Mediocrity
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- doesnotexist0
dig the type, not sure about the balloons + weird hoody guy. pen & ink it!
- tasty0
spooky did u post this somewhere else yesterday, i saw it yesterday
- Draw something thread....NVRMND
http://www.qbn.com/t…tasty
- Draw something thread....NVRMND
- Jnr_Madison0
Look into your heart, you know the answer, my son.
- TheBlueOne0
You should write it in spanish. You know, for the spaniards. And maybe the mexicans.
- Spookytim0
Sadly, I have never been a good judge of that sort of thing Jnr.
- emecks0
I think it's pretty good, but then again I know that the contents of your site are not mediocre - first time visitors might not know that...
- Spookyhome0
Is that an overarching philosophical question or Bagsie, or are you asking WHY I have drawn the word "Mediocre" and put it on my front page... ?
- Fothergill, kindly delete the first 'or' from line one.Spookyhome
- citizen_h0
nice type stylee
- harlequino0
"It's not a graduation. He's moving from the fourth grade to
the fifth grade. It's psychotic! They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity but if someone is genuinely exceptional... "
-Mr. Incredible- one of my favorite quotes along with: ...7point34
- 'everyone is special, dash' 'which is another way of saying no one is'7point34
- right onharlequino
- Concrete0
Mediocrity seems to be celebrated, more so than ever before.
You should sell it as an iPhone wallpaper.
- Jnr_Madison0
I like it.
- detritus0
The latter, old boy - what are you hoping to achieve?
- stoplying0
Pencils rule. Far beyond mediocre.
- drgs0
ure fishing for complements?
- joyride0
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity - lick it once and you suck forever
- detritus0
detritus doesn't think it's a great idea.
- Spookyhome0
Drgs, No, if I was doing that, I wouldn't be showing you a mediocre word, drawn to be as mediocre as possible. My question was whether it was unwise to put it on my homepage.
I do often post drawings up here to invite comments, but in my experience well meaning compliments don't provide anything worthwhile or costructive. What really helps me, and anyone else for that matter, is hearing the negative things. Negative criticism can often confirm one's own concerns and help to move things forward and improve. Compliments however, don't tell anybody anything constructive. They just make everything seem 'nice' for a short while.
On this occasion though the question was "is it dumb to greet visitors with the word 'mediocrity'?" not "what do you think of my drawing?"
- Jaline0
"No reproduction or publication of any of the work within this website is permissable without written consent."
Oh....umm....we may need to have a discussion later...
- Spookyhome0
Ah, right then, well.. I'm not hoping to acheive anything, I try to change the fornt page image about twice a week at best, and once a month at worst. The reason for drawing the word is that I'm doing a huge personal project at the moment: a 100 word statement hand-drawn word by word.
I did one once before (the Sketchbook section of my website) but the first time I did it it was all about borderline illegibility and testing to see if people would realise the random illustrations actually added up to a sentence... they didn't. Huge fail.
This one is going to be more obviously a narrative sequence and it will be a book, poster, maybe a little stop motion YouTube movie etc. Its a little story. Each word needs to visually evoke the word somehow, even little bridging words. "Mediocrity" is meant to look, well, mediocre.