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Foulmouth

I have been doing a series for an attempt at a gallery. These are just the sketches. The final product turns out huge.






This last one is for a contest with the theme of "lost highway"

Kendeathwalker

..these mainly just come off as tasteless.

You arent drawing things accurately so that makes the concept even more important, and theres just.. nothing but tasteless vulgarity. Gary Basemen already beat you to it..

Food

There are some cool things going on here, but I feel like they don't quite cross the line from doodles into finished pieces. There's nothing that really grabs me in particular about any of the drawings. I think I'd need to see the whole piece before I could really say for sure, though.

Balgair

As someone who has no right judging anyone's art, I'll just say this:
I'm uncomfortable, yet compelled.

Foulmouth

Thanks for commenting on the drawings. Ken Im sorry you view them as tasteless, they actually have a lot of personal symbolism in them. A couple of them address some of my unspoken fetishes. Which on some level is probably what makes balgair uncomfortable with them.

Also, something to keep in mind is that these are just sketches. I was experimenting with the ink splattering and trying to see where I could go with that.

crawdaddio

I don't mean to put you on the spot or anything, but I would imagine that if you're trying to get these into a gallery (or, at the very least, if that's your eventual mission), that you either have or plan to make an artist's statement. Would you have anything like that available for us to read, even if it's in a skeletal form? I think it would help us understand where you're coming from, and where you'd like to go. Personally, I've got a couple of specific questions: What exactly are you trying to express here? If you don't want to get into the details about the personal symbolism, that's fine, but you must have a reason for wanting to put that sort of symbolism on display, I would imagine. What's the reason behind the style you've got? I don't think you need to justify every single stroke or anything, but, for example, there are a lot of extremely obvious (and, because of that, I would like to believe intentional) anatomical inaccuracies, and I'd personally be interested in knowing why you have them there. Same deal with the splatters; they're just experimental at this point, you say, but what motivated you to experiment with them?

There are a lot of pretty deep and specific questions there, I suppose, but I mainly ask because chances are potential gallery owners will be thinking the same thing, and it helps to be prepared for that.

Monni

Unless you're 7 years old or younger, your artistic talent is pretty horrible. I wish I could offer some real criticism, but everything in those drawings is bad. I don't care how many references of your fetishes you got going on there, at least learn the basics before you start talking about galleries and contests.

I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, but I just had to say something.

t i m

Composition. Learn it, love it, live it.

Kendeathwalker

Thats exactly what I'm talking about. We cant understand what the hell your "talking" about with these images because its personal symbolism. Why even show them if no one is meant to understand them and who seriously wants to listen to your long winded explanation as to what these child like drawings mean?

But you should probably keep pursing this because I've seen plenty of coffee stained canvases and crude drawings on the back of pizza boxes sell for significant sums. Who knows you may be able to cash in on the gimmickry.

beavotron

i think the main thing to take away from this all foulmouth is that no one around here are really... abstract artists
and this seems very abstract to me.
I know what you're aiming for, I've seen it done before in erhem... capital "A" Art circles for lack of a better term... but the fact is, you're posting in a forum that consists almost entirely of very commercial style artwork
so no one here will be able to really appreciate or give advice on what you should do for your gallery

I'm not going to sit here and crit it because I don't know what your aims are, and again, you're looking into doing contemporary gallery work, something I have little to no experience with, so where would I begin?
I'm sure a lot of the other artists on here probably feel the same.

you're a contemporary abstract artist in a commercial artist's pond

crawdaddio

Well, strictly speaking, it is figurative (except maybe that fifth one), but beavs has got a point; I suppose that even with well thought-out motivations behind your techniques, it would be pretty hard to point you in the right direction, having never had a gallery outside my university myself; my only usefulness as a resource would come from what I remember from my classes. I think there are a few artists here who have enough experience with the gallery scene at the very least to give you some pointers in that direction, and you did mention that these were sketches, so I'd certainly want to see something more finished before closing any doors or anything, but she's right; any way you look at it, and though we might be able to help you out a bit, this particular forum doesn't look like it's going to be the very best fit for you. But who knows; stranger things have happened.

beavotron

crawdaddio wrote: »

Well, strictly speaking, it is figurative (except maybe that fifth one), but beavs has got a point; I suppose that even with well thought-out motivations behind your techniques, it would be pretty hard to point you in the right direction, having never had a gallery outside my university myself; my only usefulness as a resource would come from what I remember from my classes. I think there are a few artists here who have enough experience with the gallery scene at the very least to give you some pointers in that direction, and you did mention that these were sketches, so I'd certainly want to see something more finished before closing any doors or anything, but she's right; any way you look at it, and though we might be able to help you out a bit, this particular forum doesn't look like it's going to be the very best fit for you. But who knows; stranger things have happened.

yeah i guess it is figurative
but i never know what to call the type of art that is very deliberately not following conventions in structure and anatomy
so i just call it abstract... out of sheer ignorance haha

crawdaddio

Yeah, I don't think anyone's come up with a good name to cover all of that kind of art...I guess it was a bit pedantic of me, considering the point gets across just as well either way.