Louis "Lou" Gagliardi / Ash Franzetti / Alex 'Ace' Maddox / Tegan Ainsley / Taryn Amita / Diana / gothickitteh / ashkat724 / Lynn Brooks / @acekatt - #T R A M S _ C R O W _ F U N D *buys 12 iPads* "Anyone got $600 they can spare?" *spits on cancer patient*

[PBJ Sucks]

Ah, yes the essence of improving your art. As a high schooler I fancied myself an artist, by which I mean to say I spent hours on graphite pencil drawings of my favorite video games. There's so much to practice with just grayscale and lines, let alone digitally. What I did didn't look terrible, but was also definitely below the artwork you have all critiqued so harshly.

Point is if I comparatively sucked with the hours and days and weeks I obsessively put in with just pencils and paper, Louie has a looooong way to go until better equipment would enhance his art. It will look just as shitty digitally if not more as it will on paper. If I was to pick drawing back up today I wouldn't even consider a tablet. A scanner if I was selling my stuff... Which I wouldn't right out the gate. More likely I'd find communities and post my works freely as I produced them until I had an audience and a portfolio, then maybe start talking money.

 

[Doggo]

I knew I forgot to post something earlier...

I don't know why it surprises me, I really don't, but as a massive car guy myself, I did find it at least a little funny. I would've thought they were enough of a cultural phenomenon that even if you're not a car guy, you'd still have some idea who they are.

But me thinking lou is in any way cultured? Surely I give too much credit.

The only thing cultured about lou is the bacteria in the foot, and the rest of the body for that matter.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

I knew I forgot to post something earlier...

I don't know why it surprises me, I really don't, but as a massive car guy myself, I did find it at least a little funny. I would've thought they were enough of a cultural phenomenon that even if you're not a car guy, you'd still have some idea who they are.

But me thinking lou is in any way cultured? Surely I give too much credit.

The only thing cultured about lou is the bacteria in the foot, and the rest of the body for that matter.

Well m8 you see they are fookin' anglo Limeys who oppress Lardo Retardo's genuine authentic Irish roots, so obviously he wouldn't know them.
Plus James May is an arsonist.

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

Lou is too fucking old to learn how to draw. If he'd had any sort of talent he'd know how to already and instead would just be refining what he can already innately do. But to start from scratch? At his age? It's not like cooking or carpentry; it's an art. There's no recipe or instructions.

Eh, you can do it. Honestly, in his position? He's in the prime position to do it; he has no responsibilities. He could sit there for literal hours a day banging out the basic shapes to get the muscle memory built. He could pour over all of the free tutorials and pirate the ones that cost money, and sit there for hours a day doing the work and putting it in; imagination is something you'd have to cultivate by then, yeah, but most furries want the same doll-like body shapes with some floof drawn over top of it. Look at a lot of the big, expensive commissions and you'll be puzzling at where the technique goes.

A lot of drawing is mechanical, and a lot of coloring is similarly mechanical -- know how things work, how they interact, make your hands do the proper movements and motions. It takes a lot of people a lot of time because you have to balance life responsibilities with going through all those iterations. Sure, he'll never be a professional artist that works for a studio or something; but if he actually put in the grind, in maybe four years he could, from his shit-tastic stance now, churn out decent stuff. Hell, in a year or two, he could probably take commissions from weird furry autists who have no fucking taste and apparently can't ID quality.

But he'll never do that. He'll never sit down and put in the hours and grind. He'll never leaf through all the tutorials and classes and teeth-cutting it takes to pick up any of that shit. He'll draw something shitty, pass it off as good, get frustrated that no-one wants his shit, and convince himself he needs a tech upgrade as the secret sauce to take him to the next level.

 

[Lurk]

I can't believe you biggots are shitting on Lou's autistic artistic abilities! Just look at this and try to tell me it doesn't have the makings of a masterpiece!

 

[Sintharia]

As other folks have already mentioned, shiny devices don’t suddenly make you an artist. It’s practice and work that creates the skill. If Lou was serious about being an artist, he’d put the effort in with a pencil and paper first, before putting the money into expensive tablets (the better of which he’s already sold off, twice). This is also true of his grift for the computer for writing.

But we all know these are just excuses to make people sympathetic and give him what he wants.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Why Lou always lyin'? Why Lou always lyin'? Ohhhmygaaaawwwwd!!!!

And why is Louie worrying about bread NOW when his nephew doesn't even go back to school for at least another month? Does he expect that bread to stay fresh until the middle of January? And if the family really is in such dire straights that they can't afford a loaf of bread, then Christmas gifts are the last thing Louie should be talking about. He should be asking for gift cards to grocery stores a coupons to go with them to stretch that money as far as possible. Not Android devices.

