Spontaneity of the hand

Anonus

I know we're on the '60s stage in the 50-year cycle but I really hope the window for revisiting 1950s spontaneity-of-the-hand design hasn't closed again

Salix Babylonika

explain this concept to my ignorant ears please

Anonus

Manifesting itself in another form, but it's this general idea. This loose, informal-but-controlled aesthetic.

Anonus

Also, Jim Jinkins's style and thus that of Doug is heavily influenced by those principles.

Crystal

I wish I could contribute to this thread, but I do appreciate it.

Tre

Anonus said:

Manifesting itself in another form, but it's this general idea. This loose, informal-but-controlled aesthetic.

that's an interesting look, if I do say so myself

(The "doodling on simple photography" thing. Seems like it would be cool for cover art or something.)

Anonus

Pickle and Peanut seems like a modern version of that

Tre

You're right.

I really do want to watch more of it, I know it probably isn't Actually Great the way some of its contemporaries on Disney XD are/were but I like that it seems to understand that and doesn't care

like, sometimes you just want a show about a pair of dorks being dorks -- there's a reason the formula's stuck around for as long as it has

Sredni Vashtar

I know you've seen Kaiba, but I think that you might appreciate some of Masaaki Yuasa's other work for this exact reason. I mean, Kemonozume is pretty much nothing but this: