I’ve been pretty hard on myself recently, because I’m not making as many things as I want to make. Yes, I filmed a season of Tabletop, and did a bunch of voice work for various things, but I consider that professional work, which is different from personal creative stuff.
So this morning, while I was talking myself out of and into and back out of giving myself a grade for May’s Reboot status, I had this stupid idea that was amusing to me, and I made this:
I call it The Dark Side of the Moo, because I’m easily amused.
I’m sure I’m not the first person to do this, but that didn’t make it any less satisfying for me to draw and color it.
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That cow has a snazzy nose ring
It’s a Mooicorn
Thank you, that made my day.
That is made of awesome! Lol! (Now I’ve got “Us & Them” stuck in my head. Thanks, Wil! 😛 ) I personally think if something we create makes us smile, then job well done. If it makes someone else smile, even better!
Well, for what it is worth, you made me laugh.
Astronauts never landed on the moo, nor did a cow jump over the moo. Keith David could do both tho.
Try to be soft on yourself, maybe you’ll like it better.
I think you meant to say you’re easily a-moo-sed. I’ll show myself out.
It looks cool to me, like something Ali Spagnola would paint.
I’m going to go ahead and give you full credit for being the first person to do this, because I’m sure others thought of it but yours has a nose ring and his black spot kind of looks like a bunny.
These things matter.
We are not amoosed.
It should hang in a mooseum of modern art.
Pink Floyd did an album on farm animals, but I can’t remember if there were cows. Anyway you might be the first to draw a full spectrum bovine.
Cows are all over their album Atom Heart Mother.
Yeah, this is actually Atom Heart Moon.
I forgot about that one. Their older weirder stuff.
Never stop doing things that amuse you. I started a mosaic with high hopes. It got uglier and uglier. So I decided to see how ugly I could make it. I found I’d very amusing and stupid. It was great fun.
You are THIS close to an Indian rope burn.
Non Judgemental Ninja says you are awesome Wil! He also told me it’s OK that I don’t know how to draw him with punctuation and have to use lame emojis.🏆🐮🌈
The Dark Side of the Moo is in fact the title of a rather good bootleg album of early Pink Floyd rarities and B-sides:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moo. But its cover art is less clever.
Is that where the Secret Cow Level is…?
The day you wrote about writing, early this week I believe, I had decided to start writing again. So i’m writing fiction for 10 minutes a day with the intent of over some number of weeks reaching an hour by adding 5 minutes each week.(I’m not good at math, either) Some of the things I write I know aren’t original but it’s more for me and my mental health then to be a best seller, I don’t think i’ll ever try to get published. I love the cow and the title so what if other people have done the same thing? that’s fine in my opinion it’s ok to sometimes do something that has been done before as long as you don’t act like it was completely original. It’s like being stupid to me, it’s ok in my mind to be stupid but it’s not ok to be stupid and arrogant. and the same for being smart
I don’t normally comment on your blog. I know the mental tap dance of being hard on yourself for not being/doing enough.
Not only is this funny as fuck to me, but when I showed my husband, he cracked up and made that great crinkly smile that I love so much. We laughed together and your creation (however punny) was a great success in our house.
Thought you needed to know.
Or are you easily a-moo-z’d? & was I the first to think that? Probably not; I’ll read the other comments now.
I have started singing again… nothing overly ambitious to start… but daily taking a moment to tap into the creative side of myself is helping me in all other facets of life.
I also am trying to reach out to my fellow humans in a way that doesn’t feel too threatening or trigger too many anxious thoughts (such as commenting on your blog).
It’s astounding to me how even commenting fairly innocuously can feel soul baring.
And now there is something there that wasn’t there before. Hang in there. We don’t walk through this life alone.
You want to do something creative?
Proposal: Write a module for the DMS guild.
Don’t be hard on yourself at all! Just wanted to let you know that I was recently hospitalized for MDD and you definitely gave me a +2 on the saving throw to ask for help with your bardic Inspire Courage. I’m still here because I made that roll, so keep doing what your doing. You have no idea whose life you might be changing. I’m still working on getting my meds/head straight, but making progress.
(And I found your picture oddly “moooving”) 🙂
So thank you for being you!
Longtime lurker, first time commenter. I have mental illness myself, and I often get angry when I’m less than productive too. Remember though, life isn’t a competition, even against yourself. Creating less doesn’t make YOU less. Your brain has circadian rhythms just like your body, and accepting it just might be the cycle of time your mind’s taking to marinate on things is difficult when the need to make something is making you feel restless. Taking care of yourself in body and mind isn’t “losing” or “slacking” when you can’t do all the things you want to do, even if it really feels like it is. Trust me, I know the feeling of having prepped art supplies at the ready, fresh sheets of paper in front of me, and NOT KNOWN WHAT TO DRAW or not drawing because you want to DRAW ALL THE THINGS AT ONCE and your brain can’t decide. It’s paralyzing. Maybe scheduling in time to create works, like actually blocking in ‘creative time’ into your planner or whatever. Maybe putting a drawing app on your phone so you can doodle when you have an idea would help. What I do when my creative juices can’t be squoze for whatever reason, is just enjoy consuming the things around me, the shows, books, comics, whatever. If I can’t output, maybe doing some inputting will help. But… in any case, you can only be you, and you can only do what you can when you can, and that’s just fine. You’re doing great, Wil. It’s okay to readjust your pace. Don’t give up.
Don’t know what motivated me to comment this on this particular post, but I do like cows and rainbows.
Correction. I like hamburgers and rainbows. Close enough.
“Draw and color it?”
Dude – check out Photoshop. I’m not nearly as creative as you are, but the tool makes it SO easy to create it’s not even funny. And it gives you options you wouldn’t have with a set of colored pens.
There are tons of tutorials on YouTube that got me hooked. I recommend Phlearn, Howard Pinsky and Tutvid (in that order)
Heh… put it up for a charity auction on EBAY or something similar… Oh, oh, oh… and remember to scan it as well so the rest of us lamers who cant afford the meeeeeliooon bucks it will fetch, can buy a 5-15 US$ poster to support said charity… this made me smile – Take care Wil