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[guggemmaneuver]

Wow huge, huge updates, gotta hand it to ya man, it's impressive how you are churning out these watercolor studies. And i think that this one (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44076&stc=1&d=1162483357) proves that you can really tighten up and render the hell out of something if the occasion calls for it.

asspats only at this time.

good work out there, your color sense is improving

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[marioucci]

eating up anything you see eh? your production is huge man. I dont understand the last update thou.. why all that academic pastiche? If its for me dont worry.. no need to prove anything here:)

The pigs scene is my favourite. colors are just delicious.

cheers man

Mario

[blacky]

Hey folks,
I'm being taught to become an Emergency Medical Technician so I could earn some more money on the side once I'm a student some day. So I won't have much time left for art throughout the next 3 month.

joe- I didn't have any watercolours along when encountering Sophocles ;) . Thx for the kind words. Still have a long way to go with colours. Got a new PC, hope to eather receive or buy a Wacom on chrismas so I could finally go digital.

Marioucci- I got told to wolve down anything like mars his children and it was fun for sure. Need to start working on my imagination machine some time so I wouldn't have to relly on reallity that much no more. Most of my works where done life. The lighthouse siries is a good example for it, bw-one shows the lighthouse the way it is, others where thought up but I still had it in sight (from a seashorecave for example). You're right last ones where partially done to "prove sth. to people" but I aslo felt like getting the basics tightened up some more. I needed to practice my pencils and rendering too. Thx for dropping by.



First is my Nov1st.-sp-entry (yeah.....I know......)

[bhanu]

Great watercolor thread man,
I have been practicing watercolors too.And they sure are fun eh.FIgure drawing look strong.Too bad you wont have much time left foe art in the coming months.
Take care.

[madplanet]

The one that Joel pointed out is sweet and tight just like he pointed out. Good job on the folds in the cloth, too. I also feel that your backgrounds are getting interesting, like with the man playing the trumpet. The background colors flow in with the figure as if to the rhythm of the music. And the last two as well. Did you actually tear the paper or did you paint it that way? It's hard to tell on my monitor, but it looks good.

I hope everything goes well with your training and good luck with that and hopefully you'll be able to cram in some sketches in between what you have to do.

See ya.

[sve]

Hello, Andrej-Barmalej... So you conquered Spain, eh? in my language it means you bought a souvenir magnet there and sticked it to your refrigerator... Spain... Goya... Well, did you see him a lot there? Ohhh, it's too much...

Pretty soon it will be again people in warm coats in your drawings and I'm here sitting in Dallas will feel cold weather in Hamburg...
thank you so much for awesome post in my book, it was very interesting read and it made me think, particularly about purple being much better color than black for nightly room.I need to become more sensitive about things like this, I'm too rude with colors.
OK.


You drew a lot of figure drawing but frankly speaking not many of them I liked, too many disproportions, very careless attitude... Too very often I saw very short torsos comparing to the rest of the body, too prominent hips, head are bigger than they should be... And all that with jumping fast lines created the impression of rushed drawings, careless attitude... Not much of the personalities in the depicted too, everything was with pretty much the same mood, in a hurry, on a run... I just didn't feel your interest to people standing or sitting in front of you, and it is not like you actually. You showed so much personality in sleeping in the subway heavy set guy, or model with cane and bower hat in those little sketches, and here you have a model in fron of you, and you are sure he/she will be patient and will give you a decent time to sketch, and you don't pay a lot attention to who they are... Maybe I'm wrong. But I don't feel an nterest to these people in most of the cases, nothing grabs my attention, it is just a lot of curvy lines, a bit monotone...
But not all, some were wonderful, it is just ratio was not flattering, in my opinion...

My favorite:

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43619&stc=1&d=1162418910
this one, I love it, it has a great proportions, volume, charm, personality (melancholic), charm, sensuality.. I have some association too seeing those bracelets on her feminine, full hand, her short dark curvy hair, black mascara on her eyelashes... with models in the beginning of the 20th century when photography was just invented and it took a 20/30 minutes of standing in one pose to make a decent photo... Well, I thought about that looking at this picture. The other thing those kind of woman were fashionable... so a lot of associations because of a lot of little details.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=44072&stc=1&d=1162483252 I like this one, mostly because of her face, it lookd done with more care than the others...
I like paintings of the bald guy, although they look distorted, but texture of the man's skin, rough, dark, is very truthful...

My favorite images:

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35809&stc=1&d=1160844524 This picture hypnotises me, I think I just imagine this repetitive monotone action... Don't know why, but it calms my nerves.
His head is a little too big, but still the pose is easy to recognize and I can relate and it is nice to recognise the scene (although I'm not sure what is he cooking).

