tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38295550371563715112024-03-15T15:16:26.406+07:00Windboi ' ArtsWindboi Trung Nguyen - Concepts, IllustrationsWindboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-91389020985549583902014-03-22T03:45:00.002+07:002014-03-22T03:45:11.904+07:00My entry on Diablo contest <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-1536171763726393802014-03-22T03:42:00.003+07:002014-03-22T03:42:27.007+07:00Study updateeeee !!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black;">My latest studies and experiments...</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SigNs52UTPMuMWONyfv7KiAEMYO3t1lkqA-E68wQH5MSF04vAAz7zRjBVfNx3wPRHheZnZnhgNaalPrUGiSjAfhGp8h_Sc4o2G2rMK410wDMz3Qim9DutGHYEicmTsYpal_vA5AD4TM/s1600/20140322.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SigNs52UTPMuMWONyfv7KiAEMYO3t1lkqA-E68wQH5MSF04vAAz7zRjBVfNx3wPRHheZnZnhgNaalPrUGiSjAfhGp8h_Sc4o2G2rMK410wDMz3Qim9DutGHYEicmTsYpal_vA5AD4TM/s1600/20140322.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SigNs52UTPMuMWONyfv7KiAEMYO3t1lkqA-E68wQH5MSF04vAAz7zRjBVfNx3wPRHheZnZnhgNaalPrUGiSjAfhGp8h_Sc4o2G2rMK410wDMz3Qim9DutGHYEicmTsYpal_vA5AD4TM/s1600/20140322.png" height="640" width="388" />M </a></div>
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my newest painting :P</div>
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-26884988151985067662013-04-23T01:44:00.004+07:002013-04-23T01:44:59.821+07:00Sketches, thumbnails.... !!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Wow ! I've been lazy for a while ! Gotta keep my blog updates more often !</div>
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Here're couple of study I did. Some thumbnail color, portrait, scene studies !</div>
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-6165867144355550272013-04-02T23:30:00.001+07:002013-04-02T23:30:20.897+07:00wip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-12541688900330782982013-03-02T01:39:00.003+07:002013-03-02T01:39:41.832+07:0022 Tips on Storytelling from Pixar<br />
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Director and Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/lawnrocket" style="color: #87f5f3;">@lawnrocket</a>) recently tweeted out 22 tips for storytelling, one of which ends with “Endings are hard, get yours working up front.” From day one I always knew how I wanted <a href="http://nofilmschool.com/manchild" style="color: #87f5f3;"><em>Manchild</em></a> to end — and throughout a year and a half of writing, the ending has never changed. Perhaps that’s why, while it is not the first feature I’ve written, it will be the first feature I actually <em>make</em> (more news on the project when I have some… soon). Here are the tips, handily compiled in list form:<span id="more-24910"></span></div>
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<li>You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.</li>
<li>You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.</li>
<li>Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now rewrite.</li>
<li>Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___.</li>
<li>Simplify. Focus. Combine characters. Hop over detours. You’ll feel like you’re losing valuable stuff but it sets you free.</li>
<li>What is your character good at, comfortable with? Throw the polar opposite at them. Challenge them. How do they deal?</li>
<li>Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.</li>
<li>Finish your story, let go even if it’s not perfect. In an ideal world you have both, but move on. Do better next time.</li>
<li>When you’re stuck, make a list of what WOULDN’T happen next. Lots of times the material to get you unstuck will show up.</li>
<li>Pull apart the stories you like. What you like in them is a part of you; you’ve got to recognize it before you can use it.</li>
<li>Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.</li>
<li>Discount the 1st thing that comes to mind. And the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th – get the obvious out of the way. Surprise yourself.</li>
<li>Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.</li>
<li>Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.</li>
<li>If you were your character, in this situation, how would you feel? Honesty lends credibility to unbelievable situations.</li>
<li>What are the stakes? Give us reason to root for the character. What happens if they don’t succeed? Stack the odds against.</li>
<li>No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later.</li>
<li>You have to know yourself: the difference between doing your best & fussing. Story is testing, not refining.</li>
<li>Coincidences to get characters into trouble are great; coincidences to get them out of it are cheating.</li>
<li>Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?</li>
<li>You gotta identify with your situation/characters, can’t just write ‘cool’. What would make YOU act that way?</li>
<li>What’s the essence of your story? Most economical telling of it? If you know that, you can build out from there.</li>
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Okay: so you’ve already written a picture book without reading the pages and pages of advice on my website. Tut, tut! May I kindly and warmly suggest that you do read the hints I’ve posted below, after this ‘quick-and-snappy’ section. I made many bungles in my attempts to be published and I’d hate you to waste time by making the same silly mistakes.</div>
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In order to write, first you have to have lived. Only in the rarest of circumstances will young writers be published. So if you’re still at school, or even under 23, think hard about doing something else for a while until you’ve experienced many more people, events, situations and emotions than you will have at, say, 18.</div>
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In particular, you need to readandreadandreadandread to learn as many different ways of using language as possible. You also need to read in order to build inside your head a massive bank of lusciously different words that you can choose from at any time.</div>
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Remember that a picture book is 32 pages. Half of those pages are pictures, so try keep the word-count under 500. When you’re drafting a picture book it’s useful to make your own mock-book, copying from a real book all the features like endpapers, the title page, dedication and publishing information page and so on. It also helps to put the text on each page to see how is pans out.</div>
