GYSO Drawing Part 10 - Fair Use

Published: 2019-07-21

Introduction

Tim:
In the year 20XX all drawings will be done with the Clementine mp3 music player, and its Window’s port. Trust me on this one, Goopy Droopy told me and he can smell the future.

It smells like clementines.

Thor:
0.02%, the same amount of people that have “the raid” achievement on Xbox One for The Division. Also the number of boxes that have been made in a concerted effort of a concentrated goal. Find out more, later in this GYSO post.

Oh, and also coming up: half this post is actually about drawing!

What went right?

Tim:
Dear Diary-san,

Today I drew a box. It looked like this:

That’s just a recreation. The real thing was a lot better. Please just trust me on this on Diary-san. I know we have been drifting apart lately, but I came back — because you blackmailed me with the secret — but I did come back.

No. I didn’t mean to imply that you blackmail me, Diary-san. I am also not implying that you are the worst. Nope, we are good friends, you and I. Don’t let the other Diaries get you down. Especially the diary police. They don’t help you anyways.

So what else did I do today, besides draw that box? Not much. Nothing else happened today. The box was really good and it honestly took all day. I tried to use my phone but there was no signal in my area so I couldn’t call the restaurant down the street. I instead had to eat macaroni instead.

Sincerely,

メロンフェロン

Thor:
I can hear a note resonating deep inside my head. My aural image is not very strong of it, but I can sense its presence in these trying times.

I drew a lot. My brain has been shown that I can get away with drawing every single day, if even just a single box. I have many incentives to draw, especially when my habit streaks go long and I can start feeling the gradual accumulation of drawing skills. Don’t get me wrong, my boxes are still terrible, my linework is shoddy, and looking back at my boxes I can’t tell which direction in 3D space they are facing. But they are getting better. Actually, that should be in the “what went wrong”-section.

What went wrong?

Tim:
Let’s be serious for a moment here. I haven’t drawn anything these last two weeks. Like, at all. That box in the above portion is from four weeks ago. I don’t feel particularly bad about this. In fact, I think it’s pretty okay. I can still make a funny/interesting/cringy post with just a single box to work with.

My brain has been shown that I can get away with it every time, and so it gets away with it every time. I have no incentive to draw, not when my best post is me complaining about macaroni skunks and superfluous sheds.

I think learning how to draw reasonably well would be a nice skill to have; it’s one I’ve wanted for quite some time now, but when I sit down to get on with it all the life force drains out of me and I desire to do literally anything else.

There are things I like to do, obviously. Writing GYSO posts is one of them. I’m eager and ready to write every time a new deadline comes up, because I made it fun and interesting to myself. Drawing in of itself is not interesting to me, and thus I constantly find reasons to not do it. If it was interesting to me I would be making time to draw. Im making time to write this post, because it’s interesting enough.

That’s why my posts are always so absurd, because it’s straight up more interesting to write them than it is to draw content for them. This conflicts with my desire to have the skill of drawing, but obviously not enough for me to get myself to draw regularly. I’m sure I could find some way of making it interesting, if I needed too, but I still don’t feel the desire to do so.

I’m going to keep writing GYSO, but don’t expect anything even remotely resembling progress in my skills. If there is progress it will be slow and grueling.

Thor:
Some days my life just looks like I can draw a single box. Some times my mind gives up and This conflicts with my desire to have the skill of drawing, but obviously not important enough for me to give up my music or my job. But I am finding balance. Slowly, but surely.

There are things I like to do, obviously. Writing GYSO posts is one of them. Plagiarising is another one. I’m eager and ready to write every time a new deadline comes up, because I made it fun and interesting to myself. Drawing in of itself is interesting to me, and thus I constantly find reasons to do it. I wake up eager to face new opportunities, at least for now.

What happens next?

Tim:
Plagiarism is a sin.

Thor:
What is 0.02% of 250? 5. 5/250 boxes of the 250 box challenge completed. Maybe Tim will find it in his ass to take out his fineliner to fill the little box-shaped void in his heart where other people put the love that their parents have for them.