Art Meme

[dizzojay]

I may yet do the fic one, but for now here's an art meme which I purloined from   amberdreams so go on, pick a number ... talk to me!

1. When did you get into art?

2. What art-related sites have you ever signed up for?

3. Show us your oldest piece of art you have on hand.

4. What defines your artistic style?

5. Do you practice other styles/have you tried other styles in the past?

6. What levels of artistic education have you had?

7. Show us at least one picture you drew or sketched recently that you did not put on a public site.

8. What is your favourite piece that you have done?

9. What is your least favourite piece that you have done?

10.What do you like most about your art?

11.What do you like least about your art?

12.Have you ever considered taking commissions?

14.What do you like drawing the most?

15.What do you like drawing the least?

16.Do you draw more fanart or original art? If fanart, what fandom do you draw the most of?

17.What would you absolutely refuse to draw?

18.What is your purpose for drawing?

19.What medium/program do you use the most in your art?

20.How would you rank your art? (poor, mediocre, good, etc.)

22.Do you believe there is such thing as “bad art?”

23.List at least one of your “artspirations.”

24.What do you think you could stand to improve on?

25.Do you have a shameful art past? (recolour sprite comics, tracing art, etc.?

Comments

[casey28.livejournal.com]

3 and 14, pls. :)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

This is probably the oldest thing I can find. I did it in 1987 when I would have been 19.




In terms of my favourite thing to draw, that would be animals, particularly horses. I particularly like to draw animals with a fantasy or slightly whimsical twist. Also, latterly I've been getting back into the swing of drawing portraits of people with my supernatural portraits, and I've really been enjoying that!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

This is a cool pic! Love all the drama and the flowing fetlocks!

[sasha-dragon.livejournal.com]

Hi there, how about numbers 5 and 23 please?

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

In term of trying other styles, at the moment, I'm sticking purely to my pastels because that's what I sell. But in the past, I've dabbled with acrylics, pen and ink and cartoons. This is a picture of Glastonbury Tor which I did in acrylics some time back:



My artspiration is very simple. To be able to give up my day job and do something creative for a living instead. I haven't given up hope of getting into Graphic Design, but unfortunately my next step on that particular path is way more money than I can find (about £10,000), so I need to figure out a source of funding, and find a colleage that actually runs the course because my local college discontinued it last year. :(

[sasha-dragon.livejournal.com]

That is a lovely picture of the Tor, and it's great to see a picture of yours in a medium I don't usually see from you.

Damn that's expensive, and it's such a shame that your local colleges no longer runs the course you want to take.

[fireheart13.livejournal.com]

22 & 24!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Whether or not there's bad art is a tough one because art is so subjective. What's a masterpiece to one person is an infantile mess to someone else. For instance, Rothko is considered one of the great masters of the modernist age, however I see nothing but a lot of untidily painted rectangles with no artistic merit whatsoever. I wouldn't cross the road to look at a Rothko painting, yet I could work for the rest of my life and never be able to afford to own one! So I think the answer to that question is that it's entirely up to the individual.

What could I stand to improve on? Everything. Art is a journey without a destination; and I hope I'll always keep learning and picking up new tips from other artists.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

25 and 9 please! :D

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Hey there!
I'm not entirely sure what number 25 means. Is it asking whether I've ever cheated? If that's so, then yes I have very rarely traced something on the odd occasion if I've needed to save time or something like that. I always feel very naughty, and don't like doing it!

It's really difficult to isolate the worst piece of art I've ever done, I've got several pieces I don't like very much. When I first started dabbling with doing Supernatural portraits, I produced a couple of real horrors as I was getting back into the swing of drawing human faces again. Possibly the worst one I did was this one of Dean.

http://dizzojay.livejournal.com/90473.html

I was okay with it at the time, but since I've gone on to do a few far better pictures now that I seem to have got my eye in a bit more, I look back on it now and think 'ugh!'

For the record, I still think that Jensen is really hard to draw!

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ok, yes - that Dean is definitely not quite right in the head LOL! But you are right, he is ridiculously hard to draw because he's features are so perfect, it's difficult to make them individual enough to look like him.

I know exactly what you mean about tracing, but everyone I respect as 'proper' artists keeps telling me it is a perfectly legitimate thing to so - and I know that even masters like Michelangelo did it so...I am getting more relaxed about using it on occasion.

[sillie]

8 and 17 please. :)

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Hey there!

May favourite piece of art is a tough one, because there are several that I'm really proud of or that mean a lot to me for various reasons, but i am particularly fond of these two horse portraits. I love drawing horses, and I think the love I have for these amazing animals really comes out in these two portraits - I these are the two best horse pictures I have ever done.





I don't know what I would 'absolutely' refuse to draw. I guess maybe some of the more extreme slash kinks? Anything that was likely to promote or glamorise a cause I loathe. Luckily I've never been asked to draw anything like that, so it's not likely to be a problem!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

#1 please my lovely!

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

Hey there!
I don't ever really remember getting 'into' art. From the time I was a toddler, there were always crayons and colouring books and paper lying around the house.

My Dad was really supportive of me learning to draw and to him it was as important that I learned to draw as it was that I learned to read, write and do sums!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I think your papa is wonderful, from everything you've said about him, he's obviously a good guy and happy for you to be happy :)

Thanks for the answer hun :)