The slide of a Hogarth etching in the Power Point presentation made me think about how incredibly tedious it must have been to do all that cross-hatching in the background. I imagine that it would have been fun to draw all those laughing faces but then – to do all those straight lines behind them? Tedium. Absolute monotony.
This made me think about the point where I gave up on working through Lynda Barry’s Making Comics book.
To keep reading The Tedium Scale visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 452
Song: Everything Is Boring
Image of The Laughing Audience by William Hogarth is from the 1730s
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