hypnagogue said:
hey, thanks for the piece zoob! Your art is really beautiful and fluid-- I can't believe you complained to me a while ago that you had a hard time getting your lines to flow (or something along those lines). No matter how you went about it, the end results on the abstract pieces is really elegant.
Wow, thanks! That's really nice to hear.
The thing about the lines is this: if you're doing, say, a human figure, the edge of an arm, say, can be drawn as one continuous line from shoulder to hand with all the curves corresponding to the proper muscles and features of that arm. I've met artists who can pretty much do that really nicely in one shot. I can't at all. I have to make that edge up of many joined line segments working on each curve separately, correcting each curve several times. Your drawings looked more like the former to me, where the lines looked to be smooth and continuous in one shot.
There's a certain range of lines that I can do that look smooth and flowing if I stick to the limits of what comes out naturally . In the colored pencil drawings I limit myself to that range. I couldn't go to a life drawing class and do a whole figure with nice, smooth lines: there are too many that are out of my range.
When I looked at your drawings, and also Gale's, I could see that, although they're not as
finished as mine, the basic elements you both
did demonstrate, were already better than mine. There were other people, too, who had strengths they could exploit if they wanted to, and probably be very good artists.
Question about your art-making binges-- what's it like?
It's like that "I'm really motivated" circuit from the thread in Mind & Brain has kicked in. I feel exited and motivated. I don't think I experience it as a catharsis. (That is more likely to be the case with writing.)
