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Linespider Has a Giant Robot. On Fire.
Linespider5
We Good?Registered User regular
We Good?Registered User regular
Hiya.
I make art, usually scenes. Usually, in fact, cities.
Not always, but usually. (Images spoilered for being large and old)
Mainly I think I have an obsession with the spaces and the organization of the structures, which might help explain why my cities are almost always vacant, too. Over time I've moved to digital almost exclusively thanks to space issues and being impatient with paint. Drying and all that.
I would like some help and ideas. As you can see, my work doesn't really get finished. I explore an idea and it grows out of itself, but somewhere along the way I get lost in how the colours play together, the rough linework, and a lot of the generally expressive edges that seem more powerful than when I try to refine it.
But I want to refine my style, and somehow get better at managing the forms and the composition. There's a lot I like about what I do, but I would like to move it a bit further beyond abstractions and closer to something stylized and detailed. Mainly it derails when I try, and never seems to look as good as the expressive stuff.
I make art, usually scenes. Usually, in fact, cities.
Not always, but usually. (Images spoilered for being large and old)
Spoiler:
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Mainly I think I have an obsession with the spaces and the organization of the structures, which might help explain why my cities are almost always vacant, too. Over time I've moved to digital almost exclusively thanks to space issues and being impatient with paint. Drying and all that.
Spoiler:
I would like some help and ideas. As you can see, my work doesn't really get finished. I explore an idea and it grows out of itself, but somewhere along the way I get lost in how the colours play together, the rough linework, and a lot of the generally expressive edges that seem more powerful than when I try to refine it.
But I want to refine my style, and somehow get better at managing the forms and the composition. There's a lot I like about what I do, but I would like to move it a bit further beyond abstractions and closer to something stylized and detailed. Mainly it derails when I try, and never seems to look as good as the expressive stuff.
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My current project(?) was way too horizontal for its size to show, see the link in the last post.
In an effort to better contain and develop the work, I'm setting it up into vertical panels. I've also found that, for whatever reason, desaturating the colours aids in my detailing and seems to assist in helping keep things more in control.
I definitely know what you mean with the whole roughness somehow having more than a finished rendering, I find concept sketches can be great but rarely does it work to directly translate one into a finished piece for me. The surface has to become it's own composition, or relate to itself I guess. I think that's more of an issue with non-digital medium, but anyways. Keep it up.
(resized for convenience and friendly viewing)
For added fun, here's what this originally started as:
Early reworking attempts on an older piece, yay
Building on this one.
I'm happy with how a lot of the colouring is going, but something drastic is probably going to need to occur. I don't really plan these pictures, and spend a lot of time trying to decide what something 'is.' Is it more of a foreground element, and how does it relate to the objects around it? (I do actually do other stuff, I should add-just not all that lately. These tend to be half-practical too, in terms of improving technique. I think)
Somehow the prior image gives a strong emphasis on the rocky shore, but I felt the dominant structures deserved being completed. Yet now that I've started that it leads into an empty sky, and really diminishes that great coast. There's a couple of ways to move forward on this but I'm not really sure what I wanna do.
Moreover, nice as it is, this image is kind of...dull, I think. Again, the shoreline seems more dynamic in the earlier version. Making a sky killed the sense of perspective and everything went flat, at least for the time being. Probably gonna end up kicking this thing's ass somehow fierce.
Progress, not perfection.
Oh man, I love the hell out of this.............whatever it is.
I'll buy three.
It would be interesting to see what you can do with paint.