Commercial art

March 5th, 2014

My second job was as a commercial artist. I worked at the municipal library as the staff artist. My job was to move books, and I did. Some of the librarians weren’t certain of my aesthetics at first, but when they started having real problems keeping the display shelves full, they backed off and let […]

Whine: visual problems

March 5th, 2014

I think I need a category called “Whine,” but I’m not caving to that urge. The Angela Knight class I mentioned focused heavily on the Goal-Motivation-Conflict triad (GMC). I’ve been thinking a lot about that and I’ve gone back to my original notes on Cantata, which actually has a lot of that info in it. […]

Harley Quinn article

March 2nd, 2014

Interesting article on Harley Quinn from Batman the Animated Series. I was addicted to the show back when it was being broadcast. This article does a really nice character analysis around why Harley’s character is so compelling, and why it’s so fragile. I’d never quite thought of the Harley-Joker-Batman as a sort of love triangle, […]