Heh.I must have missed the whole Dave episode during my b3ta vacation.
I will admit that it is even starting to creep me out a bit, but any more so than a squirrel with tits? However, if anything the work I do in drawing or print, I hope conveys if anything a sense of innocence. A simpler time, if you will. A sweater hanging off shoulder is about as suggestive as I get and as always 100% tentacle free. Its a very fine line, one i hope not to cross. Part of the driving force between these drawings is that I was getting frustrated with some of the prints I was making -- Its hard to make a good woodblock when you struggle with just getting proportions correct, for example. And also it is ridiculously easy to just toss on the manga style eyes and such. I think, no I know I am, rather stuck drawing these -- it's one of the few things I can draw and draw fairly well, especially considering five years ago I'd be hard pressed to draw a stick figure. It's a bit of a cop out and being lazy -- 'well, this landscape isn't working out, so, back to what works....'. But at the least, I try to post these in the late late shift to avoid forcing down people who are bringing the funny.
What I would love to do is end up with a style like Kaoru Kawano (Google image search him if you'd like). It seems that abstraction should be easy, but is still really difficult for me...
I hope that explains a bit where I'm coming from.
(I will admit that it is even starting to creep me out a bit, but any more so than a squirrel with tits? However, if anything the work I do in drawing or print, I hope conveys if anything a sense of innocence. A simpler time, if you will. A sweater hanging off shoulder is about as suggestive as I get and as always 100% tentacle free. Its a very fine line, one i hope not to cross. Part of the driving force between these drawings is that I was getting frustrated with some of the prints I was making -- Its hard to make a good woodblock when you struggle with just getting proportions correct, for example. And also it is ridiculously easy to just toss on the manga style eyes and such. I think, no I know I am, rather stuck drawing these -- it's one of the few things I can draw and draw fairly well, especially considering five years ago I'd be hard pressed to draw a stick figure. It's a bit of a cop out and being lazy -- 'well, this landscape isn't working out, so, back to what works....'. But at the least, I try to post these in the late late shift to avoid forcing down people who are bringing the funny.
What I would love to do is end up with a style like Kaoru Kawano (Google image search him if you'd like). It seems that abstraction should be easy, but is still really difficult for me...
I hope that explains a bit where I'm coming from.
Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway...,
Thu 26 Apr 2012, 12:33,
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It still doesn't get away from the fact you are depicting a child with tits in a state of undressI think you're on very dodgy ground.
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hekim 66 ÉŹĘš ŹÉnā² uooW,
Thu 26 Apr 2012, 13:31,
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fair enough, I concede that.although I'd ask, what makes it a child? The face? Hair? Eyes? All of the above? And how far off shoulder could I take the sweater -- or am i doomed to draw turtlenecks and anoraks in the name of full coverage? Although the simplest solution is really, to put away childish things -- I've learned what I can from this style and to move on. Which I shall do.
Thanks for the input, perhaps what I needed to move on. Posting things with never getting challenged on them won't help me move on artistically speaking.
(Thanks for the input, perhaps what I needed to move on. Posting things with never getting challenged on them won't help me move on artistically speaking.
Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway...,
Thu 26 Apr 2012, 13:59,
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