• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    92·
    13 days ago

    I find the (seeming) starfield below a confusing addition, but Larson didn’t seem to be in to hatching or grey-tones to indicate light levels… I guess.

    • addie@feddit.uk
      5·
      13 days ago

      The “rug with concentric patterns” was his Achilles heel for a long time - one of his book collections has a gallery where he’s fouled them up - and I see he’s bust one out in this cartoon. Probably decided to quit with large area of solid colour while he’s ahead.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        52·
        13 days ago

        I’m not sure I understand about the “rug,” but just to be clear-- I’m seeing a hole in the floor caused by a piano that crashed through. Instead of drawing an apartment below that logically should be lit up at least somewhat from the apt above, I’m seeing the ‘starfield.’ The lamp sticking up is almost insult to injury. 😄

        • abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
          4·
          13 days ago

          If you look on the right side of the comic, you’ll see a rug that is only half in frame. The commenter is discussing how Gary Larson (the cartoonist) has explained that he struggles with drawing that style of rug (and in this instance, it isn’t even fully drawn, probably on purpose). The commenter then explained that, because of the difficulty, Gary Larson probably just said “good enough” when drawing the downstairs apartment.

      • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
        22·
        13 days ago

        I don’t really see much challenge here. Just draw some simple lines indicating an apt below, and you’re done. It just means the lights are on down there, which is a reasonable take given that the implied joke is that the piano crushed someone.

        Or if you want to get ‘fancy,’ Larson already has some hatching lines on the side of the TV and the building opposite. Just use something like that. Literally any of those things would have looked more natural than the ‘starfield,’ altho I must confess I kind of like it just because it looks so out of place!