But that's how you can tell Louie is full of shit and the food situation in their house is just fine. If they really were going hungry then Louie wouldn't be putting expensive electronic "pipe dreams" on his wish list and Mama Gags would be begging for help getting food on her Facebook. I'm reminded of the movie poster for Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. Just keep repeating to yourself: It's always a grift...always a grift...always a grift...

If he didn't sternly turn down the offer of actual food a couple days ago, I bet it would have contained some bread.
I'm still having trouble rectifying not having bread and the nephew allegedly going to school next month. Was he that desperate to throw in his louman shield that that is all he could come up with?

 

[BoobWhiskers]

Lol, Lou won't learn to draw. Not to say that he CAN'T, because (while I might be biased since I draw myself) I really do believe anyone can learn, but Lou in particular won't.

Spoiler: art sperging and mild PL

When I was a wee boobwhisker, getting ready to go back to school after working for a while, I took a 'remembering how to do the whole school thing' year at a local community college. The area I lived in had a lot of older folks who were hitting retirement age, and a ton of them would take the Drawing/Painting 101 courses there because they suddenly had a bunch of free time and wanted to pick up a new skill (there were so many of them that the school actually had to put a limit on how many times you could repeat the figure drawing class because it was 99% older folks).
A lot of these people had literally never picked up a pencil before, but the school had a really great intro teacher and the people in the class were really eager to learn and enthusiastic about it. I was legit blown away by how much they picked up in a single semester, it was more than I saw some students pick up over the first few years in art school just because they took it SERIOUSLY. They wanted to learn and they wanted to be there, and it showed.
There was also a little old chinese grandma who sat next to me in class and brought me persimmons from her garden, she was the best.

Anyways, the moral of the story is that Lou is in an ideal situation to pick up any skill, he's got infinite time to practice. But he won't, because the only thing he's ever worked at in his life is taking other people's money.

 

[JoyQ]

He’s already owned a dozen tablets. If he was going to learn he would have already started.

 

[Blonde Bomb]

Tools don't make you an artist, whether it's coloring, writing, dancing, playing an instrument, etc. Yes, they can help, but talent is developed through education and discipline. Misty Copeland can still dance beautifully without her $300 custom pointe shoes. Eric Clapton can still play amazingly well on a cheap guitar. Edith Head could craft a gorgeous dress out of a tablecloth. Meryl Strep could give a monologue of the phone book that would probably make you weep. And while the people I've named surely have some natural 'talent', they've also spent years honing their craft and never grow/grew complacent.

You don't even have to be 'one of the greats'...you just have to have a passion, dedication & the willingness. You never rest on your laurels. And Lou has none. I'm sure the slightest criticism and he's raging on Twitter. Being an artist is also taking criticism. You either rebuff it or learn from it & get better.

 

[Mr Foster]

Maybe he can use all his unused tablets to build a friend that can tolerate his bullshit.

 

[Lurk]

To expand on the the whole bread thing being tied to his nephew not going to school - this may have something to do with the nephew not benefitting from eating free school lunches? I'm a UK fag so this might be completely irrelevant but I know that at least over here, many poor households rely on feeding their children via free school meals because they can't afford to buy the extra food themselves. The poorest families receive free school meals for their kids, I think this even includes breakfasts in some circumstances, more well-off families I believe still have to pay towards them (I have no kids though but this was how it was when I was at school admittedly a fuck load of years ago). So this could explain Momma Gag's vague Facebook post about it too, that she now has to buy extra lunch food for the nephew and hide that shit from fatty fat fat uncle Lou.

If this isn't how it works in the US then forgive me, I suck cocks yadda yadda yadda.

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

To expand on the the whole bread thing being tied to his nephew not going to school - this may have something to do with the nephew not benefitting from eating free school lunches? I'm a UK fag so this might be completely irrelevant but I know that at least over here, many poor households rely on feeding their children via free school meals because they can't afford to buy the extra food themselves. The poorest families receive free school meals for their kids, I think this even includes breakfasts in some circumstances, more well-off families I believe still have to pay towards them (I have no kids though but this was how it was when I was at school admittedly a fuck load of years ago). So this could explain Momma Gag's vague Facebook post about it too, that she now has to buy extra lunch food for the nephew and hide that shit from fatty fat fat uncle Lou.

If this isn't how it works in the US then forgive me, I suck cocks yadda yadda yadda.

I didn't go to this particular school district, or any ones adjacent to it, but having gone through a public one in PA - when I went, there were three different levels. There were free lunches, reduced-fare lunches, and full-price lunches; I believe full price at the time was like $1 and reduced-fare was like $.40. Breakfast was also offered, though my mind is blanking on whether the full-price kids were allowed to get it; I think they were.

