Art Post: Inadvertent Redraw

[minoanmiss]

So I needed something to cheer me up after that last post so I went looking through my art files. I forget what I was looking for, because I found something better.



Heh, I didn't even realize I was redrawing something with my last piece. I mean, my art is still not at all good, but it has become a bit less bad over the last four years, huh? So there is that. And it still makes me happy.

Comments

[darkmarcy]

Art = happymaking = the best! And yes, your skills have evolved! Nice that you see it yourself, too :) I love the use of the same star motif on both the mermaid and the human's accessories!

[goss]

Your older pieces have their own style and beauty, and it's so satisfying to look back and track a tangible evolution in one's skills. Also, I'm so glad you're dating your pieces! :)

By the way, have you thought about translating some of your line art into decorative craft? The reason I ask, is I've been playing around with clay since last week, and was thinking that your art style would work really well etched into a flat clay tile, and colour-filled with acrylic paint.

[amaebi]

What do you mean when you say "bad" or "not good," in this context?

[minoanmiss]

Well, I mean, my art is flat ( i am only just beginning to learn shading) and has weird idiosyncracies (I don't like how I draw open mouths but more realistic ones look horrible so far) so I can't call it good. I could never take commissions. But it makes me happy and slowly it is improving.

[amaebi]

So what you mean is that you have directions you want to move your work in, and are moving it in?

Why I asked about this, aside from disliking to see you disparage your art:
I have been thinking lately about the many genres of visual art, including ones I don't care for (Hummel figurines, for example), how they are framings of perception that I wouldn't encounter at all if a fair few people didn't find them satisfying.

In explaining this I suddenly remembered some passage I read, decades ago, in which someone's elder thought that a troupe l'ceil depiction of a coin on a store counter was The Best Art Ever, Because It Fools You.

I like your work a lot. I find it very satisfying.

[minoanmiss]

blushes a lot Thank you. :)

Fooling the eye is a nice trick but I do like the way that photography influenced visual art away from verisimilitude and towards personal interpretation. (And then developed into personal interpretation itself)

[amaebi]

Yes, it is lovely how photography freed hand-wrought art, then they showed each other possibilities! Thank you!

[alatefeline]

Yay for feeling good about your art!

[mific]

They're gorgeous!