Artist

[lettered]

Note to self: Yoshitaka Amano.

He's the dude who did the artwork for the Final Fantasy III booklet. I recognized his work immediately.

The reason this is so important to me is I used to stroke pictures like this all through my youth. Which is possibly why this is what people look like in my head. If I bother to look at the people in my head which in general I don't. But this is what you might look like. Especially if you are an original (particularly fairytale, fantasy or sci fi) character of mine. But it's possible this is what you look like--yes you, internet person. Seriously. Some of you have looked like this in my head. Not in so much detail. But you might have very swirly clothes. Or be Asian.







Ahh, I'm happy I found this guy. And now I have to go buy my sister-in-law his book about fairies. I need to go buy myself that book. Yay. I feel like I discovered part of my personal history.

Comments

[my_daroga]

Wow. That's beautiful stuff.

I wonder what I look like in your head. Or have you seen me too much?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I think I've probably seen you too much. But that doesn't mean you look like how you really look like in my head. It's complicated, because I don't vizualize very much. We talked about this once or twice, like when you did that post about what you see when you write or something, I think. The thing is when I, for instance, picture *you* in my head, there's a very distinct impression, but I feel almost as though I'm looking at it out of the corner of my eye, and when I turn to look at it it disappears. When I look at this artist, though, I *recognize* the figures, like that's what things in my head *would* look like if I could actually look at them.

Sorry for the ramble. This topic fascinates me because the more I talk about it, the more I realize I see the world differently than most people. Or else we each have our own individual ways of seeing, but we have to work on a common ground. Just like how when you see purple you might be really seeing what I see when I see yellow, but since you see all yellows as purple I'll never be able to know you see the world completely differently.

boggle-y.

[my_daroga]

No, not rambling. Remember, I *do* talk about this stuff all the time, too. I think we definitely lack vocabulary to describe our inner processes to each other; there's no way for me to tell you what I "see" in my mind except by relating it to how our eyes see physically, and even then we're working from a set of agreed-upon premises. I don't visualize a lot, either, and if I do have a preconceived notion of what someone online looks like it's usually due something I can trace back, like an icon or something.

So it's really interesting, what you said about "that's what things in my head *would* look like if I could actually look at them." That's a weird and wonderful thing.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

What's weirdest about it is I feel like I could be an incredible artist. I'm pretty good at painting what I see (I'm extremely slow, but I'm not bad at it), and I have these really fascinating ideas sometimes. But when I go to actually *look* there's nothing there. There's the feeling and the ...presence and I could write about it, but can't see it to draw it. But when someone else does something similar I feel like I "recognize" it.

[my_daroga]

That sounds really frustrating. Actually, reading that made me feel very frustrated *for* you.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Well, it's ok, as I don't want to be a painter. It was only frustrating in my painting class where we had to draw things in our sketchbook. Sketchbook assignments were more, "draw things in your head!" whereas the painting assignments were more "draw what you see". But that was in highschool! It rarely has occasion to bother me now.

[my_daroga]

Oh. I didn't take art in HS. I was in band. Clarinet.

lol

[tkp.livejournal.com]

well, me too.

Unless you're commenting on the utter impossibility of doing any other extracurricular activities while in band. Which is true.

[my_daroga]

In my school, band was a class. As was art. So it was hard to fit more than one it.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

both were classes in mine, too. I guess I meant extracurricular in the elective sense.

Painting was the only elective class I got to choose (that wasn't band) all four years!

[my_daroga]

Wow. I also had the "problem" of attending 3 different schools, with different graduation requirements, in 4 years. So maybe my experience is tainted.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Duuuuuude. That sucks! Did your family move around a lot?

[my_daroga]

Yeah, we did. By the time I went to college, I'd lived in 8 places. In a way, it's made me self-sufficient. Also given me a severe case of wanderlust.