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So I haven't posted anything in a while now. I know it's horrible, but I just can't find any time to do some drawing. That doesn't mean that I don't have any time at all, but I just can't find the mood to draw anything because I always have other things on my mind... It's not that bad though because I'm thinking about school instead of drawing which is what I should be doing anyway. It just sucks because I love to draw. So hopefully I'll have something new in not to much time!!!

Okay so I'm a reply junkie... I absolutely write too many reply's. And usually it's something polite and I comment on the artistic values of some piece of work I like.
A lot of the time however what I really want to say is WOW FUCK ME THAT CHICK IS FUCKING HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But you can't really say that, and why would you. As if the photographer or the model don't know that already right... And it's not like these girls need anymore acknowledgement or something (they probably could do with a little less). So I end up commenting on the lighting and composition and other artistic crap I don't really mean because I just like hot girls... Oh well I guess I just have to be happy people share those nice pictures and every once in a while I can draw one of them I guess that's the best comment I can make on someone beauty.

PEACE toprob!

Okay so this is a flush journal. I.E. it's meant to flush down the previous one. And as always I'm talking to myself here .
However I was just ashamed to have an incoherent piece of shit rant out on my frontpage so: FLUSH!!

So normally I'd never post poetry. Especially not with a deviation, I mean what am I a girl?!?
I just think if you have something to share write something about your deviation! But a lot of people write what they perceive as poetry while it's in the best case a sum of cheesy metaphors, and in the worst case just some illegible piece of ...t that nobody understands.
The only poem I can honestly say I remember is 'The charge of the light brigade' by Lord Alfred Tennyson.

However while slaving away on my latest deviation in the coffeeshop, and being totally engulfed in miss Morley's exceptional beauty I heard Lady writer by the Dire Straits I thought two lines where really nice (though pretentious to post here). So I'll leave you with this:

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face
Then I recall my fall from grace

PS. For those of you not familiar with the Netherlands, a coffeeshop here is not a place you primarily visit for the coffee...

ok so link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzpW3u…
(still brings tears to my eyes /blush)

Okay so I dont really like writing bloglike stuff. Usually I'll write scientific stuff for school and shit like that. But I do want to share some stuff with whomever reads this. And this way there is at least something substantive on my page

First some shout outs for people that inspire me, and then a little bit about my thoughts on inspiration, creativity and process. So here are some peeps that inspire me:

Girls I like to draw: josander.deviantart.com/ Joana           pixielovesyou.deviantart.com/ Pixie           susancoffey.deviantart.com/ Susan

Awesome funky inspiring artists:
carnegriff.deviantart.com/ Carnegriff          nanohikakou.deviantart.com/ Nanohikakou          paperboogie.deviantart.com/ Paperboogie          wiszus.deviantart.com/ Wiszus
And ofcoarse the awesome mr Static-vision whose work you can find here: static-vision.deviantart.com/

So why, you might ask yourself, does this guy likes THESE models or THESE artists? Well as always there's an easy answer and a more complex one. The easy answer to these questions is; I like to draw pretty girls and these ones fit my taste. And I like people who make funky art that activates my brain. Now I could stop here, but I usually look for more reasoning behind... well everything and inspiration is something that has both fascinated and baffled me for years.

In my formative years, as a design student, inspiration was treated as a tool. And it is in a sense. For a many people inspiration is a tool and being inspired is a necessity of life. From the work of a designer springs an innate need to be able to get inspired on command. There are tricks and techniques to jog your creativity but it is truly difficult to get inspired by projects that get dropped in your lap. How cool would it be to design a car or an expensive watch or the next big smartphone? I know I could easily find inspiration to design that stuff, on the other hand how booooring would it be to design a 2 euro alarm clock or a 5 ct ballpoint pen. However thats the reality that most of my former schoolmates will face in the future, and they will have to be able to make beautifull and reliable well constructed consumer products.

For industrial designers, inspiration is indeed a tool. lucky for me I left that life behind and I dont have to be forcibly inspired anymore. Or so I thought, writing and writing science calls for the same amount of inspiration and creativity as industrial design. Its easyer now because I like what I do, but I did learn that inspiration real inspiration is something I believe only exists in total freedom. With which I mean that truly interesting and inspired work (whatever it may be) stems from a state of exceptional tranquillity. My counselor at school called this the state that every student looks for. A moment that you can absorb all the information that comes in front of you, a moment where you have the most genious idea you've ever had, a moment where you make the most perfect photo you've ever shot, a moment where you throw out the most intriguing paragraphs one after the other! You know what kind of moment this is.

I have found that I have more of these moments when I'm doing something 'just for fun'. I can make beautifull drawings when I dont have to worry what grade my burnout teacher is going to give me. And finally we can come back to why I draw what I draw (yeah elephant in the room... we all know its girls... pretty girls.. ). I draw girls in the first place because if I'm gonna stare a picture for a good couple of hours, it had better be something I like to look at. I think my proces includes forming a bond with the image and the subject, that is where I get my inspiration, thats what makes drawing fun for me. Most of the time I have so much going on in my head that usually the only thing that could distract me is a pretty girl. So if it´s something that I naturally focus on and like to focus on, it´s an ideal subject for a drawing because I have no distractions when drawing girls.

Well that´s all for now, if you´ve made the effor of reading this rant and are now thinking what the #$%&#$ is this guy on about. You might be on to someting as it is currently 0645 AM and Im stoned so things that might make sense to me now might be total yibberyabber. So sorry if its a load of b#$$sh#t!

Oh if you want to post something post. A bad reaction is better than no reaction!

Peace Rob

Just posted my first drawing in a while. I think it worked out pretty good.
I didnt post in a while because I had a little accident with my bicycle and dislocated my right arm .

But I'm back!!