Let's see your ART!

[Ben79]

Just to return back to the digital art discussion from before. I think the artist profits from remaining free of constructed notions of good and bad practice. Although I hated working with my wacom tablet, I see no reason why a wacom tablet couldn't be used to produce very successful work. Perhaps it's a question of respect for the inherent properties of the medium. The digital art that appeals most to me is usually that which spills its guts to expose its true nature - a matrix of pixels, the position and colour of which can be manipulated to create form? I think that's perhaps where springs the interest in glitch too. Here's something I've been doing before going to sleep this week - which probably explains why I have been sleeping awfully.



Found a good article here about all that and technological obsolescence here...

http://furtherfield.org/features/articles/glitch-symbolic-form

[Pugie]

Ben 79: Looks great!

goroth: Tack! Nyckelviksskolan at Lidingö in Stockholm.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Congrats Pugie.

a few I did while I was out of town






I've already sold the cat one along with 4 more from the set of 17 I did.

[Ghost Hip]

I agree 100% with you on all aspects of that. Plus to me working with the actual medium not only connects me more to it but sometimes those happy little discoveries you make while you are doing a piece that you might have not thought out that sorta come together and just enhance the look so much so that in future work you utilize or have another idea/tool in your belt to create the next.

With digital stuff it all seems very smash different buttons to get different effects and you call it done. Sure there is skill in using it but yea I can't tell one from the next and overall I'm never impressed with the result no matter what was created. I'm more like... well that's grand do that in acrylic and oil and then you got something I give a shit about.

[Ben79]

Quick cartoon for a provincial music festival in the South of France...

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I agree 100% with you on all aspects of that. Plus to me working with the actual medium not only connects me more to it but sometimes those happy little discoveries you make while you are doing a piece that you might have not thought out that sorta come together and just enhance the look so much so that in future work you utilize or have another idea/tool in your belt to create the next.

With digital stuff it all seems very smash different buttons to get different effects and you call it done. Sure there is skill in using it but yea I can't tell one from the next and overall I'm never impressed with the result no matter what was created. I'm more like... well that's grand do that in acrylic and oil and then you got something I give a shit about.

[Ben79]

...and in colour. Legend tells us that the village of Liouc divines its name from the perverse offspring of a lion and a bouc (french for ram) - hence the hybrid.

Not a real legend though, a legend a guy I know made up.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

kinda would've reversed the mane and the face cause it looks like he's sunburnt.

[Ben79]

I tried that but I just preferred the sunburnt look - it's actually very fashionable for mythical hybridised creatures.

I often need something to get me drawing. I was wonderingly about a fortnightly art challenge on here. Anyone interested?

[ShaolinLambKiller]

Hey no problem it's all a matter of prefrence just seemed odd to me but hell if looked worst in reverse then you did the best.

Yea actually I wouldn't mind doing so. Might get me back to doing some more inks. I havent' done any in a long time cause I really haven't needed to do any for artwork for anything.

[Ben79]

Great, if there's a few more takers, maybe we can start a new thread.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Define "challenge" a bit more and I might be down.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

I figured it was just assigned themes or specific techniques used to create something. Didn't think it would be much more than that.

[Ben79]

Yeah just a broad theme or instruction - like 'portal', 'hybrid', 'the future', or as often pertains to this thread - 'lots of skulls and fire', and/or it could involve some kind of rule like it has to be in line only or it has to be in a medium you've never used before. Just a starting point that can be used or ignored to whatever extent you like but that yields some kind of sharable outcome.

[ShaolinLambKiller]

or do a mix bag of ideas/themes/specific items. like randomly get Car, snake, snowflake and somehow incorporate all that into something. that could be done as well. I dig on that, I think with some of us the medium never used before... well that's kinda difficult for me cause i've experimented quite a bit with tons of different stuff. some positively and some negatively.