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Aug 18, 2010 11:34

So 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 ( Read more... )

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cherryfox August 18 2010, 20:36:34 UTC
Whoa WALL OF TEXT. Hello. Actually it was very helpful.

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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kai_lan August 18 2010, 21:04:50 UTC
lol I'm glad my words were useful!

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.

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