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While you’re writing, your best friends will be the ‘cut’ and ‘delete’ keys on your computer. At any one time you can probably cut most of what you have written. The biggest fault of wannabe picture book writers is to write too much.</div>
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Unless you’re an art-school trained illustrator don’t even think about doing the pictures yourself.</div>
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It’s pointless finding your own artist. Don’t do it. The publisher chooses the illustrator. The publisher will probably reject the art done by your friend, but may love the story. And then who rewards the artist for the time he or she has wasted doing your book?</div>
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Don’t, under any circumstances, think of self-publishing, unless it’s only a few copies for your immediate family. You’ll end up with a terrifying debt and a shed full of un-sold books. Self-publishing provides no market-research, no distribution, no publicity, no marketing, no warehousing, no advertising, and very few buyers since bookshops won’t buy books that established publishers haven’t endorsed. I know of sad souls who have lost their houses as a result of self-publishing. It’s heart-breaking.</div>
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In whatever country you live, read as many books as possible of the same kind as you have written yourself. Look at who published them. Research those publishers on the net. Try to find the names of their children’s editors. Send your manuscript—it shouldn’t be more than three pages of typing in 12 font, double spaced—to one editor at a time.</div>
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Don’t be cute in your covering letter. Just say that you have enclosed a story for consideration, with the date, your name and your address. You may have to wait up to three months for a reply. If you want the manuscript back be sure to enclose a stamped return envelope.</div>
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It may be necessary to find a literary agent first: look up agents in your part of the world, on the net. Some publishers will accept books only via an agent. You might call the publisher first and ask whether they accept manuscripts directly.</div>
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Don’t be too discouraged by rejections. Many a famous author has been turned down over and over again before becoming an ‘overnight’ success. But do remember the dreadful statistic that 97% of the books written by eager writers are never published. Perhaps that’s because they didn’t read my hints first!</div>
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So, get to it. And best of luck!</div>
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Books for young children are usually short. Young children themselves are usually short. This leads to an assumption that children have small brains and that writing for them is easy. The reverse it true. Young children have large, active brains, and writing for them is enormously difficult. It is even more difficult than writing for adults since only the best is good enough for children—the best words in the best places, and the best characters in the best stories. Where do we begin?</div>
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<strong>We need to read children’s books ourselves</strong><br />Before we begin it is useful to familiarise ourselves with books which are on sale and are currently adored by children. If we do not, we might find ourselves writing books similar to those we ourselves read long ago when we were children, most of which are now out-dated, out-moded and entirely forgotten. It is also extremely useful to read and re-read the books which have passed the test of time—books which <em>remain</em>popular today, fifty, twenty, ten and even five years after they were published. These are classics and they have much to teach us. It is also useful to recall the stories and folktales we listened to and loved as children, the stories which we have remembered into adulthood. What do these classic stories have which other books lack?</div>
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<strong>A good picture book for the young child has most of these qualities:</strong></div>
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<li>Trouble</li>
<li>One of two themes: ‘the stranger comes to town’ or: ‘the quest.’</li>
<li>Characters whom readers care about deeply</li>
<li>A universal theme that speaks to any child, anywhere in the world</li>
<li>Perfect words in perfect places</li>
<li>The delight of happiness</li>
<li>No preaching</li>
<li>Subtle signposts to living in a social world</li>
<li>An impact that affects the heart of the reader or listener</li>
<li>Strange, original, or unexpected use of language</li>
<li>A complex story that requires the mind to be attentive to detail, to be active in problem-solving, to roll through tunnels of prediction and meaning-making, and to tumble down hills of emotion and up again</li>
<li>Or for very young children, an original pattern created by rhyme, rhythm or repetition</li>
<li>Children saying: ‘Read it again! Read it again!’ when the book is finished.</li>
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<strong>Where do the ideas come from?</strong><br />The above list is all very well, but the question most often asked of writers, as if it were a deep secret to be dug up and displayed for all to see, is: ‘Where do the ideas come from?’ The best ideas, in my experience, do not come from our heads. They come from our immediate lives, or from memory, and then they are molded by our imaginations into grand stories that affect the hearts and minds of others. Stories created solely from the imagination have a flatness about them. They are usually about things that don’t matter much. They are here today and gone tomorrow. No one remembers them into adulthood.</div>
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However, when we read the classic stories that make us laugh aloud or cry, or shrivel with fright or hug ourselves with happiness, it is my hunch that we could, if we tried, track the main idea down to a pivotal moment in the writer’s life—or several pivotal moments. These classic stories have the quality of ‘difference.’ They are here today, <em>and</em> here tomorrow, <em>and</em> here the day after, since children’s books and folktales which are loved and remembered do more than entertain for a while: they move children profoundly, and having done so they take up residence in their hearts and stay there. They are remembered affectionately, sometimes word for word, into adulthood.</div>
