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Line
March 25th, 2009, 07:28 AM
These are the most important studies I've done since I started taking some lessons at a small local school. The way it works and the goals it sets for it's students are way different than ateliers and schools in other parts of the world. I guess it comes closer to the Foundation courses in the UK or the art classes in high school, since their logic is to prepare the students for exams to enter the local 'Univesrity of Art'.

The teachers are mostly pressing me and the rest of the students to be more abstract and not too representational, something i like and want, and to treat the subject with dynamic and fast movements of the material at hand, either charcoal, eraser or paint, another thing i also like and need. So, these won't be detailed drawings we're mostly used to seeing here but any feedback commenting on the logic is welcomed.

I am going to be doing slightly different things with these teachers in the near future but as far as the basics go, they are the same everywhere so I am following their method for now. Here are my works so far, in chronological order.

OmenSpirits
March 25th, 2009, 10:31 PM
I like the concrete feeling I get from these. A sense of solidness to the form and a good feel of dimension.

You can see from the beginning where you learn to push the darker shadows more from the B&W and carrying it into the color.

Very good. :D

Noah Bradley
March 25th, 2009, 10:58 PM
Nice work. They feel really solid.

Keep it up.

*ViRuS*
March 27th, 2009, 11:18 PM
good stuff =)

tokszmogus
March 28th, 2009, 02:15 AM
Yeah, I would agree with OmenSpirits, works has this concrete feeling. For me it makes the expression of sort of sculptural approach but in two dimensional space. Some of these catches the attention because of some twisted proportions. Keep an eye on it and keep going, that's really a great stuff anyway man :-).

Line
April 1st, 2009, 12:26 PM
Thanks for the crits guys. I have to admit that in most of these I don't pay too much attention to the proportions and design, tho I should, and at the same time I am trying to get more loose with the strokes and give more flow to them, you know, more curve and less of a straight geometric chop. Thanks again for the crits.

keith eager
April 29th, 2009, 01:17 AM
What's wrong with representational?

astroluc
May 5th, 2009, 01:35 PM
What's wrong with representational?

agreed... why not learn form and then abstract it? is'nt that what you are supposed to do?!