Let out the ARTIST in you!!!!

I love the soft colors of your work, LadyW:thumbs_up
and everyone! :thumbs_up great job


http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/e...irthday033.jpg

minus the red hair, this is how I look like at dawn, when the sun is just about to rise.I have insomnia. A whole lot of random stuff comes up in my head when I can't sleep, like music, homework, imagination,books, owls and government and ... (blabs uncontrollably) there is some sort of peace though, when everyone is asleep and i am staring in the darkness :p

Cute, toni! Sorry that you have trouble sleeping, though ... take care, Kizzo :)

I love the eyes in that one, toni. Vibrant, nice colors. I like it.

Thanks, kizzo and Lily :blush:

Although I'm sorry that's how you are in the morning, it's still a nice picture toni!

I drew this portrait of a friend, it's from a photograph in which he is squinting at the sun, hence the strange expression. :)

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...a/jansmall.jpg

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h.../jansmall2.jpg

Chava, that is fantastic! You have really captured the look, and I love the colours! :thumbs_up

Thanks Kiz. :) It was great to experiment with abstract colours.

Wow Chava, this is a wonderful drawing!! :) You did a marvellous job with the colors!

The colors sure are a standout!
great job, Chava :thumbs_up

I started drawing this a week ago when I was travelling by train and finished it today.
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z.../piirrosp3.png
Sorry about the bad quality, I only have a webcam so I that's the best I can do.

That's a beautiful drawing, if that is a bad quality photo than I want to see the actual thing! You are very talented.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h.../PB-Litnet.jpg

Bored and weary last night, so i did what I always do when melancholi, I drew something. This is a self portrait, from the pirate days :) hope you like it.

Wow thats amazing! Your shading is excellent

Very nice Anna and Chava! I loved the facial expressions, Chava.

Thanks both of you :)

Here's a little ditty out of my drawing book. I tend to draw strange, surreal cartoons.

Not sure how to put images in the post direct from the computer, so I put it as a little attachment. Hope you like! :D

That's a very cute ninja, ben :D

Chava, I love your self-portrait!! That's very good job!! :)

This is 'Bob', just after his retirement from the supra dimensional association of sentient paper that border on infinite age.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...e/bobnbob2.jpg

It's just a bit of fiddling with photoshop, but I liked how it came out. :) It's been ages since I used photoshop for anything but quick touch ups anyway.
In case you're wondering, it's supposed to look like a face on a crumbled piece of paper with a few torn bits here and there.

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That's a very cute ninja, ben :D

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Haha thanks! :p

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I like the ambiguity of it, AimusSage. :)

It's an interesting effect you employ in your drawing.

Here's another:

I did this.

Based offa this.

And in my signature.

Yay, thanks to the wonderful advice of Sweets I can show you guys my art!! :D

Here's my finished studio piece for TEE Art... The first photo of many to come! :D This drawing took me about 8 hours to do...

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...t/finished.jpg

Very talented Sprinks. Bravo!
Well done hatching as well.

Thankyou tractatus :D

Yeah, Sprinks, that's quite excellent! The cool thing is that it takes time to look at everything, the details, that's a very nice piece! :)

Thanks Sweets :) The only thing is that you can see, especially in the clouds, where I kept moving the paper when I was doing the lines and they ended up crooked! :lol:

That's BEAUTIFUL!!! Boy, I sure do love art! (Me too!)

That is really great detail. I love you style, sprinks. It's very different. :D

Thanks Lily!! :D The teacher tends to complain about my style because I'm such a perfectionist with my work and she hates it! I'm a very difficult art student :lol:

I've posted more art on my blog, but I'll post my favourite one now, a locust drawn in fineliner and water, actually I'll post the one with my locust compared to the photo I drew it from:

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...art/locust.jpg

Wow, Sprinks, those are really good! I've always been so jealous of people who can draw, which is funny, because I recently met and got close to a new friend, and found out he can draw, like, REALLY well...I'll post what he drew for my birthday here :D

As promised, the picture my friend drew me for my birthday, using only pencil, charcoal, and a red marker.

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k2...8/Museedit.jpg

edit: a little explanation...The female character is Anita Blake from the new graphic novel series based on Laurell K. Hamilton's vampire hunter novels. (I am obsessed with the series, which is why he chose to draw here). The face in the background is my friend's msn avatar, and "Muse of the Darkness" comes from my group of friends and I, who call ourselves the "Darkness Clan," and I am known as the clan's "Muse"...since I'm always coming up with bright ideas about what to do when we're bored, lol.

