Here you’ll find an exploration on how to make a living, by being creative. This blog gives you a little bit of a window into the day in the life of a Simpsons artist, who’s doing his own art on the side. You’ll also get an insight into what goes on in an artist’s brain. As well, as how he tries to improve his skills and his way of life with his creativity.
He also draws things that will hopefully make you laugh, or at the very least, crack a smile.
I’m a Storyboard artist on The Simpsons TV show and The Simpsons Movie. I drew Simpsons comics, on the side, for Bongo Comics for 12 years as well. Author of The Art of Draw Fu: Beginners Level. I live in California with my wife, daughter and four sons who I love very much. I’m Roman Catholic and I was born in El Salvador.
These last two weeks working on the revisions of THE SIMPSONS episode 500 have been very productive. By Friday, I had finished my assignments for Act 1 and 2 and had started on Act 3. I finished that part by Tuesday and was given the Couch Gag to work on, which I ended up finishing on Wednesday. I was then assigned some of Act 4 to work on. We’ve been flying through our work. Feels good to be on time and not be under the gun. It’d be great to have the rest of the season be this relaxed. I doubt it will be though.
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Okay so, I’ve been playing around with the gouache, testing out what I want the final piece to look like and how best to approach working with them. It’s mostly just how I personally WANT to work with them. Gouache is very versatile and you can take many different approaches to using them.
First thing I did since last time was take the original first pass I did and messed around with it a bit by adding some gray and white. I also finessed the edges a bit more:
I liked it a bit more and it gave me some ideas as to how I might want to approach the painting.
I then tried another test. What I did was, I made myself a dark gray tone instead of deluding the black with water to get a dark gray tone and I just painted it in:
It worked okay but I didn’t like the way it looked in the end. The problem was that, in the face, I was putting black down and THEN adding the gray after. This wasn’t really working. On the other hand, in the background, I put the gray down and then painted black over it. This made me think that I might want to do that in the face.
So I did. I put down the gray tone and then painted black over it. I also did more of an ink wash effect with the background:
I liked the way it felt to do it this way but I made the mistake of only putting the gray over the exact places I was going to paint black, This made it more difficult for me to get the dark gray tone to be in other areas it needed to be. It was basically the same problem I had with my second attempt. I also didn’t like the way the background ended up looking.
So I finally got smart and decided to paint more in the fashion that I was taught to paint in the one painting class that I took years ago. I painted ALL the dark gray areas (even the areas that weren’t going to be painted black) on the face and then added black in the shadow patterns where they needed to go:
This seemed to work much better although I really need to make her head squarer. When I round out her face it doesn’t look right. I also attempted as best as I could, to change up the edges on my tones. The painting was bit small so it was tricky to do. Meanwhile, having made one more attempt at painting the background with an ink wash style, confirmed that I didn’t want to use that style for the final look.
None of these roughs are beautiful but they all helped me get to the point where I feel more comfortable with the paints.
I’m going to need to show Paul these roughs before I commit to anything final, in case he can give me some pointers on how to improve my painting.
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I’m back on SIMPSONS show 500 this week. This time around I’m doing board revisions. Seems the screening of the show went real well. Act 1 (which was my act) was assigned back to me to revise and it turns out the rewrite on it was very slight. So slight in fact, that I finished revising it yesterday (Wednesday). That doesn’t happen too often. Today I’ll be working on my section of Act 2 as well as the rest of the Act.
The revisions for Act 2 are a little more involved but perhaps not too involved because my director also assigned me almost of all Act 3. Here’s hoping I can get most of Act 2 done by the end of the week.
VIDEOS
Wednesday of this week, I accompanied my co-workers to the comic book store during lunch. Later, while my friends looked through their comics (I didn’t buy any) as we eat lunch, we started talking about the comic artists we liked.
One of them was Sean Gordon Murphy. Later, when we got back to work, my friend Paul sent me a link to the video below of Sean Gordon drawing only with ink and a brush. It made us want to shoot ourselves. He’s too good. Enjoy:
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So if you’ve read my earlier posts on this blog, you known that I’m going through one of those artist growing periods where I’m about to learn something new and become a more well rounded artist but BECAUSE of this, my work has now become worse. This happens to all artist all the time. Once it’s happened to you enough times, you recognize what it is. It’s best at a time like this to just enjoy the process even though the work you produce is lousy.
As I’ve struggled through this time, I realized it would be best to talk things over with my friend and “Art Sifu” Paul Wee. I wanted to run some thoughts by him about what I was doing wrong and how to handle them. There were two big questions really wanted answers to:
Why did everything I draw look cartoony?
What, if any, details should I put in the shadow area?
To get to this point I basically showed Paul all the work I’d done and told him how I’d been tearing my hair out over it. During the conversation, the realization came out that I thought of myself as a trained cartoonist than an illustrator, while Paul, thought himself more as a trained illustrator than a cartoonist. We’ve both had secondary training in each other’s fields but we come to drawing from different foundations.
After Paul heard me out he first told me to pick a medium to do the final cover in. Once I did that, I should practice doing my roughs in that medium. Switching mediums, as I had been, was only making things worse for me. He asked me to find a style I wanted the cover to have and use that as my goal.
He then answered my first question. He told me the reason my stuff was looking cartoony was because I was thinking like a cartoonist and not like a painter. He told me, in order to get the realism I wanted, I should not think of drawing any lines at all. I should be thinking in planes and values. This made sense to me and it really cleared a lot of things up. I’ve been to classes for this. I knew what he was talking about. I was never great at it and I’d need to practice more, but the solution was clear.
He then answered my second question. The shadow should have no detail. It should just be dark. The center of interest would be the one eye looking to the side, why have any other details distracting from that detail? The reason I had asked was because I’ve been trained in my figured drawing classes to NOT put any details in the shadow areas. I though somehow that because the piece I’m working on has so much shadow in the face that it would be weird to do that. He basically told me it wouldn’t look weird and reinforced my training.
The conversation was long and personal. We talked a bit more about different things about art but the main things that I got from it was what I just wrote above. When the conversation was over, it was time for me to decide what medium I was going to use to finish the drawing. After thinking about it and IM-ing Paul once or twice, I decided to go with gouache paint. I’d never used gouache but I thought it would be a valuable tool to learn. It would make me more versatile as an artist.
