08-14-2016, 09:05 PM
Looks good. Are you going to try and re-do the painting? I've always found it nice to try and start paintings over when I feel as if there is something fundamental to the image I'm missing. Sort of like giving a challenge a second chance when so you know where to avoid certain pitfalls as see if you can reach something further than before.
If you don't mind, I would like to offer a suggestion to how you approach your work. I get the sense in both your drawings and paintings that you're sort of repeatedly avoiding the main issue. This isn't to demean your work but rather to call attention to something that I believe would greatly help your learning. I get the sense that certain things are done as a shorthand for actually getting in and confronting difficult subjects. Let's take your drapery paintings as an example. Drapery is a difficult subject to paint because it has a very intricate drawing that needs to be captured properly as well as a lot of interplay between light and shadow. What this demands of us if we are to study the subject is to be very careful in our drawing of it as well as considering how color and light effects these forms. If we just jump in and scribble all over the painting, we've completely skipped the part where you carefully draw/paint it and go directly into something I would consider fairly mindless.
I would suggest putting a higher emphasis on clarity of information rather than complexity. All this scribbling you tend to do doesn't really add anything to the drawing, rather I feel as if it more a way to distract from other aspects of the drawing. What I mean by this is that the looser you make a drawing or painting, the easier it is to allow yourself to not properly draw/paint something. If you are forced to make a very tight drawing, like the work of Bernard-Romain Julien ( https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564...7074b1.jpg ) theres is more pressure put on the accuracy of the drawing and the proper use of information. This goes for both drawing and painting. The more clarity you have in your information, the more pressure you put on it and the harder you have to work to get it right.
Hopefully this hasn't been discouraging. I'd hope you see this as more of a challenge for yourself to implement in your workflow as you see fit :)
If you don't mind, I would like to offer a suggestion to how you approach your work. I get the sense in both your drawings and paintings that you're sort of repeatedly avoiding the main issue. This isn't to demean your work but rather to call attention to something that I believe would greatly help your learning. I get the sense that certain things are done as a shorthand for actually getting in and confronting difficult subjects. Let's take your drapery paintings as an example. Drapery is a difficult subject to paint because it has a very intricate drawing that needs to be captured properly as well as a lot of interplay between light and shadow. What this demands of us if we are to study the subject is to be very careful in our drawing of it as well as considering how color and light effects these forms. If we just jump in and scribble all over the painting, we've completely skipped the part where you carefully draw/paint it and go directly into something I would consider fairly mindless.
I would suggest putting a higher emphasis on clarity of information rather than complexity. All this scribbling you tend to do doesn't really add anything to the drawing, rather I feel as if it more a way to distract from other aspects of the drawing. What I mean by this is that the looser you make a drawing or painting, the easier it is to allow yourself to not properly draw/paint something. If you are forced to make a very tight drawing, like the work of Bernard-Romain Julien ( https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564...7074b1.jpg ) theres is more pressure put on the accuracy of the drawing and the proper use of information. This goes for both drawing and painting. The more clarity you have in your information, the more pressure you put on it and the harder you have to work to get it right.
Hopefully this hasn't been discouraging. I'd hope you see this as more of a challenge for yourself to implement in your workflow as you see fit :)
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