the second thing I learned, about human faces : start with the nose, or eyebrows. Nose, in profile. This also helps for cartooning, because noses can be exagerated, to creat a funnier ( or scarier ) image. Even before perportion and perspective,…
"Hmm : and those "princesses" - again, mostly from "fairy" tales ... Cinder Ella's father was supposedly away on business, presumed drowned - thus her step mother could get away with such treatment. "Pocahontas " was about 11 when John Smith showed…"
"MORE FUN: AFTER MISTAKING THE BILL YOU PAY ( LA CUENTA ) FOR THAT WHICH YOU PAY ($$$$$$$$) - HE CORRECTED THE SIGN ON THE CHANGE MACHINE TO ENCLUDE THE VERY MYSTERIOUS WORD : YOUDADE ..."
"I'D SAY, EVEN IF YOU ARE THE AUTHOR, A FULL SCRIPT WILL HELP. IN FACT, I'D DO IT IN THREE PARTS : OUTLINE, FULL STORY AND "SCRENEPALY " - THE LAST BEING WHAT YOU ARE LIKELY TO ACTUALLY PUBLISH. BTW, READ ADDAPTIONS OF SCRENE PLAYS/MOVIES AS WELL AS…"
"& NOW : MUGGLES. In 1959 it was the name of a character; but worse, there were the Muggletonians : a very cleaver group to borrow a name from, but give credit where credit is due."
"And man became a living soul - yet to her, loss of the soul is immiterial to life ; not to mention rending the soul - try it some time, if you can find yours ...
besides, she's a very popular author, and that is much more important than how she…"
"First, she barrowed hippogriphs from a piece of literature - invented by the author, not common mythology. This is but one example; and what she does to Elves - Tolkien rightly went back to the original - and he is far from being alone.
She…"
"You both are seriously over-reading the whole thing.
First trip-wire: "true" mythology? We'll ignore the oxymoron inherent in that statement and move on to the fact that mythology and folklore are an ongoing construct--- they didn't stop changing…"
"Victory Stables : founded in 1919, on San Pablo avenue - just as autos were becoming popular, and San Pablo became the highway ( and still serves as such, since it runs several miles north, and somewhat to the eas, connecting to San Pablo Dam Road.…"
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