{"id":865,"date":"2004-03-06T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:32:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T22:32:09","slug":"865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/865\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Ware: Simultaneously inspired and depressed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simultaneously inspired and depressed!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I took a look through the art books at Shipley&#8217;s on Charing Cross Road (formerly known as Zwemmers) and got both inspired and depressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/acme\/acme.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Ware&#8217;s<\/a> &#8216;Acme Novelty Datebook: Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile 1986-1995&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ware is the cartoon genius behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.januarymagazine.com\/artcult\/corrigan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Corrigan<\/a> and his Acme Novelty Datebook is a collection of smudged illustrations, wry observations, half finished ideas, short strips and witty sketches from his sketchbooks.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s good. Bloody good! Such a body of work can only inspire, but the depressing bit came when I looked at my pitifully under-used sketchbook when I got home. It&#8217;s crap! I felt completely &#8216;umbled!<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, I&#8217;ve barely used a sketch book for ages and reading through Ware&#8217;s book makes me realise how much I used to enjoy sketching.<\/p>\n<p>When you&#8217;re sketching  a scene, you can become completely immersed in what&#8217;s going on around you &#8211; the architecture, the light, passing people&#8217;s faces, the sounds and the weather &#8211; and it can be a great feeling. Time flies by and you&#8217;re left with a really strong memory of a certain point in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, it doesn&#8217;t even matter if the end result is crap &#8211; like a lot of things, it can be the sheer joy of just <em>doing<\/em> that makes the experience worthwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Mike makes note to self: must sketch more!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simultaneously inspired and depressed! I took a look through the art books at Shipley&#8217;s on Charing Cross Road (formerly known as Zwemmers) and got both inspired and depressed by Chris &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sQI7P-865","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}