Darktiste Sketchbook

[Tristan Berndt]

A critique? I mean, what's going on? It seems like you're content with what you're doing, like you don't try to do something more than exactly what you do. I'd compare this to asking for a critique of a smiley face, what are you supposed to say? It's a smiley face, you can't ask for more realistically represented face because the point of the smiley face is to be the most basic representation possible.

With just about everyone else, it's very clear what they want to do. They're aspiring to make something at a very high level and they fall short and it makes it very easy to offer critiques advice. This on the other hand, doesn't seem to aspire to be anything more. It doesn't take any risks outside of your comfort zone, doesn't go for anything that requires careful drawing, doesn't try to show naturalistic light or form. Like, can you point to a work of art and say "that is what I was trying to do"?. That would help everyone out because right now, it just seems like you're trying to make drawings that look like your own drawings and there's no "critique" appropriate for that.

Have you thought about just learning how to draw? Like, can you look at something and just accurately represent the form and impression? That's where you can find valuable things to discuss and critique. I don't want top psychoanalyse you but is this a kind of "I don't try so therefor I can't fail" type of thing? All your "studies" seem so abstracted that people seem confused at what's going on.