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Post by erol_otus on Apr 14, 2009 11:11:40 GMT -5
Hey, Here's my online (static) portfolio. I really appreciate any feedback. I also have some new videos you guys would like, but I'm not saisfied with the quality on youtube for one of them and the other one's too long for youtube. Anywaays, here it is: mplain.carbonmade.com/
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Post by tacomaster89 on Apr 14, 2009 23:45:31 GMT -5
Id say my favorite are the two cameras and the military portrait. You may be righ--the sketch of the military portrait has a better appeal to it--but the final is obviously well done, and to me more interesting. Maybe if you feel like it you could make a bigger/more detailed version closer to what the sketch communicates. I like the cameras simply because you express something beyond the physical portrayal of the cameras. As far as your other more stylized/abstract drawings--they are detailed and nice looking, very well done.
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Post by erol_otus on Apr 15, 2009 0:35:25 GMT -5
think the ones you mentioned are my best technically. i tried hard to give the two types of cameras the distinct personalities which i associate with them.
think i like my sketches more than anything, but probably just because i have the most fun drawing those/i dont really think about the philosophical aspect to them while creating. the first three drawings (the jumbled ones) were fun to draw too, it was like playing tetris, i would just react to the shapes of the indents i created.
but... "one is not always the best judge of the value of his own artwork" -a pretentious admissions counselor.
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Post by tacomaster89 on Apr 15, 2009 0:47:26 GMT -5
"I dont think about the philosophical aspect to them while creating" Amen to that. That is probably something I had to un-learn from my two years in IB art. But yeah the sketches are just classic matt plain..I like the cameo of your comic characters
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Post by erol_otus on Apr 15, 2009 1:40:16 GMT -5
well, i didnt really mean to completely bash philosophy in art. i like sketching for pure escapism sometimes (though personal philosophical views inherently subconsciously leak through), but i think its important to deliberately say something with one's art. creation is a battle between theory/ambiguity/catharsis. a great artist should not only have the ability to know what to put in, but should also know what to remove. and remember, beautiful execution can't save a stoopid idea.
tl;dr: PHILOSOPHY IS STILL IMPORTANT IN ART, BUT SHOULDNT DOMINATE A PIECE
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Post by tacomaster89 on Apr 15, 2009 17:39:53 GMT -5
I dont know, to me nothing is really important in art and nothing is unimportant. Some of it is beautiful to me and some of it is not. Some things I personally find beautiful I may not even view in the way the artist intended. I best understand a philosophy and what it means to me after reading about it and/or discussing it with stupid people. At the best what a piece of visual art does is help me identify my feelings, no homo.
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