"The Visual Device Laughs"

[magnusgreel]

This is a blog of drawings of mine, DW mostly. I haven't been able to update it in over a year because I can't get my hands on a scanner, and some confusing change happened at
Blogger, and as regards computers, I'm easily confused.

visualdevice.blogspot.com/

[clocketpatch]

I've got to say that I'm impressed. You have obvious drawing skillz and I salute them.

The neekid Romanas were a bit odd though. Thank you for the censor bars. I might have been unduly scarred otherwise.

[magnusgreel]

Thanks...

One never knows how people will take things, of course. The Romana with the "censored" bars was there for humor value, because of the writing on the left side. Perhaps I should have left that and the Zoe out, or put them on a separate blog, but Blogger has changed in some way I don't understand, and I can't seem to make changes.

[clocketpatch]

Don't leave it out if you don't want to. If people don't want to look they don't have to, and as you've very curteously censored everything there's nothing to scare the children.

It's very good art (better than I can do) and, if not exactly squeaking clean, it's not pron either. It would be a shame for it to moulder in some digital locker somewhere.

[Abbyromana]

Agree with CP, you're an excellent artist. There's realism with a touch of your own creative side. Well done!

[magnusgreel]

abbyromana said:

Agree with CP, you're an excellent artist. There's realism with a touch of your own creative side. Well done!

Thanks very much ar, and thanks for the reassurances too, cp.... I did need them at this point.

I fell off the horse with one drawing, of Leela. I'd spent months on it. It was taped to the back of my bedroom door, taking up most of the door. The face really worked, and the figure was being finished off, then in polishing away tiny flaws in the face, I threw things off, and the more I tried to fix it, the more it fell apart. Since then I haven't worked that hard on anything and even changed to a less ambitious kind of drawing, more comics like, solid lines and flat color areas.

There are still some I have to post, though, if the logistics could be worked out.

[magnusgreel]

I've finally regained control over my drawings blog, after 2 years or longer... also, I just got it in my head to try Paintbox. The incentive was that I need no scanner, I do it and can post it moments later. This is probably premature since I only have three examples to post, but I've been itching to post more for so long that I couldn't wait. It's not Whoish or fandom-related, sorry. It's startling that I can do something like this in an hour and then there it is looking back at me, and whether these are good or not I like looking at them...

visualdevice.blogspot.com/

[magnusgreel]

Some new posts on my blog include a bit of DW (Leela), so I'm mentioning it here. I actually wiped myself out Wednesday, scanning 82 images onto a disc at a drug store. Still reeling.

[lostspook]

Oct 3, 2009 2:09:19 GMT magnusgreel said:

Some new posts on my blog include a bit of DW (Leela), so I'm mentioning it here. I actually wiped myself out Wednesday, scanning 82 images onto a disc at a drug store. Still reeling.

82??!!! I'm not surprised. It takes ages to do scanning! Erm, yes, sorry, I'm sure you don't need me telling you that. I shall have to have a look. Leela, you say?

[lostspook]

*returns from looking*

You're one very talented master criminal, you know that?

[magnusgreel]

Thanks... the nicer Leela has a problem area in the nose, but part of it is just that with the light angle in the photo, that's what she really looked like at that moment. Also the paper wore away a bit in the middle, and I hoped it wouldn't be visible in the scan.

After those scans, standing conspicuously for hours in a drug store with flourescent lights, my nervous system was haywire. Later sitting waiting for prescriptions to be filled I felt awfully weird, as if a delightful new aspect of my screwed up neurology was about to rear its whatever, because of the overload I'd just subjected it to. Nothing that dramatic though.

I'm posting photos on Facebook now from that scanning session.

[evelyn]

These are fantastic! *amused by "The Enema Within"*

There is a lot of work in this stuff. Very cool.

Evil beans!

[magnusgreel]

Thanks evelyn! There's a story on Teaspoon to go along with the Enema Within McGann drawing. That was a plug.

[magnusgreel]

I continue to work on the blog. Another new Leela face, better scans of the Jo Grant face and my big Tardis/galaxy drawing... I've enlarged some of the images too so they aren't merely thumbnails.

[magnusgreel]

I've been grappling with a Romana One face yesterday and today. It's humiliating, drawing. I've had two faces so far which look like perfectly nice drawings, except that they don't look like her. There are probably two women on Earth somewhere who look like these two people whose faces I've just drawn, but not M Tamm. It occured to me that I was having this problem ten years ago in 1999, when I was first choosing to violate my eye problem and draw. The first face I often wish I'd kept. It looked better, at least it did to me then, but it wasn't her.

I just do it over and over, making things worse most of the time. I realized that that's most of what drawing is for me. By the time I get one fixed and presentable, it's been so ego-bashing and painful that I'm just relieved it's over. Months later, I get it out and am amazed I did it, and it spurs me on to do another, but it's only then that any satisfaction happens. By then, it's like a small miracle, because I'm separated from all that I put myself through, and it's almost as if it wasn't me who did it. I'm not getting this said.

[magnusgreel]

I've posted five photos I especially like from over the decades.