Visualizing "Fear has much imagination but little talent"
January 26, 2022 5:01 PM Subscribe
I'm trying to create a medium sized line drawing illustrating the phrase "Fear has much imagination and little talent" but I'm blanking on ideas for it. There are at least two basic interpretations 1) "Fear makes things look really scary even though they're harmless" and 2) "You can get carried away with being afraid of something but you're not accomplishing anything" but any other interpretations would be fine as well.
Either of the above suggestions with a human figure running away from it.
posted by irisclara at 7:21 PM on January 26, 2022
posted by irisclara at 7:21 PM on January 26, 2022
Something might spark: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScaryShadowFakeout
I'm keen to see what you come up with!
posted by adekllny at 1:48 PM on January 27, 2022
I'm keen to see what you come up with!
posted by adekllny at 1:48 PM on January 27, 2022
Three ideas:
#1. An "ambiguous drawing" that looks like something scary/frightening when viewed one way but is something completely harmless when seen the other ways. Like the old woman/young woman illusion but it is horrible fanged dracula vs. a cute kitten type of thing.
#2. A cartoon type illustration where a young kid is in bed in the dark imagining what is lurking under the bed etc and then this is contrasted with what is really there. So in a thought balloon, say the upper half of the illustrations, you see the horrible monsters and all that the kid is imagining lurking under the bed, in the closet, and around the room. Then in the main panel you see the exact same scene except it is obvious that each monster or terror the kid is imagining actually just a cardboard box, a fluffy stuffed animal, and other completely harmless and cute kid-bedroom stuff that happens to be in the dark.
#3. If you can figure out how to illustrate procrastination, "carried away with being afraid of something but you're not accomplishing anything" is about what it amounts to.
posted by flug at 2:57 PM on January 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
#1. An "ambiguous drawing" that looks like something scary/frightening when viewed one way but is something completely harmless when seen the other ways. Like the old woman/young woman illusion but it is horrible fanged dracula vs. a cute kitten type of thing.
#2. A cartoon type illustration where a young kid is in bed in the dark imagining what is lurking under the bed etc and then this is contrasted with what is really there. So in a thought balloon, say the upper half of the illustrations, you see the horrible monsters and all that the kid is imagining lurking under the bed, in the closet, and around the room. Then in the main panel you see the exact same scene except it is obvious that each monster or terror the kid is imagining actually just a cardboard box, a fluffy stuffed animal, and other completely harmless and cute kid-bedroom stuff that happens to be in the dark.
#3. If you can figure out how to illustrate procrastination, "carried away with being afraid of something but you're not accomplishing anything" is about what it amounts to.
posted by flug at 2:57 PM on January 27, 2022 [1 favorite]
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posted by MadMadam at 5:17 PM on January 26, 2022