Water LotusOver a year ago I was on a flight to Sweden. On the flight I drew this drawing while watching “Vicky Cristina Barcelona“, a Woody Allen flicK. I later brought the drawing it into Inkscape to clean it up.
I have two side notes:
#1: This movie is worth seeing just for the playing of the spanish guitar. Rachit agreed, so much so… that it inspired him to take guitar lessons.
#2: I have to remind myself that it’s “flick” not “flic”. I guess flic reminds me of the old “FLI” format, back when I was using Autodesk animator, which was the first format that I ever animated in. Almost feels like it was the last time I really animated… till recently.

But I digress…

This drawing is significant for many reasons, but one reason specially. It’s one of the few times in the last few times where I was totally lost in the process of drawing with a pen. I spent hours drawing this silly little drawing. That’s right.. HOURS. I think I doodled this, with a blue ball point sketch over the period of 3 hours, while watching various films on the plane… to Sweden… while watching the movie mentioned above… remember? Yes, I find it calming… even now. Even after all this time, I still stumble across it in my “art” folder and it calms me. It makes me wonder when I will again spend 3+ hours working on a simple doodle. Something not created for money. Not created to give it to someone else… but created for myself (though I think I eventually gave it away).

That’s all I wanted to say. I will continue with my cg work now… but I wanted to note the significance of this image, as it has just relaxed my eyes and posture, to the point of near bliss. Take it, steel it.  Use it as your logo. Tattoo it on your inner thigh.  Just mention it’s the product of CJ.