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#41 Soulreaver

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Posted 26 November 2005 - 01:40 PM

Ha, don't expect much constructive critisism here as we are not that much into 2d painting to be able to notice those flaws at the deeper level ^_^ the paintings of course look good.

Well one thing I notice are the paintings with war motives. They mostly show a moment of action with people runing, firing, yelling, machinery doing wild maneuveres to avoid projectiles , chaos everywhere.

Maybe you could show war from a different perspective. In the book "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque, he says that it's not on the front but in hospitals that you see the true extent of the war and its consiquences. Try to capture the essence of war with motives that don't directly show the action, but rather the consiquences. A hallway in a hospital full of dying and wounded men, a group of soldiers in winter under a shelter, all freezing and cooking themselves something that will be their first meal after a long time, a field after the battle covered with bodies etc. War is not what it is because of the action, but because what it does to people and their minds, try to capture that. Action shows this to some extent, but too many paintings/images/concepts today show action and the viewers soon become immune and don't experience the emotions they should.

I reccomend you see this site, and go through the tour, it's very cool.

http://www.vietnampix.com/

Anyway keep up the good work.
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Posted 26 November 2005 - 04:22 PM

Good point, and I liked that book. I'd like to explore that, but probably after my stint in the army which should give me more first-hand insight into how (certain) soldiers think.

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Currently working on stuff like this for my exam. Pencil on the right, colour pencil and black pen and marker on left.

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#43 Kazyumi

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Posted 26 November 2005 - 05:43 PM

Wow my god Godwin your flipping brilliant! Wish I could make such beautiful images.
Just wow. :O

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Posted 26 November 2005 - 07:51 PM

^ Agreed ^

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#45 Soulreaver

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Posted 26 November 2005 - 08:58 PM

Have you then also read the "The Black Obelisk"? If not I suggest that one too. It's from the same author.
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Posted 29 November 2005 - 08:15 AM

Oh, nope, I actually don't read much at all, I just happened to pick up All Quiet on the Western Front from my secondary school's library's old-book-giveaway heh.

Anyways here's the prep work for my drawing&painting paper (which was yesterday):
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How it works is you're given a set of 6 stimuli questions 3 weeks prior, and you're supposed to develop and document your ideas and progress in relation to the theme (I chose "Deconstruction") in that period (I only started last week lol). The preparatory work thus serves this purpose, to add on to that, you're given 3 hours to make (paint, draw, whatever) a final piece of work on the exam day itself.
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Posted 29 November 2005 - 01:34 PM

Wow, looks awesome and sounds awesome too!

Next year I'm going to the art school! :shiftee: Or the computer line, where we learn to work with net servers and how to use programs.

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:29 PM

Been away in the army, recently had a little time...

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The above were all sketches done in camp, the last from memory of riding on a 5-ton truck when it was raining.

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Couple of outdoor sketches

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Random girl

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Photos from a recent trip overseas, click to be linked to another page.

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#49 Athena

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:41 PM

Pretty cool drawings :lol:. Are those the beds you have at the army or was it something you thought up?
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#50 Godwin

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:46 PM

Yeah the first four drawings were all from life! :lol: The beds were the actual beds we slept in. The sunset was the view out our windows, my block faced the sea, pretty good view.

I've been fine, completed basic military training, now in the air force, going to be a driver for a mobile air defence platform, the training for that will start next week so I thought it'd be nice to leave a little update before I disappear for another 2 to 4 months or so. Regardless, I still update my blog, you guys are free to read it, even though you may not understand a lot of what's going on due to the colloquailism and also my... emo-ness hahaha.
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Posted 23 March 2006 - 12:55 PM

I'll read it sometime :lol:. Good luck wherever you're going.

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Posted 23 March 2006 - 02:30 PM

Aaaahhh, familiar scenes. Sleeping under a tree with your rifle, a line of beds in the blocks, riding in the back of a rickety old truck...
Very nice scetches there. I hope you're enjoying army life.
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Posted 24 March 2006 - 03:15 PM

i love the random girl drawing the best godwin , the photos are awesome and your other drawings are nice as usuall. but the girl i think is stunning for the detail and the lifelikeness you brought out of her.
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