Meister Jazz
June 29th, 2008, 01:58 PM
I know there are probably half a million threads in this forum about one's inspiration and where they get it from, but it's always interesting to see what inspires other artists. It's fun to see how two people can look at picture and be driven to create two different pieces that are nothing like what they both looked at.
My question being posed is about everything that inspires you. Not just art and other tangible artists [painters, artists etc] but everything. Music, movies, walking down the street, how does everything you experience affect your art?
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To answer my own question, almost every song I hear makes me want to draw either a character responding to the song or to draw what the song is talking about, or what I think they're talking about. I want to draw something in relation to the music I hear. There was a meme on deviantart to draw something in relation to a song within in the confines of the song's length. That was an interesting little project and a nice little warm up to draw ten images back to back in relation to ten different songs. Each drawn between one minute and five.
I'm also inspired by the movies I see. I watched Chaplin last night and then had to draw my own cartoon of Charlie Chaplin. Moves help to spark my idea for comics I'm interested in drawing, they inspire interactions between characters and they make me wonder about how it all should be paced.
Every comic book, manga, trade paperback I pick up reignites my desire to draw a comic, to try out the style of the artist I've just spent time looking at, and to try out their styles if inking with my own drawing style.
Regular books and stories inspire me to draw that story as a comic. Other artists, famous or not, inspire me to improve my art itself. I envy others abilities to draw animals and strive to improve my own work, if for nothing but so when my friends look at my work, I don't have to tell them what It's a drawing of.
Hanging out with my friends, or being out in public inspire me to draw what I see. How they sit, how they stand. I do mental studies, since they don't always let me draw them, so I an incorporate their pose into a picture so I can give my drawn people more realistic postures so they're not all ramrod straight. They slouch because real people slouch, but I look at people in public and my friends to see how others slouch, so I can have more realistic aspects in my cartoons and comics.
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My question is, what inspires you, and a bit about how? What books, movies, songs, human interactions inspire you to create.
My question being posed is about everything that inspires you. Not just art and other tangible artists [painters, artists etc] but everything. Music, movies, walking down the street, how does everything you experience affect your art?
~~~
To answer my own question, almost every song I hear makes me want to draw either a character responding to the song or to draw what the song is talking about, or what I think they're talking about. I want to draw something in relation to the music I hear. There was a meme on deviantart to draw something in relation to a song within in the confines of the song's length. That was an interesting little project and a nice little warm up to draw ten images back to back in relation to ten different songs. Each drawn between one minute and five.
I'm also inspired by the movies I see. I watched Chaplin last night and then had to draw my own cartoon of Charlie Chaplin. Moves help to spark my idea for comics I'm interested in drawing, they inspire interactions between characters and they make me wonder about how it all should be paced.
Every comic book, manga, trade paperback I pick up reignites my desire to draw a comic, to try out the style of the artist I've just spent time looking at, and to try out their styles if inking with my own drawing style.
Regular books and stories inspire me to draw that story as a comic. Other artists, famous or not, inspire me to improve my art itself. I envy others abilities to draw animals and strive to improve my own work, if for nothing but so when my friends look at my work, I don't have to tell them what It's a drawing of.
Hanging out with my friends, or being out in public inspire me to draw what I see. How they sit, how they stand. I do mental studies, since they don't always let me draw them, so I an incorporate their pose into a picture so I can give my drawn people more realistic postures so they're not all ramrod straight. They slouch because real people slouch, but I look at people in public and my friends to see how others slouch, so I can have more realistic aspects in my cartoons and comics.
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My question is, what inspires you, and a bit about how? What books, movies, songs, human interactions inspire you to create.