Acting Smarter Than I Am
One of my favorite habits. Not sure if I should feel bad about it?
"One widely used trick, especially among illustrators, is to intentionally make a painting or drawing look like it was done faster than it was. The average person looks at it and thinks: how amazingly skillful. It's like saying something clever in a conversation as if you'd thought of it on the spur of the moment, when in fact you'd worked it out the day before."
I often read a quote and think, dang I know that's going to be useful in some future conversation, I could bring that up and whether they know it's a quote or not the listener's going to be like, dang good point you win the argument.
Unfortunately I can't usually remember! I have that good-quote-reading-feeling a hell of a lot more than I have that good-quote-whipping-out feeling.
What to do? Blog about them, maybe?
Quote in this post stolen from here.
"One widely used trick, especially among illustrators, is to intentionally make a painting or drawing look like it was done faster than it was. The average person looks at it and thinks: how amazingly skillful. It's like saying something clever in a conversation as if you'd thought of it on the spur of the moment, when in fact you'd worked it out the day before."
I often read a quote and think, dang I know that's going to be useful in some future conversation, I could bring that up and whether they know it's a quote or not the listener's going to be like, dang good point you win the argument.
Unfortunately I can't usually remember! I have that good-quote-reading-feeling a hell of a lot more than I have that good-quote-whipping-out feeling.
What to do? Blog about them, maybe?
Quote in this post stolen from here.
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