12-03-2015, 07:56 AM
Hey Lale and Flo!! Thanks so much for the compliments, I'm also always glad to hear people enjoy my general banter. And yeah, I think a lot of us artists, especially in online communities such as this tend to lean more towards work work work; there is an attitude that that is what you need to succeed - in my opinion, experiencing life in general is more important than being good at art. (I'm not the best example myself since I do spend a lot of time/energy practicing and have an on/off but generally bleak social life.) I think that doing things other than art, provided you still put in quantifiable effort towards improving your craft, will not only not deter progress but will enrich your work with new perspectives and an ability to see where you can work smarter and not harder -- I could rant on this subject endlessly, but I won't! This keyboard is really small.
By constructive drawing, I mean focusing on drawing three-dinensional forms as they connect in perspective, versus other drawing methods which focus on drawing the two dimensional shapes that make up a visual. Most artists tend to copy shapes and lines, "constructive drawing" draws while focusing on/thinking of the form, examples are such as Glen Keane, Jung Gi Kim, George Bridgman, Micheal Hampton, Michealangelo, etc.
I'm just popping by since I got necroed (I really appreciate the compliments!!) but since I'm here, the reason I have disappeared is because my laptop died, I can't use it anymore so as far as internet/contact goes I've been restricted to my phone. It's not worth the effort to get images up here for the moment - I'm broke, lots of new financial strain is on me - I have to pay back my student loans, my car quit on me two months ago. (Everything is breaking! Ah!)
Anywho, I'm not heartbroken about it or anything - I'm taking the opportunity to break old, terrible procrastination habits and really focus on self-improvement and my art. In any case, it's likely to be several months before I will update here again.
I'm going to pop by and leave some comments for you later Flo! I'm just on my work break atm and I'm almost out of time.
Keep working hard, crimson daggers!!
By constructive drawing, I mean focusing on drawing three-dinensional forms as they connect in perspective, versus other drawing methods which focus on drawing the two dimensional shapes that make up a visual. Most artists tend to copy shapes and lines, "constructive drawing" draws while focusing on/thinking of the form, examples are such as Glen Keane, Jung Gi Kim, George Bridgman, Micheal Hampton, Michealangelo, etc.
I'm just popping by since I got necroed (I really appreciate the compliments!!) but since I'm here, the reason I have disappeared is because my laptop died, I can't use it anymore so as far as internet/contact goes I've been restricted to my phone. It's not worth the effort to get images up here for the moment - I'm broke, lots of new financial strain is on me - I have to pay back my student loans, my car quit on me two months ago. (Everything is breaking! Ah!)
Anywho, I'm not heartbroken about it or anything - I'm taking the opportunity to break old, terrible procrastination habits and really focus on self-improvement and my art. In any case, it's likely to be several months before I will update here again.
I'm going to pop by and leave some comments for you later Flo! I'm just on my work break atm and I'm almost out of time.
Keep working hard, crimson daggers!!