What Do You Like ?
Finally going through a pile of papers here
that have been on my floor since I went to
St Louis and California. (That was months ago!)
I like what I was into then - gotta get back to it.
Instead of focusing on Quickness - how fast can
I get something that works - I was focusing on
3-dimensionality and exaggeration.
Here’s a man that I saw in the airport.
I drew him one time - it’s good.
Then I exaggerated more. More:
I also found a set of 4 pictures.
The first one - the plainest, most ‘realistic’ one
(as though a picture could be ‘real’ -
It’s just a real picture.
The person is the real person!).
Anyway, here it is:
Then I took a simple step at exaggerating her more:
Made the mouth area bigger, but to make it look even
bigger, I decided to smallen-up the eyes/cheeks.
You know, comparison. Something only looks big if
it’s next to something that’s small:
I didn’t like that one.
Losing something in the likeness of the woman.
I even remember her now.
It’s because I made her too angular.
So I had drawn her a 4th time.
And this one was goooood:
At least in my opinion.
In my opinion, I think that that 4th picture
is the best of this group.
But it depends on what you’re looking for.
It’s been my experience that some people
like to see the big exaggerations
because they want to have fun.
But other people prefer the first one (which is easiest
for me to do) - because they want to look
‘normal’. Plain. Like everybody else -
where nobody has anything different (as though
that was possible - how would we recognize each
other??). Or they prefer the first one because
that’s all they’re up to in their Artwork.
They remember trying real hard to make a picture look
realistic. And not having pursued that goal, they
don’t know how easy it is to simply apply the
techniques - things like shading and basic face proportions.
But to people who know how to do that already,
to us, it’s so easy it’s almost academic.
So we are more interested in seeing the artist’s
interpretations. Sometimes deep statements,
sometimes just fun because we don’t honestly know
the people that we’re drawing.
So just for fun, I’m also posting this other picture
that was in the pile:
To Hire this Artist:
(516) 579-4706
optidust@gmail.com
