Anything Artsy

[Anony]

On 7/17/2017 at 11:18 PM, Specs said:

I like the complexity of his costumes. It sure makes fan-art a challenge. Currently, watercolor seems to be the fastest way for me to get the color, detail and style of Yuzu's costumes on paper. Gradients are easy with watercolors. 

It allows for some really interesting interpretation and unique imagery that you can't otherwise achieve with simpler costumes. A lot of his costume has a lot of fluidity and an attractive abstract element that makes it easy to manipulate, vs. more "normal" costume that's absolutely proper and perfectly structured.... realistic Requiem is just painful tho, it's just p a i n f u l.

Also my medium of choice is graphite and ink, I love watercolours to bits for, but it's definitely not my strong suit as of now 

[Specs]

Since the thread is 'anything artsy' here's a sketch I did today, playing with the various levels of pencils from 5H-5B on rough paper. I usually don't go for intense detail or realism, but it's interesting to try. 

 

[kaeryth]

2 hours ago, Specs said:

Since the thread is 'anything artsy' here's a sketch I did today, playing with the various levels of pencils from 5H-5B on rough paper. I usually don't go for intense detail or realism, but it's interesting to try. 

 

 

I love it when artists show a different side to their style. If you just posted this and not said that you did it I would have never attributed it to you! But, still, wonderful to look at and very intriguing.

[Specs]

58 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

I love it when artists show a different side to their style. If you just posted this and not said that you did it I would have never attributed it to you! But, still, wonderful to look at and very intriguing.

Thanks! I'm interested in trying lots of styles and mediums. Pencils are versatile and have almost endless possibilities. One of my sisters does color pencils and pencils intensely and has great photo-realism skills. 

 

 

 

[kaeryth]

@Specs !!!! Those are amazing! I want to frame both of them and hang them on the walls of my bedroom. You and your sister must've come from artistic gene pools. Do you guys take inspiration from each other as well in terms of differing techniques and art style?

[Specs]

34 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

@Specs !!!! Those are amazing! I want to frame both of them and hang them on the walls of my bedroom. You and your sister must've come from artistic gene pools. Do you guys take inspiration from each other as well in terms of differing techniques and art style?

My whole family does drawing of various kinds as a hobby. So we've all been drawing since forever, we look at each other's art all the time. It's very inspirational to see their artwork and how quickly they improve. (they are younger than me, but much more skilled in their chosen specialties.) lol. 

[kaeryth]

13 minutes ago, Specs said:

My whole family does drawing of various kinds as a hobby. So we've all been drawing since forever, we look at each other's art all the time. It's very inspirational to see their artwork and how quickly they improve. (they are younger than me, but much more skilled in their chosen specialties.) lol. 

 

So you DO come from a talented gene pool. hehehe... Must be great to be around people that have the same hobbies/passion as you. Your younger siblings may be more skilled in their chosen specialties but you dabble outside your style of drawing and even drawing itself - I remember your Chopin inspired jewelry.

[Specs]

18 minutes ago, kaeryth said:

 

So you DO come from a talented gene pool. hehehe... Must be great to be around people that have the same hobbies/passion as you. Your younger siblings may be more skilled in their chosen specialties but you dabble outside your style of drawing and even drawing itself - I remember your Chopin inspired jewelry.

 the world is so full of amazing artists and styles, it's my personal wish to see and try as many as possible. And some artists are specialists and become THE BEST at one area, and that is awesome too. I look at Deviantart to find new artists and art. 

Where do you-all go to to see new stuff? 

[kaeryth]

5 minutes ago, Specs said:

 the world is so full of amazing artist and styles, it's my personal wish to see and try as many as possible. And some artist are specialists and become THE BEST at one area, and that is awesome too. I look at Deviantart to find new artists and art. 

Where do you-all go to to see new stuff? 

