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False Goddess Rhapsody, GENERIC FLUFFY RAIEART
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The Agoraphobic Silver Tongue
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| QUOTE (Raie @ Sep 11 2009, 07:57 PM) | | This really was just a quick thing I was making for a background for something I had to do for school. I was more focused on the cloudy fluffy stuff and added the character on top as an afterthought. |
Was it an art class? Because honestly, while the background is visually pleasing and the colours aren't too hard on the eyes, the clouds are not very accurately rendered. They look pretty, but in the sort of sense that overly abstract and simplified children's work does -- not to imply that your drawing is similar to that of a child, but rather that it's beauty if you will is in it's deviation to reality. In other words, I find the clouds' perfect roundness and fullness to be a little difficult to believe -- it's much like how children always draw trees like blobby things with a "trunk" sprouting out of the bottom and suns as circles with lines bursting out of them. Our minds have been trained to think, "Yes, that is a tree, and that is a sun," but in reality, these things bear little resemblance to what they are supposed to symbolize. I have the same problem with these clouds -- yes, my left-brain says to me, "This is a cloud because it is puffy and white-ish in colour, and society has taught me that that is in fact a cloud," however my right-brain objects and retorts, "No, clouds don't look like that; that is merely a cultural symbol of a cloud -- this is what a real cloud should look like." tl;dr, I guess what I'm trying to say is that you may want to consider looking to references even when drawing things that aren't people, because when many people draw, their left-brain takes over and tells them to draw "a blobby white thing" because that is what we've been taught from childhood represents a cloud. But what distinguishes a true artist is when they can ignore their left-brain and depend solely on their right-brain -- the side that interprets a certain map of colours, hues, and shapes as a cloud, and draws clouds accurately and based on reality -- not symbols. If that makes any sense at all? I'm trying to summarize what someone once said a long time ago to me that helped me a lot with my art. When I actually tried. This post has been edited by Mrs. Aforcer on Sep 11 2009, 08:41 PM
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