Since I didn’t have gouache, and I had a little bit of time, I decided to start experimenting with a “plains and values” study, using Black Prismacolor on tracing paper. This is what I did. The first drawing I did was the one on the right and I believe the last one was the one on the left.
These drawings helped me wrap my head around trying to think in only planes and values. Problem was that I kept getting uneven values in my drawing which threw me off. So next I decided I was going to use my markers to try to get all the values in certain areas to be the same. So I did the drawing below:
I was mainly concentrating on the face. At this point I wasn’t sure how dark to make it but I did begin to see that an all dark face with just the right combination of light patterns would work.
That day, on the way home, I bought some gouache. The next time day, during my lunch break I began experimenting with the paint. I painted some test shapes in order to see how I could blend and render with them. I found that I really liked gouache. The next day, I decided to begin my first pass of a rough sketch. The problem was that I used a different method to paint the rough than I had used with my shapes test. I didn’t have the type of control I wanted using this new method.
Next time, I’ll use the method I used with my test shapes. I think I’m getting closer and closer to making a breakthrough. I hope I am. I want to get done so I can go back to my cartoon.
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This week, I managed to finish my Act 3 revisions in two days. This has given me three days to work on a very elaborate Couch Gag for the rest of the week. The living room gets very crowded in it. Thankfully my Act 3 assignment wasn’t too involved.
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I’m still trying to figure out how to best approach finishing my wife’s book cover. It’s getting more and more frustrating. I thought that by doing some experimenting and testing out different approaches, I’d come closer to figuring out what I wanted. If anything, it’s made me more confused and frustrated.
One thing I DO know I want, I DON’T want the final look of the cover to look “cartoony”. I want it to be more on the “photo real” side than the comic book drawing side. Trying to find the best way to go about doing this has been a pain in the neck. Especially since I don’t know how to paint.
So here’s what I did. Since last time when I used markers on tracing paper and it didn’t go well. I thought I’d try it on regular white paper with a little bit of black ink and marker. This is the result:
The result was not what I wanted. It was ugly and sloppy. I made the mistake with the first drawing of painting over my original pencil drawing so I re-drew it and then made photocopies to paint.
I tried again using a different approach and taking what I learned from the first try to try something new. This time I tried rendering interior shadow values with Prismacolor black pencil while using the marker simply as local color:
I don’t think it worked. It still looks too cartoony. It’s not as sloppy but it doesn’t look very “photo real” either. I also don’t think the values quite work in the face. I came to the realization that I think I’ve been drawing the shadow and light shapes on the nose wrong too.
Just to change things up I decided to try an ink wash, experimenting with the shadow shapes of the nose:
Again, like my first attempt with the markers, it turned out sloppy and ugly. Not what I wanted. Also, unlike this scanned version, the original was more Warm Grey than Neutral Grey. Also, the blacks didn’t seem black enough for me. I might try again with the wash but I decided to give the markers another go.
I decided to go all out with the next one. I was going to render the heck out the drawing, trying to incorporate every value I saw in photo I’m using for reference. I decided that I was going to use a little bit of ink around the eyes but the rest I would do completely in marker (with a touch white Prismacolor pencil in places):
I was very proud of it when I was done. This lasted for about a day. When I saw it the next day, I saw I had failed again. It STILL looks cartoony and worse yet, muddy and overworked. It’s not an elegant painting by any means and it looks amateurish to me.
This has all added up to making me frustrated. I’m not quite sure what to do. So I’ve decided to ask my drawing “Sifu” Paul Wee for help. He’s always good at guiding me when I need it. He’s also offered to help out if I needed it after he learned about that I was doing.
I’ll let you know what happens next week.
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And speaking of my friend and “Sifu” Paul Wee, here’s a recent article of Paul written in The Burbank Leader:
San Diego Comic Con happened last weekend and some upcoming Simpsons news came out about this upcoming season on The Simpsons Panel. This means, I finally know what I can actually share here on the blog. Especially since, Al Jean has talked about it publicly.
Last week I finished up working on the Moe’s bar rag episode. I only worked on Act 1. It was a very big act going through a lot of eras in time. Very exotic but also it was a very big Act. There was quite a lot of revisions on the act so it took me a while to get them all done.
This week I’m working on…well, it’s an episode Al Jean didn’t talk about so I can’t write about it right now. The act I was given has a lite rewrite though, and the next Act I’ll be working on, also has a lite rewrite. But I’ve been assigned the Couch Gag as well, and it’s pretty elaborate so I’m trying to get the Acts done as soon as I can so I can get to the Couch Gag.
Okay, so now I can tell you what I was working on for show 500. In that show, I had to board the part where the Simpsons go to the secret town meeting that want to kick them out of town. It was MEANT to be shown at Comic Con which is the reason I had to get it done so fast. They wanted a working story reel for the Con. Of course, it turned out that they ended up NOT showing it. DOH!
Oh well.
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It’s painful when you find the limits of your drawing ability. You don’t expect to find them and your sitting there drawing like you usually do and suddenly,
BAM!
“Wow, nothing I do is coming out like I want it to.”…draw…draw…draw…”Uh,…I can’t seem to get this to look right.”…draw…draw…draw…”Oh my gosh! I CAN’T do this! I haven’t got the skill yet!”
This is what happened to me this week as I tried my experimenting with a final look for the book cover I’m working on. Taking the mock up I did of the cover, I reduced it down about 60%. Then I took some tracing paper and began experimenting in order to see what medium I could use to do the final version of the cover. I also took out the value thumbnail I did and used it as a guide.
At first I began with just gray markers on tracing paper but I found that I couldn’t get it to work. I used ink and marker in one, just to see if it would help, and it didn’t. Then I thought perhaps I should ink it all and use the marker just as a flat tone. I drew small sketches of only the face but it didn’t work either. It was smeared too much. So in the end, I concluded that markers and tracing paper where not a good combination. I also, only had two shadeds of gray markers, which didn’t help.
Then I thought, okay tracing paper takes pencil very well, and I’m pretty sure I can add value to a pencil drawing. I mean, I’ve been doing it since high school. So I sit down and start doing it, only to have it look AWFUL. I’m trying to add the tone and it’s not looking good at all. It ‘s just too “muddy”. I’m going for “real” but just a tad stylized. It’s not looking like that at all and I don’t understand why.
What am I doing wrong?
I think, part of the problem is that, I might not know exactly what values I want the actual face of the woman to have. I DON’T want it to be black like it is in the thumbnail, but I need it to be dark so that it’s the place where the light and the dark values contrast the most. As it is now, the values of the face are all over the place.
