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Current Rants and Recent Rambles Nightmare Before Christmas Fans: Coming out of the Cartoon Closet |
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Well I'll come out of the cartoon closet I'm a Nightmare Before Christmas fan myself. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/ James too. Let me see which action character he has... Jack, how could I forget. Big round head, skinny body, black and white striped suit. Jack hangs around with all the other weird dolls that James collects. The Living Dead dolls, he has two. http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/ But I can't spite him for all his ghoulfriends. I have a Karate Chop Elvis in the White Gi. Top that, thanyouverymcuandwelcometoNashville. I got a posing Betty Page with the creepy pervo Photographer with accessories. I'm SO busted. Both are right by the front door. Never let it be said that those who enter this human habitrail are every mislead into thinking this is just another apartment. It is walking into the Cerebral Cortex merging of two very disturbed individuals turned inside out and in three dimensions. LOL But I digress, Cartoon characters are just as valid as realistic figures for topics of practice. If a cartoon character amuses you then use that figure for your practice work. I say sculpt what you love and the practice we need to do for sculpting isn't work. It's fun and that's why we're here for, to have fun while we learn. http://www.norajean.com/New_Projects/Review-SculptWhatYouLove.htm or http://tinyurl.com/3cu6x Whistle while you work, dooo de doo doo doo de doo. I took Kai and Xev and the characters from LEXX to use for my practice and my sharing the process with the list. NoraJean.com/Biz-Archive/LEXX-Home/LEXX-001a But... and this is a big but (all puns intended) ...I got permission from the creator of the characters of LEXX to be able to use them in this way. I got permission from Lex Giggeroff. On this page you can see him wearing my Tiger Stripe Cowgirl Hat, that goof. ../Biz-Archive/LEXX-Home/UnCon-2001.htm BonaiKathy got permission to use Pooh characters in her mini bonsai scenes. She'll have to provide the link to pix on those. If we use known cartoon characters and make things and sell them without permission we'd be running into copyright issues. Copies and knock offs sold public ally just isn't prudent. At this stage of our learning process rather than making a copy of the known cartoon characters and running into copyright issues, why don't we take these favorite cartoon characters and be inspired by them? Make a figure that looks like Jack's Country Cousin for Nightmare Before Christmas. That would be safer and we want our learning process to be safe. On another topic all together, humor is difficult. Dark humor is not usually encouraged on clay and mini lists. Might offend folks. whoa nelly, stop the buggy... Taking offence on someone elses personal creative self expression ain't hip. Content is each person's right to choose. If someone has something macabre in nature to share, gives us the heads up that this may be shocking, then it is ok to share these creations. We can help with technique, we cannot judge style or content. So do we do weird stuff? Indulge in some dance with the Boogie Man, sure. I see it as whistling past the graveyard and why I indulge in Day of the Dead stuff. http://www.norajean.com/New_Projects/Review-DOD-PastYears.htm or http://tinyurl.com/6rkpk http://www.norajean.com/clayart_clayer-albums.htm Look at Jen's Angel in Black, or the Goth Angel. She made that years ago, but it's always been one of my favorites of hers. These clayer's pages got to be updated or changed in some way. But anyway. Cartoon characters or dark humor are valid subjects to practice our skills with. If these thrill ya then practice is fun, work is a labor of love, the result no matter what will still be sweet. Inspiration is where you find it, now that you found it what are you gonna do about it? Let it goose your muse and make something, of course. xoxo NJ |
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