I'm no quality lemon
The branch was barely off the ground
I still made a sickening sound
This shouldn't even rhyme
I was meant to be a lime
But I had the wrong roots
You should've seen the soil underneath
All the oil from the boots
Seeping inside me
Everything I absorbed
I'm no quality lemon
I'm just sludge with a leaf
Yellow slime and I reek
You don't want the stain
Wait for the rain
I don't know
Maybe it'll snow
Yellow and gross
Kick me to the curb, alone
I don't know
I'm no quality lemon
Better, more realistic drawings than I can do. Which I'm kind of bitter about. If you can draw pictures that good, you can definitely draw more frames between pictures to actually animate them. Granted, it probably takes them months to feel like that single drawing is finished and it would take years to animate 4 seconds and it was probably a 5 minute short, so that's 75 4 second segments and maybe it would take decades to finish. Art is hard, man. Everyone's just trying their best.
It's definitely not happening by the end of the year. Maybe the end of my year, so I give myself until March 5th, my birthday. I mean, if I'm not done with it by then, I guess I'll still continue working on it but damn. For something that looked so easy, this sure is a lot of work. But again, it feels like I'm putting in more work, because there were things talking over several seconds of a single frame of a drawing and that was considered animated. Granted, they were great drawings.
I feel like I'm doing more work than the things that inspired me to do this though. I went to 2 funerals in the same month, which meant I'd see an aunt and uncle I rarely get to see twice in one month and I didn't want to discuss my life, so I was coming up with topics by looking up things happening in their city and a film fest was happening the next month. I started looking at the animated shorts entries of previous years and I arrogantly thought I could do that. By the end of the year.
How did I have the temerity to think I, of lazy/procrastinationy fame, could make an animated short in 3 months? I had been working on the talky/no-movey-much parts but I started working on the beginning, where I plotted out the introduction of this octopus guy with an intricately detailed 24 frames a second 14 second action packed wild ride of random hilarity but I think it's going to be more like 4 seconds of a thing that's sort of important in the end and a little less random.
Here's a video I took with my phone of my computer where I'm making an animated short featuring a disembodied head that can apparently run away on its hair after getting hit by lightning while inside a living room in the presence of possibly an alien woman in a recliner. Perfectly normal stuff.
#krita #animation #wip #art #digitalart #surrealism
Here's what was supposed to be a crown with legs flinging itself at a deer and piercing its eye because spooky season but then I realized how much work would've been involved in that shitpost and was like how about it just sort of tries to spit at it instead. So its a crown with legs failing to spit on a deer. The deer looks pretty happy about it. That's it, that's all.
#art #animation #krita #drawing #surreal #absurd
Also that 5-7-5 is based on a sentence I wrote to my cousin that cooked way harder as a single line: Everyone, in every direction, all around in unison, providing the full effect of the exclusionary feeling of The Lord's Prayer. Normally the lord's prayer makes me feel bummed out but when I think of the last half of that sentence, I feel kind of satisfied. Like aren't I amazing that I can write something like that? Hell yeah.
Good thing I started microdosing 3 days before the funeral, otherwise I wouldn't have had such a supply on hand. Although the physical and psychological toll of the journey I went on was so exhausting I was full of mucus for a week and I still have a little mucus left over.
The reason I needed to take a bunch of mushrooms was a life saving emergency because I went to a funeral and a thing that happens at funerals happened and it went a little something like this...
The lord's prayer in full
Exclusionary effect
Outside but inside
It got a little dark in the days that followed. And plans started to feel a little too concrete. Because there wasn't concrete involved. A more realistic weight plate. A train, an inflatable boat, and a multi-tool, no longer afloat.
