Lindsey_C
April 1st, 2005, 12:28 AM
Hi everyone, I just joined this forum recently! I found it through another site and saw all of these sketchbook threads. I was very inspired, because I recently decided that I need to improve my art.
I guess I'll tell you about my background as an artist. I'm 22, a self-taught artist, and will be graduating college later this summer with a degree in Graphic Design. I had first started drawing seriously when I was 17. I read the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" (great book!) and taught myself how to "see." I did a lot of drawing from life and became pretty good at drawing realistically. Unfortunately, once I entered college I gave up drawing because 1)less time, 2)my teachers actually told me to give up drawing because I wouldn't need it in the Graphic Design field! One of my teachers also told me that I had no talent, and that art wasn't for me. So, being 18 and very naive at the time, I quit art for 2 years!
When I was around 20, I decided to start creating again. I took a painting class in college and fell in love with oils. Unfortunately, because of space limitations I can't paint in oils anymore, and they give me headaches too. Around that time I met some artists online who were selling their artwork through ebay. I wanted to try, and I did. I was doing mostly fantasy art, fairies and dragons. A few times my paintings sold for decent prices but for the most part it didn't work out too well. For ebay, I had to create a painting every week to maintain a following and this GREATLY affected the quality of my work. I just can't paint a masterpiece in a couple of days. I created a website, which is still up, www.artbylindsey.com.
I decided a few weeks ago that I really need to just learn all of the basics of art before I try to do anything commercial with my art. So, I came here to learn! Please feel free to be as harsh as you wish, I really want to grow as an artist.
So here are the first few peices in my journey.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/artbylindsey/lcwomanfacestudy1.jpg
This is a color sketch I did in Photoshop, of a girl who's picture I found at morguefile.com. I was trying the "blocking in" technique, which I had never done before. I blocked in the colors loosely and then built up the detail. It took a few hours...I'm slow!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/artbylindsey/practice002lr.jpg
A study of male proportions I copied from Loomis' Figure Drawing book.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/artbylindsey/practice001lr.jpg
Female proportions copied from Loomis' book.
That's all for now, I plan to practice as much as possible and show my progress here!
I guess I'll tell you about my background as an artist. I'm 22, a self-taught artist, and will be graduating college later this summer with a degree in Graphic Design. I had first started drawing seriously when I was 17. I read the book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" (great book!) and taught myself how to "see." I did a lot of drawing from life and became pretty good at drawing realistically. Unfortunately, once I entered college I gave up drawing because 1)less time, 2)my teachers actually told me to give up drawing because I wouldn't need it in the Graphic Design field! One of my teachers also told me that I had no talent, and that art wasn't for me. So, being 18 and very naive at the time, I quit art for 2 years!
When I was around 20, I decided to start creating again. I took a painting class in college and fell in love with oils. Unfortunately, because of space limitations I can't paint in oils anymore, and they give me headaches too. Around that time I met some artists online who were selling their artwork through ebay. I wanted to try, and I did. I was doing mostly fantasy art, fairies and dragons. A few times my paintings sold for decent prices but for the most part it didn't work out too well. For ebay, I had to create a painting every week to maintain a following and this GREATLY affected the quality of my work. I just can't paint a masterpiece in a couple of days. I created a website, which is still up, www.artbylindsey.com.
I decided a few weeks ago that I really need to just learn all of the basics of art before I try to do anything commercial with my art. So, I came here to learn! Please feel free to be as harsh as you wish, I really want to grow as an artist.
So here are the first few peices in my journey.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/artbylindsey/lcwomanfacestudy1.jpg
This is a color sketch I did in Photoshop, of a girl who's picture I found at morguefile.com. I was trying the "blocking in" technique, which I had never done before. I blocked in the colors loosely and then built up the detail. It took a few hours...I'm slow!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/artbylindsey/practice002lr.jpg
A study of male proportions I copied from Loomis' Figure Drawing book.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v398/artbylindsey/practice001lr.jpg
Female proportions copied from Loomis' book.
That's all for now, I plan to practice as much as possible and show my progress here!