BILL WATTERSON - “A Cartoonist’s Advice”

Don’t mess around with Mahjuti...

To recruit a thousand soldiers is no great challenge. To find a general to lead them is far more difficult.

Veil of the Gods character study with the latest typeface I’ve been working on.

These are some of the final paintings I've been working on since just before my diagnosis of stage 4 cancer. I don't have more than a week left but I'm still creating and hope to be right up till the end.

Ziggetai

“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.”

— Mandy Hale

Video games employ two basic motivations to keep players engaged. These are termed Extrinsic motivation and Intrinsic motivation. Games based on, or balanced in favour of, Intrinsic motivation keep you engaged because playing the game is a lot of fun. The entertainment value you get from the game is enough reward in itself. Extrinsic games are designed around the drive to earn lootboxes. Extrinsic games are intentionally designed to be addictive. They specifically exploit the human brain’s tendency toward gambling addiction. This is why people who play extrinsic games tend to suffer higher rates of depression than people who play Intrinsic games. With Extrinsic games there's always a feeling of withdrawal as soon as the players can’t play the game. Now, I want you to consider how much things would change if we, the players, all ignored the Extrinsic motivations that arise when we play the game of life and focused a bit more on the Intrinsic experience... 

Inspiration.

Peder Mørk Mønsted (Danish, 1859-1941)

Ponte Campovasto, 1914

Oil on canvas

50.5 x 84 cm

Private collection

Okay. I know. I'm supposed to be resting. But there's nothing like a terminal diagnosis for inspiring me to get as much created as possible before I go.

Playing with animations for Veil of the Gods…

Inspiration.

Hasui Kawase (Japan, 1883 - 1957) 

Shinkawa Riverside, Handa, Bishu 1935

Woodblock Print.

Inspiration.

Kasamatsu Shiro (Japanese, 1898 - 1991)

"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.

Woodblock Print, 38,6 × 26,5 cm.