started. - Anime: The only time I spend quality time with someone else's creative work. Nothing has bored a hole into my skull for the last year. It's all pretty dry lately. I fear for the future. - Cel collecting: I quietly buy a few things every now and then when I finish a job to reward myself. I window shop weekly. I should upload the dozen or so things I've bought over the past two years. So if you add that up, it's maybe 20-25 hours a week of just... education. Well, back to the activity known as "programming".
I don''t know if you have read this book but it has alot of the things you have talked about in it, All in one type of thing like you would like to do?. I hope it helps out some, Here is the link. http://backlotanimation.rubberslug.com/gallery/inv_info.asp?ItemID=108265
As books I would recommend for Illustration, The best would be The Neal Adams Sketchbook by Vanguard & The Will Eisner Sketchbook by Darkhorse. As to programming Jason you are a little modest. Their are not many that have the drive & perseverance to create a vision from scratch and make it into a reality used by Sluggers from all corner of the world. Thanks!
Mmm.. thanks for the suggestions so far. I''ve found through my brief experience so far that there are two false assumptions about brilliance. The first is that you''re born with it. The second is that hard work can raise one to that level. They''re both incorrect extremes. Someone clever can get really good at sculpture or theoretical physics or wood carving, but it takes a special kind of creative genius to get to that next level. (I will happily argue that creativity is the only kind of genius, everything else is hard work to build a critical mass of skill required to execute a vision.) The good news is that the rest of us plebes may never be good enough to tell the difference between someone industrious and someone who simply has The Gift. The bad news is that many will never find out what they were born to do. The only thing I''m good enough at so far to be able to almost tell is programming. Take it from someone who was accused of being pretty good at things early in life until he was put in his place: hard work is definitely 95% of everything. =) Well, that was a weird soapbox rant.
"Never, no never stop learning!" My favorite quote, and I think it was one of those commercials everone loves to hate. |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
|||||||||
