Continuing along the same lines in yesterday's post
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/11/composition-3-for-layout-and-bg.html
:
"I'm starting to wonder whether all this free knowledge is going to
anyone any good, least of all me.
It didn't do any good when I actually paid people money to read and
apply it, so why should anyone benefit from learning something without a
gun to their head in an age when knowledge and skill is completely out
of fa****on?
The reason I put all this information and advice up here, is partly
because I'm generous and willing to save people the decades of time
I've spent uncovering secrets of the past and learning from trial and
error, but also in the hopes that in a couple or a few years I might
have a small army ready to help me make the kinds of cartoons I can
direct with skilled and willing cartoonists.
I sure envy the days when Clampett, Avery or Jones could just walk in
the next room and have a whole staff of already highly skilled crafstmen
and all in a progressive mind set to outdo themselves and everyone else
every time they sit down to make a new cartoon.
I'm stuck having to reinvent the wheel over and over again and at my own
expense, only to have the jackal-like Network studios snap up all the
benefits of my training and advancement of techniques and technology and
then I have to watch them use it all for evil purposes with no thought
of rewarding me for the tools and resources they so freely abuse.
If any of you out there are young and really have some actual raw talent
and can see the blatantly obvious fact that art and culture from 60
years ago is vastly superior to the amateur age we live in today, then
do yourself (and me) a favor and absorb all this free schooling-and that
means applying it and drawing everything I put up so you can be ready to
perform on the job when you get your lucky break.
No school will give you any concrete knowledge. This blog is all as
clear and crisp as I can give it away to you. Do your Preston Blair
lessons, copy the drawings in the manuals, apply the principles to your
own work. Stop scribbling.
If you are a real artist/cartoonist you will see how simple and logical
real artistic concepts are as I present them here. But understanding is
only the beginning of being an artist. You have to do the work to truly
absorb the techniques and benefit from them.
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Don't wait till you're in your mid twenties and your conservative
hormone kicks in. You'll then be a willing mindless drone programmed to
copy the most superficial aspects of my latest inventions.
I wish there was a way for me to know that this is doing any good. I'm
kinda thinking about quitting."
And in the comments:
"JohnK said...
>>The industry and art in general needs you! I'll write more about this
on my own site!<<
You missed the point Eddie. What do I get out of it?
Don't bother, you'll just get hecklers. "
"JohnK said...
Hi Rex,
you're one of the ones I'd like to work with, but you'd have to get
yourself to the functional level. My guess is you'll end up at Nick
working on a "John-K. Style" show like everyone else does. "
"JohnK said...
>>Cartoonists have no choice but to work at the latest 'John K Style
Show'. They can't work for you since you don't have a show right now.<<
I do have work, enough for a couple stars.
10:43 AM "
"JohnK said...
Cash and a handful of really creative cartoonists who hate mediocrity
and have the skill and talent and will to make fun cartoons.
Not too much to ask for.
Every other studio would benefit from it and cartoons would evolve
again.
11:10 AM "
"JohnK said...
>>What do you get out of it? It's obvious cartoonists respect you and
your work. Many of us study your theories. That should be enough.<<
As Jim would say, "Can you EAT respect?"
A cut would be a more sincere form of respect.
11:14 AM "
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