{"id":2336,"date":"2012-01-18T06:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2020-09-25T08:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:39:23","slug":"drawing-the-line-somewhere-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/blog\/drawing-the-line-somewhere-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing the line somewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or All About Making Your Mark<\/h4>\n

One of the best ways to go on about yourself, albeit obliquely, is to proffer advice.<\/p>\n

So, when given the opportunity, especially with a 150-word cap on each snippet, the challenge of condensing something quite nebulous and complicated into a very few words, there was no passing it up. (The opportunity to babble on, but briefly, is the siren call of those who can\u2019t really manage a coherent stringing together of thoughts, mine generally being rather like when the necklace string breaks and the beads cascade everywhere.)<\/p>\n

I used to consider sketching a means to an end. I still do, except I\u2019ve revised my definition of what the end should be. I used to dash my thoughts down on paper with great energy. (We all fell victim, in art school, to that standard siren song: that a line had to be unique and be somewhere, that one note in pen and ink was more eloquent than a symphony in pencil.) Now I still dash my thoughts down on paper, but I\u2019ve learned to take my time as well. I used to think a sketch had to be \u201cuseful\u201d, the prelude to something serious to be undertaken in colour; now I\u2019ve learned to love their incidental nature, their unexpected turnings and indefinite ends.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps I\u2019ve simply unlearned many things. (Time is the great teacher, the only disadvantage being of course, that time takes its time.) At any rate, here they are. In a nutshell. Well, several nutshells. Let\u2019s call it a mixed bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s all in the February issue<\/a> of ImagineFX. (There\u2019s even a Dinotopia poster AND a 2012 wall calendar to boot, not to mention a CD-ROM.)
\nSo, buy a copy. Even better, subscribe. ImagineFX<\/a> is about the best cross-genre fantasy-oriented publication around.
\nIN OTHER WORDS\u2026<\/p>\n

Things being as busy as they are, am still unable to manage a regular newsletter, despite tremendous help from a few good friends. Postponed but not abandoned, though, until such time as I can. Thank you for being so patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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