Today I decided to take a stab at my minimalist style of art. It was a lovely idea that I hope to find more success with tomorrow, but today’s endeavor was one frustration after another. The first problem is that I am currently at a friend’s house pet-sitting, so I don’t have access to all
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Talent is overrated, and placing all the emphasis on this one minor factor tells people that if they don’t have “talent”, that if it doesn’t come out perfect the first time with little to no effort, that you’re just doomed to mediocrity, so why try at all? Art is for those with “talent”. I call bullshit. Creating art is for those with enough passion for it to do all the hard work that it takes to build the skills you need to be able to make tangible what you see in your head.
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This is another prompt from a daily drawing group on Facebook, but this time I attempted hatch shading. Human faces are terribly hard for me. It’s not at all accurate to the reference. I also tilted the image slightly and lost the feeling that she is leaning forward, and had more than a little trouble
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Graphite pencil HB, B, 2B, 4B in my sketchbook, ~4 hours of work. The drawing is based on a photo of silent film actress Betty Blythe.
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For my emotional wellbeing, I need to reclaim art as an active part of my life, and to do that I need to rebuild my fundamental skills, which are really suffering after six years of almost no fine art (drawing/painting). Rebuilding fundamentals requires sketches and studies, a practice I attempted to start months ago, and
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Originally many separate posts, made between September 2 and November 3, 2010. September 2, 2010 October 1, 2010 October 29, 2010 November 3, 2010
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Originally posted September 13, 2010. 8″x10″, bamboo pen and sumi ink on vellum paper~15 minutes This was drawn in class from a real dried artichoke. I was very happy with how it turned out. I need to get or carve myself some more bamboo pens in different sizes. Artichokes are related to cardoons and (more
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Originally four separate posts made on September 6, 2010. Speedball 512 nib on smooth white paper8″x5″~.5 hour of workDrawn with a bud vase and rose in front of me. The first homework assignment for my class was to make four drawings of the same subject using four different pens or nibs. For this one I
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This is a back-dated post for my archive project, where I am copying over every piece of art I have ever submitted to DeviantArt, with the original submission date or watermarked year stamp, so a complete archive of my work can be found on this website. Model: Glacier, photo provided by Zeek It’s a sketch of
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Originally posted December 15, 2006. This is a study sheet of canine head shapes. I do have plans to draw other similar study sheets, and decided to post it here so it would be available to other artists who might find it useful to view such things. I chose not to put it in my
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