I haven’t given up but I’ve reached a point where my skill level is going to have to make a jump in order for me to move forward.
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Head Director of THE SIMPSONS, Mike Anderson, decided to do a little experimental film using his iPhone. He took a bunch of pictures of a “typical” day on the show and then put them together to make a strobing film put to music. It’s a very Mike Anderson idea. Wacky, unexpected, unique and very creative. Have a look. I’m not in it, but the current office I’m working in is:
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As I wrote last week, I made a mock up of the cover I’m working on. I placed all the elements where they would be in the final piece using Photoshop. I used the pictures I’ve taken for reference and place them there. The only thing I have left to take a picture of for reference is the fire:
The problem with the mock up is that all the values are wrong. So I did a thumbnail value study. Below is the first one I did using black prismacolor pencil on tracing paper:
I didn’t think it was working. I still couldn’t really get a good idea of whether the values I chose would get me the feel I wanted. I told this my friend and mentor Paul who suggested using black and gray markers. So I did tried it again. Below is a thumbnail drawing using black and gray Copic markers on tracing paper:
I was going to bring my other color markers and try a pass using some reds, yellows, and oranges but I forgot them. Instead I scanned the thumbnail above and used Photoshop to add the colors:
I’d like to think I’ve got what I want. That these are the correct values, but the truth is, I’m not planning to darken the face up as much as I have it here. I’m not sure if it matters if I do. I’ll need to ask Paul.
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It was difficult start to the week for me. Not because work was difficult or anything. It was because I hadn’t fully recovered from the awful cold that left me bedridden for two days straight. I didn’t stay home, because the my new assignment on the episode I was on is quite a bit of work. If I had any hope of finishing it on time, I needed all the work days I could get.
I’m back on revisions. To be honest, I don’t mind at all. I need a small break from the madness that was my last assignment. To make things even easier for me, I’m working with a director that’s really hands on with the revisions. Usually, this would bother me a bit because he would do all the fun stuff of coming up with the shots and solutions to revision problems and I would just go through the routine of making it all look pretty. I’m sooo grateful he’s like that. My brain is still recovering from last week and feeling tired and sick didn’t help at all.
He’s basically doing my job for me and I’m getting a much needed rest. This isn’t to say that I haven’t contributed to the process myself. I have. Just not as much as I usually do. Anything that makes my job easier while I recover is fine by me. My assignment is pretty big on this episode.
Speaking of my last assignment, I check up on the storyboard notes that where given to the director of show 500 and was relieved to find they we’re really minor on my section. Looks like it all turned out well. I’m very happy.
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So I fixed the eye on the book cover drawing I’m working on using a photo I took of my wife’s eyes. Now I officially have the shadow paterns figured out for the character on the cover:
This wasn’t the only thing I did for the cover this week. I also did a mock up of all the elements, minus the fire, for the cover as well. I was thinking of using it a the final reference for what the cover would look like. I was proud of it and and showed to my friend Paul (my drawing teacher) who was NOT impressed.
He started asking me questions about it. The main one being,
“Are these the values you’re using?” to which I answered,
“No. The drawing of the woman is just a shadow pattern study, her values are off.”
“Where’s your darkest dark? Where’s your lightest light?”
Then I realized what he was getting at. He told me to make a thumbnail value study of the piece and get it just right before really getting my hands dirty on any attempt at a final piece. He also told me I should make absolutely sure I knew exactly the colors I would use and where, before I got started.
He was completely right.
I don’t know what I was thinking. I’ve done this BEFORE. It’s not like I haven’t. If you’ve read my blog for the last year, I’ve even told YOU to do it. Suddenly I’d forgotten my fundamentals and it would have been no end of trouble down the line as I tried to finish the piece. Thank goodness Paul called me out on it. So next, that’s what I’m going to do.
I’ll also see about buying some red cloth to burn for photo reference. I still need that final element for when I actually get to the finishing phase.
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Things got tough last Friday. I managed to turn in the section of my board that was high priority on Wednesday. I thought I was home free Thursday and all I had to do was finish the less high priority, half of my section. I had a regular eight hour day that day. I had been working overtime just about every night. On Friday, because of 4th of July, the studio was going to close at 2pm. I was looking forward to going home early, only at midday, I got told that the section I had turned in had revisions I had to work on. This kinda burst my bubble.
Usually, once you turn in a final board, any notes made on the board are taken care of in the Story Reel phase of production. Thing is, since there were so many notes on my board and it was a special high priority section, they wanted me to address the notes and make the necessary changes.
My heart sunk when I heard this.
When I was given the board with all the notes on it, my heart hit the ground. I don’t think I’d ever seen a board with so much red. I couldn’t help getting a upset. Then I read the notes, and got even more upset. Not because they were nit picky or unjust or whatever. It would have almost been better it they were. That way, I could have yelled “foul”, and said the head director was picking on me. But no, the reason I got more upset was because all the notes where spot on. Just about everything he had me fix made everything better and clearer.
I became angry at myself for not getting it right the first time. I stayed till 7pm fixing the board. This took away time from me being able to finish the other part of the board. This meant that at some point the following week, I would probably have to work late. If I didn’t have to do the revisions, I would have been able to get it done without staying late.
This Tuesday, I turned the fixed up, revised board. It’s going to be sent to Fox where, more notes will be given on it. Thankfully, the director will have to take care of those.
We had Monday off, which would have been great for me, except that it took away an entire day from me being able to finish the second part of my board. Sure enough, I had to stay late on Wednesday in order to try to get done by Thursday afternoon. Tuesday, I wasn’t able to work late because I had to pick up the kids from daycare.
It’s been one heck of a dramatic ride. It reminded me a lot of what it was like to work on the movie. Lots of “do it again” and “it’s due yesterday”. As I get closer to finishing though, I can’t help but feel VERY satisfied with it all. Like I’ve really DONE something. I’ve also learned a LOT.
So why the rush job? Well, it’s because…heh, I’ll tell you soon.
FAMILY
It’s been very hot. So hot my kids got sick, or had heat stroke. I don’t really know which. All I know is that each suddenly came down with a one day fever on different days of the week. We don’t know exactly what triggered it but I’m guessing it was the heat.
Now they all have colds and so do I.
