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I can understand why you’d feel proud of meeting this challenge, but when did this craze for professionals to do their craft with a timer actually begin? I blame the cooking channel where they make chefs produce cuisine, cakes, and what-have-you in x amount of time. Also on TV houses, cars, and motorcycles all need to be done in under an hour. It all feels a bit forced…and unnecessary… somehow.
@KatrinaGirl It’s all about challenging yourself and seeing how far you can push your craft and yourself. And for things like Hourly Comic Day and 24 Hour Comic Day, it’s also about being part of the community of hundreds to thousands of cartoonists all doing the same thing on the same day and then sharing their work with each other. So I don’t think professionals doing what they do in a set time limit is forced and unnecessary. It is all a challenge.
I mean, if you can cook a whole five-course meal in an hour and it actually turns out good and delicious? You are an awesome chef.
Pranas I understand what you’re say about the community aspect of many artist all knowing that there are other artists working at the same time. That’s pretty cool. However, in those cooking challenges how often do you see corners cut, components underprepared, planning avoided, and bad results accepted as the final product… simply because there is not enough time in the challenge to do a proper job? If, as cooks, we always lived in the land of timed challenges life would lose fine wines, crockpots, BBQ, delicious pies and thanksgiving turkey.
I once purchased a box of 24 hour comics. Every single one of them looked unfinished in some way. I’ve continued to buy such boxes to support the community, but I rarely open them. There are so many challenges to good craft. Why introduce time as yet another? (Sorry for the length)
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I felt completely drained after my hourlies. Next year, I’m gonna make sure I don’t have a 5 hour car trip on the same day.
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
I totally missed doing hourlies entirely :(
((cartoonist shame!))
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:49 pm
I can understand why you’d feel proud of meeting this challenge, but when did this craze for professionals to do their craft with a timer actually begin? I blame the cooking channel where they make chefs produce cuisine, cakes, and what-have-you in x amount of time. Also on TV houses, cars, and motorcycles all need to be done in under an hour. It all feels a bit forced…and unnecessary… somehow.
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 am
@KatrinaGirl It’s all about challenging yourself and seeing how far you can push your craft and yourself. And for things like Hourly Comic Day and 24 Hour Comic Day, it’s also about being part of the community of hundreds to thousands of cartoonists all doing the same thing on the same day and then sharing their work with each other. So I don’t think professionals doing what they do in a set time limit is forced and unnecessary. It is all a challenge.
I mean, if you can cook a whole five-course meal in an hour and it actually turns out good and delicious? You are an awesome chef.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Pranas I understand what you’re say about the community aspect of many artist all knowing that there are other artists working at the same time. That’s pretty cool. However, in those cooking challenges how often do you see corners cut, components underprepared, planning avoided, and bad results accepted as the final product… simply because there is not enough time in the challenge to do a proper job? If, as cooks, we always lived in the land of timed challenges life would lose fine wines, crockpots, BBQ, delicious pies and thanksgiving turkey.
I once purchased a box of 24 hour comics. Every single one of them looked unfinished in some way. I’ve continued to buy such boxes to support the community, but I rarely open them. There are so many challenges to good craft. Why introduce time as yet another? (Sorry for the length)