THE MORGUE

No ... I have not turned to such gruesome things ... like playing with corpses. But I know at least 2 classmates that did ... and they were ... girls!!! 

EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW!!!!

A morgue is a practice of research  ... a place of storage of that research. Years ago, as a kid, I began trying to learn everything I could about cartooning. Funny thing is I still am. One of the things I have learned is the importance is to gather different images of something that might make it some way into my art. A pattern ... an article of clothing ... a building. Yoko tells that is this is my favorite part of the process. And due to my nature ... I do tend to circle round and round ... constantly. reconsidering my options. She is watching me me now go through the process of creating a new project. I think Yoko is starting to get dizzy.  

This is an example of the joys of computers and the internet. In the old days, one kept an active eye for anything and everything. You would clip it, categorize it and place in a file drawer. Thus it got it's name ... from the drawers of the dead. I still have in what was once my father's desk everything I've collected since a youth. Today one has to as Yoko has taught me G.T.S.  You know ... Google That Shit. Now you only have to type in a search image, and choose images. The trick is to put in terms that can bring up different results. Sometimes you find just what you are looking for. Sometimes you find a surprise that can be nothing of interest or send you in a new direction. I have to say that as much as the promise of the internet offers, I am surprised that there is not an ever growing bounty ... the limited variety. I guess there is a bottom to every bowl. Some people file them away in a folder on their computer. Some hope they can find it again. I believe in the later as the internet and what is out there is always in a fluid state.

While I have been studying the lessons of animator, Richard Williams I was greatly surprised to learn that this was not a common practice.   Here is Williams speaking on the subject.

I must admit I cringe at his talk of cutting up books, but the method is true. And here again the computer proves a better tool. With a layered art program one can cobble together a character or whatever you are working on. Move them around ... re-size them ... You can even scan pages from books rather than cutting them up.

I'll sleep better knowing you aren't out there, destroying books.