With luck I may achieve my ultimate goal in life. I may become the most irritating person that has ever
Forests Without Outlines
Regarding drawing, doing forests without outlines take forever. If the trees are far enough away that each tree can be condensed to a single or double line, it’s not bad, but if the trees are close enough that some branches need to be included, my rear end gets numb.
Also the crest of a peak where the rocks meet the sky doesn’t resemble anything so much as a hard line. I think I could do it with conte someplaces, like Red Mountain 2 and 3 (actual names), but other places would require weird colors.
And then I’m carrying a conte kit (conte, spreaders, something to dab with) etc. vs just a mech pencil.
Light
The colors were so bright coming back this afternoon, I took off my sunglasses. Sunlight on trees made them look oversaturated.
Monarch Pass
Got some good sketches from the top by the gondola hut. Shavano Mtn had some fascinating clouds, and Lime Ridge let me work on drawing without outlines.
Outlines are kinda like the passive voice. They have their use, and I’m a strong defender, but most of the time outlines should be avoided. Especially with wooded crests, the outlines aren’t really there. Not drawing them takes much longer, so I don’t get things finished as well or as complete. The result does look better for smaller areas.
Sort of back
I’m still tootling around out here, but I have wifi. Maybe.
In the interests of finding the correct framing, I wonder:
How long to pursue something before changing plans?
What’s worth doing if it will never be a success?
Like, I’m not going to finish breathing. I won’t put breathing in the ‘done’ column, yet I don’t intend to quit. I’m not trying to be ghoulish here, but high altitude makes one consider breathing. Breathing is a thing. It’s hard to do. Breathing well, now that is pleasant. A little time spent at 14k, and breathing is quite the subject of consideration. But I don’t know how relevant breathing is to things like ‘should I do deep learning for this signal processing problem?’
I won’t beat sig.p. There will always be more signals to be processed.
I dunno. We are our thoughts, actions, and forms.