I don't recall the exact income levels for my time, but I found this handy-dandy chart.

The thought of Lou eating food that's supposed to be for his nephew, like how you'll have pets sometimes going for one anothers' food, is a pretty damn funny one.

 

[In the Sick of It]

To expand on the the whole bread thing being tied to his nephew not going to school - this may have something to do with the nephew not benefitting from eating free school lunches? I'm a UK fag so this might be completely irrelevant but I know that at least over here, many poor households rely on feeding their children via free school meals because they can't afford to buy the extra food themselves. The poorest families receive free school meals for their kids, I think this even includes breakfasts in some circumstances, more well-off families I believe still have to pay towards them (I have no kids though but this was how it was when I was at school admittedly a fuck load of years ago). So this could explain Momma Gag's vague Facebook post about it too, that she now has to buy extra lunch food for the nephew and hide that shit from fatty fat fat uncle Lou.

If this isn't how it works in the US then forgive me, I suck cocks yadda yadda yadda.

I'm not sure about the kid's school district, but a lot of counties across the US continued to serve lunches if they could to try to help that issue. Some even had buses going around doing dropoffs, and adults could also purchase meals at reduced prices.

 

[Next Task]

The thought of Lou eating food that's supposed to be for his nephew, like how you'll have pets sometimes going for one anothers' food, is a pretty damn funny one.

It would be just like any Amazon wish list he put up 'for his nephew'. No matter how juvenile, no matter how much it looks purely aimed at a developmentally delayed six year old, any food or presents Lou says he wants to buy are for him and him alone.

I don't think he's ever proven us wrong whenever we've thought the worst of him. Ever.

 

[Rich Evans Apologist]

I'm not sure about the kid's school district, but a lot of counties across the US continued to serve lunches if they could to try to help that issue. Some even had buses going around doing dropoffs, and adults could also purchase meals at reduced prices.

Assuming that the nephew's in the Greensburg-Salem school distrct, it looks like they were doing that in the spring.
According to the FAQs on Health and Safety Plan,

Students will go to the cafeteria to get their lunches and will eat in the cafeteria at assigned seats that are at least 6 feet apart to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Students can bring in their lunches from home, but should not share food, straws, or have bites/sips of other students’ food or drink. Students will use hand sanitizer when entering and exiting the cafeteria. Students will throw their garbage in the cafeteria trashcans after they have finished their lunch.

...so I dunno, this was clearly written before the schools all shut down again. This is the same closure that was announced earlier in Nov, yeah?

There's no mention in this article from today as to whether the Grab and Go for Salem-Greensburg is still in place, but it does mention it for other districts.

 

[JaneThough]

The new grift is the most insulting one yet. I've mentioned several times I work in the art industry, and one of our top selling artists came from literally nothing, poor on the streets in South America, and he drew on literal garbage to get himself started. Now he's a multimillionaire who celebrities collect. Every artist we represent had pretty humble beginnings and did not let anything stand in the way of their passion. There's a little thing called paper and a pencil, Lou. Start there, and you can even do commissions for people with just that.

 

[Piss Bear]

lol.


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[PBJ Sucks]

It just occurred to me that another very good reason (piled on top of the others) to question Lou's level of involvement in the kid's life... We have no idea what this kid even likes. Spiderman? Octonauts? Mario bros? Lou probably does have some idea, he can hardly avoid hearing about at least some of it. But it's a testament to how little thought he spends on this kid that he never speaks of him as a person. He treats his nephew like a cutout that he can prop up when he needs him and then put aside the rest of the time.

Wonder what that item he has on that list for his nephew is, and if it just happens to be something Lou would also like. Or if it's something like the charlie brown movie where the kid probably doesn't care about it, but Lou thinks he should.

 

[Iron Hamster]

Maybe he can use all his unused tablets to build a friend that can tolerate his bullshit.

I picture him building a fort in his bedroom with them.

It just occurred to me that another very good reason (piled on top of the others) to question Lou's level of involvement in the kid's life... We have no idea what this kid even likes. Spiderman? Octonauts? Mario bros? Lou probably does have some idea, he can hardly avoid hearing about at least some of it. But it's a testament to how little thought he spends on this kid that he never speaks of him as a person. He treats his nephew like a cutout that he can prop up when he needs him and then put aside the rest of the time.

Wonder what that item he has on that list for his nephew is, and if it just happens to be something Lou would also like. Or if it's something like the charlie brown movie where the kid probably doesn't care about it, but Lou thinks he should.

That's why he's the louman shield.