Anvar's Sketchbook till I get better

[Anvar Khamidov]

Hey guys, my name is Anvar. Have been drawing for a while now, and been looking for an art community for at least as long. Happy to be here even though the forum is not in it's prime anymore, I would really hope we can revive it to its former glory. Thanks!



Here are some studies I made yesterday. I took master paintings and used their lighting scenario to inform my decisions. I find straight up copying a master painting does not give you much in terms of gaining knowledge, it simply does not challenge you enough, so to make it more challenging and engaging, I added a little twist in a form of adding my own figure into the composition. What do you guys think?

[darktiste]

Hi.Sorry to inform you but the picture you provided is broke i suggest learning to post picture in here instead of relying on external website for the future.

As for using master work for light by personal take it that it not really about what someone did but understanding the different scenario it rather comparing master to inform your decision because you are in between A vand B because you can neither be A or B . You can't extract pattern of ''success'' or logic by isolating one artist there as to be a separation it that information that inform you about deliberate vs none deliberate decision making. For example why does the cast shadow fall opposite to the sun and why do successful artist understand that and utilize that concept to create realism. A rule come from accurate understand the interrelation of different concept via repetitive recontextualize of those rule under different scenario. By understanding the variable of the equation it no longer and abstract and naive observation but a increasingly inform understanding of the interelation of those different variable.


Yes you can compare an artist against itself but how will you know if he not misinforming you after all if you look at master before perspective was establish they did not properly understand the rule yet people would follow there misguided masterful work because it what was understood at that time. But it by comparing work from yesterday with work of to day artist that we can establish who is right and who is wrong.

As for recontextualizing someone else artwork that a step up from copying. But why not try to do that scene from a different perspective, change the time of the day, change the time period there is many way you can recontextualize a work without simply doing 1+1 but something doing the 1+1 is the clearest and safest way to experiment without giving yourself more than you can chew.

There even other concept such as caricature or doing the opposite of what you see that expand how you think. Going beyond copying and adding there concept such as subtracting ,multiplying, dividing, grouping, separating, fusing, reducing, shifting hue to name a few.