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Featured Image: RedPhoenix |
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Newest Image: random dancer sketch w/ patterns |
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redphoenix's favorite artists: |
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| Prepare to be blown away. |
| | A true pro... just an awesome French comic artist... |
| | Go check out my wife's gallery!!
She makes the most adorable art. Her screentone/selective color technique is effective and original. |
| | Great dynamic lines and straightforward coloring. Throw in some badass style, and you have jack, my friend. |
| | Just look at her freakin gallery and let her awesomeness blow your mind. |
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redphoenix's favorite websites: |
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| | J-List | amusing Japanese stuff as well as excellent reference material and some of the most awesome pens in the world |
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The Art Journey |
Posted: Feb/20/2008, 8:21pm
Feeling: betrayed; Listening To: Nikipol from the Gurren Lagann OST; Reading: Eden; Watching: Gurren Lagann; Reading: The Pillars of the Earth; Watching: ZEITGEIST
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As we constantly struggle to be the best that we can be, we sometimes look back and are often blown away by how far we've come so far. The artist's journey is a crazy roller coaster ride for the ego. Sometimes, you put your pencil to the paper and it's instant magic. You watch in amazement as it flutters over the page, spitting out the most incredible creation you've ever produced. Next sketch = disaster. You struggle with every single step. You grind down your eraser, redraw, erase, redraw every single line, maybe even ball up the page, chuck it and start over, still to no avail.
If you've ever found yourself lacking motivation, mark the date on all of your best sketches, stick them in a folder, a drawer, I don't care - just put them somewhere. In a few months, look at those sketches and laugh at how lame they are compared to your recent stuff.
The best thing you can do to improve your art is to play to your weaknesses. Sometimes, we sort of, not even meaning to, skim over the parts of a drawing we have trouble with, and instead focus on the parts we find most fun. Ironic thing is, the parts of a drawing I have the most fun with are also the parts I used to struggle with the most. I wish I had practiced more these last two years, but instead, I decided to focus on school, sleep, skateboarding, playing my guitar way too loud, partying, and watching too much anime. I still don't sketch nearly as much as I should, but there's a simple way to solve any problem you're having with art. Have difficulties drawing... say... hands? Get your pencil and your paper out right now and draw... guess what? a truckload of hands. Keep trying, observing, applying what you've learned, and, most importantly, having fun. There's no point in driving yourself so hard that you lose focus of why you started drawing in the first place. So slow down. You'll improve in time. Go laugh at some of your old sketches.
The one thing I can never yell enough into beginning artists' tender ears is OBSERVATION. Every human is born with eyes. The only difference between an artist and just some dude who likes to draw is in how he uses them. Look at the lines, curves, shapes, structures, and proportions of the objects and people around you. Make this a habit, and you'll just develop a natural ability to break down objects in a way that makes you more mentally ready to draw them. Once you develop the eyes of an artist, then there's no stopping you from drawing whatever you want and improving to whatever level you want to reach through practice.
The beauty of the art journey is that, no matter where we're at along our path, we're always the same distance from the end - nowhere near it. |
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