10-13-2015, 06:27 AM
@Jeso, great work man, on the freelance and the oil stuff. keep that shit up!!!
@Book: Ok, so here's the point where you take your low ebb, the critique that might have smacked you on your ass by showing you something, and use that as fuel to push you on! I have seen the work you are capable of doing, esp. "just copying" those master value studies. You have a great eye for observation and putting that observation down. We all get downhearted when it comes to doing it "from imagination" and we are nowhere near the same level of proficiency.
I am starting to loathe this trope that is spewed by almost every artist that we MUST be able to do everything out of our own head or it is worth nothing Well sure, if you practice and practice that will happen as a byproduct but as a goal...it's pretty much pointless. Nobody but other artists even care if you produced a piece of work using reference or straight out of one's head. Like who really gives a shit at the end of the day? Your work is your work, the process is important to us as artists and we must care about it, but it fades away once a work is complete.
So, don't worry about wasting my or anybody else's time with our crits. If you feel like hiding that's cool, sometimes it is necessary, but also, remember that we are here to help and are doing it because well shit, why bother being alive if you don't think helping others is a useful thing to do just because? The other thing is, you ARE improving with everything you do, you just don't see it. The improvements aren't always directly visible, they are like single grains of sand, that only really become easily visible once you have piled enough on top of each other to create your own little art sandcastle.
and now some words. Only watch till 5.30, it starts getting annoyingly materialistic afterwards :)
@Book: Ok, so here's the point where you take your low ebb, the critique that might have smacked you on your ass by showing you something, and use that as fuel to push you on! I have seen the work you are capable of doing, esp. "just copying" those master value studies. You have a great eye for observation and putting that observation down. We all get downhearted when it comes to doing it "from imagination" and we are nowhere near the same level of proficiency.
I am starting to loathe this trope that is spewed by almost every artist that we MUST be able to do everything out of our own head or it is worth nothing Well sure, if you practice and practice that will happen as a byproduct but as a goal...it's pretty much pointless. Nobody but other artists even care if you produced a piece of work using reference or straight out of one's head. Like who really gives a shit at the end of the day? Your work is your work, the process is important to us as artists and we must care about it, but it fades away once a work is complete.
So, don't worry about wasting my or anybody else's time with our crits. If you feel like hiding that's cool, sometimes it is necessary, but also, remember that we are here to help and are doing it because well shit, why bother being alive if you don't think helping others is a useful thing to do just because? The other thing is, you ARE improving with everything you do, you just don't see it. The improvements aren't always directly visible, they are like single grains of sand, that only really become easily visible once you have piled enough on top of each other to create your own little art sandcastle.
and now some words. Only watch till 5.30, it starts getting annoyingly materialistic afterwards :)