8 April 2004. Busy day so just two new sketches out of Paint Shop with a little commentary on them for today's entry:

When I scribbled this one, I just wanted to do something, anything at Paint Shop to take care of my self-imposed obligation to use it at least once daily. So I wrote the obvious: "I have to do something," in pieces, then flooded the dark blue in. I liked what I did, so fiddled some with it to try to express urgency with the graphic part of it. I didn't succeed, though I faltered in the right direction. Main accomplishment: getting a feel for what might be done in this vein. Also, possible fertile questions about what outlines of letters do versus filled-in letters, particularly in the same word. In the meantime, I continued my explorations of formal letters versus drawn ones

I did the one above today. It is completely silly but I like it. I was just messin' aroun', but consciously trying to show how easy it is to eidographicize a simple graphic (if I have enough understanding of Gregory St. Thomasino's term, "eidograph," to do that) by adding letters to it guided by nothing but visual design criteria. Speaking of Gregory, he has just published his third issue of his webzine, Eratio, with a piece of mine from this blog (when it was in progress, which I think it still is) in it, and a lot of good things by others such as Lewis LaCook, Nico Vassilakis and John M. Bennett.