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To find an event that could be a good basis for a story it might be useful to write down, or tell a friend, or other people in a writing group, about a strong emotional experience remembered from childhood, and start writing with that event in mind. This way, the first draft will not be drawn entirely from the imagination, which will mean getting off to a good, heart-felt beginning.</div>
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For instance, here’s an anecdote from Tanzania. It’s a true story which was later given more shape and definition to make it a story suitable for publication. Both examples appear below:</div>
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When I was a little kid my parents went away to the city to work and I stayed with my grandparents in their village. One day we went off to visit my auntie who lived in a village about three kilometres away. The path to my aunt’s village was very sandy and the grass was so high it curved over the path.<br />
My grandfather led the way, then came my grandmother, then me. We set off.<br />
After a while I smelt something. I thought the smell would go away as we walked past—whatever it was, but it didn’t. I didn’t like it. It made me scared. I told my grandfather I could smell something that was scaring me and I asked him if I could walk between him and grandma.<br />“Of course,” he said.<br />So I moved into the middle and we went on. But I could still smell whatever it was and I was still scared. I tried to be calm but in the end I told my grandfather that I was really scared.<br />“What are you so scared of?” he said.<br />“I think there’s a lion following us,” I said.<br />We all turned round and sure enough on the narrow path behind my grandmother was a lion.<br />
My grandfather stood in front of the lion and looked into his eyes and gestured with his arms said quite firmly: “Go away! You’re frightening my grand-daughter. Be off with you!” And the lion turned and walked away. It was incredible! I’ll never forget it.</blockquote>
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Rosie was a little girl who lived in a village with her grandmother and her grandfather because her parents had to work far away in the city. Rosie loved her grandmother very much but she loved her grandfather even more.<br />
One day her grandparents decided to visit Rosie’s auntie who lived in a village about an hour’s walk away. They set off. The track to the auntie’s village was soft, and sandy, and narrow. On either side of the path the grass was so high it curled over, like a cool green roof.<br />
Grandfather led the way, next came Grandmother, and last of all, little Rosie. As they walked no sound could be heard. The sun shone. The air was calm. The world was full of peace.<br />
After a while Rosie thought she could smell something she didn’t like. She hoped it would go away. Her heart beat fast. She was scared.<br />
But on they walked. They walked, and they walked, and they walked. As they walked no sound could be heard. The sun shone. The air <em>seemed</em> calm. The world <em>seemed</em> full of peace.<br />
But still the smell remained. Rosie’s heart beat faster. She was scared. Really scared.<br />
“Grandfather,” she said, “I’m scared. Please can I walk in the middle, between you and Grandmother?”<br />
“Of course,” he said.<br />
So Rosie moved into the middle between her grandmother and her grandfather and they walked, and they walked, and they walked. As they walked no sound could be heard. The sun shone. The air<em>seemed</em> calm. The world <em>seemed</em> full of peace.<br />
But still the smell remained. Rosie’s heart beat faster. She was scared. Really scared. Really, really scared.<br />
Finally she said, “Grandfather, I’m really frightened.”<br />
“What is it that frightens you, little one?” asked her grandfather kindly.<br />“I think there’s a lion following us,” she said.<br />
They all turned around. It was true! Behind Grandmother was a lion, following after them along the narrow path.<br />
Grandfather stood in front of the lion and looked into his eyes. He pointed down the path and said quite firmly: “Lion! Go away! You’re frightening my grand-daughter. Be off with you!”<br />
And the lion turned tail and walked away.<br />
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<strong>Who are we writing for? </strong><br />It must seem self-evident that we are writing for young children. Perhaps a better question is who are we <em>not</em> writing for?</div>
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We are not writing for ourselves, are we? Nor are we writing to impress critics. Nor are we writing for academics. Nor for teachers. Nor for parents. Nor for our adult friends. Nor are we writing for the children we once were—those children no longer exist: they have grown up and become us. We are writing for children who are young now, at the beginning of the 21st century. We are writing for young children the world over, who are seven years old or younger.</div>
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<strong>Let us be honest: why are we writing?</strong><br />We need to be honest, right from the start, about why we want to write for children. If we intend to moralise, teach a lesson, patronise, categorise, marginalise, or show off our own brilliance, we are doing it for the wrong reasons and we’ll need to reassess our motives. We are not writing academically de-constructible literature. Nor are we writing as therapy to eradicate our guilt about the world and what we have done to it.</div>
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We are writing instead to conjure young children into loving reading; to inform them; to entertain them; to enchant them; to comfort them; and to affect them. In our writing we are aiming to provide escapist delight but we will probably be able to rattle children’s values and assumptions a little at the same time. For example, we might say to them through a story: ‘You think you rule the world? Think again, sweetheart!’</div>
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Of course in the end we will always aim to provide children with universal ideals and possibilities, and make them feel good about themselves and their world—they are too young to be allowed to feel otherwise.</div>