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35805&stc=1&d=1160844497 I like the net of lines.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35806&stc=1&d=1160844505 I like this one. although it is not so innocently looking. I read that you need to remove newborn piglets from the pig, or it can eat them, Sorry for the graphic description... I like the interaction in your drawings, objects and people are communicating, you read body language and choose the most precise one to send the message... that's why your image have a charm even when eyes see obvious distortion in figures.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35804&stc=1&d=1160844386 Again, good interaction between characters.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35808&stc=1&d=1160844518 I like the motion of water in this one.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35787&stc=1&d=1160844230 This one is actually the best together with nude I loved so much... this one has such a great dynamic and energy... I value this one very highly.
I saw sketches of Goya (on Internet, not in a real life), well, get this, yours is on the same level, just it needs some thick lines to defines direction of main movement to help viewer to read the picture a little better. But to create this kind energy in painting, in such a simple and effective manner, it is huge,, I love this one..
Think it needs a little more work though, a bit too hard to read... But how the line of the bull's back going far away from me and bends, and those watercolors leaks, they laid perfectly, and the bull's head bent backward,and the figure of the fighter flying furiously above the bull, awesome, really wonderful. Bravo, bis, cool.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=35800&stc=1&d=1160844342 I like this piggy, you wanted to draw it sort of dissolved in environment. I think, it works, it is a part of nature with its shadows on grass and earth and grasses shadows on the pig, united... Maybe a bit brighter colors fro pig would be better though, to catch the eye longer... to make it more excited, or maybe not... I value this calmness and harmony in the image.

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I like the motion, the pencils strokes create in this drawing... You saw the van Gogh drawing of the treated field? he had this rhythm created by lines as well in the image. here if you are willing to look:

http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vangogh/vangogh91.html the most famous one, my favorite,

and another one

http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vangogh/vangogh48.html

And on more, those line create swirls and inner motion in the picture, don't you think? so beautiful
http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vangogh/vangogh120.html
Huge explosion of thin art work in my city now, I'm coming...

OK, be well, buddy.
Sveta Dranduletta

[Listing]

Neat work, recently. Picasso-esque calligraphic line. Keep moving.

[Hyver]

i know that statue! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=51244&stc=1&d=1163854545 :)

sweet updates man!
your meticulously rendered tightness rocks as hard as your watercolor frivolities.. a pleasure to look at

[blacky]

Helloah

bhanu- thanks man, its true I barely had any time for anything recently already, tacke care

bruce- hey, man. Thanks for the c&c. I actually tore the paper apart while drawing. Felt like it would make the piece more dynamic and I didn't really need the rest of the page. The medical stuff I have to do sucks timewise so far, but at least I got to scetch during surgeries as they wouldn't allow me to spend my time elsewise during those 3-8h opperations.

Duddeta-Konfetta - hey. I've been to spain, yes. But only to an island belonging to it. Saw a picasso and a Dali amongst some other pictures but no Goya, whom I value a lot too. Specially Saturn eating his children. It's winter in germany but not actually cold.(Globe's heating up n all). Hope I'll get a wacom for chrismas or else I'd have to buy one on my self. Thanks a ton for your support and especially for your crits. ALthough the comparisson with Goya might have been too great a compliment. I was to a really awesome artist couple of days ago, he's got pictures in the Tretjakow gallery and all. Showed him his stuff. He liked like only 2-3 picures off the bunch, specially pianno player from January. Gave me quite some feedback and actually sat down with me to do some paintovers and explain what I did wrong. Allowed me to come again once I have new stuff, since I have serious problems with my paints so far (as he said). I totally agreed with anything he said and I agree with al that you said, it's really good to have somebody to tell you that you're not as good as you'd like to be and that you need to be more serious about your work. A really good tip of this guy was to be more selfconfident. As I look back, most of my stuff is plain boring for sure and it's good to know that to push oneself some more. Alright, I won't go into detail on your comment's, just know it's really warm and cozy embedding oneself in them. So long....

Listing- thanks man, appreciate it.

Hyver- wow, i seriously needed to look up in the dictionarry to get what you where saying, but it sure was worth it, thx. I actually go to the archeology department of the university here to study those statue-copies from time to time. But it gets boring to simply copy em, so I try to alter stuff (mostly colourwise) Great to have you stop by.


I was fortunate enough to spend a week at a cordial-surgery-staion. After a while I started scetching during operations. Great experience.
Last one's a portrait I need to finish.
(Oh, and one of the abstrakts is merely an old colour-palette I took a picture of)

[sve]

Hello, buddy... Lovely update...
So you didn't meet Goya in Spain. Silly me I thought he is on every step there, how disappointing... Goya in art for me like rockers Queens in music... not idols, but something that create sweet pain in my heart, very deep...Strange people. I think they went farther in understanding how our universe works, farther than others who tried to understand... I feel this understanding and harmony in the fullest in art or music they created... But of course everything for its own... for someone it will be Picasso and Dali, Kings of Vanity in my eyes.


I'm glad you found someone who gives your valuable information... Hope he is honest and generous...Be careful though and always analyze any critiques you get... Don't overestimate it, it is hard to enter other person soul and get it close to your heart and try to love it, not to reject it because it is other person life and experience... I always try to forget myself when I look at other people art, because my own taste it so judgmental... Not always successfully... I love more of yours than 2-3 drawings. that's why I'm suspicious about your awesome artist whose work in Tretjakov gallery.

