Attention grabbing title ne?
If you’re too lazy to read the whole thing, at least review the bolded sections.
I don’t usually write entries like this, but I feel like I need to
vent some of my feelings/ plans for upcoming art. It may be good for aspiring artists and other artists who are having trouble appreciating their own artwork, to review this short entry. I’ve been thinking about it for a few weeks.
This is in no way some sort of plea for attention, nor am I asking you to shower me with silly compliments. For god’s sake, please refrain from them. It's merely me, ranting about art.
To make it plain and simple, my art is
lacking something.
Perhaps this thought arises because I've been staring at my same old pictures for soooo long. After such a long time, I’ve begun to hate them all, and I crave to crumple them up and throw them into my DA scraps bin.
But
the largest contributor to this has been my recent observation and appreciation for realism within Anime.
I have come across several pieces of art that strike me so strongly that I feel my me head spin with awe and jealousy, and my stomach turns, yearning to spend all day at home with my sketch pad and pencil, trying to compose pictures that can be seen through the shadow of these drawings.
The art I talk about is not what you’d usually suspect. They’re not well colored, or shaded, and it is possible that a very short amount of time was spent creating them, but only a good artist can see just how excellent they are underneath. Hell, half of the time, the artists themselves don’t even realize what master piece they’ve created.
To all the artists out there: Our art may be well drawn, and it may look pretty, but if it holds no feeling, no hidden meaning, no passion, then it's nothing.
Regarding the future of my art…
Because of all that, and regardless of the fact that I haven’t drawn hardly anything in the past month (due to the consistent amount of homework I’ve been receiving)
I feel that
my style is changing and will be changing dramatically.
I have taken a strong liking to pencil drawings. Simple lines, black and white, shaded, pencil drawings. You can achieve so much detail with a pencil.
But I almost feel guilty for wanting to post things that look like simple sketches.
I also want to make my style more realistic and put more focus on anatomy.
And I’m sorry to break it to you , but I’m going to try to branch off from SasuSaku a little bit. I don’t intend to forget about them, but I’d like to draw more Naruto characters as well as Final Fantasy 7 characters.
Gradually I think my art will be taking a large change, one that you may not like, but you’ll have to deal with it.
*phew* ok I’m done.
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