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[essayel]

I want to know who half inched a single Welsh dragon pewter cuff link from the museum shop over the weekend. A very well dressed patriotic one armed Welshman, possibly? Don't think I have any of those on my flist. On the other hand, if I do and you'd LIKE a single Welsh dragon pewter cufflink please get in touch and I'll do you a deal.

Work continues to be manic. People are so noisy! Do you lot shout in museums? I don't. Okay I don't creep around whispering but I don't read the labels loudly to my offspring, glancing around to see who's looking and giving fond simpers, nor do I shout into my mobile phone, have a very personal conversation about my bowels with someone twenty feet away or bang on the cases with my keys to point out things of interest. If it was a library I could go "shhhhh" loudly but one can't do that in museums. Frankly, it's driving me loopy and I'm not getting anything useful done for work or play, not even those paltry 250 words a day, let alone anything serious, so I'm drawing instead.

Even that is frustrating. It's been a while since I tried to draw naturalistic human faces. I can do animals and architecture [as long as the perspective isn't too scary] and even bodies but faces! Do I really want to do finely honed anatomically correct bodies with Desperate Dan faces? Not really. I'm just going to have to practice some more. It's not that the drawings are WORTH anything - it's just that I find that dislocation at the neck line deeply offensive. It's a bit like reading something where the plot and description are okay but all the dialogue is in l33t-speak.

Or maybe it's the hangover? I'm looking forward to it stopping.

Oh god, I'm whinging again! I will post something positive later, promise.

Comments

[wulfila.livejournal.com]

Perhaps your heroes can wear masks and/or fancy helmets until the face problem has been solved. ;)

As for people being loud in museums... In one museum here in Hamburg, they actually tell noisy people to be quiet, so it is definitely not normal or encouraged to be particularly noisy there.

And please keep us updated on the case of the one-armed thief!

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

In one museum here in Hamburg, they actually tell noisy people to be quiet

The Germans are so sensible and polite. Everyone should adopt this policy. I swear, if I had a dollar for every time some shrieking toddler has run smack into me in a museum? Ugh. I'd be rich!

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I'll keep my eyes open for him!! As for helmets, one of them is just wearing a bit of cloth. I'll try and work around it.

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

Do I really want to do finely honed anatomically correct bodies with Desperate Dan faces?

I'm thinking this could be a huge pop art trend, like Andy Warhol's soup cans. :)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, new name, new layout!! Very posh.

I think I'm probably worrying to much about the drawing. As long as I can keep it amusing, it probably doesn't matter if the protagonists aren't attractive. I'd just rather childishly like them to be.

I'll be watching out for Inspector Raft. Lovely book cover.

[britalone.livejournal.com]

I don't understand this necessity for noise that seems to come over people in places like libraries and museums. Mobile phones should be banned and if they are, then you'd be perfectly justified in asking the offenders to stop.
Most of us go there to experience, think and feel the art/exhibits/books, which is impossible with kids running around screaming. Kids should be banned too!
It's been a long time since I have visited a quiet library, no one seems to worry about noise any more.
Did I say phones and kids should be banned? ;o)

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest that LOUD phones and uncontrolled kids should be banned. If someone has a phone call and it's one they NEED to take immediately, fair enough, and very small kiddies and babies almost always get noisy because of the exciting echo. I can accept that, but adults giving tongue like the hounds of hell and letting their kids run amock, no, I get very medieval!

I think people are getting noisier and it's just going to get worse as the current crop of teenagers age with already knackered hearing from their overloud mp3 players. The ipod generation will all be cupping their ears and going "Eh?" by the time they are 30.

[cweb.livejournal.com]

Problem is, some (most) people seem to think that every call is vital and critical...even when it's "so, what are you doing?". They have a Pavlovian response to their phones.

People are becoming less considerate of others.

I'm no expert on drawing faces (though I love doing it), but I find it helps to get a large photo (can blow it up on the computer screen)to work from.

[charss.livejournal.com]

A welsh man with only one arm?

I don't shout in museums. Not unnecessarily anyway.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just gotta.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'll take you up on that one-cufflink deal! Well, depending on what the remaining one costs, I suppose...

I don't shout in museums, but OH GOD MY FAMILY DOES.

I think they like the echoes. :D

[essayel.livejournal.com]

PM me your snail mail addy and I'll send you the dragon, honeybun.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Off to send you that now.

Congrats on getting your art published, btw, I just saw the post! Are you going to link us when it's available?

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks. Don't think it will be though because it's published locally by a tiny publisher - small business, not a little man, though it would be cool if he was *imagines little man tapdancing on his keyboard* - but still *chair dances* and actual book with one of my paintings as the back cover!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to share photos at least! Very exciting :) I want to seeee.