Wow, everyone is so talented!!

Here are a few of mine:

http://picasaweb.google.com/21sarasvati

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Thanks Lily!! :D The teacher tends to complain about my style because I'm such a perfectionist with my work and she hates it! I'm a very difficult art student :lol:

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What the?! What kinda art teacher is that?!

That locust is pretty cool. You really do have a very different style. I can't place my finger on it, but it is indeed very intricate.



Whoah, so's that birthday drawing, Shannanigan!

'Birthday drawing,' Lily?

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What the?! What kinda art teacher is that?!

That locust is pretty cool. You really do have a very different style. I can't place my finger on it, but it is indeed very intricate.

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:lol: Exactly. I'm just holding out 'till next year when we get to do our own thing! And then I can do what I like and she can't do a thing! :p. I miss our old art teacher, to him EVERYTHING was art. Some girl scribbled over this horse she drew and he was like "That is amazing! It is art!" whereas my new art teacher told me at the start of the year I would fail because my outlines are too dark and I'm too much of a perfectionist :flare:


And thankyou all for your compliments! :blush: :)

Wooooo, this birthday drawing is just brilliant!!

Oh, Sprinks, I have news for you: your teacher is stupid and kind of mean.

It's good to know people agree with me :p - I almost dropped art because of her, and many of my friends who are great artists didn't do art this year because they didn't want her as a teacher, which is really sad.

This isn't my best thing, but it was done in my favourite medium - fineliner and water. It was one of my practise angels before the final one.

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...lmichael-1.jpg

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'Birthday drawing,' Lily?

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The drawing I posted was a birthday gift ;)

I love all these drawings! (so jealous!) :p

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'Birthday drawing,' Lily?

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Yeah, I meant Shaninnigan, sorry. :blush:

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:lol: Exactly. I'm just holding out 'till next year when we get to do our own thing! And then I can do what I like and she can't do a thing! :p. I miss our old art teacher, to him EVERYTHING was art. Some girl scribbled over this horse she drew and he was like "That is amazing! It is art!" whereas my new art teacher told me at the start of the year I would fail because my outlines are too dark and I'm too much of a perfectionist :flare:

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That person is not an art teacher and does not understand the meaning of art.

I am kinda scared for next year at school. I'll be taking Art I, my first formal art class, and I don't want the teacher to tell me what to do. D: Ew. It'll be like when I took band. :sick: I hope not...or else the teacher will look at my drawings be all, "What the HECK is that?!"

But I think I'm over-thinking it. :D

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That person is not an art teacher and does not understand the meaning of art.

I am kinda scared for next year at school. I'll be taking Art I, my first formal art class, and I don't want the teacher to tell me what to do. D: Ew. It'll be like when I took band. :sick: I hope not...or else the teacher will look at my drawings be all, "What the HECK is that?!"

But I think I'm over-thinking it. :D

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Good luck with your art class :), and if your teacher tells you what to do like mine does we'll group together and have a mutiny!! A rebellion!! We'll paint over the world in our own unique styles!! That'll teach them, they wont be able to stop us! :p

Ok, i feel the need to stand up for my art teachers over the years. Ever since i started taking art seriously, around 9th grade, teachers have had to put up with me doing my own thing. Conversations would go along the lines of "You don't think shading the bricks will make the background too dark..?" "no" end of story.
However, when i took art in my too last years of high school, i had to start moving away from my traditional way of drawing to answer the assignments. And yeah, spending hours doing assignments about drawing trees, or round objects is a bore. But in the end it's those techniques you gather that help you develop your own style. And regardless how good i thought i had done someting, my excellent teacher could always point out a flaw, and so i ended up working very hard on my art to make it just right. There will always be room for improvement with me.
For now i'm very happy with the versatility i have adopted. I can work in most media's, and i'm no longer in the rut of my 'dark' drawings, i can post them for you if you want to see my 'then' and 'now' movement.

My brother had a bad art teacher. He adopted the 'wrong' and 'right' attitude which is not always correct. (sometimes your work can be 'wrong' not in the sense that it isn't art, but in the sense that it doesn't fulfill criteria and assignments.) He would rip my brothers drawings apart if he found them 'wrong'. Now that... is a bad art teacher.