320 spilling your guts on the internet


Wondering where this blog is going next. It started because we were in an unusual situation I wanted to think out loud about. We're still in an unusual situation, and I'm still thinking, but...

What else could I be thinking about? Writing about? The name of this has changed from "Coronavirus Lockdown Journal" to "Wake and Blake" to "Wake Blake." As it has, I feel like I've become more comfortable spilling my guts on the internet. 

But not totally comfortable. I may say some personal stuff here and there, more revealing even perhaps than I intend, but it's far, far, far from what's running around in my head.

Is that the goal? To get truly confessional?

Well, certainly telling my truth would be considered by many to be the highest form of art.

But it's the internet. Privacy and all of that. Of course, any confessional at any time had the opportunity for people to point at you and laugh, or worse.

Or do I want to pick a topic and "stay in my lane?" Art, or writing, or ebikes, or something specific?

Right now, I don't know. But in the telling, there's something: the uncertain path of creativity. The act of making the unknown. 

That's something I do have some legitimate experience with. My two feature films, seven novels, uncounted movie scripts, short films, poetry, and several weird little "conspiracy" books, and even the musical, may not have a hit in the mix, or any sparkling success, but damnit, they're done. Made. Not an idea. You can watch or read them. And on top of that, I'm alive, not hungry, and haven't had a full time "day job" in twenty years.

So I do know a little bit about the creative process, and making your art. Or my art, I guess. Although the deeper I go down this path, the more questions I have about where it's going. 

Yesterday, met up with my friend Captain Composer for a little sail on Lake Merced. Jokingly, he was talking about building up his hobbies for when he's ready to retire. And, jokingly, I replied back that I probably wasn't going to retire.

"I'm just going to keep not working until I get old and die."

Two versions of the same moon. The one above, done first, in #clipstudiopaint. Below, a few minutes later, the sky was already brightening when I did this in #autodesksketchbook.

I kind of like them both. But I'm wondering when I'm going to create a larger canvas and attempt to make something big and finished looking.

Or, will I stick with these smaller pieces, and focus tighter on details? One thing I'm recognizing is the level of pixel-pushing I'm willing to do, and the general idea that I like to work big and sloppy and fast, and figuring out how to translate that to pixels.

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