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Writers of good books for children are always, simultaneously, good teachers of reading and writing, whether they are aware of it or not. Good books ‘teach’ reading more easily than the bad books. So it is important for us to write sentences that are not only gorgeous but easy to understand as well, and to use as much rhyme, rhythm and repetition as possible. We do not need to water down the level of individual words, however, since children need to hear as many different words as they can before they encounter them later, when they are reading by themselves.</div>
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When we picture an adult reading one of our books to a child, one of the aims of our writing should be to enhance the relationship between the reader and the child being read to, through the story we have written—to help them love each other even more than they do already.</div>
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And finally, to be brutally honest, let us not forget to admit that we are writing also to make money—it would be foolish to do it for nothing—and to leave our mark on the world, and raise our own self-esteem. If we admit all this, and know why we are writing, we can move along.</div>
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<strong>What should be taken into consideration?</strong><br />If we want to write for young children it is essential to stay in touch with childhood, either through memory or through contact with the real live children in our communities. If we lose touch with children—or our own memories of childhood—we will not have in our hearts and minds all the information we need to write well.</div>
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For example, we need to understand the nature of children’s interests and their emotional needs. We need to know the difference between their <em>literary</em> needs and their <em>literacy</em>needs, and to be able to fulfil both those needs at the same time.</div>
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It is useful also to know what kinds of ideas might challenge their thinking, based on the society they live in at the start of the third millennium. It is polite to consider the ethnic group they belong to, which gender they are and which religion they adhere to, if any. When we write we will not necessarily be hide-bound by all this information since that might cause us to self-censor too much, which might in turn lead to write seriously bad, banal stories which bore kids to death. Having said that, we should be as open-minded as possible. We need to be able to share ideas across cultures, after all, to avoid indoctrination in one direction or the other. Access to different kinds of information is important to individual development and to our understanding of other communities.</div>
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So although we have to pay attention to religion, ethnic group and gender to target specific groups, we mustn’t let this destroy our artistic goals. Questions such as: ‘Will my reader be offended?’ should not constrain us, in the end, nor limit our creativity. We might wish to write about another religion, ethnic group, or gender in such a way as to provide enriching and surprising elements for our readers, allowing them to become open to new ideas and other people’s perceptions of the world.</div>
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For example, at the beginning of the 21st century we need to consider gender stereo-typing. Is it any longer appropriate to have the females in the story <em>only</em> in the house, the kitchen, and the garden, and caring for the family? Might it not be possible to make the main character a female—a bold, exciting, brave, decision-making female, who has adventures and wins through, in spite of adversity? This would provide excellent role-models for today’s girls.</div>
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Any stereo-typing should be avoided, such as making children who wear glasses into weaklings who are brainy but hate sport; or old people being made doddery and incapable of caring for themselves; or disabled people being pitied for what they can’t do, instead of being celebrated for what they can do; or people of a certain race or religion being mocked for who they are and what they believe.</div>
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Of course we need to consider the maintenance of the solid cultural values which underpin the society in which we live and write. Sensitivity and respect are essential. Acknowledging this sensitivity without falling into the trap of stereotyping is a difficult balancing act, to which much thought should be given.</div>
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Finally we have to keep in mind the fact that adults will do the buying and reading of the books we write. The words will be channelled through an adult reading aloud to a child. Pleasing the adult is certainly important and must not be forgotten, but <em>the child is more important and must never be forgotten</em>.</div>
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<strong>Children are so clever it is startling </strong><br />Little kids are as bright as buttons and they are perceptive about being talked down to. They loathe being patronised. Their critical faculties are highly developed, much more so than most adults realise. In fact they are altogether smarter than most adults give them credit for.</div>
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They love the challenge of fascinating, ‘difficult’ words. They adore rhyme, rhythm and repetition. They like the thrill of a really riveting story. Because they are young, they do of course have a comparatively limited concentration span which we must take into account. And even though they are clever and confident they do need constant reassurance as to their safety in a turbulent world.</div>
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Here are some of the things that delight children which we might weave into our stories:</div>
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<li>noise and laughter</li>
<li>fright and drama</li>
<li>food and friends</li>
<li>toys</li>
<li>pets and animals</li>
<li>being loved and feeling safe</li>
<li>grandparents</li>
<li>magic and fantasy</li>
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And here are some of the things children are ambivalent about, which we might also weave into our stories:</div>
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<li>parents</li>
<li>siblings</li>
<li>school</li>
<li>older children</li>
<li>going to bed</li>
<li>the dark</li>
