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Published: 2017-08-07 16:15:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 5959; Favourites: 128; Downloads: 51
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Okay, I really liked the Dark Tower movie.
Regardless if you did or not, you can apply the Gunslinger's Code to art.
If you don't know what a metaphor is, look it up
NOTE: Sarcasm to "you can't draw with your eye or mind" is blatantly obvious and not funny, so please skip posting about that.
NOTE2: Yes, this is a direct adaptation from the Gunslinger's Code from the Dark Tower book/movie. I just felt like adjusting the text to fit drawing. I only claim the idea to change the words, I do not claim the original meaning as my own.
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You say true, Gunslinger. Love this. I want to apply it to all aspects of my life.
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I just recently watched the film and holy f*ck I fangirled at this so hard!!
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my body is made of sketches. . . . . Β my blood is line, my heart is creation . . . .UNLIMITED DRAWING WORKS!
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Interesting... thats a cool mantra... Oh Dark Tower is out?
Better go watch it
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Seems that I have forgotten all the faces of my characters then. Luckily, my commissioners see it differently.
Telling that you can't draw with your eye or mind is not sarcasm. It's a fact.
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To be fair, it's an homage to a fictional creed that makes about as much sense for about the same reasons. Note that they didn't refute that it was true; they said "it's blatantly obvious and not funny," which is a completely different issue.
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Plese don't make me rewrite everything I have already written below.
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I've already read it; no need to repeat yourself. I was just pointing out that it's a reference to something that has exactly the same issue you criticized this for, so go yell at Stephen King, not the artist making an homage to one of his works.
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Apparently you have not.
I was criticising his adaptation. I dont know about the original. If that's his original adaptation of an already existing quote, than it's him who I am going to talk to regarding this work. We all have taken inspiration from other sources and artists and yet it's not the sources we should blame when their fan goes overboard with their work, so I don't understand your argument.
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I obviously have, as I'm not rehashing any of the things the other people have already said. Anyway, "going overboard with their work" implies they put too much effort into it, when in fact this is a clear case of the opposite: failing to fix issues with the original because doing so would be more work than it would probably be worth. Furthermore, it appears that said extra work was clearlyΒ unnecessary because the majority of the response was positive, and the remainder, with the exception of you, were clearly in jest. Nobody needs to be perfect, only good enough. And this work? It's probably good enough, judging from the general reaction.
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Forgive me if I am wrong, but going overboard means "going into extremes/going to far". That implies nowhere whether it's in a good or bad way. No interpretation needed, as I have told you in what way I meant it when I was reffering to my example.
Okay, you claim you have read it, so let me write out something to you again:
I have another opinion about this work than you do. Why is it so hard for you to accept this?
I have already spent way too much time on this deviation than I ever intended and believe me, this won't happen again; neither you or the artist will receive a comment from me again. I am actually sorry for the artist, as they were te only one who didn't get triggered by what I have written.
Anyway, have a nice day.
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Differing opinions are fine; it's being a jerk about it that I have a problem with, and you offered little in the way of constructive criticism. If you wish for them to improve, you need to figure out how to improve; just stating a problem that they were already aware of helps precisely nobody.
I won't be surprised if I get a response anyway, but I won't be annoyed either, because I find discussions fun.
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Going the ad hominem way huh? I have already told you everything and I am not repeating myself a third time.
Good bye
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Just because it's a fallacy, doesn't mean it's irrelevant to the discussion at hand; the "Fallacy Fallacy" only technically refers to the fact that a fallacy may lead to a correct conclusion by accident, but I'm sure there's a separately codified fallacy that covers this case as well.
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I sketch with my eye means you see the drawing before you draw it. you plan out the pose wth your eye. I line with my mind means you know where the pen is going to move to. I craete with my heart means that you put passion and feeling to what you make. You physically draw with your hand and pen but most artists don't envision or truely love to draw and create.
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You know, this comment would be a far better thing to write into the artist comment instead of the sarcasm disclaimer. It takes out a good load lot of negative judgement
I still disagree with the word replacement in a way that goes beyond the biomechanical abilities of hands and eyes and is indeed rather metaphorical too. I suppose, with your work you wanted to touch peoples minds and hearts in some ways, so here is my interpretation: For me, not eyes, but hands stand out as the window to peoples creativity and soul. They are the part that does all the hard work, while eyes only observe and command. To me, hands are so much more expressive of what someone really tells you, much more than eyes, which can't really do anything else but rotate, look at you or look away and "let other things do the work". It was one of the reasons why I found the word replacement odd and disheartening. But thats what artwork does, right? It's making us all feel something and that feeling goes into all kinds of directions.
