22 is a great age to start freally ocussing on your work. You don't
have to be making a living soley on your art right when you start on it.
But the important thing is to get your self in the ring. Get in the game
and go for it. Like Woody Allen said: "80% of success is just showing up".
That means that you just have to do what you know you are supposed to
do. Don't let your reactive mind get you to second guess yourself and stop
you from even trying.
You usually don't make perfect stuff the first time you do it. But you
have to just do it to get there. The getting there arises from the doing
it. The doing it is most of the getting there. Usually you work on your
craft for years and years and at a certain point it begins to take on the
qualities that satisfy you.
The creators of the literature and films and artwork you admire are
examples of this. The work of thiers that you are looking at is not their
first work. But a culmination of years of craft.
Your first work isn't going to compare to that. But after years of
getting it out there, working it in the real world, you begin to find
yourself in it.
Hope this helps.
DM
: 'we must find out what words are and how they function.
: they
become images when written down, but images of
: words repeated in the
mindand not of the image of the
: thing itself.' William S Burroughs-
: i read this today, it reminded me of a message i read
: yesterday
in a scarab issue-
: mack was talking about art and the artists who
would be
: helping him with his series' of the noh agents.
: he
mentioned how 'form follows function' and how rick
: mays (scarab
artist- freakin rad one too) understands
: this and has been able to
put form and function
: together to create anime art that still
resembles
: reality.
: i have time to waste on thinking of these
things because
: that's all i ever do. not really wasting time, but
: waiting...for what, it's not quite clear.
: also reminds me of
being 17 and trying to convince my
: girlfriend of something, how
words seem to provoke
: feeling, not just in the mind but through all
senses,
: i described french fries, the texture as it changes
:
while chewing, the heat as it first touches the
: tongue, etc... and i
even threw some ketchup in there
: to top it off, basically trying to
prove that memories
: and thoughts can be...experienced with taste,
touch,
: smell, hearing, and sight. she ended up losing her
:
dinner in the bathroom toilet of the restaurant we
: were in.
: no
point really, i just can't seem to understand
: anything.
: i'm
tired of wasting my time delivering pizzas just so
: that i eventually
run my car down and have to get a
: new one. i don't have that kind of
money. i refuse to
: work for a, well Beck said it nicely -'soul
suckin
: jerk' and so i still sit here working on my childhood
:
dreams- to become a comic book artist. i'm pretty
: good, but i get
discouraged when i read literature,
: watch movies, or look at art
that just amazes me
: beyond belief. it's as if i'm better at knowing
talent
: when i see it, than i am at actually proving myself
:
worthy. don't get me wrong, i've done alot of
: regretable things, but
i've made a point not to cross
: certain lines.
: and everything i
see still guides me despite that i am
: getting older and my youth is
now falling away, in a
: manner of speaking. i think i Am smart,
everyone
: always thought so, but the older i get,...the more i
:
feel useless. not that it matters so long as i keep
: trying. but i've
felt more frustrated in my last
: couple of years than ever before.
: i think my problem is this: i am finding it increasingly
:
difficult to function in such a way that any form
: whatsoever will
come out of it... other than for
: myself to die trying. whereas, i'd
rather feel like
: i've gotten somewhere---far away from the pulse of
the
: pizza delivery business, (preferrably in comics) i've
: got
skills, i can write, but i don't like to write
: fiction, it drives me
nuts, i'd rather write articles
: or interviews- problem with that is
it seems unreal- i
: have no idea how some kooks get those kinds of
jobs.
: i'd like to work with a writer, as an assistant or an
:
artist, doesn't really matter, just got to get out of
: this place.
i'm not meant for restaurants or carwashes
: or grocery stores, i want
to be with you people, but i
: need to get paid. does mcelman get paid
for what he
: does? sorry folks, i know everybody's got to deal with
: their own versions of this same stuff. but on the
: other hand,
not everybody writes about on the fabulous
: website of DAVID MACK!
: alright g'nite y'all, if anybody out there knows of a
: decent
job i can work, i'm available, and skilled, and
: if it's worth it,
i'm willing to relocate or whatever.
: i could really use some ideas
though. i'm only 22 and
: getting older by the moment.
: thanks
: frenchi l'4ge