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A Change of Face
New picture for my LJ. Got tired of looking at me. (Imagine that) Anyhow, this is an Illustrator tracing of photograph I put up a while back. Blah. At least I played with line weight a little.
Its funny, Peganthyrus Made an entry yesterday about the very thought that has been plaguing me for days. Style. I have none. I've gotten reasonably good and producing accurate copies of things but I really lack style and dynamics. My artwork tends to feel very flat, staged, and static. I've really been trying to work on this in my animation class by simplifying characters and doing walk cycles. (I'll post some of these later in another post) But my methods all feel very mechanical and my results are uninspiring.
How does one gain style? I have tried to learn art by staying fluid in my mediums and tastes. I've done everything from sand castles and beach collage to oil painting on canvas, and while I think I've learned to render and represent fairly well, my art has all the style and grace of Trent Lott's head or a 1980's cubicle. I can copy other people's styles with fair accuracy but even in copying lineweights and curves and angles and colour schemes I still somehow manage to snuff the life from my work. On a larger scale, this is a problem with my life as a whole. I have to wonder what is wrong with me.
Anyhow, enough angst. Moving on to brighter things.
-Samantha
Its funny, Peganthyrus Made an entry yesterday about the very thought that has been plaguing me for days. Style. I have none. I've gotten reasonably good and producing accurate copies of things but I really lack style and dynamics. My artwork tends to feel very flat, staged, and static. I've really been trying to work on this in my animation class by simplifying characters and doing walk cycles. (I'll post some of these later in another post) But my methods all feel very mechanical and my results are uninspiring.
How does one gain style? I have tried to learn art by staying fluid in my mediums and tastes. I've done everything from sand castles and beach collage to oil painting on canvas, and while I think I've learned to render and represent fairly well, my art has all the style and grace of Trent Lott's head or a 1980's cubicle. I can copy other people's styles with fair accuracy but even in copying lineweights and curves and angles and colour schemes I still somehow manage to snuff the life from my work. On a larger scale, this is a problem with my life as a whole. I have to wonder what is wrong with me.
Anyhow, enough angst. Moving on to brighter things.
-Samantha
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