UBON'S PROFILE

screenshots are usually the first thing I look for in a game, although they're never my last stop even if they don't manage to hook me very well. my main thing with projects is how they use what they're given -- if you're making a straight-laced medieval fantasy jrpg with all the jrpg faces we've come to know and love, you've pretty much lost me already no matter how high your production values are. lately I've been messing around with games like OFF and Miserere, which are less polished than many other projects but have some stylistic or mechanical aspect particular to themselves.

I guess the bottom line is that I look for projects that have some kind of soul to 'em. most of the time I'm disappointed, but whatever.

author=youngmreezy155
Yeah I'm a bit jealous there so far my experience with naturally good drawers is that they truly don't care about drawing my cousin is one of them he doesn't even care about how good he is and wants to do other things in life ive been drawing all my life and i'm not even as good as him.

Would you like to know a secret?

"Natural talent" barely even exists!

While some people will be more apt at a certain thing early on, and take to it more naturally, things like "talent" are only a small boost at the beginning. Mastering something, whether it's art, music, programming, or driving souped-up cars in street races, takes real drive and effort over a period of years! It's a long process that never truly ends, as someone with the right kind of fire in their head will always be finding new things to try or new ways in which they might improve.

In this life-long process, a small advantage at the starting line doesn't amount to much. Someone with talent who doesn't care to cultivate it is never going to improve beyond what they're already good at, and for most people who hope to skirt by on talent that's a pretty narrow range of things -- I'm talking about people who can draw an anime face in exquisite detail from the front, but take ny excuse not to draw the hands. You know?

The opposite is also true: Someone who starts out drawing stick figures but who constantly works at putting what they see or picture in their mind down on paper is going to inevitably branch out and improve. These are the people who stop and think, look at their own hand in a mirror, and proceed slowly and carefully from there. Maybe the picture they make on that day won't be worth keeping, but with every failed drawing they come closer to something good.

Some people say that these things are laid out from birth -- that a small dog isn't going to become big no matter how hard it tries, and that a penguin can never fly, and so on. But that's nonsense, isn't it? You're not trying to grow to twice your height, are you? You're just trying to put what you already have to better use. So keep working at it until you're bloody and ready to collapse. You might surprise yourself with what you're capable of after that!

(See? I can be encouraging sometimes, too!)

I am my job. every two weeks, a package finds me wherever I am at the time, containing a small handful of precious gems. the notes that accompany them, though difficult at times to understand, seem to demand that I continue pretending to wear sunglasses and being hellacious.

my name is mawk. my job is mawk. ninety-nine dreams I have had; in every one, a red balloon.

author=Liberty
No LPs for this event, sorry.

thank

god

I can play you a mean solo on the clavichord.