07-12-2021, 10:22 PM
Shuty, while your points make a perfect sense to me I would disagree with you on "caring" about a painting. There are different approaches to learning, man. You can spend hours on a study to make everything look "right" and correct and learn something from it. I'm not doing that, because I'm not concerned about making that hand or that feet correct. Because there are other things than just an accurate drawing, like light and values, for example. I can correct the drawing afterwards if i want to push my image further otherwise i don't really care that much. I used to be really critical about everything that i did, drawings or paintings. That kind of mindset prevented me from actually doing the work. Now i don't care, because what's the point? If you want you can find flaws everywhere, even in masterpieces. It's about doing for me, not constantly saying to myself "oh, this looks off, that looks wrong". Fuck that man, I'm a painter not a critic. Well and if i want my paintings to be messy and textury? What then? I'm not trying to please anybody. I'm doing it for myself how i want.