Buddy, show me photos of Spain if you have any, you know I want to see world, always... did the spirit of old times present in the Spanish cities? Did you feel something from Great Inquisition? some hints it was there in full force?

About wacom.... :). my husband doesn't like presents, especially in electronics and devices... he takes pleasure choosing for himself, he is so careful in this... almost always he ends up buying the last model, it is expensive, but puts him sort of in future, it doesn't get obsolete for few more years... in the end he always right with it... Cheapskate pays twice, you know.. Feel free to ignore, of course :).


Arrrrttttt.

First two images are my favs.
I the first one I like her thin figure, a bit exaggerated, but graceful and light and stylized. especially her weightless arm. Good placement on the paper too in my opinion... her foot is huge and the fabric hiding part of the upper leg is not very believable. i need to force myself to see it like this.. . But is it very stylish and elegant drawings. And I like those pillows and lines and soft brown shadows...

I like econd one, which I like very much, his arm has a wonderful heaviness, good gravity in this one, in my opinion, but the proportions is not right, I think, the art from elbow up is a bit short, from elbow down is too long the hand it too big... still like it very much...
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64036&stc=1&d=1166292485 I like this one. Mostly for light silhouette.
And I like all pictures from surgery room. Word to come to my mind is meticulous. Interesting way to entertaining your viewer with look from above and expressive hands gestures and lines sort of dancing on paper... Cuprous too see at this surgeon cap with pattern on it and on some strange device on the forehead of the leading doctor... is it a flash light? strange...
I'm impressed with your nerves too... Sketching in surgery room, eh? Wow.

Last portrait it too festive for me... Left cheek ( my left) might need darker value, I think...
OK. see you, be well.

[madplanet]

Sketching actual surgeries? That is very...bizarre. Cool, but almost something surreal. Not something someone does everyday, but I would do it in a heartbeat. About twenty years ago I almost took a medical course where one would dissect cadavers. I figured that it would help my anatomy studies. I was actually cleared to do so by that department, but I never went through with it. It would have been interesting, though. Your sketches are interesting in that they are dealing with a technical situation, but they are very fluid, your figures I mean. It brings a more human element to such a sometimes mechanical situation.

I also like the last portrait that you posted. It's the little things like the color choices that you made in the details, such as the green between the eye and the eyebrow.

See ya and have a great New Year's.

[blacky]

sve- I agree, there have been extremely talented people out there in the pop-culture. They deserve deep respet although they deprived us off their most mature and productive potential-outputt by making an excessive way of life shorten their lifespan.
and I agree that listening good music/ watching the works of great artists, can open your eyes on aspects of life samewell as good literature.
It is for the reason that he tells me, that I still have serius flaws that I value that one artist so much.
I did,t see much of inquisition and only few historical sites of evidence, since it's merely been an island of spain in the mediterranian see. But I saw lots of beatyfil places I did not tacke many pictures of, but whenever I'll have some more time on my hands I'l try to post those few I have.
Thanks for the advise on wacom, I think you're husband's right, my dad is like that samewell. I guess I'll get myself an WACOM Intuos 3 A4 oversize (12"x12") for about 600$.
funny thing is, that first two pics from last post where of same person. He was doing some great shielelesque poses but, way too feminime, so I altered his sex to avid confusion. you're right with your crits, but I deliberately exegerated proportions on second one. Oughta do some studies on proportions nevertheless some time.
Drawing in surgery room was way fun, and I even sold one of those scetches to the surgeon, but the reason I was able to do so, was that they would alow me to do little else on my own. On other stations I'm allowed to tacke blood of or help out with stuff, so I don't have time to draw. Concerning nerves, my whole ancestors-tree is full with medics (not a single artrelated person), perhaps that's why I don't mind watching blood and tornopen-toraxe's. Only nasty part was when they had to rewire the sternum, the flesh around old wound was greenish and had to be scratched out along with parts of bone as if it where icecream. Oh,..and yea that headthingy is a flashlight, a real strong one (fiberoptics). Finished portrait, some things got worse but I most stuff improved I'd say (haven't posted full view of step in between, so unfortunately you can't really compare).
Hope you have a wonderfull new years eve. Give a shoutout to Ded marosz from me.

madplanet-dissecting cadavers? ......that sounds awesome. Would be a dream come true for me, actually. Surgery was interesting indeed. Had to pay attention to operation itself too, though. Since I was there to get insight into medicine and study things I might need later on in my parttime job as emergency medical technician. Coolest surgery was of an 8year old from Afghanistan who had a body of an 5 year old, lots of people trying to tacke a glimpse too, tough, even a TV-team. It's true the environment there was quite icey and mechaniqual (atmospherewise not people wise). The portrait was giving me some headaches as it was too spotty and with bad values and details that wouldn't add all that much (I'm referring to a full view pic I didn't post) am not happy with the mud and other flaws on final version but I thing it's an o.k.aish pic nevertheless. Thanks for dropping by, have a freanblastique New Year.