<li>settling in to a new place</li>
<li>learning new skills</li>
<li>not conforming/looking stupid</li>
<li>feeling left out</li>
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<strong>Taking the illustrator into account</strong><br />Now that we understand the nature of children and childhood, what interests children, and why we want to write for them—and now that we have come up with an excellent idea—certain practical aspects of writing need to be clearly understood, such as the number of pages required and how to work with an artist.</div>
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The printing process means that a picture book is always thirty two pages and many of those pages are pictures. We need therefore, to cut our text ruthlessly in order to keep the story under 500 words if possible. There is no room for much more text. Little children will often look at the pictures and then say: ‘Turn the page! Turn the page!’ so there simply isn’t time to read a lot of text on a page.</div>
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It is important to keep the pictures in mind. We DO NOT have to say everything in the words. The pictures might tell as much as half the story, which means much of the setting and tone, let alone the plot, can be left to the illustrator. We need not write anything that can be shown in the illustrations. Illustrators love the challenge of filling in our blanks, as it were. We should try not to make life too hard for the illustrator, upon whom so much of the success of our story will depend. For example, a story about chickens is difficult to illustrate because it is hard to create and differentiate expressions in chicken’s faces.</div>
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The publisher will choose the illustrator, and work with the illustrator, and instruct the illustrator. It is not the business of the writer to interfere in matters of illustration, no matter how much writers might wish to impose their will. Writers write. Illustrators illustrate. Each has to be given the appropriate professional space and respect. Imagine how we would feel if illustrators told us how to write. . .</div>
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<strong>Practical help</strong><br />The following hints are <em>hints</em> only, not commandments, since they cannot always be obeyed, nor are they always appropriate.</div>
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<em>The need for trouble</em><br />At the start of a story we need to be as direct as possible. It’s a common sin to beat about the bush, and waffle on for too long. We should attempt to say who, when, and where in the first two sentences, and then begin to state the problem. We have to solve a problem during a story otherwise we have no trouble. Without trouble we have no plot. Only <em>trouble</em> is interesting.</div>
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For instance, if the main character is not stopped from achieving his or her goal, the story is boring. If a child has lost her mother and goes to find her she could come up against difficulties and again and again and not find her mother until the very end of the story. We need to feel some anxiety for the main character in order for a story to work.</div>
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<em>Rhyme, rhythm, and repetition</em><br />There is an option to the theme-and-trouble story, especially when we’re writing for <em>very</em> young children: picture books for that age group can swing from the stars on rhythm alone, or rhyme, or repetition or a combination of all three. Young children are mesmerised and enchanted by a predictable pattern of language which is fun for them to say and pleasing for them to hear.</div>
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There was once a jackal called Nasty.<br />
He was dirty.<br />All jackals are dirty.<br />
He was mean.<br />All jackals are mean.<br />
He was sneaky.<br />All jackals are sneaky.<br />
He was lonely.<br />All jackals are lonely.<br />
He was lazy.<br />All jackals are lazy<br />
He was secretive.<br />All jackals are secretive.<br />
He caused trouble.<br />All jackals like to cause trouble.<br />
But when a lion ate his dinner, the jackal cried and cried.<br />All jackals cry, and so do I.</blockquote>
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<em>The need for excellent characters</em><br />A story-book (as opposed to a merely rhyme-and-rhythm book) is always tedious without well-drawn characters: characters whose highs and lows and final triumph tug at the heartstrings of readers and listeners. If readers and listeners do not care about the main characters and cannot empathise with them, the story will fail.</div>
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<em><strong>Showing</strong> the story, do not merely <strong>telling</strong> it</em><br />One of the famous maxims for all writers is: ‘Show, don’t tell.’ Rather than describing, and explaining, and stating, and enumerating, we can instead <em>show</em> what is happening, and how characters feel about what is happening, through character’s actions and their speech. What they do and say can explain a great deal of the story and cuts out the need for long-winded description.</div>
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For example we will not say: ‘Granny was a wild, brave woman. At home she was untidy and sometimes absent-minded but it was different when we went camping.’ Instead we will decribe the untidiness by painting a picture of it, in words. We will show the absent-mindedness by saying how and when she was absent minded.</div>
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<em>Consider the theme</em><br />After trouble and characters we must not forget a theme, either, such as: ‘All big brothers are a pain.’ A book without a theme is an arid book.</div>
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<em>Ensuring there is passion</em><br />Finally, to ensure that we have something really worthwhile to say we can test ourselves by asking ‘Is this a “so-what?” story, or will it last forever?’</div>
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<em>Reading aloud is essential</em><br />As we write we ought to read aloud constantly what we have written—each paragraph, each sentence, each clause and each phrase, since we are writing a book that will be read aloud. We need to be obsessed, even fanatical about placing the best words in the best places so our stories are, in the end, rhythmically perfect.</div>
