The primary trouble here is that I never fully determined what the space orb actually looks like close up. When making this page, I tried a number of different ways once I got to the frame with the door, hoping to come up with something better and retroactively apply it to the similar frame from the previous page, and none were good when it came to trying to add a technically feasible or aesthetically functional door. I had the same problem with the awkward stair substitute on page 6. I just plain don’t know enough about real things to design good fake ones. I once knew somebody who never practiced at art, but was obsessed with military technology (and military life in general, after he was kicked out and dumped into a civilian life he no longer understood after being too injured by the thing he did understand) and consequently was good at designing and depicting non-existent mechanical things. Of course being obsessed with military anything is going to be bad news in some way but it turned out to be a more functional bad news than the ones I contributed.
In case you could not tell, and you probably couldn’t, I had reverted to using ink on page 12. Midway through page 13, however, my old inkwell pen, the one I could locate of the two I own, stopped dispensing ink properly (and “properly” was rather erratic) and I had to switch to one of my disposable pens, whose stock I have not replenished or even assured was present in more than five years. Disposable pens create a more consistent, and predicable result, but also one that is considerably less striking. But ultimuttley it is irrelevant, as i have re-reached the re-realization that while I appreciate the look of well-applied ink, I am never going to be exceptional at applying it. And also that every time I use ink, quite apart from the quality of the things I can draw, that complicates completion of all the things I cannot draw, since I can only fully construct them digitally after scanning the paper, which means, first of all, that they will not HAVE the ink aesthetic, and also that the space is already determined before I know how much space I actually need, which will result in considerable fiddling about with things that are already tightly crammed together which won’t necessarily look correct if made less or more tight than that to accommodate phantom page characteristics. Unless I only put easily-drawn things on the page, which I shouldn’t do, because easy pages are boring. Their descriptions are briefer and consequently less boring on account of me not complaining about how hard to make they were, but any reasonable person would skip this part!
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Indighost sez:
1. The art’s lovely.
2. Why don’t you just go FULL DIGITAL ?
3. Would it be correct to assume that Nemitz’ current state is the result of countless instances of permanent, disabling damage to various parts of his/her mind and body, of which this page is an example?
Frimpinheap sez:
I have gone FULL DIGITAL on and off but always get pulled back after I look over an old thing I did in ink and really like the look of it, or re-find one of my fancy pens following one of its prolonged absences.
Or, worse, I see something somebody else did in ink and got praise for to the effect “ah ha yes indeed pen and ink is the most pure and true art” and I think to myself “gosh I am better at it than THAT bozo.” After this page, however, I realize that I should stop fighting what has become my most functional artistic instinct. Of course I have realized that before; my other main, less functional artistic instinct is to doubt that which is most convenient for me, but ideally the decision to eschew real pens will take hold better this time.
I have not decided what nemitz’ problem is. I do not know yet that other nemitz types are not just as useless as [m]it is.
Darkdoomer sez:
ha, that’s intresting to get the story behind these two. i always been wondering if there was any, and now that kind of put a lot of things back in perspective. thought they were like, two fugitives, not critters who were trying to save their world ;- ;
Frimpinheap sez:
It is not too late to change that! My problem is I went with the first idea that came to me, and it was years ago, before I had gotten very far in this. Fugitives might be more interesting. There are so many dumb crimes only nemitz could have committed or been accused of.