Archive: 2008-08
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Art is supposed to be Fun.
The game is different in each setting.
It's different to draw at a Party than
it is to draw in my private time.
It's different to draw in a restaurant
than it is to draw in the studio.
Here are 2 quick fun sketches that I drew in the car today.
Quickly.
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I was really on it today.
Had a lot of business stuff to cull through
after doing some real intense Yoga head-shaking,
so there wasn't a lot of time to really develop some
finished pictures.
But I knew it unquestionably.
I knew that I understood exaggerating.
And how to draw what I see.
Just didn't have a lot of time to do it.
But I am There! A leap from struggle and learning to
MASTERY!
Here are a few quick 'scribbles' that show my understandings.
In the first one, I revisited
a color technique that I had been so pleased with
before (but I had lost touch with it for a while.)
In the second one, I easily saw and developed the clean line-art
to be as 3-dimensional as an overworked-shaded thing.
In the 3rd one, there are people that I drew
while waiting in line at the phone store. What
I like about them is that I was really seeing the
Caricature, where the movement was, before drawing.
So I had the qestalt in my mind before I even put
the pen onto the paper. I was so There today.
Nothing too serious in these drawings.
None of them are 'finished'
But it doesn't matter. I have nothing to do with them.
They're not Commissions. They're not anybody that I know.
So there's no reason to belabor them.
They're just here to remind us of Real Art.
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I'm posting these here today because
I'm trying to make sense out of it.
To make sense out of Caricature -
is it better than dull direct portraiture ~
I thought that if I saw them all together,
I could judge it clearly.
First I made a direct simple Caricature of this lady.
Easy to do - Nothing too exaggerated.
Then I exaggerated it a little.
Something that I could still do in a first pass.
Then I let loose. Really blew out the nose:
Haha - yeah, like very funny.
Nonsense.
The first one, which would have been preferred by
the woman - that one was the best one.
Looking at that 3rd picture - like, why was it so
stupid? I realized that it could have been a lot
better - if I had the feeling of the movement in it.
Just shapes? That's dull. But it's funny to think
how she could scrunch up that nose, squinking the eyes.
I just want to try it. And Voila! The best picture
of them all. Now this 4th picture has feeling, action,
energy, Person-Al-ity. Yes, Caricature is better than Portraiture.
If you want to look into the mirror, then do that. But if you can enjoy the Artist's interpretation,
if you want to have fun.....
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Nothing 'Over the Top' at this Party.
I really liked these people - they were
so Real. Not Affectated. No forced laughter
and over-stated joy or underlying animosity.
Just family and friends with a reason to
get together peacefully and note the date.
Enjoying the good things without giving them
more importance than they have.
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