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Why would you answer a metaphor with facts that makes no senseΒ
Yes obviously we don't have ink in our eyes and rub it on paper, I think everyone agree over the fact that we don't actually sketch with our eyes... That's just not the point here ?Β
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I do appreciate you helping stand up for this but I think that other guy is just trolling at this point
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Facts are actually making a lot of sense. Just saying.
"He who sketches/lines with his hand/pen has forgotten the faces of his characters" has no coherent meaning. A hand and an eye are both body parts that are needed equally for drawing. And if its not hands, it will be feet or the mouth, but you still need something to execute what you want to draw. Your eye is only giving you information about the localisation of canvas and the relation to its pencilstrokes. Why would someone value one over the other? That makes way less sense to me actuallyP:
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Gosh... You really really really missed the point so hard xDΒ
It's metaphoric, we KNOW we need those bodyparts.Β
"sketching with the hand" is a metaphor to explain that you're only drawing mechanically, not feeling what we're doing while "sketching with the eyes" is a metaphor to explain that you're living, feeling what you're doing. You see it, you're in it.Β
It's just... a metaphor. That's supposed to be poetic, not some down to earth guide on "how to draw 101". I don't know if you ever attended a literature class or paid attention to it, but if you take 99% of the poems you can't just read them and explain them with facts, because yes if you do so that makes no sense. Poetry is not about making facts, but I guess we're not all equal in terms of sensitivity.Β
And I mean no offense with all of this, this deviation does make sense you're just not the good public for it, and it's your right.Β
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>"sketching with the eyes" is a metaphor to explain that you're living, feeling what you're doing.<
You are.....feeling with your hands. I am sorry, but I just needed to say it.
I find it highly amusing how apparantly I can't criticize literature in terms of execution without having attended a course for it.
I don't have to attend anything in order to criticize anything reasonably. I found the metaphor, as you have called it rather weak. That's probably personal taste. Can't make anyone happy.
Though, I don't go and block off every kind of critique that people wrote on my own works, unless I have actively stated that it's not made for critique (and that happened only once).
That wasn't the case here, so I wrote down what was on my mind.
No, I am probably not owning the same amount of sensitivity, but luckily for me, that does not impair my sense of creativity and taste.
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I think the author juste wrote stop with sacarstics jokes ; this does not mean you can't criticize. Now excuse me but your first comment might have been what was in your mind but it was far from being a real criticism. If you explain that you find the metaphor weak etc when yes this is a real criticism, but writting "ugh we need our eyes to draw that's fact" just make you sounds uneducated. I don't say you don't have the right to criticize, nor the ability to do so, now that you have real arguments I respect your point of view. Your first comment wasn't very smart that's all
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>>"He who sketches/lines with his hand/pen has forgotten the faces of his characters" has no coherent meaning. A hand and an eye are both body parts that are needed equally for drawing. And if its not hands, it will be feet or the mouth, but you still need something to execute what you want to draw. Your eye is only giving you information about the localisation of canvas and the relation to its pencilstrokes. Why would someone value one over the other? That makes way less sense to me actuallyP:<<
That was my critique. Before that I have not really given a proper critique, thats right. I was just joking around. You have replied, asking what my point was and I explained that point to you, by giving a better explanation. Though, that was still not enough for you to drop it. I expressed an opinion and I explained to you why I thought this way.
As for the first comment: I think, what you want to say, is that you didn't like the slight amount of sass that I used there and therefore claim it as "not (being) very smart". Again, I disagree here. But well, the literature. We all have different tastes and opinions of whats right and wrong, smart and nonsmart.
From the sound of your words you seem to wanna end this discussion and I respect that as well. Have a nice day.
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Haha, I loved the Dark Tower too!
Good joke!
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Love this. 
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sketching with your eye sounds like it would kind of hurt
and it clearly shows you sketching with your hand AND using a pen, why would you lie to me
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The sarcasm is in full force today.
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I never watched or read the "Dark Tower" but I love this code to art =]Β
Thank you so much for sharing this!!
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Please teach me your ways of drawing without using your hands, noble Wizard.
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The sarcasm is strong today.
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As if I didn't already have enough respect for you, holy shit. Dark Tower is fantastic. (I haven't seen the movie, just read most of the books. XD)
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