Oh..............I forgot to mention a litlle "detail".............


I GOT ACCEPTED AT COLLEGE (ILLUSTRATION) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1200 contastants
70 seats
yay

The people I've met so far that are going to be there too are way awesome
(nacho being amongst them) sooo looking forward for march, as that's when the scool's about to start


Here some scattered thingies

[blacky]

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first is after an Iberian Bust from 400B.C or so (Spain)
last is a scetch for a planned Illustration depicting Hamburgs Harbour

[Divorce]

BEAEUGAGFIEAFGUHKAH!!!!! Blacky, I have to tell you, this sketchbook is extremely inspiring. Every bit makes me want to run outside and draw everything, and I thank you for that very much!

also what medium did you use to color this picture: http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g242/russisch/akt18.jpg ?

[mentler]

good shitttttt././/

[Farvus]

Congratulations on being accepted college! :) You have really interesting style. Such loose strokes are good for showing that body is organic form.
Really like those surgery sketches. I guess it was hard to draw hands holding tools.
Keep it up!

[marioucci]

omg man. the surgery drawings are amazing. such a good idea and execution.

those are my favevourites so far. hats off

cheers man

Mario

[bumskee]

blacky, your work is so inspiring.. it's like seeing someone with another view to the world.. so hectic yet rhythmic... love them.. keep going, I know there's not much I can say except to cheer you from the side. Look forward to what you become in near future. YEAH!

[Cirsk]

Hey there,
Your works are looking awesome! I think that as the posts went by i was able to feel a more personal approach to your work / your style became more fluid and recognizable! I especially like your watercolor studies, those animals were looking awesome, and that narwhale made me grin :) Love that loose and confident style you have
Keep it up!

[blacky]

Hey people,
I am really sorry I haven't been able to neither update nor comment on any of your replies or personnal scetchbooks.
I really vastly appreciate your support

I still browse the forums occasionally when at work, but during last 2 Month I've done close to nothing artwise (which sucks).
Give me another month or so, so I could devote myself fully to these forums and my art again.

(No post without pictures:
Those two scetches are about all I've done this year) :(

[blacky]

OK.
I'm back.
After 3 month, studying Emergency Medical Technician, I've been to Egypt for 2 weeks. I also have been to a mini-convention from a German artforum over one weekend.
This week I'll finally start studying Illustration. yay

Divorce- thanks for the enthusiastic words, out and about is always good. I used coloured inks on the picture you pointed out.

mentler- lol, thx

Farvus- thanks, I simply get bored drawing out any tiny detail at times and go loose, sometimes too loose perhaps I wish I was bolder instead.

Marioucci- hey, the surgery scetches wheren't much of an Idea, you simply have little else to do when standing in surgery room all day. I was barelly allowed to touch stuff, was merely supposed to stand by and learn, but they where very happy about being drawn. I like those scetches too, wish I could go scetch there sometime again. THx for stopping by.

bumskee- your cheer up is very much appreciated. It's funny you say I'd have a different view on the world. My boss told me sth. similar today except the bad way round. He was like: get your life together, boy. Wake up and come up with some discipline and sense for responsibility. lol

Cirsk-thanks man, that's been for my motivationbooster


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[bumskee]

Hey! :) yeah I suppose there's that too like what your boss said, but I think it's more positive thing as it makes you quite unique.. I felt it again seeing your stuff, kinda feel so free.. like you are not afraid of anything. Of course there's lots of room for improvement and all but isn't it always about attitude? we know if we put the time into it you get there eventually.. I hope.. ahha.. anyways..

love your work, and hope you had fun at egypt! :D

[blacky]

bumskee- yea work, is what I need to do a ton of. Need to get my art modus on as soon as possible, al rusted. Oh, and yes my bos was right (partially) especially when it would come down to be finding a job sometime in the future, need to work on selfdiscipline and organization some more. Egypt was hell fun, I'll try posting photos in photosection as soon as I'll get pics from other group members. Now I'll need to save up money so I could afford going to India for 3 weeks in 6 month :)

On last day in Egypt, we had to come up with something in the evening, like a song a comedyscetch or sth.
I grouped up with some smart kid to make a little theatre, illustrating our trip. Unfortunatelly he threw the prosa he wrote away so but it ran sth. like:
We left Hurghada, for the desert and eskaped the tourists, we'd be led by W. Snatinkov (our tour leader) through the desert, up and down the mountains and so on, until we'd see a Beduine on his Kamel, he'd serve us tea and invite us to his tent. Next' we'd go to the sea, to snorkle under corals by the sharks and relax from our journey under the sun, but then a shadow would fall uppon us, a of a touristical moster, coming from out of the sea like a fish, too much for W. Snatinkov, he'd grab us and carry us back to Hurhgada, where we'd becom tourists ourselves as everybody else.