MY WEEK
Wednesday is comic book day and I was so tired of working, I went to lunch with my friends and went to the comic store with them. As usual, I didn’t buy anything, but it felt good to take a break, hang out with them and go look at comics.
Work so hard really takes a toll on the creativity. I’ve been having a really difficult time working on any personal projects. This is the reason I didn’t put any progress drawings this week on here.
I could have worked on stuff over the weekend. I had plenty of leisure time. I just couldn’t do it. I was too burned out. That said, I DID manage to revise a TINY little bit of my treatment. I’ll be getting to the final phase of my “illustrated film” soon. Just as soon as can get some creative energy back.
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As of the time of this writing, I’m ALMOST done cleaning up the section of the board that ‘s due by the end of this week. It’s been a really interesting experience for me. After the meeting last week that left my head spinning and feeling overwhelmed, I’ve really had time to internalize it all.
I’ve learned a few things about myself as well as the people who I’m working with. Biggest thing I learned is that I have a big ego. I mean, if I didn’t, I wouldn’t have been so disappointed by how the meeting went. Having spoken to other board artists on the show, they’ve told me meeting sometimes go that way and sometimes they don’t. It’s just about learning the style of the show and learning to let go. I thought I had learned that lesson already but obviously I hadn’t.
Second, I’ve had time since, to talk to both the director and head director about the meeting. To them, the meeting was just like any other and they’re happy with my work. Too often, I over think and over worry.
Not only that, but after working on the boards after the revisions, you start “owning” the revisions as well. After all, you have to execute the new shot and any fixes to the original versions. The interesting thing about doing the revisions is that you’re less worried about whether the shot you’re working on is going to be rejected.
In any case, I will tease the fact that there’s something special being planned for the section I’m working on right now. I’ll keep you updated as things get closer to finishing.
VIDEOS
I’m a big fan of LOST and a fan of what Damon Lindelof did on it. I also think it’s fascinating how much he seems like just “one of the guys”. How down to earth he is and how public he is. He’s a very rare screenwriter in that he’s almost as well known as some actors.
For this reason I was curious to see this interview with him on the Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show. It’s awesome! If anything, I now respect Lindelof even more. The story of how he met J.J. Abrams and ended up the show runner on LOST is one of the most compelling things ever. I love how he tells you what exactly about the show was his idea and what J.J. Abrams came up with AND how much time they had to do the pilot. It’s amazing.
The interview is well over two hours but it’s so worth watching. I highly recommend it.
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I’m still plugging away at that book cover for my wife. This week I blew up my sketch and with a blue color erase pencil I mapped out the rhythm lines for the character’s face. I also fleshed out the construction of the face a bit more.
I picked up the book Robert Fawcett: The Illustrator’s Illustrator edited by Manuel Auad, last week and have been sooo inspired. HE’S SO GOOD! It’s amazing.
If want my cover to somehow capture SOMETHING of Fawcett‘s work. He’s leagues over my head in mastery. He’s draftsmanship is incredible. I mean, look at his drawing!
So taking his work and having it at the back of my head, I start working on my own thing. I’m not Fawcett and I don’t think I’ll get there anytime soon (if ever) BUT it’s good to have him as inspiration.
Using the photo reference I took of a friend of my wife, I began doing a slightly tighter version of my rough drawing above. It was kinda going good until I ran into the problem I was hoping I wasn’t going to have, namely, my reference doesn’t have her eyes open. In my reference the eyes are looking down, but for my drawing, I wanted the eyes looking back.
Turns out, I can’t fake it.
My drawing below is my first tonal study. If you notice, the area around the eye is darker than the rest the of the drawing. This is because I erased the heck out that area trying to get the eye to look right. In the end, it just looks cartoony somehow.
I was also testing out what it would look like if I was to really obscure the details of the right hand side of the face in shadow. I didn’t really like it.
I decided to give it another try. This time, I would put in the details in the shadow area. It turned out better, BUT once again, those darn eyes messed me up again. It’s the one thing I made up out of my head and it’s the one thing that looks off. Especially the right eye. I was going for half lidded but it just looks off, and the iris is just way too far away. Plus it seems like it doesn’t line up well with the left eye.
It’s really frustrating. Once again, you can see where I was erasing the most because it’s darker in that area.
I finally did the sensible thing and decided to get the photo reference I needed. Instead of asking my wife’s friend to come back just to her a picture of her looking back, I asked my wife to model it instead. Hopefully my next study will have the eyes right.
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Well, this week I managed to finish the first pass of my assignment. On Tuesday, we had a board meeting with the director and the head director. It was scheduled from two o’clock to five. We finished at seven. Personally, I don’t think it went well. There was a lot of things changed. It felt to me as if 80% of what I did was changed. In reality it was more like 60% or 70%. As I revised the boards after the meeting, I realized that a lot of the discussions of what to do felt like they where changing more than what was actually changed.
I’m no stranger to getting my boards revised but for some reason it was really difficult this time around not to feel disappointed my shots where getting changed. I guess because I wanted so badly to get everything “right” the first time. The truth is, there are just sooo many ways a sequence can be composed. Sometimes what I had worked, and sometimes it just needed reworking. I wish I’d gotten more things right. That way the meeting wouldn’t have taken so long.
I definitely think I was just getting too fancy with my shots, for my own good. Instead of drawing clear shots, I drew fancy shots. Next time, I’ll keep myself in check. I did learn a lot though. I’ll do better next time (if there is one).
When I first started doing board revisions I had the same fancy shot problem. My first revision meeting pretty much went the same way. Nothing I drew was used. As I started get more comfortable with the process and the directors became more used to me, the changes became less and less. But in storyboarding, there will always be changes. It’s part of the job.
There’s something special planned for my section that I can’t really talk about yet. Because of this, I have to finish it a week earlier than usual. This is actually making the work a bit more stressful than it should be for my first time boarding an Act. I’m doing the work at a faster pace than I would normally do it. This has actually caused me to start getting a bit burned out.
I’m going to need to take a tiny break soon. All that said, I can’t deny the fact that I’ve been having a great time in spite of it all.
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I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it, but my wife Alesha has rewritten an e-book. She finished it and began sending it to agents, but in the end, no one wanted to give it chance. Publishers aren’t really looking for the type of story she’s written. So she decided to just publish it herself. The book is pretty much ready to go. All it needs is a cover which she has commissioned me to do. I promised her I’d do it and since the only thing she’s doing is waiting for me, I need to get it done.
