WANTED: Goulish portraits for Critics Gallery!

[WildCherry]

Taking Dan's advice, I've decided to assign a humorous character to my inner critic. I haven't got time to make a graphic image of him at the moment but here's the low-down on his character:

My inner critic is an Ebeneezer Scrouge type of guy so I'll call him Eb. He's really more crow than man and he's always dressed in a fusty black. He has one of those high Victorian desks so that he can look down on everyone over the top of his pince-nez (but especially me!) and a huge, old-fashioned, leather-bound ledger in which he scratches endlessly with his quill pen.

In his ledger, Eb keeps a very one-sided set of records: He records every negative thing anyone has ever said about my creative work. He has a column for positive input but he never records anything there because he always comes up with an excuse as to why any positive remarks are invalid!

Being a scrouge, he hates to see me playing and having fun with my art and he tut-tuts at any money I spend on nice shiny materials. "Waste, waste, waste!" he mutters, shaking his feathery black head. He especially hates my box of pastels: "Kiddies crayons!" he calls them. "You can't make real art with those!" he scolds, waving a curved claw at my face...

Ok, you get the picture! Why not add a portrait of your nasty inner critic - visual, written or otherwise recorded - and add to the Goul's Gallery? Perhaps if we put them all together they'll be too busy trying to out-critic each other to bother us any more ;-)

[Hannah]

Haha! I bookmarked this! For mine, I think I will scan in a pic of my mom and dad. Only my IC forbids it. LOL!
Thanks -- really loved this.

[WildCherry]

Fight off that IC Hannah!

[Hannah]

You've given me boxing lessons!

[Hannah]

No, karate lessons! You know, where you use your opponent's strength (the Inner Critic's dismissiveness) against him?

[Dan Goodwin]

Cherry this is a brilliant idea, I love it...

Your IC sounds like the kind of Ebenezer Tim Burton would come up with of he directed a remake of A Christmas Carol...

Going to send a message out to all 'spacers to get a rogues gallery of inner critics going...

Dan

[WildCherry]

Great, thanks Dan. I feel I've made a major step forward even being able to view my critic with a sense of humour!

[Dan Goodwin]

Good to hear. That's why it's a powerful exercise, brings the inner critic out of the shadows where it lurks with intent and does damage under cover of darkness. out in the open it's far less able to hurt you...

[WildCherry]

I've just realised, that contrary to what you would think, Eb doesn't like getting up early. If I get into the studio by 7am, he's still asleep on his perch with his head tucked under his wing and I can get a couple of hours creating done in peace! What are the ways other people fool their critics?

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

My IC has the same traits in that regard, WIld Cherry ... early mornings are just not her cup of tea.

I started this Soul Collage card a while ago, didn't really consider it finished, didn't like looking at it, and it's pretty ghoulish! I thought of the red haired girl as my angry inner child, dragging skeletons around behind her ... she may very well be IC as well ...

and here's another one ... me trying to fool myself with the heart shaped glasses into thinking it's for my own good , but really out for sabotage ...

[WildCherry]

That first one is really interesting Barb. Maybe its the presence of the skeleton that is driving the girl to be so demonic. Really she just wants to relax with her mandala...I think maybe the skeleton is your inner critic not the little girl...WDYT?

[Barbara Ann Storrier]

That's very possible, WIld Cherry ... that laughing skull is rattling around after me, asking and asking and asking ... "Well aren't you just special? Are you really going to eat all that? How come you haven't fixed this yet? You call that good? You want to what? Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaa!"

[Lin Neiswender]

Are those your rose-colored glasses, Barb? We all need those from time to time... And was image one your little ghoul???