[TheGnoll]

huge and beautiful update man.
strange thing is, lines are wonky.Colors ofen mic up, and other flaws...but whatever you do, they look so damn right.
Illustrations work, and thats the important thing...lovely to see you go wild with lines and colors...i'll be waiting for the next update...and thanks again for beign the first one to actually visit my sb regularly...you can't imagine how much it helped me ;)

keep sharing!

ciao

[blacky]

The Gnoll- thanks man. I felt like I was free to loosen up un stuff lately before starting to attain art classes at scool where the'd teach me accademic stuff, but strange enough the teachers there are awesome but not as much into an accademic aproach so far. We'll see if it's for the good or the bad. But I'm really exited about the classes already.

here a little update of this week:

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[Chromosome]

I love the looseness of your work, color choices and that you look at any and all subject matter. Great sketchbook, keep it up.

[Listing]

There's an enormous, authentically artistic energy in your work. As you progress technically its going to become even more expressed. Really brilliant. Keep at it.

[sve]

Hello, Ahdrej... it's nice to talk to you again... I'm really happy that you are not postponing the good things in your life and you travel, see the world... I really support you in this... Hope you see as much as possible...I remember when I first came to America, personal computers just started to become a norm for everyone and Internet was growing... pretty fast and in many directions at once.
It was 1994-1995. People started to post their stories about traveling and their impressions about other countries... I was always amazed that the most interesting stories were not about Europe, but about Asia: China, Taiwan, Japan. Apparently those countries still hold their national individuality, when Europe is getting one standard of living so to speak.
I hope you will post those photo of Egypt. I'm looking forward to see them.

I didn't know that your art school already started, I thought it will start this fall.

Hope you are happy with your teachers and classes and program. I'm looking forward to see what new knowledge and skills I will be observing soon in your art...

Updates are great, you are still you, catching the moment in which you happened to be, very vividly and so truthfully that I have the sensation of seeing the same and feeling the same together with you...

I even believe you showed me everything at it was, truthfully : colors, how fast it happened, and in what time of the day... All your people, even stocky and heavy set people have a light gait, they are weightless, like air balloons.
I imagine that even some gentleman with a respectful posture and round belly will be jumping like a children ball, with no gravitation if your characters would suddenly come to life... there is somehting humorous and lighthearted and carefree in your drawings and paintings... A bit of grotesque, eheh I think your professor's words about Repin and his fatal influence on Russian realism in art are still in your memory... and you keeps distance between yourself and realistic school..

But anyway, your art has a taste of happy life... Maybe because of that I feel nostalgia to my own childhood when I see your colors, themes and your people. As I wrote already to you, I suspect we saw the same illustration in our childhood, but I 20 year earlier.

OK.. A lot of wonderful images actually, I love many of them, I missed them, I missed how attentive and friendly your eyes are when you look at your subjects... everything has taste of friendly curiosity.

Favs:

All camels :). they all look so enriched with personality, I would even say human personality, that I have uncontrollable smile every time I looked at them... More of it, I need to giggle to keep my reaction balanced, smile is not enough :).
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109667&d=1174225437 hehe this one. I would pressed my hand to his mouth to escape spitting and certainly would kiss it in its huge nose, it has a lovely expression. Life is good in Egypt for this camel... :).
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=112823&d=1174766355 I like this one as well, for letting me know how it is in Egypt: everything is of color of sand, people, desert and camels... Was it beautiful, the desert?

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109665&d=1174225383 I looked with such an enjoyment on the illusion of swimming people, the motions and their rolling, returning movements of arms... I like swimming and it's nice to see and recognize those beautiful movements. Looks very truthful and dynamic. Very enjoyable and makes my smile again. The closest to us swims in Butterfly style, hmm, I'm impressed, that's the most energy consuming style. Damn, I still can't do it. I'm deeply hurt in my heart... tell please this person he is a major show off.
What is it around them? jellyfish? Wow... good sportsmanship, ahahha.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109672&d=1174225546 Ohhh, this one tears me apart, it looks so exotic... what's going on? Is it a well? di they sit on the hot sun lit spot all day long? What kind of people they are, what a country!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109674&d=1174225589 And this one too... looks scary, hope he is alive after this drilling in his chest... Yeah, Egypt looks like very exotic place to be..

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=87312&stc=1&d=1170513315 This one is very beautiful and playful and your enjoyment of drawing it is so contagious, I really need to hang out more in your book, Andrej. You are what doctor prescribed me: draw or most importantly paint subconsciously...free from heavy stuff, enjoyably.
I wish you added some hoofs to this satire, I could see him tapping with his foot and dancing little funny dance on his hoofs between playing and singing on the mandolin.
A vivid bright character: sly, manipulative, but such a great entertainer, soul and favorite of any company... I wonder how he came to your mind.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109656&d=1174224827 This portrait and next to it are very funny and striking with emotion in the eyes and with the little means you used to show it... As I said many times, you have such attentive eyes, you will be very shrewd artist with time, seeing the face in first time and guessing the story of life for the person and guessing it right.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=69958&stc=1&d=1167485561 Lovely lines, proportions, sense of balance between looseness and weight... beautiful positive and negative space shapes... and because of all that it is a beautiful design on its own, IMO... not all your nudes have this quality, this one looks nice. Little indication of colors, although they are pretty wild, looks nice too in this one.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109648&d=1174224395 hehehe, I love this one.. it reminds me how students in my class wrote about behavior of animals in the observation journal... they describe their behavior human-like... yours goat has a very satisfied look, like a child who dragged his mother to buy him ice cream and air balloon... yeah, both of them in one day... what a great day, what a mom of this child :)... but it is sweet...