Below is my preliminary rough of what the picture on the cover will look like. The final piece will be painted. It will be red and gray. The banner, her tie and perhaps her lips, will be red and the rest gray.
Perhaps in a future post, as the cover reaches completion, I’ll let you know what the book is about.
What do you think?
VIDEOS/WRITING
I saw this trailer for the upcoming CONAN THE BARBARIAN movie:
I thought it looked like fun and it rekindled my desire to finish my project. Especially since, my project is very much an homage to Conan and Robert E. Howard.
This weekend I managed to get in a few hours to edit my treatment again. Unfortunately, with what’s going on at work and trying to finish up my wife’s book cover, it’s getting more difficult to get things done. I’m going to try to keep working on it this weekend as well. It’s just getting more difficult because I’m so burned out that I’d much rather relax by reading something than to sit down and work on a rewrite.
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So I’ve started work on show 500. It’s a good show. It’s gets crazy. Personally, I think I was given the funniest parts. I was assigned Act 1 and the start of Act 2. The amount of script pages I was given is more than usual. Figures I wouldn’t get off doing a normal amount of work on my first go. Still, I’m up to the challenge.
I didn’t realize how much I’d enjoy myself. I know I’m doing really creative work because when I leave work, I’m still thinking about shots. I usually reserve that sort of problem solving to my personal projects.
The first two days I spent working on the couch in my office. Something I almost never get to do. You wouldn’t think that sitting down on a couch could be so exhausting. After my first four hours of sitting there composing shots, my brain felt like mush. It helped to take a break for lunch and do something else with my brain.
So far, the only thing that really has me worried is the amount of time I’ve got to do this. I’m trying to pace myself in such a way that I can get the most time cleaning up the drawings and least amount of time, coming up with them. Hopefully, it won’t be too much of an issue. Since this is my first time doing this on an actual show (as apposed to The Movie), I’m still feeling out what works best for me. ART
The Chealsey Michigan art exhibit I’m a part of opens up this weekend. The exhibit has some incredible art from some fantastic comic artists. It makes be very proud to be associated with such an amazing pool of artists.
Here’s the final Alice in Wonderland illustration. I decided to do a “sloppy inking” style on the blacks in the piece. I like the look of that sometimes. I’m not sure if it turned out well to do that or not. I’m happy enough with the result to not want to do anything about it.
You’ll notice that in this final drawing, the Mad Hatter’s arm is down instead of up on the table, like I had it in my original pencils. I changed it because I thought the pose looked forced with the hand up.
I really hope the drawing tells the story clearly.
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Just found your page about Italy! Loved it! Lived in Italy a couple of years; just doing a YouTube video about how to get to the Sistine Chapel. Your sketches brought back so many memories (especially the “Metro at Rush Hour” type).
Dear Luis,
Very interesting and thoughtful blog. If you are interested in Catholicism and boardgames you might appreciate “Vatican” the boardgame I designed. It has been selling worldwide and we have gotten very favorable comments
Sincerely,
Stephen Haliczer Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
Product Designer
The College of DuPage Press
Hey! I’ve been trying to call you for a couple weeks! I should have checked your blog sooner. I thought you might have had the baby by now! Congrats! Call me ya bum. My number…unlike yours… is the same xxx-xxx-xxxx.
im doing a piece of it coursework and wondered if i could put your
“computer stoopid” picture on it.
I would acknowledge where it came from beneath it and in the bibliography.
If the answer is yes then could you tell me the artists name too?
thanks. keith.
I just came upon your Nephilim skeleton debunking image….very interesting.
I wish we could have met at Comic Con to discuss certain issues. Nothing that
I would want to discuss openly here.
If you want to discuss something privately, you could always e-mail me. The address is up there under the “Hi, Welcome!” about the top commentators. It’s luis(at)luisescobarblog(dot)com.
Can you give me permission to use one of your illustrations for a tee shirt. I really want to wear “there must be some way to plug this keyboard into this game” – It’s how I see the world.. and you explained everything I want to tell the world in that one illustrzt8ion.
Gina
Yes, Gina. You can make it into a shirt for yourself off of that cartoon. I’m flattered.
I’ve been thinking about making shirts off of my little cartoons but I’m not sure which ones to do. Outside of an occasional cartoon that really hits home for someone, I’m not sure if they would sell.
Hi Luis,
My name is Phil and I came across your site while looking up information about animation and voice-over work. I’m a huge fan of the Simpsons & Futurama and a big Billy West fan (Ren&Stimpy, Futurama, Ect.). It is truly amazing to me how so many individuals come together to create these animated cartoons and the quality of the end product. I’m curious from your perspective how much work you have to re-do sometimes because of the networks and the way they censor some of the work that is being done. Best of luck to you in your projects. – Phil
You’d be surprised Phil. The biggest censors of the show are the writers themselves. They often pull back a joke they think is going too far. Sometimes, some of the jokes are funny too. It’s the artists that end up complaining about it. For example, there was a joke in one of the Halloween shows that all the artists thought was really funny. It was the show where Homer goes back in time on his toaster. In one of the futures he comes back too, he finds himself married to Patty and Selma. He discovers this when they show up waring lingerie. They looked really nasty, with their flab and hairy legs. When we saw it, everyone roared with horrified laughter. It was crazy. For some reason, during the re-write, they cut the gag because they thought it was too much. It was very disappointing. They didn’t even put the scene as an extra on the DVD.
It does. Thanks for the reply Luis. That gag actually would have been hilarious! Too bad it didn’t make it. I wonder if some unnecessary second guessing happens though because the writers feel they may be going over the top? (If that’s possible.) I know there is that fine line that writers and creators have to walk probably not only with the content of the show that’s created but with the networks as well. At least from what I understand in reading interviews and seeing convention interviews. Storyboards I think really help to set the tone of an episode and I bet it probably helps to justify many of the ideas that get spun out during the writing sessions of the writers. You all do great work on the show and I’m going to continue reading through your website. Thanks! – Phil
Hello there. I was researching nephilim for a report and I foung your blog. Its too bad those pics were all frauds. If they had been real, it would have been amazing.
After I read your stuff on the pictures I hung around a little, and read your “about me section”.
I am merely curious, so if I overstep a boundary, please feel free to tell me so.
I was wondering, sir, since you state that you are in fact a roman catholic, weather or not you believed in the deity of Jesus Christ?
