 do what we think others want.
Maybe it’s time to look at a different medium to help you if you still can’t see what others would think of as cheesy. Let’s look at the movies. Most of us understand what I think of as the ‘Hollywood Language of Movies’. We know what things mean. We know a montage means time is passing and a map with a dotted line means travel. We know a shot fading to darkness means the hero is becoming unconscious.
This rather foolish film was moving along at a typically cheesy rate until they introduced the femme fatale/ villainess of the story, played by Sienna Miller. She jumps out of a helicopter wearing: a cat suit. A black leather catsuit with high heel boots. What remarkable lack of imagination led to this costume decision I can only imagine. If you remember in Austin Powers, Elizabeth Hurley is wearing a black catsuit which they have chosen deliberately to be rather kitschy and 1960’s. They picked this costume based on rather obvious messages.
With apologies to the photographer.
For many of us, a black cat suit is forever reminiscent of Catwoman in the old 1960’s Batman series. Putting our villainess in a catsuit seems so old fashioned. When we see someone in a catsuit our brain says baddy: no thinking necessary. It’s like seeing a chap with a curly moustache in a black cape.
In the scene where she first appears, she is surrounded by her goons, military men in khaki military clothing. Why is she not also in military garb? Why does she appear to have escaped from some old man’s fantasy in her tight black leather?
We learn later in the film that she used to be a good person before she became all twisted and bitter, and rather appallingly, she used to have blond hair then. But now she is bad she has black hair. Goodness; could there be more corniness? Or more racism?
Whilst it’s easy to identify cheese in movies, it can be mighty hard in art. As the language of art is less well known to us than the language of movies. But if you think about the characters in that movie: how flat and one dimensional they are, it might give you a little clue about cheesiness elsewhere. And when we think of recently beloved on screen characters like Walter White in Breaking Bad or Tyrion in Game of Thrones, what works so well is that they are atypical; full of both flaws and good points. In real life people are not ‘the baddy’ or ‘the goody’. In cinema multi dimensional characters work when they have elements that work in contrast.
Why am I so against corny movie moments? Because they’re boring and predictable. You learn nothing new when you watch a movie where you can absolutely predict what will happen next. It brings nothing you don’t already know into the world. And in a way, really corny art is the same.
And for me one of the most beautiful things in art making is that it tells me something about the world or the artist that I didn’t already know. It makes me see something in an unexpected way, or something that didn’t even exist before. It doesn’t have to be huge or absolutely amazeballs. It can be a small charming moment, that someone has carefully wrought. They have put themselves into this piece and now they are sharing it with you.
A painting of fruit: it doesn’t matter how many times I see it I never find it dull. Or a sketch of the human form. Always worth doing. Or a handwoven basket.
Lets think of some ways to go beyond that typical moment.
I was reading a book with watercolour techniques and exercises, and they gave an example of how to paint a ‘bridge in springtime’.
It’s not spring.
And there are no beautiful streams with soft green banks anywhere nearby.
I tried to think about why I was attracted to this exercise. I think the very fact that there’s nothing like that in my life, such a pretty scene and so romantic. Sometimes I just want to paint water lilies too.
And of course people want to paint pretty scenes because they think they will sell better, and perhaps they will. But think about what you want to paint and why.
So I tried to think about what I could paint somewhere not too far form where I live that would satisfy those urges and the techniques in the exercise. Not far from where I live there is an area where factories back on to the local somewhat scungey river, but there is actually spot where waterlilies grow. Romance meets industry, contrast and interest.
When you explore what you want and why, you are being yourself.
Can you transform something cheesy into something interesting?
When you are making art, think about whether you are doing something the way you want to, or doing it the way you think it should be done.
Don’t give the villain a curling moustache and a black cape. Unless it’s a lady. That might be fun.

This entry was posted on October 17, 2020 by makingartme in Ideas and tagged bad art, cheesy, corny, film, old fashioned, original ideas, saccharine, sentimental, watercolor, watercolour.
The trouble with that in my personal view is it doesn't encourage a player to look at it and see real value early on. I don't want it OP like living weapon and there were some ridiculous things we could do...yet from the start LW was good because you still had all your base moveset. So it was easy to see the value of it. Though people did get nuts with extending it with stones and other nonsense later.

I think that most players are going to invest in skills that grant their character skills all the time, rather than the few moments you get in the shift form. Even if those end up quite good when you have enough. Which also makes it tough.

For example the shiftling tree excites me because it's where I get to pick up elements to add to attacks. Which is great! I plan to look into making the shift stuff better now...but i'm level 60ish. So when I needed that extra power most, I couldn't access it. Now that I feel super strong in my normal form, I can start to make my'super form' actually good. Maybe front loading it a bit more would have been wise? At least letting it last a bit more. 

It is certainly other people are more inclined to invest in it early but it's hard to even experiment with because of how rarely it is available (until once again you have resources). I may be missing out on huge awesome bonuses but because it feels so scarce early on, it always goes to the back of my mind.

So while it gets good and clearly has a way to make it actually quite strong...it's so far off that it makes it feel underwhelming and even bad/rare to use early on. The lack of being able to mess with it is also frustrating.Sound of man speaking in a political rally over loudspeaker in street.
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