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RE: Sunday: I Should Probably Do Laundry
Good ol trails. I still just vote manually. I try to get everyone, but I miss a few. Not everyone votes for me, so I'm sure they don't mind.
Initially, I was going to release Shelley as an It's Done post. I think this was a better choice.
Yeah, I was thinking this seemed like an It's Done post, but you're generally vague when it comes to those so this was a better choice. I'm trying out the trail for a few reasons. Mainly I've been checking out who I'm voting on in the trail and I've discovered a couple new people because of it. I manually upvote the same as before.
Generally vague is correct. This can still be viewed a few different ways, but you have to get creative. Tiling the floor took me a hell of a long time, by the way. For some reason, the floor is my favorite detail.
The floor is magnificent now that I looked at it more critically. I have recently played around with digital art and have an enormous appreciation for what you do. Especially that kind of precision. (Me and digital art is quite a lot like me as pa with a shotgun)
In much of the stuff I produce, there are many small details most will miss, unless they zoom in. On the other hand, there are always flaws mixed in as well. I try to fix everything and make it perfect, but sometimes I just get lazy.
Perfection in art is subjective. Sometimes what you call a flaw might be exactly what it needed to make it perfect due to the creative and flexible nature of it. I like the precision of the floor because of the stark contrast to the mess on it. If you just made a picture of a perfect floor, I would still be impressed by what I know takes skill to do, but it wouldn't appeal to me artistically/creatively.
It's actually easier than it looks. Make one tile, copy, then paste another one in, build a chain, copy that, position, flatten, paste again, position, flatten. It still took awhile though.
Ah. Mostly my point was that in art, perfection isn't always preferable. If I were to write stories by the criteria of perfect grammar or perfect sentence structure, they would come out sounding like term papers. Term papers are not art, my 'imperfect' stories are. People can draw perfect graphs and charts, but that's not art either.
That's why I enjoy the outsider scenery. When everything is scripted and perfected, it becomes too predictable and eventually, bland. The story up there isn't perfect, but I assume people were still able to figure out what was going on. I didn't want to write it out like, "said the cop," because I wanted it to seem internalized. I think I pulled that off.
It's perfectly imperfect, lol. You wrote it in conversational style, you can clearly hear the two people talking back and forth, a natural flow of words. I don't just come to see your art, your stories are great, and the combination is a winning one ;)