I just didn't stop painting the way most kids do when they get older. I have never had a period in my life when I didn't paint, and I always enjoyed looking at other people's art.
2. What art-related sites have you ever signed up for?
Um, more than I recall now, surely. It started with Elfwood anyway. Art Attack! Deviant Art. Unsure if I ever got on Epilogue or if I thought it seemed too snobbish or some such nonsense. Art Wanted... I don't know. Stuff!
3. Show us your oldest piece of art you have on hand.
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| Not sure when I made this, but I'm guessing I was eleven or so. (Sorry for the huge image, I can't be arsed resizing.) |
4. What defines your artistic style?
Feels like someone else should answer this... The way I see it I have four slightly different categories of pictures that continuously bleed into each other. I would say they are Real Faeries, Childrens Book Illustration Type Things, Lulzy Cats and Moody Dark Stuff Often With Hints of Sex And/Or Violence. I haven't done much of the fourth lately, which kind of bugs me because they are the ones that are most emotional.
A lot of the time I draw things that I myself think of as purely dreamy, and then other people look at it and think it's nightmarish. :) I remember doing an Heaven/Hell art assignment in school, and everyone mistaking my version of heaven for hell. :D A surprising amount of grown up people find even my cute faerie pictures scary! I can't say that doesn't please me. I like there to be something vaguely disturbing or off about all my pictures. (Except the cats, They're just plain cute.)
5. Do you practice other styles/have you tried other styles in the past?
I used to do more drawings and ink doodles and stuff, now it's extremely rare that I draw something I do not end up painting.
6. What levels of artistic education have you had?
Just the obligatory classes in school.
7. Show us at least one picture you drew or sketched recently that you did not put on a public site.
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| Okay, so this is like a year old or something, but anyway. |
8. What is your favourite piece that you have done?
9. What is your least favourite piece that you have done?
Nothing I still have around!
10. What do you like most about your art?
The variety in faces and bodies and facial expressions. The colours.
11. What do you like least about your art?
The lack of decent backgrounds. That a lot of my pictures look too much alike. That it's a bit too posed and not as dynamic as I would want. Sometimes it feels plain pointless.
12. Have you ever considered taking commissions?
I have done it lots. I am very bad at handling the pressure to make something good enough, and pretty much always end up wishing I hadn't agreed to it, hating myself for my lack of self disciplin, and not feeling it was worth whatever I asked for it. Doesn't exactly help that I always undercharge. But I won't do this in the future!
13. Are you looking to pursue a career in art?
Yes and no. I'm currently trying to understand exactly what it is I want. I'll write more about this later once I have it all figured out!
14. What do you like drawing the most?
Humans, humanoids, animals and some plants. Faces and female torsos are my favourite human bits.
15. What do you like drawing the least?
Backgrounds. I have some serious mind blockage when it comes to doing backgrounds that give my paintings depth. I can't get into my head that I do not have to draw every single blade of grass or every single little rock, and then I end up giving up on the whole thing because it seems too daunting.
I used to hate drawing hands and feet like almost everyone else, but now I quite enjoy hands and can tolerate doing feet, even though I still need to work on the latter.
16. Do you draw more fanart or original art? If fanart, what fandom do you draw the most of?
Original art. I sometimes do portraits of people I find inspiring; mostly musicians. Once in a blue moon do some illustration to a book I like, but that's very rare.
17. What would you absolutely refuse to draw?
I can imagine drawing anything if there was a good reason to.
18. What is your purpose for drawing?
Getting to say "This is what is in my brain! Look!" and having other people go "OMG that's in my brain too!" or "Wow, that was never in my brain before now. THANKS A LOT FOR RUINING MY POOR INNOCENT BRAIN I HATE YOU NOW KBAI".
19. What medium/program do you use the most in your art?
Watercolour, acrylics and various pencils.
20. How would you rank your art? (poor, mediocre, good, etc.)
Compared to what? That's an impossible question without anything to relate it to.
21. Do you believe there is such thing as “bad art?”
I want to say "no, whatever floats your boat" and be all openminded and accepting and zen and crap but oh dear lord in heaven there are some atrocious things out there, and I do sometimes get quite upset that some of those things get what in my mind is undeserved attention. It mostly bugs me when things are sloppy and poorly made and you can tell there has been no thought or effort put into them.
22. List at least one of your “artspirations.”
Brian Froud. (Duh.)
23. What do you think you could stand to improve on?
Backgrounds, male anatomy, dynamic poses, fabric, learning to make my lines less defined and everything more fluid, putting more emotion into it. Overall just experimenting more.
24. Do you have a shameful art past? (recolour sprite comics, tracing art, etc.)
Not that I consider shameful, no.
Yay! I was hoping you might do this.
ReplyDeleteAlso I PROMISE I haven't forgotten the things I was meant to send you in exchange for my portrait, money got pretty lacking and I wanted to buy a few things to put in for you, I feel so bad that it's taking me forever though :(
Don't worry about it! It's not like I have actually sent the portrait anyway! :)
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