I myself am a Christian, but I research other religions and alternate sects of my own. You could say its a hobby. In any case, if you find my inquiry impolite, I am sorry. I mean no offense.
Heh, no Christine, your question isn’t impolite. It’s good of you to ask. Too often people just assume things about Catholicism without asking.
The simple answer to your question is, “Yes”. Catholicism, teaches that Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
The slightly more involved answer is as follows: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (the official book that explains all that the Catholic Church teaches) in paragraphs 446-451 ( http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1H.HTM ) states the following:
446 In the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the ineffable Hebrew name YHWH, by which God revealed himself to Moses,59 is rendered as Kyrios, “Lord”. From then on, “Lord” becomes the more usual name by which to indicate the divinity of Israel’s God. the New Testament uses this full sense of the title “Lord” both for the Father and – what is new – for Jesus, who is thereby recognized as God Himself.60
447 Jesus ascribes this title to himself in a veiled way when he disputes with the Pharisees about the meaning of Psalm 110, but also in an explicit way when he addresses his apostles.61 Throughout his public life, he demonstrated his divine sovereignty by works of power over nature, illnesses, demons, death and sin.
448 Very often in the Gospels people address Jesus as “Lord”. This title testifies to the respect and trust of those who approach him for help and healing.62 At the prompting of the Holy Spirit, “Lord” expresses the recognition of the divine mystery of Jesus.63 In the encounter with the risen Jesus, this title becomes adoration: “My Lord and my God!” It thus takes on a connotation of love and affection that remains proper to the Christian tradition: “It is the Lord!”64
449 By attributing to Jesus the divine title “Lord”, the first confessions of the Church’s faith affirm from the beginning that the power, honour and glory due to God the Father are due also to Jesus, because “he was in the form of God”,65 and the Father manifested the sovereignty of Jesus by raising him from the dead and exalting him into his glory.66
450 From the beginning of Christian history, the assertion of Christ’s lordship over the world and over history has implicitly recognized that man should not submit his personal freedom in an absolute manner to any earthly power, but only to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Caesar is not “the Lord”.67 “The Church. . . believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of man’s history is to be found in its Lord and Master.”68
451 Christian prayer is characterized by the title “Lord”, whether in the invitation to prayer (“The Lord be with you”), its conclusion (“through Christ our Lord”) or the exclamation full of trust and hope: Maranatha (“Our Lord, come!”) or Maranatha (“Come, Lord!”) – “Amen Come Lord Jesus!”69
Luis – my name is Luis Escobar – every now and then I Google my name just to see what pops up. Well – I often come across you. No doubt – you have discovered me too. Anyway – sure there a ton of our Luis Escobar’s out there but I thought that I would just say hello and let you know that you have a cool name. BTW – I am the third Luis in four! Grandpa, Father, me and my son. Louie’s all around!
wow – that was fast – I am a photographer, distance runner and high school cross country coach. I live in Santa Maria California. Married with three kids. Your work is great. You are very skilled. I will take some time and learn a little more about you and your work. Very cool. Well – I am off to a work with one of my running students. I will look forward to talking with you a little more in the future. Luis
Howdee Luis, if you are a real Christian then i would suggest you to do some research on your big boss (Matt Groening being a 33rd degree mason).
Loads of subliminal messages in the Simpsons, and occult symbolism.
(Even 9-11 was announced).
Greetings…. (Peace be upon you)
I would like to present to you all the sciences related to cosmogony together with its rules as per its identity which is something not similar to any of the other things and is out of any and assimilation according to the following point of view:
1. The theories of on cosmogony lack the fundamentals of the origin of things as they are mainly based on incidence and on the unseen.
2. The cosmic extension that has been taking place is the result of the range of vision through using the telescope and any other instruments because the thing being seen is determined by vision and this is one of the universe laws.
3. Knowing the within secrets of man will uncover secrets of the universe as the apparent entities of existence are of six kinds: the perspective (what is being seen), the tangible world (what can be touched and felt), what can be weighed, what can be heard, things that have flavor and things that have smell. These, in most cases, are overlapping and are counted six in number.
The origin of all entities are bare pictures of materials, void of force and readiness; it shines in debate and is complete when read. The investigation of scientists is restricted to this reading (capability and liability) where the material is with all its atoms, energy and speed and this alone is useless compared with its radiance.
The first cosmic law is that nothing can be determined unless established with what is contrary to it. And things are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract and both are the same according to law.
The origin of radiance is the brain and by saying this I do not mean perception but the simple core of it. By formulating this equation the truth becomes uncovered.
The subject is highly complicated and can only be clarified by word of mouth or by arguments.
So, what do you have to present. (show)
بعد التحية :-
أود أن أعرض عليكم جميع علوم نشأة مفردات الكون وقوانينه وفق ذاتيته التي هي شئ ليس كباقي الأشياء خارجه عن حد التعطيل والتشبيه حسب النظرة التالية :-
1/ أن نظريات نشأة الكون تفتقد لأصول نشأة الأشياء وتحيل على ألصدفه أو الغيب .وكذلك استغراق البحث في الأفاق لم يأتي بغايته إلا بقدر ربطه بالوعي الإنساني.
2/ التوسع الكوني الحاصل هو نتيجة المد البصري من خلال التلسكوب وغيره لأن المنظور أليه يثبت بالبصر وهذا أحد قوانين الكون
3/ معرفة أسرار بطون الإنسان تكشف أسرار الكون حيث أن مفردات الوجود الظاهر على ستة أنواع (المنظور أليها ). (الملموسة). (الموزونة). (المسموعة). (ذات طعم). (ذات رائحة). وتكون في أغلب الأحيان متداخلة .وأصل الأشياء كلها صور عارية عن المواد . خاليه من القوه والاستعداد . بمناظرتها تشرق وبمطالعتها تتم . وبحث العلماء ينحصر في هذه المطالعة (القوه والاستعداد) حيث المادة ودقائقها وطاقتها وسرعتها وهذا وحده لا جدوى منه بقدر إشراقها . . وأصل الإشراق هو العقل ولا أقصد به الإدراك أنما هو )جوهر بسيط درأك محيط) وبتكوين هذه المعادلة تنكشف الحقيقة .
الموضوع غاية بالتعقيد يوضح بالمشافهة والجدل فما هو عرضكم ؟
توضيح:-
* أود أن أبين بأن وسائط الإدراك هي الحواس ألخمسه + تحسس الوزن.
