I liked seeing your hatch work build as time went on. You’d leave, add a bit elsewhere, and come back to more hatching. Yes watching is so helpful in seeing the time that went into this even if it wasn’t long for you. The build is important to see.
I will never forget years ago when an artist friend was trying to teach me some basics and she asked me to try drawing what I really saw when looking at a white egg on a white paper under a light. I literally just didn't see what she was seeing - I couldn't see the shadows and shades of color and curves - I just saw an egg. She was the first person who gave me a glimpse into trying to see differently. Most recently, I took a grad class in Perceptions and learned so much.
Super cool - love those memorable shifts of awareness (so often delivered, person to person). I worked for a decade and a half as a model for painting students - the most daring instructor I ever sat for, booked my all-white (doctor) and all black (Chinese Calligrapher) costumes - for COLOUR STUDIES. Blew my mind what he taught the students to see - where the whole class first assumed there was no colour at all!
Cheers, Bogdan. What a lovely demo! - I suspect the part which makes it seem deceptively easy to new artists is that you make fantastically well judged early choices, to set yourself up for relaxed easy-going successs, as you develop the image. (so hard to teach that priority of rigour - to allow for increasing plafulness as you go - Kevin Bae's painting demos, like yours, are marvellous examples of this insight, too)
I spent years writing short fiction, and I got to a point where I would write things in the first paragraph that I didn't even know I would need (but absolutely did) in the last - like my subconscious was running a better plan than my consciousness was capable of devising!.
All that being said - the book "Right Side" is indeed superb. A major inspiration to me (no money for art-school). Absolutely fell in love with contour style drawing from it, and enjoy it to this day (even spent several years doing technical drawings of space vehicles with a contour style line, to friendly them up).
The main thing I tell students in every single discipline is - look after your pleasure in the work - because if you sabotage that, you'll stop working, growing - and getting access to whole new levels of pleasure - not only in the work, but in your sensitivitity to life itself (the bonus all of us art junkies could never choose to give up - even when frustration might tempt us elsewhere)
Fantastic!
I liked seeing your hatch work build as time went on. You’d leave, add a bit elsewhere, and come back to more hatching. Yes watching is so helpful in seeing the time that went into this even if it wasn’t long for you. The build is important to see.
Thanks for sharing.
I will never forget years ago when an artist friend was trying to teach me some basics and she asked me to try drawing what I really saw when looking at a white egg on a white paper under a light. I literally just didn't see what she was seeing - I couldn't see the shadows and shades of color and curves - I just saw an egg. She was the first person who gave me a glimpse into trying to see differently. Most recently, I took a grad class in Perceptions and learned so much.
Super cool - love those memorable shifts of awareness (so often delivered, person to person). I worked for a decade and a half as a model for painting students - the most daring instructor I ever sat for, booked my all-white (doctor) and all black (Chinese Calligrapher) costumes - for COLOUR STUDIES. Blew my mind what he taught the students to see - where the whole class first assumed there was no colour at all!
That sounds amazing
Cheers, Bogdan. What a lovely demo! - I suspect the part which makes it seem deceptively easy to new artists is that you make fantastically well judged early choices, to set yourself up for relaxed easy-going successs, as you develop the image. (so hard to teach that priority of rigour - to allow for increasing plafulness as you go - Kevin Bae's painting demos, like yours, are marvellous examples of this insight, too)
I spent years writing short fiction, and I got to a point where I would write things in the first paragraph that I didn't even know I would need (but absolutely did) in the last - like my subconscious was running a better plan than my consciousness was capable of devising!.
All that being said - the book "Right Side" is indeed superb. A major inspiration to me (no money for art-school). Absolutely fell in love with contour style drawing from it, and enjoy it to this day (even spent several years doing technical drawings of space vehicles with a contour style line, to friendly them up).
The main thing I tell students in every single discipline is - look after your pleasure in the work - because if you sabotage that, you'll stop working, growing - and getting access to whole new levels of pleasure - not only in the work, but in your sensitivitity to life itself (the bonus all of us art junkies could never choose to give up - even when frustration might tempt us elsewhere)
PS - In case you're curious about my search for friendly lines for cold machines https://paulsnyders.substack.com/p/cosmic-heroics-doers-of-the-math