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For this reason it is wise to spend as much time on the rhythm of the first and last lines than on the whole of the rest of the book put together since the first and last lines are the most important. The first sentence will grab and hold listeners and readers, and the last will provide a lasting sense of deep contentment.</div>
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<em>Rhythm is the greatest challenge</em><br />Rhythm is the hurdle which most often trips the amateur writer, let alone the writer who is experienced. Rhythm is the festering sore in imperfect drafts. It must be cured, totally. The amateur writer believes rhythm can be <em>almost</em> right but ‘almost’ is never good enough. Only perfect rhythm will do, and only reading aloud will show us whether the rhythm is perfect.</div>
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<em>Keeping up our courage</em><br />We must not get too discouraged over drafts that do not seem to be working. After all, why the hurry to be finished? A picture book of 500 words may take two years or more to perfect, and may consist of over forty drafts. Most problems, even the problem of rhythm, are solved eventually by choosing a different word here and there. Gustave Flaubert put it like this: ‘Tout le talent d’écrire ne consiste après tout que dans le choix des mots.’ [All writing talent lies after all only in the choice of words.]</div>
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<em>Learning from a master</em><br />George Orwell has a useful list of strategies to use when we are stuck for words and drowning in literary swill: ‘A scrupulous writer, in every sentence he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus:</div>
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<li>What words will express it?</li>
<li>What image/idiom will make it clearer?</li>
<li>Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?</li>
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And he will probably ask himself two more:</div>
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<li>Could I put it more simply?</li>
<li>Have I said anything avoidably ugly?’<em></em></li>
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<em>Learning how to be dissatisfied</em><br />The most important quality in writers is the ability to be dissatisfied with what we have written. Dissatisfaction creates the essential discomfort that will eventually lead us back to the manuscript to attempt yet again to craft our work to perfection. The least effective writers are the most immediately satisfied writers. They do not understand the need for dissatisfaction nor do they know what to be dissatisfied about.</div>
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So how do we know when something is not right in writing? Here is a revision of some of the elements about which we need to be vigilant and dissatisfied as writers:</div>
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Only trouble is interesting; and character is everything.<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></div>
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‘…Stories that begin in character and conflict are bound to be more interesting than stories that do not’ (Gardner, John. <em>On Becoming A Novelist. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. p.55)<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></em></div>
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<em>‘Many powerful stories are based on the thwarting of a main character’s deepest needs and yearnings.’(Ruler, R. and Wheeler, S. </em><em>Creating The Story. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1993. p.20)<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></em></div>
<em style="color: #565599; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">‘In nearly all good fiction the basic—and all but inescapable—plot form is: A central character wants something, goes after it despite opposition (perhaps including his own doubts) and so arrives at a win, lose or draw.’ (Gardner, p.54)<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong><br />
‘The difference between the right word and the wrong word is the same as the difference between lighting and a lightning bug.’<br />Mark Twain<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></em><div style="color: #565599; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
<em></em><em>Show</em> character and plot through speech and action: do not<em>tell.</em><br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></div>
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Good writing has been re-written.<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></div>
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Good writing is full of surprises. For example:<br />‘The sight of him … rolled a fat ball of irritation into the cool cave of her day …’<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></div>
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Good writing is totally correct.<br /><strong>If this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></div>
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Good writing adds to our quality of life by revealing life to us.<br /><strong>And if this is not happening it is a cause for dissatisfaction.</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #565599; font-family: Lucida Grande, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>source : http://www.memfox.com/so-you-want-to-write-a-picture-book.html</b></span></span></div>
Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-12803732900118651422013-01-16T01:24:00.000+07:002013-01-16T01:24:06.569+07:00Emotional Creatures - Steve Andersonhttp://theanimatorlettersproject.com/2012/08/31/emotional-creatures/<br />
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WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS</div>
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Artists are emotional creatures. We feel things deeply. We see the world around us, react to it and base our work off of those reactions. Our work represents ourselves. It’s us. Not just what our bodies can produce but what our minds and hearts have to say.</div>
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We want people to like what we do. If we didn’t, we’d just draw, paint, sculpt, dance, act and write in our own living room with no documentation or recording of it. But we don’t do that because we want our work to be seen. We want to express ourselves to people and, in turn, produce a reaction in them. Our emotions create the art and our art creates emotions.</div>
