As most should know by now, I'm a huge Lost Souls fanatic. So, of course I had to read Poppy Z. Brite's other books at some point.
It took me a while to find this book (a couple weeks of checking at Powell's). When I finally saw it, I almost shrieked with joy. I got it home and buried my nose in it immediately. I slept about a total of 6 hours in the three days I read this book. Holy crap was it awesome.
Drawing Blood is the story of an underground comic artist named Bobby McGee who kills his wife and one of his sons then kills himself, but leaves his oldest son, five year old Trevor, alive. Twenty years after the incident, Trevor who has also become an accomplished underground comic artist, goes back to the house where his family died, in Missing Mile, N. C. There he meets a hacker on the run from the law named Zach. They fall in love and do it.... a LOT. Like rabbits. In a haunted house too. Kinky.
Despite that, Poppy Z. Brite is extremely good at making her characters very three dimensional. I was bored with the first 100 pages or so because it was almost nothing but setting and character description, but when she got to the meat of the story, I was glad all the boring descriptions were in there. Otherwise, the character's reactions to some of the situations that were thrown at them would've made no sense. And her vivid descriptions of the abandoned kudzu covered house that Trevor's family was murdered in, never failed to give me chills.
My only complaint about the book was that it kinda went on little silly tangents, like when out of nowhere Zach is an amazing singer, so the local band signs him up to be their lead singer. That really took away from the mood of the story a little bit in my opinion.
So anyway, overall I think this book deserves a 8.5 out of 10. Not quite as good as Lost Souls, but it's definitely something I would recommend to lovers of intense horror and/or gay erotica.
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Sanity is over-rated.
im watching you too )
So I'm going to paste your comment here and reply to it:
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"By definition, Fine art is not automated or machine assisted in anyway. It is completely handmade the way art has been executed for centuries."
Sooo, you're saying that in order for me to be a fine artist, I should make my own paint? And not purchase my paint from an art store? And weave my own canvas? That's dumb and impractical...
And why is it that people that know the least about art, feel the need to define it? I painted traditionally with Acrylics for about 4 years before I bought a Wacom Tablet. Most good Digital artists have had previous traditional experience. I think it's really rude of you to assume we haven't. And yes, you can make thousands off of a digital painting, buy making prints.
Digital is simply an easy method for Illustrators (such as myself) to cheaply, and quickly create something for a client. Unlike most Fine Artists, we have deadlines. Commissioners do not always have the patience to wait several weeks for paint to dry.
Also, no. Painting is not better or worse. It's the same fecking thing, minus the expensive paint and brushes. My computer screen is my canvas and my cursor is my brush/pencil/pastel/etc. I personally believe that people like you do not deserve to be called an artist. If you honestly think that what you do is more art than what I do, then you don't know shit about art. Sorry.
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To begin, no, that's not what I am saying at all. That's not even close to what I am saying. If you read what I wrote, then you'll know what I am saying... that's usually the way it works when people communicate.
Secondly, Which people are you reffering to exactly, when you say "the ones who know the least about it"? Are you suggesting that John Dewey, Author of "Art as Experience" knows nothing of art? Because that's who I was referencing.
And I never assumed anything about all cg artists having no background in traditional art... I simply said that there are several talented cg artists who compose works that would make incredible paintings and I was surprised that they don't paint those works.
And then you go on to suggest that a cg artist can make thousands just like a painter, but you have to pluralize the work to make the case... Painters don't. One painting will do fine. There's no need to sell paintings... just "a" painting.
And the fact is, all commissioned work has deadlines; not just cg. Do you think Norman Rockwell didn't have deadlines?
And I never said that cg is not an art form... I said that "by definition" it is not "fine Art" and this is not my personal opinion... these are just the facts... it really has nothing to do with me at all.
And as far as my qualifications for calling myself "an artist" is concerned, I'll let my work do the talking. In any event, it has little to do with the subject at hand.
If I had really wanted to be a dick about this, I would have taken a dig at the begining of your second to last paragraph... you really left yourself wide open there.
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I think there's a Bob in my pants.
you cant stop me watching you 8D
..though you can so i decide to ask mind if i watch you? *wolfpuppyeyes* 83
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cool cant wait to see them
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