 

Devianart definitely. I don't have twitter or tumblr but there are a coupe of artists who showcase their works there and I have their sites bookmarked. I don't have the talent for art but I certainly like seeing/appreciating it.

[Sombreuil]

Went to the Hokusai exhibition at the British Museum last week - wonderful stuff though a bit spoiled by English people who seem to have forgotten how to queue.  Odd to be annoyed by people who are your contemporaries but are really there because they need to have seen it, to be able to say that, not because they actually want to see the art in question. Taking a young relative is very instructive when it comes to a fresh view of the art and the audience.  Good to have a 20 year old beside you behaving beautifully as a contrast to the middle aged/ elderly behaving selfishly badly.  

Big delays on the security checks which I hadn't thought of but would obviously be in place.  

[SparkleSalad]

2 hours ago, Sombreuil said:

Went to the Hokusai exhibition at the British Museum last week - wonderful stuff though a bit spoiled by English people who seem to have forgotten how to queue.  Odd to be annoyed by people who are your contemporaries but are really there because they need to have seen it, to be able to say that, not because they actually want to see the art in question. Taking a young relative is very instructive when it comes to a fresh view of the art and the audience.  Good to have a 20 year old beside you behaving beautifully as a contrast to the middle aged/ elderly behaving selfishly badly.  

Big delays on the security checks which I hadn't thought of but would obviously be in place.  

 

I hate blockbuster exhibitions for all these reasons. I'm a lifelong Japanese art enthusiast and usually spend all my time in the tiny and almost always empty Japanese art section of my gallery. Once every ten years or more they'll bother putting on a big Japanese exhibition but only when the same one is on in England so we don't get to see all the best things. Would you believe we have a Hokusai exhibition on now, too? Very funny to see people lining up when no interest is taken (and hence no money invested) in Japanese art the rest of the time.

 

I read that the British Museum had been allowed to display for the first time outside Japan a portable shrine painted by Hokusai. Were you able to see it?

[Sombreuil]

Yes it was there- beautiful.  The BM exhibition is of work from  the last period of his life - some fabulous scroll paintings.  It's interesting that some look better in real life than in books - the red Shoki paintings really stand out.

I swore some years ago after shuffling round the V&A at an Art Deco blockbuster exhibition that I would avoid the big ones in future but I read somewhere that they had reduced the number of tickets issued to deal with the  problem.  Doesn't seem to have helped.

[Fay]

19 hours ago, Sombreuil said:

Went to the Hokusai exhibition at the British Museum last week - wonderful stuff though a bit spoiled by English people who seem to have forgotten how to queue.  Odd to be annoyed by people who are your contemporaries but are really there because they need to have seen it, to be able to say that, not because they actually want to see the art in question. Taking a young relative is very instructive when it comes to a fresh view of the art and the audience.  Good to have a 20 year old beside you behaving beautifully as a contrast to the middle aged/ elderly behaving selfishly badly.  

Big delays on the security checks which I hadn't thought of but would obviously be in place.  

I went there today - gosh, was it crowded! The exhibition is so good though - worth every second of trudging around. So weird to think that his art, which looks so fresh and contemporary, is 200 years or so old.

so good a friend of mine is a member or I wouldn't have been able to see it in the first place.

 

[Sombreuil]

6 minutes ago, Fay said:

 

so good a friend of mine is a member or I wouldn't have been able to see it in the first place.

 

Everyone I know with membership is away so I got the tickets as soon as I saw it advertised- fascinating wasn't it?

[Fay]

6 minutes ago, Sombreuil said:

Everyone I know with membership is away so I got the tickets as soon as I saw it advertised- fascinating wasn't it?

Oh absolutely! And so vibrant too - birds and dragons might have been my favourites. 

I had to get a catalogue, in the end. Now I have that book weighing a tonne to trudge home. 

And it was so funny his 'early' years were when he was from 20 to 60 - that's some way to go about your life, do the most beautiful things in life when you're nearly 90.