"decide whether to take a machete to the proverbial brush, scale the proverbial cliff, or backtrack... " ~ OMG Let's make a role-playing game where the characters are Artists developing their careers!
Steve Jackson did a series of CYOA-style books where you ALSO kept track of your basic stats & possessions on a character sheet -- 12-year-old Me found it a captivating concept. 🧙♂️📖💜😺
Sure, something like that, except you have to set up a studio & decide whether to get an agent & a gallery or go squat in an abandoned factory with all the other characters...
Nice excerpts. They remind me: I always want to fill the spaces in my paintings with "stuff," and then spend hours slowly extirpating all the fussy details, saying quietly to myself, negative space, negative space ...
"decide whether to take a machete to the proverbial brush, scale the proverbial cliff, or backtrack... " ~ OMG Let's make a role-playing game where the characters are Artists developing their careers!
Or a Choose Your Own Adventure
Steve Jackson did a series of CYOA-style books where you ALSO kept track of your basic stats & possessions on a character sheet -- 12-year-old Me found it a captivating concept. 🧙♂️📖💜😺
Traveller 4LYF
https://www.sjgames.com/gurps/traveller/
Sure, something like that, except you have to set up a studio & decide whether to get an agent & a gallery or go squat in an abandoned factory with all the other characters...
SIMPLE DOES NOT MEAN EASY. 😲👍
Nice excerpts. They remind me: I always want to fill the spaces in my paintings with "stuff," and then spend hours slowly extirpating all the fussy details, saying quietly to myself, negative space, negative space ...
Yes. "What do you want, painting?"