* إما أحوال الإدراك ( تصوراته أي المعاني التي يلبسها ) فهي ستة أيضا ثلاثة وخلافها :-
1/ الحياة والموجود ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحياة هي الماء.
2/ الحركة والسكون ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحركة هي الهواء.
3/ الانفعال والسكينة ولها صور فمثلا صورة الانفعال هي النار.
* إما مراتب نفس الإدراك إي نفس ألصوره فهي خمسه:-
1)الجماد 2) النبات 3) الحيوان 4) الملكوت 5) الإنسان وصور ذلك كثيرة.
*** وكل هذه الصور تندرج ضمن تصورات الإدراك .منها ظاهره ومنها كامنة إي لم تظهر لحد الآن . والتوسع الكوني الحاصل هو ظهور لبعض هذه الصور الكامنة.
*وأروع إبداعات الإدراك هو العقل (جوهر بسيط درأك محيط ) ولكل واحده تفصيلاتها الوظيفية.
ووظيفة العقل هي ربط كل الصور المذكورة أعلاه بعوالمها الحسيه ألسبعه. وعالمنا هو العالم السابع وفق نمطيته الحسيه. وتجري آثار العقل على كل الصور الكونية فتصبح محسوسة وفق قوتها واستعدادها التصوري.
قد لا يفهم الموضوع بشكل جيد كونه لم يطرق بتاتا
I’m doing some onsite interviews at Mystic Dragon’s Festival of Books. Would you have time to talk with me about your work and “The Art of Draw Fu”? at 4 pm on August 15th? Please let me know (and your “Black Terror Kid” comics, along with your comic about your trip to Rome, are really fun!).
Luise,
That is a great illustration of the Podcast Expo. Sorry you did not make it to the Mass.
God bless,
Fr. Jay
Just found your page about Italy! Loved it! Lived in Italy a couple of years; just doing a YouTube video about how to get to the Sistine Chapel. Your sketches brought back so many memories (especially the “Metro at Rush Hour” type).
Dear Luis,
Very interesting and thoughtful blog. If you are interested in Catholicism and boardgames you might appreciate “Vatican” the boardgame I designed. It has been selling worldwide and we have gotten very favorable comments
Sincerely,
Stephen Haliczer Ph.D.
Distinguished Research Professor
Product Designer
The College of DuPage Press
Hey! I’ve been trying to call you for a couple weeks! I should have checked your blog sooner. I thought you might have had the baby by now! Congrats! Call me ya bum. My number…unlike yours… is the same xxx-xxx-xxxx.
im doing a piece of it coursework and wondered if i could put your
“computer stoopid” picture on it.
I would acknowledge where it came from beneath it and in the bibliography.
If the answer is yes then could you tell me the artists name too?
thanks. keith.
Sure, absolutely, go right ahead. Thanks for asking.
Hi Luise,
I just came upon your Nephilim skeleton debunking image….very interesting.
I wish we could have met at Comic Con to discuss certain issues. Nothing that
I would want to discuss openly here.
Hope to hear from you,
Den
If you want to discuss something privately, you could always e-mail me. The address is up there under the “Hi, Welcome!” about the top commentators. It’s luis(at)luisescobarblog(dot)com.
Can you give me permission to use one of your illustrations for a tee shirt. I really want to wear “there must be some way to plug this keyboard into this game” – It’s how I see the world.. and you explained everything I want to tell the world in that one illustrzt8ion.
Gina
Yes, Gina. You can make it into a shirt for yourself off of that cartoon. I’m flattered.
I’ve been thinking about making shirts off of my little cartoons but I’m not sure which ones to do. Outside of an occasional cartoon that really hits home for someone, I’m not sure if they would sell.
So go right ahead Gina. Have fun.
Hi Luis,
My name is Phil and I came across your site while looking up information about animation and voice-over work. I’m a huge fan of the Simpsons & Futurama and a big Billy West fan (Ren&Stimpy, Futurama, Ect.). It is truly amazing to me how so many individuals come together to create these animated cartoons and the quality of the end product. I’m curious from your perspective how much work you have to re-do sometimes because of the networks and the way they censor some of the work that is being done. Best of luck to you in your projects. – Phil
You’d be surprised Phil. The biggest censors of the show are the writers themselves. They often pull back a joke they think is going too far. Sometimes, some of the jokes are funny too. It’s the artists that end up complaining about it. For example, there was a joke in one of the Halloween shows that all the artists thought was really funny. It was the show where Homer goes back in time on his toaster. In one of the futures he comes back too, he finds himself married to Patty and Selma. He discovers this when they show up waring lingerie. They looked really nasty, with their flab and hairy legs. When we saw it, everyone roared with horrified laughter. It was crazy. For some reason, during the re-write, they cut the gag because they thought it was too much. It was very disappointing. They didn’t even put the scene as an extra on the DVD.
Hope that answers your question.
It does. Thanks for the reply Luis. That gag actually would have been hilarious! Too bad it didn’t make it. I wonder if some unnecessary second guessing happens though because the writers feel they may be going over the top? (If that’s possible.) I know there is that fine line that writers and creators have to walk probably not only with the content of the show that’s created but with the networks as well. At least from what I understand in reading interviews and seeing convention interviews. Storyboards I think really help to set the tone of an episode and I bet it probably helps to justify many of the ideas that get spun out during the writing sessions of the writers. You all do great work on the show and I’m going to continue reading through your website. Thanks! – Phil
Hello there. I was researching nephilim for a report and I foung your blog. Its too bad those pics were all frauds. If they had been real, it would have been amazing.
After I read your stuff on the pictures I hung around a little, and read your “about me section”.
I am merely curious, so if I overstep a boundary, please feel free to tell me so.
I was wondering, sir, since you state that you are in fact a roman catholic, weather or not you believed in the deity of Jesus Christ?
I myself am a Christian, but I research other religions and alternate sects of my own. You could say its a hobby. In any case, if you find my inquiry impolite, I am sorry. I mean no offense.
Heh, no Christine, your question isn’t impolite. It’s good of you to ask. Too often people just assume things about Catholicism without asking.
The simple answer to your question is, “Yes”. Catholicism, teaches that Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
The slightly more involved answer is as follows: The Catechism of the Catholic Church (the official book that explains all that the Catholic Church teaches) in paragraphs 446-451 ( http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1H.HTM ) states the following:
Arianism was a Heresy that the Catholic Church fought against that deputed this belief around the years AD 250-336 which concluded in the Council of Nicea. For more info go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism or http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01707c.htm .