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But there are days when our emotions get the best of us. They let us down. They didn’t give us the strength and motivation that we need when we’re discouraged or struggling. They convince us that we are “no good”. That we have no talent. Or that the talent we do have us not as much as, or as good as, the talent of another person.</div>
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Ultimately, the struggles that we have- the creative blocks we all face- come from comparing ourselves to others. I’m not as good as that person. I’m not as successful as that person. That person is at the level I want to be at and I don’t have it in me to get there. I do this constantly. But I realized a few years ago that what I SHOULD be doing is comparing myself to myself. I find that when I step back and evaluate where I’ve come from, and where I am in relation to that. I feel much healthier. Block out all those other people and focus on YOUR work. Are you better today than you were yesterday? Were you better yesterday than you were the day before? Better than you were six months ago? A year ago? Twenty years ago? If the answer is “yes”, then you’re on the right path. If the answer is “no” you’ve got work to do. But the only person you have to be better than is yourself. That constant growth, improvement and evolution is the mark of a healthy artist. Instead of looking around the room to see what everyone else is doing, keep your eyes on your own paper. YOU have to be the best artist you can be and the only person that can drive that evolution is YOU!</div>
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Steve Anderson</div>
Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-35335459564453047372013-01-15T11:46:00.001+07:002013-01-15T11:46:27.659+07:00From H.R. Giger's agent to an aspiring artist:<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">One of the best advice letters I've ever read. From H.R. Giger's agent to an aspiring artist:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">"I'm an aspiring artist and a big fan of Mr. Giger's work, and was wondering if you could possibly give me some advice? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated, particularly if you could guide me as to what courses you feel would be of most benefit to me."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Dear Aspiring Artist:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Here is my advice. Think of it as a five-year plan:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Take whatever courses you find the most interesting.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Study closely the work of the Old Masters.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stop making art that originates only from your own imagination.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stay with one technique until you perfect it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">On any given day, always be in the middle of reading a book. When you finish one, start the next. Fiction, nonfiction, biographies, autobiographies, history, science, psychology, or how to build a kite. Anything but go easy on the comic books.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Buy and read the first 6 pages of newspaper every day and also the editorial commentaries. Skip the entertainment section. Su Doku is fine. Do the crossword puzzle. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Fill up a sketchbook every month with pen or pencil drawings of the world around you, not from your imagination.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Buy a book on figure drawing. It's the only art book you will ever need.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Until you can draw an accurate portrait of someone, you don’t know how to draw.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stay away from the airbrush. You'll never master it, hardly anyone ever has.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Visit every museum in your city. Often, until you have seen everything in it. Every kind of museum. Not only the art museums but, of course, those as well.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Forget about contemporary art by living artists, at least for the next few years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stay away from most art galleries. Go to art auctions. That's where the real action is.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn to play chess.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Take a business course.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Talk to you mother or father at least once a week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stop going to the movies until you have rented and seen every film on this list.</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2F2005%2F100movies%2Fthe_complete_list.html&h=pAQHXSmRIAQGVtYtI4wTZqqiZbKvyzct9wXKgYQI-P5GkZA&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/the_complete_list.html</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Do not watch television unless it’s the news or documentaries.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Do not use an Ipod.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">No video games, either.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn a foreign language.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn to cook.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Spend 8 hours in a hospital emergency room.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Save up money so you can travel to a foreign country within the next five years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Do not litter.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Avoid politically correct people.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Vote in every election or never dare to utter a political opinion. You are not entitled to one.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Buy a digital camera and take photos every day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">If you see nothing interesting to photograph, you will never be a good artist. Keep only one photo of every ten you take. Delete the rest. It will force you to learn how to edit the garbage from your life, to make choices, to recognize what has real value and what is superficial.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Visit an old age home.