Well I know you expect at least some crits... proportions, my dear, they are pretty wild sometimes in your drawing..
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=69959&stc=1&d=1167485568 here from example, feet are huge and torso is so short... he has some real person presence though with his thin figure...
OK. bye, buddy, hope you are doing great.

[Beelow]

Nice watercolor studies, especially your figurative stuff. Some of it becomes chaotic and messy but, that is apart of the journey that you are undergoing. I am curious to what your intentions are after you finish schooling, where do you want to go with your work? Hope to see some new stuff. I will drop by every so often. I am kinda bad at revisiting sketchbooks. Holla! XD

[Miau]

Häääääääääääääääääää
was machst du denn hieeeeeeeeerrr ????
;)
hey sehr coole sachen hast du hier, sehr illustrativ! posten tuhst du auch fleissiger

respekt, vielleicht sieht man sich im herbst bei der daf convention?

so long,

[asoir]

i love how your stuff feels so fresh and outdoors man, very nice improvement.

[madplanet]

hey Blacky, how ya been? i read way back that you got accepted into college? Congrats! That's great news and I expect lots of great things from you, ha, ha.

These last few updates are explosive, man. The colors are vibrant and come off the page and the figures from your last post are incredible. you're improving by leaps and bounds, my friend.

[pennington]

i love your stuff man, sorry i haven't been over hear in awhile, but you truely have some very inspirational skills my friend. :)
oh my gosh!! this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=109654&d=1174224784) and the one above it are sooo crazy good :)

[blacky]

sry, am in a hurry since it's easter

Chromosome- thx man, appreciate it

Listing- Wow, thx, but I know you're good for a crit too :)

sve- arghhhh, sve, dear. Your post is awesome but it makes me want to write back like whole pages, but I aint got time. So I'm keeping this as a placeholder till tomorrow sry.

Beelow- Cool to have you drop by man, you're right about the chaotic side of mine, shines through every now and then. Actually I'm clueless of what shalt become of me, caught between options and chairs. Just trying to be as versatile as possible for as long as possible.

Miau- hast ja auch wieder gepostet, fauler sack du. Hoffe zur konvention kommen zu können, hängt aber von meinen vage greifbaren Finanzen ab....:)

Asoir- thanks, I'm too much inpired by people I know that do nothing else but drawing outside, not to give it a try once and so often.

madplanet- leaps and bounds? Man, I've had a break for nearly 3 month, ha, ha. Well, yeah. Scool started and I'm loving it so far, mostly for charismatic people there, but they haven't seemed to start actually teaching us anything so far. We'll see if I could meet your expectations, lol :)

pennington- you don't have to appologize dude, thx for the kind words. Wasn't aware sb. could get so euphoric about my stuff in the presence of so many awesome artists on these boards.

O.k, some new stuff
first is sth. we had to do in Illustration class. We read a story where one crazy dude tried to bet he could eat a fly-catcher-thingy (full of flies)
the rest is quite selfexplaining I'd say
Happy easter

[blacky]

sve- Here is the site of the guy I've been traveling with http://www.snatenkov.ru/ . He's on an expedition right now and hasn't uploaded his images yet from Egypt (in the scool-group section). He is one of the most respectable persons I've been fortunate enough to meet. And I envy him for all those journeys he has been able of undertacking.
Yep, scool has started and the people and most of the Teachers are really awesome, I feel like I oughta be at any class simultaniously, because the topics are real interesting. However, when it comes down to practical application, the teaching is partially real lame. Perhaps we simply haven't started yet. We'll see how things turn out in future. I aslo had hoped there would have been more people up there with serious scills. Overall I'm surprised to see myself among the best when it comes down to traditional mediums. But the atmospere is a blast and there's such a creative vibe going on, makes me high when I enter scool. Those 3-4 years will probable be the best times of my life.
Oh, and before I forget, you would make great friends with Snatinkov, our tour leader, since he's the greatest fan of Russian realists I've ever met. (We had quite some serious talk bout that stuff. He's too old to change his oppinion and I'm too young to get what he's been talking about :) )
The desert was the coolest part of our journey. No Tourists, noone trying to sell you sth. Just sun and naked nature with Beduine people, living simple but honest sharing anything with you, when you're friendly. Real Human beings.
Most of those animals (axcept for the camels :) ) I did at a small biological museum. They're stuffed. And I was also trying to make em look alive never the less. Didn't succeed all too often though.
Your remark about proportions is correct. I mess em up, specially about feet. legs and torso too. But I also try to exagerate things out of boredom. Much of what I do is out of boredom. I wouldn't have the will or patiance to do sth photorealistic for example.
Anyways, I really appreciate the lines you dropped. So long....



