Creative Cogitation

In this sec­ond paint­ing inspired by Roll Play Games online, I draw upon the idea that any­one can become any­thing and be suc­cess­ful at it.  One of my friends who was hav­ing a hard time in the Big Blue Box sev­eral years ago, but online she did become mas­ter of her guild and empress of her uni­verse.  Too bad suc­cess in the real world doesn’t seem to cor­re­late well with cyber­space, but who knows maybe cyber­space is becom­ing the new “real world.”

I admit I used to play Dun­geons and Drag­ons back in the 70s; of course in those days play­ers would get together and play face to face — some­times we even took it “live” roam­ing through the city “adven­tur­ing.”  I even played an “online” ver­sion on a com­mu­nity college’s main­frame, but back in those days there were no graph­ics — just a series of events that would be trig­gered if you inputted a rec­og­niz­able response.  Games have come a long way.

CMAP (Cover My *Butt* Parter), by Jake Beck­man. As they near the entrance to an omi­nous look­ing cas­tle, the house finch gamer turns to his rap­tor buddy and asks him to cover his butt.

This image is inspired by what I con­sider the grand­fa­ther of RPG online, namely D&D.  Adven­ture awaits those who dare to enter the fore­bod­ing cas­tle, but it is always good to have friends look­ing out for you even online.

For more details about CMAP see its art page at AKAJake.com.

Any com­ments? Do you like it, hate it, think its too dark, think its funny?…”

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

The art work in this blog is fed­er­ally copy­righted. All repro­duc­tion and pub­lish­ing copy­rights are retained by the artist. Images are not to be copied, re-distributed, imi­tated, derived OR oth­er­wise used in any form with­out the explicit writ­ten per­mis­sion of the artist.