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In terms of skill, I usually think I'm pretty good. Not great, certainly, and not yet where I want to be, but good enough that I feel encouraged to continue when I look at my finished pieces.
Then I look around at some of the stuff here. And it makes me realize how far I still need to go until I am where I want to be. Some of you guys... holy hell. Phenomenal. You've hit that part of the curve I'm still aiming for, and you make it look way, way easier than it is. Seriously, take a browse through my Favourites folder. Mind = blown.
But I'm not completely discouraged. I've only been painting seriously since July 2012. Experiments seem to be paying off. Incremental improvements can be seen. Mastery doesn't come right away, it comes from failing differently time after time. Eventually, if you learn from each failure, you find that one thing that works exactly the way you wanted it to.
In terms of skill, I usually think I'm pretty good. Not great, certainly, and not yet where I want to be, but good enough that I feel encouraged to continue when I look at my finished pieces.
Then I look around at some of the stuff here. And it makes me realize how far I still need to go until I am where I want to be. Some of you guys... holy hell. Phenomenal. You've hit that part of the curve I'm still aiming for, and you make it look way, way easier than it is. Seriously, take a browse through my Favourites folder. Mind = blown.
But I'm not completely discouraged. I've only been painting seriously since July 2012. Experiments seem to be paying off. Incremental improvements can be seen. Mastery doesn't come right away, it comes from failing differently time after time. Eventually, if you learn from each failure, you find that one thing that works exactly the way you wanted it to.
Foul-ups
What do you do when you feel like you really messed up on a piece?
I'm currently working on the third Star Wars "saint" painting. I am having great difficulty getting the face just right, and I made some kind of mistake during the tracing which screwed up the angle of a long line so that it doesn't match up as it should. I've spent hours and hours on the face, and it's not getting any better, so finally I scrubbed it with turpenol and a paper towel. It's bad enough, though, that I now hate the whole thing and want to set it on fire and start over fresh. I can reuse the canvas for a landscape or something when it eventually dries.
Disney Buys LucasFilm
I want to cry, but I'm not sure if it's out of joy or sorrow.
The plan is to make Episode VII for a 2015 release. In 2008, Lucas said straight up that neither he nor anyone else would ever make another Star Wars movie, period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy
"In an interview published in Total Film in May 2008, Lucas also ruled out anybody else ever making the sequel trilogy (or other future Star Wars features). Asked if he was happy for new Star Wars tales to be told after he was gone, Lucas replied: "I've left pretty explicit instructions for there not to be any more features. There will definitely be no Episodes VII
Change of medium?
I'm considering a switch from oils to acrylics. Maybe not a complete switch, but like.. an addition?
I enjoy working with oils. I like it for painting people, where tiny, subtle gradations in skin tone require careful blending. I make lots of tiny little corrections, and a long drying time helps with that.
But for the landscapes I've been doing, I get impatient, and that often ends up having a detrimental effect on the work. I get an idea and I want to do it RIGHTNOW rather than wait 2 days for the linseed oil to polymerize and the turpentine to evaporate. So I'm considering switching to acrylics for the landscape stuff, and sticking with o
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Hey, I found the list thing at the bottom! Yay me!
By the way, if anyone likes my original paintings and wants to see the reference images, let me know. I won't post them here for a variety of reasons, but I will share them with anyone interested in learning more about the artistic process, or who wants to re-use them as stock for their own works. That's for original, non-commissioned work only - commissioned works are proprietary, and the "fan art" resource images were found on the internet.
Er, I should point out that my original works may not be used or reproduced without permission. Download 'em for personal use, buy the prints, but don
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