Art thread?

[danniel]

I also sketch and am leaning more digital art, currently, here are couple of my personal work, i enjoy couples, soft yet strong feministic feel in my art. i used to share alot on Instagram, i had around 300+ posts but i removed them last year due to Meta AI  policies. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

18 hours ago, integration journey said:

Wow, really beautiful. 
how did you learn to draw like this? What do you recommend for newbies? 
I love drawing mandalas but I want to expolore drawing other things. 

G'day Integration Journey!

I was very privileged to be trained from first principles by my grandfather - a strange & macabre but renowned artist where I live.

I started with nothing but pencil, paper - 6 years (age 5-11), then pen/ink - 2 years, watercolour - 3 years. I semi played with Acrylic but went straight to oils really. I learned all the principles of graphic art: perspective, light, rule of thirds etc

My tips:

• 1) Repetition/practice. This is where reference material is king! I wish I had AI for prompts when I was learning from books (which was all I had in the 90s, as dialup internet would take 10 or so minutes to load larger graphics). I picked a subject and repeated it over and over. Until I could render it from imagination. Usually, to do this, you need to break the subject down to polygons or anatomy & build from there. AI prompts can spit out a reference to learn from now - enjoy this use
• 2) Light. This is a fundamental. Not only just picking a source of light in your image, and shading/illuminating accordingly, but learning how light & colour play. Picture an apple: I would never use blacks for shade. Ever. I look at an object, and I do not see green and black. I see the yellow in the light falling on it, the purple from the curtain beside it, the red from the glass beside it. Flecks of lilac are spots of light. You shade the object with these colours to create an 'impression'. Nothing about painting or drawing is about rendering in a realistic manner: it's about tricking the eyes to give an 'impression' of a thing.
• 3) Perspective. Vanishing points & rules of thirds. This is predominantly more about design and where ones artistic eye comes into it. You can paint or draw anything, but making it realistic or not, balanced or not, comes down to these elements. After a while practicing and researching, you gain the ability to tweak something tiny and fundamentally change an image. These small changes are usually linked to the vanishing point, perspective and balance.

I was quite gifted from a young age, so this comes into it for myself. But I also had years and years of practice. Being gifted means nothing if there isn't practice behind it. Being taught by a master is always an asset. While I do think I genetically inherited traits that made my talent flourish with ease: I also believe anyone can be trained to see and render with practice and dedication.

I see the world in a weird way now, fundamentally changed. But I learned art so young I don't know any other way. So much colour. Everything to me is so beautiful. So much so, I have trouble understanding others judgement of things/objects as ugly or unappealing. The fall of light against a man's cheek, the sloping lines of a woman's neck, the way colour shift in eyes, the beautiful texture of old skin... a gob of spit on the sidewalk

Creativity is mans power !

[Natasha Tori Maru]

12 hours ago, danniel said:

I also sketch and am leaning more digital art, currently, here are couple of my personal work, i enjoy couples, soft yet strong feministic feel in my art. i used to share alot on Instagram, i had around 300+ posts but i removed them last year due to Meta AI  policies. 

Beautiful - you have great talent and eye!

I think your 'feminine' flowing lines work well to create movement & play in the image.

Lots of skill to render something with minimal lines.

I like the staccato broken lines for the cat, illustrating a different texture there 

Andy Warhols early graphic advertising work encapsulates that sort of mastery