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Aug. 18th, 2010 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellanaSo I got a letter in the mail yesterday. Apparently the local art club that I won a college scholarship from is planning to put together a gallery of work by their scholarship recipients, and they want no more than 25% of the work to be NFS. RSVP date is September 1, and they're estimating a showing in December.
Meaning this could be a really good opportunity to not only get my artwork "out there", but to potentially make a little cash. The only problem is all my art is OLD, and there's nothing I'm proud enough of to sell, and I'd be embarrassed to show a lot of it. (Plus a ton is FAN ART which is a no-go, obviously.) And actually, during high school we worked from National Geographic magazine photographs a great deal. I hadn't quite grasped the "change it up and make it your own so it's not copyright infringement" rule yet. I also REALLY NEED A PORTFOLIO. I have essentially nothing to show, even if a job popped up that I wanted (which has sorta-kinda-almost happened already). So... yeah. This could potentially be a really awesome opportunity to get myself back in the game.
The question is... what sort of media/subject matter would work best? I'm thinking... landscapes, nature, still life... I know a lot of people don't even consider comic/animanga-style to be "art" (btw, I do, as long as it's "artistic"), so I wouldn't even bother taking more than one anime-inspired piece, if that. Then again... should I really limit myself to "safe" subject matter? Or should I try something a little different? (Don't get the wrong idea... all my art ends up being "cute".)
Media... eh... I could get away with colored pencils or acrylic no problem. I'm not as sure about marker work. Maybe if it was really detailed and had "texture". Watercolor I basically fail at. Maybe mixed media. Honestly, I'd rather get a bunch of thick canvases that I wouldn't have to cut out matboard for. Matting and mounting artwork is such a pain, and so many things can go wrong. I have several nightmare stories of the adhesive spray making a mess and getting everything sticky, or of cutting mats crookedly. /s-sob.
So yeah. Thoughts? What I really need to do is set some sort of a goal for myself. Like X_number of arts a week. And I need to finish old trades/requests while I'm at it, too.
Meaning this could be a really good opportunity to not only get my artwork "out there", but to potentially make a little cash. The only problem is all my art is OLD, and there's nothing I'm proud enough of to sell, and I'd be embarrassed to show a lot of it. (Plus a ton is FAN ART which is a no-go, obviously.) And actually, during high school we worked from National Geographic magazine photographs a great deal. I hadn't quite grasped the "change it up and make it your own so it's not copyright infringement" rule yet. I also REALLY NEED A PORTFOLIO. I have essentially nothing to show, even if a job popped up that I wanted (which has sorta-kinda-almost happened already). So... yeah. This could potentially be a really awesome opportunity to get myself back in the game.
The question is... what sort of media/subject matter would work best? I'm thinking... landscapes, nature, still life... I know a lot of people don't even consider comic/animanga-style to be "art" (btw, I do, as long as it's "artistic"), so I wouldn't even bother taking more than one anime-inspired piece, if that. Then again... should I really limit myself to "safe" subject matter? Or should I try something a little different? (Don't get the wrong idea... all my art ends up being "cute".)
Media... eh... I could get away with colored pencils or acrylic no problem. I'm not as sure about marker work. Maybe if it was really detailed and had "texture". Watercolor I basically fail at. Maybe mixed media. Honestly, I'd rather get a bunch of thick canvases that I wouldn't have to cut out matboard for. Matting and mounting artwork is such a pain, and so many things can go wrong. I have several nightmare stories of the adhesive spray making a mess and getting everything sticky, or of cutting mats crookedly. /s-sob.
So yeah. Thoughts? What I really need to do is set some sort of a goal for myself. Like X_number of arts a week. And I need to finish old trades/requests while I'm at it, too.
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Date: 2010-08-18 08:36 pm (UTC)I used to take it really personally when people were like "oh anime isn't art blah blah". Now perhaps not so much, but it's definitely still something I love looking at, and like drawing for myself. I've seen some absolutely wonderful stuff out there for the art style, so I can't really agree with the people who say it's any bit "less art" than anything else.
And yeah. As a matter of fact I have never taken a proper PROPER figure drawing or anatomy class. Lol. I mean, I think it was in advanced drawing that we did a TON of figure drawing (mostly lounging), but we never really went over the basics of how things go together and move. I remember when we had nude models I was embarrassed and intentionally obscured "certain things". Haha. ^^; I think anatomy is probably my biggest biggest weak point, tbh. (That and I'm LAZY.) Definitely something worth looking into.
At some point I feel like they started taking the "study" out of art. I hate studying, so I didn't really worry about it too much. And sure, there was lots of stuff to learn in graphic design, but as far as traditional art, my teachers kind of let me go and I don't think I was ready to be let go yet. :/
I think the hardest part is to make yourself keep going when it sucks and you don't feel like it. Hahaha. OTL
WE'LL SEE HOW THIS GOES. XD Thanks.
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Date: 2010-08-18 09:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, I feel like alot of times, depending on the environment mostly, when a young person has a talent, people tend to encourage it without also incorporating foundation because they think they don't need it. While some youths will evolve without much assistance, that is not the case for everyone, which is totally fine. Doesn't make them any less skilled or artistically mature.
If you're not too keen on live figure drawing (I have not done any past stock photos really lol tho I'd like to) some good books you can look into are the Glenn Vilppu Drawing Manual and Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators. Betty Davis's books are also very good resources. Tbh, most of my study in the past couple years has been from books, as my art classes really do nothing for me :|
BUT YEAH OK I'LL STOP NOW LOL. KEEP ON TRUCKING YOU CAN DO IT.