Inteview with Facet
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FACET× OF× SPACEBALLS× Dolphin: Please start by introducing yourself. Facet: I'm A quite normal person with a normal looking haircut and smoking a Marlboro cigarette (just a few a day) I tried to stop but there is no reason NOT smoking. The smoking ones will understand. I'm 'studying' for ART-teacher on a huge school for teachers. I'm from the year 1974, so that makes me 20 within a few weeks. To curve it down to my scene activities, I have periods in which I draw a lot. And when I'm in a negative-period, I'm doing music or other hobby-things. My motivations for doing graphics are the persons around me that keep me on the scene-track. Also other artists as- well Amiga-artist as paper-artist do motivate me. And at last I want to tell what I really hate.. read carefully because you can learn something here. To make a sensible scetch of a person, you must get to know this person before screaming unfair facts. And have you ever noticed that a person is observed more carefull when this person is 'in the picture'. Can it then maybe happen that you, a then subjective-thinking individul, CAN harm this person you think so easy of. Five million flowers in a field.. And what makes one flower think that he is more than the others? Dolphin: How much time do you spend on a full-screen picture? Facet: Normally it doesn't take more than one evening. Then you have a picture that is unoptimized but OK. To make it more OK will take me two or three evenings. So it will take me a small week. And it's not normal for me to work only on a picture. I'm usually working on several things. That is for not loosing interest in my own work. But to give you a better view on the time-spend-on-graphics I'll give you a little list of pictures... Hardcore-dragon : 4 days In the kichen : 6 days 40kb intro-rat : one evening Groovy-sigar-man : 5 days Rink-a-dink : 2 days (co-op with Danny) Funky divas : 5 days Eurochartdesign#24: 7 days AarsCompopicture : 7/8 days Logos : 2 days Fonts : a few hour or less I'm not drawing 24 hours a day but with last-minute graphics I sometimes do. You can also devide the spended time in three periods. First you start and have the feeling: This is going to be good.. then after seeing it after a period you feel less motiveted to finish or continue on it. (it's not looking the way you though it was looking) On this point you can, start something new or you can continue and optimize the ugly parts. If you continue then, normally I'm finishing it within a week. If not then it can end up like this FACET:DP/ Graphics/Lost.../(S)-qhghz1 (never do real names when I'm working on a beginning project) Dolphin: Where do you get your inspiration? Do you copy from allready exisisting pictures or do you always use your own imagination? Facet: I often use photos to be usefull for my amiga-graphics. Like all commercial artists. Normally the pictures I draw are not a conversion of the photo but an inspirationsource. I also find it amusing to convert non- coloured scetches and non-finished drawings and color them or finish them on Amiga. But usually if I want to be finished fast I copy directly from the photo/original. And I'm not feeling guilty toward the girl on the photo. We also know 95% from all the pictures on Amiga are not from the Amiga- artist's mind. And if you ask me... get real.. you complaining kidz! It's a hobby and not a company with laws and rules. Do what you have to do and stop screaming in the ears of people that ARE doing something nice! Dolphin: Have you ever been tempted to use a digitizer? Facet: In whole my carreer I have never used any other form of drawing than my mouse. Sometimes , when I see digitized pictures I feel hungry. And if I wouldn't believe (for myself) that I can give amiga-graphics a better touch than a digitizer, I would grab one at once. Dolphin: How many 8*8 fontsets have you ever painted in your life? Do you plan on painting any more of them? Facet: My first ever released graphics was a 16*16 fontset (Vision megademo 2) and I always LIKE doing them. On my harddisk (and that's all I have) I have 6 8*8 fonts. But I'm sure I've done plenty more (about 20/30). In the past few months I did only one new font (med-res 32*73 8 colors). And to answer your question conrectly..'drawn in life'. If you would count the times I'm doing 'in-head-fontsets' then it would have been hundreds. Normal amiga-artist, I feel one of, are doing graphics all day (if they are not too un-motivated). I have caught myself lots of times when I was looking at the nature, faces, skylines that I pixel them down to 320*256.. What a fantastic invention is AGA... ?!? Dolphin: Please mention some pictures from other graphicians which you think deserves your respect! Facet: I think it's more fair for the Artist to be mentioned by name than by picture... Now I'll name the guys I adore, look up to, have wet dreams by, feel more than just.. ... just.. - H A L L O F F A M E - Uno,Danny,Fairfax,BCR,Hof,Walt,Melon, Cougar,Ra,Joachim,Suny,Zoom,Mystic, Mithrandir,Sach,Hein,Krest,J.A.D,E, Color,TMB Design,Alex and Mack (though his personallity). Dolphin: Do you think it's easily spotted if someone digitize a picture and then participate in a gfx-competition? Facet: Well,I think that the ones that are digitizing are also aware of the spottings chance so they easily re-do the color-mixes and everbody is in the status.. 'It could be digitized' but.. 'it could also be drawn'.. And every digitizer-artist takes advantage of that certain human weakness.. An amiga artist is in my opinion only working fairly with digitizing when this certain person CAN produce the same quality with his mouse..Dolphin: Now ask yourself a question and answer it! Facet: Do you think the common use of toilet-paper is a neglected fact in society? Facet: I think the form in which toilet-paper is used normally is not in any form neglected. It could have been, if you see it through the eyes of a tree. Therfor we first have to seperate truth and lies. To do that we have to know what really truth is. Truth is that what we feel, hear, see and smell. If we could communicate the way we think life would be easier. Lies wouldn't have a chance. And as William Parker once told us: A negative subsitution has a better oposite side than the positive subsitution. To get back to our problem, truth and lies. The normal taken truth can and will relie on the negative facts that we all withness. Also the lies taken from certain subsitutes makes us not believe in what see as negative feelings. To express those feelings it is harder than the oposite sides of that certain negative feelings. And to finally deal with some motion- and feeling-less smart asses.. -To be aware of being more is not the meaning of YOU being on this planet. -Leiha Koqstaka '54 used for this interview: 3 cigaretts (marlboro) 2 cd's : Larry Carlton Norman Brown (Lets go to bed music!) 1 liter of strawberry-yoghurt 1 Amiga 1200 4 cups of tea 1 Digitizer 1 telephone conversation with NAO. THE END!×