Remixing

I made a commitment to myself, as I previously mentioned, to try to post at least one piece of art every day. This has compelled me to spend a lot of time going through my archive looking for items that can stand alone in a post, even if they were intended to be part of a larger narrative structure.

I have found things that are obviously mine, yet I have no recollection of having ever drawn them. (The piece at right is not one of those drawings, by the way – it's just something I picked out for today's post.)

I've even found entire stories that I don't remember doing, and some of the stuff is pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. It's so good, in fact, that I find myself loath to post it here when I could easily recycle it for another story.

The guy who did the PCToons catfight comics on the old Foxfax web site used to call this 'remixing', and that's a good description of it. Digital art is almost endlessly adjustable, tweak-able and repurpose-able. I could take this drawing, for example, and turn it into superheroines, cheerleaders or some other sexual icons in about 90 minutes.

So as I look at these thousands of drawings I've got (many of them iterative saves of the same piece, by the way), I find myself thinking, "Hmm... I think I'll save that for another story."