This was all freehand. Next one in this style I’ll be using other tools to get the lines a bit cleaner.
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Shit. Helluva lot bet than I could do!
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Never asked… Did you go to school for this? Relative passed it on to you? Just something you picked up naturally?
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Amazing man
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Damn thats gorgeous!
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I was incredibly lucky. Like anything else it’s just tons of hard work but I also had great direction - my start reads like a story about a classical painter.
Basically my father also really enjoyed painting and Art and when I was around 5 years old (I was already drawing all the time) I said “I want to be an Artist” and he said “You can’t yet. You’re too young - you need to experience life before you can be an Artist. What you can do right now though is learn the most important thing - how to draw the human body.” (my father never really spoke down to us - even though I had no idea what “experience life” meant he still thought it was important to take what I said seriously)
So he gives me books on the old masters and George Bridgeman’s complete guid to drawing from life.
In the beginning I’d get mostly encouragement/praise with a bit of direction but as I got older he would critique more. By the time I was in highschool he’d tell me if he thought something was garbage or failed miserably in getting a message across etc. Sometimes he’d be right - but I was confident enough in my ideas that I could either defend them and tell him why I thought he was wrong or take on board the criticism.
Also - from a very early age I’d have the following lesson hammered into me (and one that I’ve applied to every other discipline that I’ve been interested in - like BJJ or Chess) “If you want to get good at something you love you’re going to have to spend a LOT of time doing stuff you don’t want to do. It’s 90% grunt work and hard study - people only ever see the 10% that’s the result of inspiration”.
Another thing that was heavily emphasized was that I could create in any crazy way/style I wanted to or felt a strong pull towards but it’s imperative that I get a level of technical proficiency before doing so. Basically the only good Abstract Art you’ll see out there is done as an expression of freedom - in that the Artist is able to do whatever they want and that the abstract is where they’re being pulled. A person who does abstract art because they can’t do anything else isn’t doing so out of freedom but because they are forced to by their own insufficiencies.
So while I never went to school for Art, I’ve had a fairly well-guided self-education over decades.
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Awesome!
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Figured, “Still Life” was going to be a corpse or zombie.
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Where are the bewbs?
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