Hope that answers your question.
thank you. most people would out-right refuse to answer that question nowadays.
May the Lord bless you, Luis!
Luis – my name is Luis Escobar – every now and then I Google my name just to see what pops up. Well – I often come across you. No doubt – you have discovered me too. Anyway – sure there a ton of our Luis Escobar’s out there but I thought that I would just say hello and let you know that you have a cool name. BTW – I am the third Luis in four! Grandpa, Father, me and my son. Louie’s all around!
HA ha! Yeah, you have a great name too.
Wow! That’s a lot of Luisesesss in your family. Pretty cool. Love your site dude. I’ll link to you.
wow – that was fast – I am a photographer, distance runner and high school cross country coach. I live in Santa Maria California. Married with three kids. Your work is great. You are very skilled. I will take some time and learn a little more about you and your work. Very cool. Well – I am off to a work with one of my running students. I will look forward to talking with you a little more in the future. Luis
Cool. Anytime.
i like simpsons, starting watch becouse my doughter like it
I write comment but strange dropdown
Howdee Luis, if you are a real Christian then i would suggest you to do some research on your big boss (Matt Groening being a 33rd degree mason).
Loads of subliminal messages in the Simpsons, and occult symbolism.
(Even 9-11 was announced).
Greetings…. (Peace be upon you)
I would like to present to you all the sciences related to cosmogony together with its rules as per its identity which is something not similar to any of the other things and is out of any and assimilation according to the following point of view:
1. The theories of on cosmogony lack the fundamentals of the origin of things as they are mainly based on incidence and on the unseen.
2. The cosmic extension that has been taking place is the result of the range of vision through using the telescope and any other instruments because the thing being seen is determined by vision and this is one of the universe laws.
3. Knowing the within secrets of man will uncover secrets of the universe as the apparent entities of existence are of six kinds: the perspective (what is being seen), the tangible world (what can be touched and felt), what can be weighed, what can be heard, things that have flavor and things that have smell. These, in most cases, are overlapping and are counted six in number.
The origin of all entities are bare pictures of materials, void of force and readiness; it shines in debate and is complete when read. The investigation of scientists is restricted to this reading (capability and liability) where the material is with all its atoms, energy and speed and this alone is useless compared with its radiance.
The first cosmic law is that nothing can be determined unless established with what is contrary to it. And things are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract and both are the same according to law.
The origin of radiance is the brain and by saying this I do not mean perception but the simple core of it. By formulating this equation the truth becomes uncovered.
The subject is highly complicated and can only be clarified by word of mouth or by arguments.
So, what do you have to present. (show)
بعد التحية :-
أود أن أعرض عليكم جميع علوم نشأة مفردات الكون وقوانينه وفق ذاتيته التي هي شئ ليس كباقي الأشياء خارجه عن حد التعطيل والتشبيه حسب النظرة التالية :-
1/ أن نظريات نشأة الكون تفتقد لأصول نشأة الأشياء وتحيل على ألصدفه أو الغيب .وكذلك استغراق البحث في الأفاق لم يأتي بغايته إلا بقدر ربطه بالوعي الإنساني.
2/ التوسع الكوني الحاصل هو نتيجة المد البصري من خلال التلسكوب وغيره لأن المنظور أليه يثبت بالبصر وهذا أحد قوانين الكون
3/ معرفة أسرار بطون الإنسان تكشف أسرار الكون حيث أن مفردات الوجود الظاهر على ستة أنواع (المنظور أليها ). (الملموسة). (الموزونة). (المسموعة). (ذات طعم). (ذات رائحة). وتكون في أغلب الأحيان متداخلة .وأصل الأشياء كلها صور عارية عن المواد . خاليه من القوه والاستعداد . بمناظرتها تشرق وبمطالعتها تتم . وبحث العلماء ينحصر في هذه المطالعة (القوه والاستعداد) حيث المادة ودقائقها وطاقتها وسرعتها وهذا وحده لا جدوى منه بقدر إشراقها . . وأصل الإشراق هو العقل ولا أقصد به الإدراك أنما هو )جوهر بسيط درأك محيط) وبتكوين هذه المعادلة تنكشف الحقيقة .
الموضوع غاية بالتعقيد يوضح بالمشافهة والجدل فما هو عرضكم ؟
توضيح:-
* أود أن أبين بأن وسائط الإدراك هي الحواس ألخمسه + تحسس الوزن.
* إما أحوال الإدراك ( تصوراته أي المعاني التي يلبسها ) فهي ستة أيضا ثلاثة وخلافها :-
1/ الحياة والموجود ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحياة هي الماء.
2/ الحركة والسكون ولها صور فمثلا صورة الحركة هي الهواء.
3/ الانفعال والسكينة ولها صور فمثلا صورة الانفعال هي النار.
* إما مراتب نفس الإدراك إي نفس ألصوره فهي خمسه:-
1)الجماد 2) النبات 3) الحيوان 4) الملكوت 5) الإنسان وصور ذلك كثيرة.
*** وكل هذه الصور تندرج ضمن تصورات الإدراك .منها ظاهره ومنها كامنة إي لم تظهر لحد الآن . والتوسع الكوني الحاصل هو ظهور لبعض هذه الصور الكامنة.
*وأروع إبداعات الإدراك هو العقل (جوهر بسيط درأك محيط ) ولكل واحده تفصيلاتها الوظيفية.
ووظيفة العقل هي ربط كل الصور المذكورة أعلاه بعوالمها الحسيه ألسبعه. وعالمنا هو العالم السابع وفق نمطيته الحسيه. وتجري آثار العقل على كل الصور الكونية فتصبح محسوسة وفق قوتها واستعدادها التصوري.
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Lol been stalking you. You’re pretty good. Not bad for a dad of many. Very talented. Don’t know how you keep up. Chat soon on twitter
An overwhelming desire to keep sane helps.
I’m doing some onsite interviews at Mystic Dragon’s Festival of Books. Would you have time to talk with me about your work and “The Art of Draw Fu”? at 4 pm on August 15th? Please let me know (and your “Black Terror Kid” comics, along with your comic about your trip to Rome, are really fun!).
Yes, absolutely. I’d be happy to.
Great, thank you! Could you email me a contact for you, at the above email link, and I’ll send you more information (and I’m ordering your book now!).