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Listen to classical music and jazz. If you are unable to appreciate it at least as much as contemporary music, you lack the sensitivity to develop into an artist of any real depth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Go to the ballet. Classical or Modern, it doesn't matter. It will teach you to appreciate physical grace and the relationship between sound and movement.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Wake up every morning no later than 8 AM, regardless of what time you went to sleep.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn to play a musical instrument.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Learn to swim.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Keep your word.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Never explain your art. People who ask you to do so are idiots. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Never explain yourself. Better yet, never do anything that will, later, require you to explain yourself or to say you're sorry.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Always use spell check.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Stop aspiring and start doing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">This will keep you very busy but it can't be helped.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">In my opinion, this is how you might, possibly, have a shot at becoming a good artist. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Hope this helps,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Les Barany</span>Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-37199399188506265272012-10-21T21:42:00.002+07:002012-10-21T21:42:18.019+07:00Halloween 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Hey man, your costume rocks ! where can i get one !</b></div>
Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-48691826863457335382012-10-16T23:52:00.001+07:002012-10-16T23:52:05.642+07:00i love cabin :D<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-51427306619172575622012-09-25T01:34:00.002+07:002012-09-25T01:34:49.554+07:00study study and doodle a little<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-71658250213775720302012-09-10T23:23:00.001+07:002012-09-10T23:23:48.972+07:00Somewhere the tale may begins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-20146697366313078152012-08-22T23:14:00.002+07:002012-08-22T23:14:50.014+07:00a rainy day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-81076952611778669742012-08-17T17:27:00.002+07:002012-08-17T17:27:41.666+07:00A word on practice - by Darren Yeow<span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">A word on practice.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Practice is the breakfast of champions, but not all practice is created equal. That old adage, where it is the mileage of your accumulated pencil strokes that makes all the difference? Well, yes and no.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Sitting down and pointlessly noodling on the page is almost worthless. There are some people I </span><br />
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know who have been 'practicing' in this way for 10 years and they are getting nowhere.<br /><br />Like all undertakings, great and small, perfect growth inducing practice needs to be focused and disciplined.<br /><br />This type of practice requires two things:<br /><br />1. A singular focus.<br /><br />2. Discomfort.<br /><br />A singular focus means just that, you should aim to improve one or at max two aspects of your game and nothing more. You can choose to either practice the things you're already good at and make them greater, or your can practice the things you suck at - I generally prefer the latter.<br /><br />Tiger Woods, regardless of his extramarital affairs is a great example of the singular focus, he will often go to the range and work on a single type of difficult shot for hours to bring up his overall game.<br /><br />Secondly, discomfort is a sign of stretching your skill set, if you always feel warm and fuzzy doing your 'practice' it means you're probably re-treading prior knowledge. Discomfort means you are at the a current boundary of a particular skillset and are pushing beyond what you know to be safe and do-able. It is dicomforting because there is a real chance you will not be able to successfully pull off what you are wanting to practice, failure comes with the territory of growth, and most people are shit scared of failure.<br /><br />Most people naturally push this boundary when they are new, and then pull back from it when they achieve a decent level of proficiency - my advice is to always push that boundary, whether you are 8 weeks into learning art, or 80 years into learning art, the complexity of visual reality guarantees an infinite stream of knowledge that you can learn from, for the rest of your life.<br /><br />When singular focus and discomfort are present, then 'pencil mileage' will actually mean something.<br /><br />Work harder, D.</div>
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-55734768979533968612012-08-09T22:51:00.003+07:002012-08-09T22:51:50.666+07:00A place to hide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
A place to hide - speedpainting</div>
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-69800688112643430172012-07-17T02:43:00.002+07:002012-07-17T02:44:22.062+07:00Albert Bierstadt master copy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-70124633059549750032012-06-21T00:29:00.003+07:002012-06-21T00:29:46.323+07:00Book for children<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Some early concept I did for an interactive ebook on ipad, which probably never come out.</div>
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-66209511267443690292012-05-29T00:20:00.001+07:002012-05-29T00:20:17.686+07:00Son of the wind<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Personal artwork : Son of the wind.<br />
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Enjoy the process moreWindboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-53148935193294978782012-05-29T00:18:00.001+07:002012-05-29T00:18:14.759+07:00Spaceship theme<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Windboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829555037156371511.post-79197958177571755462012-05-13T23:52:00.001+07:002012-05-13T23:52:31.096+07:00A rainy day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It 's been raining for a while, so i decided to painting something. Here's what i came up withWindboihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719800783682809749noreply@blogger.com0