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Oh no, now I'm draggin OTHER people into my delusions:
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I recently found myself with a bit of a... fixation, I suppose, you'd say.

I will not ever actually refer to myself as an "artist" per se, because that is inherently demeaning to those who have honed their craft to the point that they can make a primary living from it... ... ... er... despite all the challenges that come associated with such, which makes me respect the craft all the more, while I'm content to merely play in the garden now and again.

Of course, that's almost as ridiculous as my proclamation that I will not consider myself a "writer" despite the fact that there's copious amounts of writing on the wall just with the video descriptions (...that nobody reads, remember that! It's the law of YouTube. You're breaking the law RIGHT NOW!) that could be used as damning evidence to the contrary.

There's also the fact that my primary professional training gets... significantly less than useful application by comparison, so maybe I can't demand people recognize me as a "scientist" after all...

Do they still take job applications for the position of "renaissance woman"? I'm willing to work my way up to it, if the entry level position is "laureate" or "village idiot" instead. Just as long as they're room for growth!

But I digress, as I often do. This IS, however, about "growth"... as... some kind of immaterial, metaphysical sort of measure for... um... just how much trouble I can create. CAN, whether or not I actually SHOULD. That kind of thing. Dangerous!

Case in point, as a the-not-artist-STILL-rather-than-formerly-known-as-Jo, I am at least intrigued by the concepts behind art. Especially the art of others. And what really IS art, if not the "hey, that looks neat, I wanna try me some of that!" of a bunch of deranged hooligans armed with media and means to inscribe it?

Which leads to some truly dark and dangerous thoughts. Terrible thoughts. Crazy ideas!

"What if I attempted to do something in the style of: ...?!"

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In this case, the unlucky recipient of my thought exercise was none other than YouTube's own celebrated and delightful Jaiden Animations.

The style employed is deceptively "simplistic" to the point that you'd be excused for thinking there's less to it than there really is. But when less is what you deliberately use, less is always deceptively more than meets the eye.

Metaphor!

Case in point, you have to have a rather keen eye for observation if you want to put together the strikingly geometric particulars that make "a Jaiden"... which... yeah, I still didn't get it quite right. BUT... it's at least recognizably... "an attempt"... which is what I was REALLY after here.

Also, as if in response to my provincial efforts, Jaiden herself recently did a bit of an unexpected source of information that WOULD have been immensely informative to my efforts showed up a few days ago:
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Now, if only I hadn't scrawled out my nonsense over the course of a harrowing couple of weeks prior?

... ... ...let's be real, the crime I committed here would be largely the same, but I'd have gotten a few smaller details closer to on-model.

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If I'm being honest, the Queen is probably unhappy here specifically because I didn't really adapt her regal essence to this format. Also I kinda misproportioned her whole head, so. She's probably also not happy about that.

I don't know why I decided that Jaiden HAD to be uncomfortable about this ambush... er... "meeting"? Yes. Meeting. Nothing nefarious. I think I just answered my own non-question.

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