"The people who succeed and do not push on to a greater failure are the spiritual middle classers. Their stopping at success is the proof of their compromising insignificance." -Eugene O'Neill
They also might end up being the X-files. Or George Lucas. Or President Garfield. How much happier would we be without season 7-10 or without the prequels. Or without getting shot. Sometimes, in something, its better to succeed and just let well enough alone.
Oh I certainly don't apply this to sticking with the same comic. In fact, quite the opposite. I'm thinking more in terms of craft. I hope, as an artist, I don't ever get comfortable with my "style" to the point that I stop trying to improve my inking, anatomy, composition, story-telling, writing...
Put another way, if you don't risk failure, you'll never improve.
I posted that quote, cuz it spoke volumes to me, and thought I'd share. Eugene O'Neill was a prolific pulitzer winning playwright (yay, alliteration!) in the 1920s, 30s. :)
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They also might end up being the X-files. Or George Lucas. Or President Garfield. How much happier would we be without season 7-10 or without the prequels. Or without getting shot. Sometimes, in something, its better to succeed and just let well enough alone.
Oh I certainly don't apply
Oh I certainly don't apply this to sticking with the same comic. In fact, quite the opposite. I'm thinking more in terms of craft. I hope, as an artist, I don't ever get comfortable with my "style" to the point that I stop trying to improve my inking, anatomy, composition, story-telling, writing...
Put another way, if you don't risk failure, you'll never improve.
I posted that quote, cuz it spoke volumes to me, and thought I'd share. Eugene O'Neill was a prolific pulitzer winning playwright (yay, alliteration!) in the 1920s, 30s. :)
Steve "Fabricari" Harrison
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