Yey, an update!
Here's first one quote (that I find really inspiring) that I want to share you:
”From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy five I have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundered and ten everything I create, a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokosai, but today I sign my self “The Old Man Mad About Drawing.” (“The Drawings of Hokusai, “Introduction by Stephen Longstreet, Borden Publishing Co.)
Here's again some of the stuff I've been doing since my last update. They are all fairly quick studies to practise values, proportions, gestures, perspective, etc.etc. Sorry If I've posted some of these already, I can't remember lol. These are just somehing I've done. I've started to learn a lot of anatomy etc. and started to work really hard cause I've decided to become bloody awesome one day :D
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| Movie screencap study |
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| Movie screencap study |
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| Eye studies from a book |
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| Some gestures from Loomis art book |
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| Anatomyy |
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| Stuff from magazines |
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| Anatomyy |
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| Stuff from Loomis art book |
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| Something very cool and unique awesome stuff!! No wait, anatomyy. | | |
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| Gestures made from posemaniacs |
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| From da Loomis again. |
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| Still-life study |
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| Stuff from magazines |
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| Photostudy. Photo from www.portrait-photos.org |
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| Still-life study. |
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| Still-life study |
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| Movie screencap study. |
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| Photo study |
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| Still-life study |
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| Stuff from magazines |
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| Photo study. Ref again from portrait-photos.org |
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| Still-life study |
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| Still-life study. |
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| Still-life study. |
There are some exceptionally good drawings here. You should not under rate yourself in any way. You can draw anything that you put your mind to.
ReplyDeleteI guess the difference between drafting (technically excellent drawing) and art is that with art you have something to say: something you have to express because you can't live without it, or maybe an expression of love/inspiration/wonder/beauty that you want to make.
Do you have a child yet? What if you found (wrote?) a really great story and knew that your kid would read it and see your illustrations and soak up the beauty of them, something that would last them a lifetime. Find something you LOVE. That's the essence, the only reason, the driving force of art...
ok I'll get off my soapbox now...damn good drawings by the way:)
Hey thanks very much Steve! Glad you like my drawings! :) Well I don't have kid yet, but really hoping to have one day though. Children's book sounds very interesting, but that might me something that I'll give it a try after I have children of my own. These drawings are mostly studies and that's why they are propably pretty boring. My goal is to learn to draw stuff from my imagination one day. Like human realistically, and that is why I am doing these studies so much now. I know I should do more personal stuff from imagination too, but I think I will make them more after I've reached longer in my studies :) I'm also hoping to find my own style and the thing that I really want to do with art during this "education" trip. Anyways, thanks much and glad you stopped by!
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