Some little subwayscetches I forgot to post yesterday (upperright corner is a sp)

[Solon]

Nice work, bold, great colors!keep posting

[YouIsSpecial]

Hi Blacky,

I've been a big fan of your work since stumbling across your jazz musician drawing on google a couple of weeks ago. I loved the fluid and quick lines of your drawings. But now I see you're also gifted in interpreting and using color in your paintings. Maybe if I keep sketching I'll get close to your level in five years. :P

[blacky]

Solon - thank you for having a look at these

YouIsSpecial- :O , didn't know I was on google, even tried to google me up (my jazz scetches) but failed, so it's nice hearing such from you doubleways. thanks. Checked your SB, looking fine so far, be more optimistic. Mindcandyman started out with what, like, 23? Now he's got his own scool. So long...


first 3 where done in drawing-class since the modell wouldn't show up.
last where colour and brushstroke -experiments just for fun at Archeological Institute.

[sve]

Hello, my good friend! Good to hear from you and you make me smile almost every time i meet your comments on this board, ahahaha oh, so funny. You're destroying reputations into which many efforts were poured just with your little sincere lighthearted observations, hehehe. So funny! never gonna blame you for that even if you say something that simple but sharp about me... Because I don't built any reputation... hahaha I'm protected by my hopeless attitude to this.
But really you make me feel good and proud of us human kind, what we can be when we have certain priorities in life.

I'm surprised a bit and I'm pretty calm in the same time about what you wrote about your school... In many cases it is very typical situation... Sometimes it is a case when they have good artists who have no talent to teach, or in the other cases they are just not being generous... :). in any cases, I believe in self education as the most powerful, the deepest. But not as systematical as when someone knowledgeable teaches you.
I'm surprised because I remember how strict your teacher was and how many of your paintings and drawing didn't pass his barrier.

Well. what can I say... analyze everything... don't create an idol, past achievements are great, but it has nothing to do with art you are looking at in the current moment... and absorb any knowledge from anyone without considering how young and how much weight this person has in someone's eyes. That's what I'm trying to do... but flatter is much more effective for fast movement up in social ladder... I'm not gonna judge anyone for that... life orders it sometimes.
I'm not surprised that you are one of the most skillful in your surroundings in the school.
I would say you are one of the most interesting and exciting artist and I mean artist, not just craftsman on this site. Your art is alive and it's breathing and vibrating and changing and living under all kinds of impressions of the day...If I would compare your way to look at world around you I would say you are like a very fine light net spread between tree's twigs... it bends and trembles and changes its surface every moment with every little stream of air around it. Very sensative.. But it's very strong net, it would be hard to tear it :).

Thank you for the link to the site, I really appreciate it... Yep, I might have liked him. I like what he wrote about China. He might have a tendency to generalize a bit and not being neutral in his generalization,,, but it would be too much to ask from any person to be a totally neutral... It was a bit sad for me to see that this geography and traveling enthusiast still can't afford a good camera for himself... And I still would like to see your own photos. he is not an artist, the only things which works in his photos is his sincerity and interest to any human person IMO, (and that's actually came from county he is from... articles and photos about simple people were a must in every newspaper :)).

He seems to be a very interesting person nevertheless, I'm very glad you gave me a link to his site.


Back to art...
My most favorite is the blue portrait
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=119164&stc=1&d=1175971939 His eyes are half closed or open, it is indefinite and the whole portrait is indefinite, it's just a suggestion and I like that. And the person looks not attractive, but soulful in the same time... And this wonderful, juicy, moody blue, my favorite color. So deep, so suggestive... I know that this portrait might be executed much better, with less but just right brush strokes, more economical. It will be striking then,,, but even now it stops my eyes and makes me feel good. Colors are beautiful and his big rough mouth and big eye lids... wonderful. He looks like outcast, not being accepted.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=119148&stc=1&d=1175971765 I like this illustration, it is sure fun and big interest to look, thanks to his gesture and unusual story and wonderful composition... Colors are interesting in my opinion, might be not very harmonious, but it is subjective thing from me.


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=119158&stc=1&d=1175971874 I like this rough manner of drawing with many little handmade textures,,, a bit crazy manner, but very emotional and open, all those little dots and lines are like tips of your nerves for me... drawings are very alive, like the net I wrote to you about earlier.
I like three portraits at the beginning of your last post for the same quality, this handmade texture of dots and lines and graphite n noise, it adds so much to the alive person caught on the paper... I wish it was less directed lines in the portrati, looks like you follow a shape of something under you paper... Anything that organized and directed kills the randomness and mood of the moment in my opinion...
I would like the last portrait with the person looking up, but distortion is way too much for my taste... it doesn't mean you have to listen to me...... interesting experiment with colors and light though...
Bye, hope to read more of you and see new experiments of yours.

