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I just want to be strong! AT DRAWING
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But seriously, the best advice I could offer would be to:
-- Continue to observe the world and people around you.
-- Continue to draw, and to experiment with new techniques, new topics.
-- Consider the points offered by any number of books on formal technique, anatomy, perspective, and so on.
-- Pay close attention to the great artists and illustrators of the past, because they can show you the power of certain techniques, the clarity of their observations... and because they can liberate you from the clichés and dead-ends of contemporary art. (Walt Kelly would agree!)
Your work already shows great personality, warmth, and charm; in fact, you draw some of the most likeable pictures on FA. None of these qualities will vanish if you broaden your range of techniques and topics... because these qualities come from you.
Mark
-- Continue to observe the world and people around you.
-- Continue to draw, and to experiment with new techniques, new topics.
-- Consider the points offered by any number of books on formal technique, anatomy, perspective, and so on.
-- Pay close attention to the great artists and illustrators of the past, because they can show you the power of certain techniques, the clarity of their observations... and because they can liberate you from the clichés and dead-ends of contemporary art. (Walt Kelly would agree!)
Your work already shows great personality, warmth, and charm; in fact, you draw some of the most likeable pictures on FA. None of these qualities will vanish if you broaden your range of techniques and topics... because these qualities come from you.
Mark
Also, as I see it, there is no conflict between inspiration and craftsmanship; the two go together, inseparably.
As we train ourselves to do certain physical tasks, at the same time, we train our minds to think in certain ways... and as we acquire physical skills, we also prepare our minds for a new kind of receptivity. That receptivity leads to inspiration.
In other words, if you spend a lot of time learning to draw, learning to control a line, learning to see, you also lead your thoughts (conscious and subconscious) into modes of visual and imaginative perception that might not have been open to you, had you not spent so much time learning and practising.
In that sense, craftsmanship opens the door to inspiration.
Mark
As we train ourselves to do certain physical tasks, at the same time, we train our minds to think in certain ways... and as we acquire physical skills, we also prepare our minds for a new kind of receptivity. That receptivity leads to inspiration.
In other words, if you spend a lot of time learning to draw, learning to control a line, learning to see, you also lead your thoughts (conscious and subconscious) into modes of visual and imaginative perception that might not have been open to you, had you not spent so much time learning and practising.
In that sense, craftsmanship opens the door to inspiration.
Mark
Inspiration is never enough.
I can think of certain artists who show genuine imagination, but a definite lack of technical skill; Michael Kaluta, for instance, or Berni Wrightson, neither of whom ever learned to draw the human figure, to compose images effectively, or to convey a sense of movement or action. (Wrightson in particular seems all the more technically weak when compared with the artists who inspired him, like Franklin Booth or Graham Ingels.)
I can also think of artists like Philippe Druillet: very inspired, but hardly able to draw. When inspiration fades, they have nothing left to build upon.
These artists have had long careers and many fans; but their technical standards are much lower than other, equally inspired or even more inspired artists.
At the same time, inspiration is capricious; it comes and goes, unreliably.
In my view, waiting for inspiration is like waiting for lightning to strike; the odds are against you, and even if it happens once, will it happen again? But craftsmanship can developed and owned; for that reason, it becomes a more stable foundation for consistently good and interesting work.
Mark
I can think of certain artists who show genuine imagination, but a definite lack of technical skill; Michael Kaluta, for instance, or Berni Wrightson, neither of whom ever learned to draw the human figure, to compose images effectively, or to convey a sense of movement or action. (Wrightson in particular seems all the more technically weak when compared with the artists who inspired him, like Franklin Booth or Graham Ingels.)
I can also think of artists like Philippe Druillet: very inspired, but hardly able to draw. When inspiration fades, they have nothing left to build upon.
These artists have had long careers and many fans; but their technical standards are much lower than other, equally inspired or even more inspired artists.
At the same time, inspiration is capricious; it comes and goes, unreliably.
In my view, waiting for inspiration is like waiting for lightning to strike; the odds are against you, and even if it happens once, will it happen again? But craftsmanship can developed and owned; for that reason, it becomes a more stable foundation for consistently good and interesting work.
Mark
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