[Looped_Warrior]

My Mans! This is most amazing... Your shadows have been getting better as of late... Great figures. I just scrolled through and looked at your whole SB... great stuff Keep it up my mans!

[YouIsSpecial]

Man, I love your colors. Your highlights and shadows. Thanks for stopping by and for the encouragements. I really appreciate it. I'm going to work on some more time consuming pieces in the future.

Take care,

[blacky]

sve- I didn't know that my comments where that funny, when I drop some lines, like in the Lounge I hope that people see my avatar and read line below it to think I'd be some little kid and not tacke me too serious in case I'd write sth. naive, dumb or off topic and be surprised in case I'd actually come up with sth worthwhile. Yeah, too bad there's no teacher like my Prof. at scool but most are really kickass in the field they are working in. The'yre just trying to leave us as much friedom as possible so far, specially for those newb guys I'm hearing about, who need not trifle with difficult stuff like colours and stuff yet. lol. But, sve, dear. I don't know how you do it, but you manage to amaze me each time you reply in a new way, listing up thought and impressions, that despite being slightly overflattering, make me reflect my own stuff as I could have never done on my own. Thank you so much for that. Thanks for your reflectuion upon Snatinkov too. I agree with what you said, although I respect him too much to be able acxept those things. I couldn't Imagine any person one could rely on more when bein at any part of the world. He has one similarity with you too, sve, he can see through people like no other. The blue "portrait" was no portrait as such, it was ref-less and was done out of sheer boredom at class. (The only one I'm not really happy with so far (weird exercises)). I liked how the Illustration came out too, that class is fun and seems realistic to future work-conditions. Did some other thingies in that class since, but they where way weaker. Thanks for the crits.

Looped_Warrior - funny reply. thanks, my mans . Appreciate it.

YouIsSpecial- Thanks, I'll check by and have a look at your new works some time this upcoming week.


Little update, have some WIP's too but no time to finish em, little time late of anyway

[guggemmaneuver]

blacky.

long time no hear from gug eh? i'm here in the trenches, have been watching your last updates, still amazed at the way you're working. actually, recently i've begun oil painting and this has changed everything for me. now i'm pushing the inks towards tone and think that after several years of denying it have fully come to embrace inkwash as a medium. with a little white gouache you can do just about anything. more on this later as i get an opportunity to udate the old bwst.

beautiful study! (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=127359&stc=1&d=1177270743)
I'd like to see some more controlled studies of light that really try to get at exactly why and how something looks the way it does. add that to what you're already doing and you'll be melting faces and claiming souls to be sure.

thought of you when i was drawing from some jazz musicians recently. I talked to a friend and we're gonna go do plein aire oil of the outdoor rodin statue down here... can't wait!

TONE TONE TONE TONE TONE TONE
TONE TONE TONE TONE TONE TONE

gug

[blacky]

guggenmaneuver- yeah, tones are important too,lol. That's because you started painting, as you said, instead of just drawing. Your stuff is looking good, anxious to see update. Concerning light studies and realistic stuff, that's what I was hoping would be taught at my scool. But so far they say it would be too difficult a task for us newbs. So I draw lazy arsed dots and brushstrokes instead :) .
Cool to hear about you doing some open air studies (specially in oils). Sounds like lots of fun.

Some experimental sketches at illustratiion class:

[bumskee]

always pleasure looking at your work blacky.. it's just so nice.. :) tiger has to be my fav.. heh.. cheers!

[blacky]

bumskee- thanks man, hope you're doing swell




The first one, I did when being at some kinda drum-session, I'd like to go to this Tuesday too. The whole building was shaking and I've seen some pretty weird/ fascinating people there.
Others (except cats trying to catch its shadow), are from live too.

[blacky]

Some paints,
First is a Sp

[blacky]

Some drawings
have been to a karaoke show :)

[Hyver]

talking about tangible progress! loving every bit in here!

[Zaknafain]

interesting stuff... I will stop by here more often.
that one is my favorite from the last two posts: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=138930&stc=1&d=1179250842
also like the way you handle those inkwashes.

[blacky]

Hyver-Thanks glad to hear that. Me and Nils Carstens are longing for Bruuesselesss, man. The sole idea of it has been nagging on my backhead for a while now, lol.

Zaknafain-Oh, cool. Nice have you stop by here. How did you do with your scool-entry? Am actually regretting I somehow managed to not really have a talk with you in Köln. (I was ill , and didn't know anbody though :^^;: )


A kiricaturesk lifedrawing and a paint I actually like. (yay..... or sth like that...)

[sve]

Hello, Andrjusha :)... thank you so much for saying such sweet words... I'm honored to hear that from you... you are younger than me. but I listen your thoughts and observations about art and life with an interest and respect your opinion so very much... because you don't lie. And you are smart... not practically smart... it would be good for you... but your heart is smart, it feels fraud... so it is a good thing for me and people who are dealing with you...

I liked when you said in one thread "colors are never simple"... and I came to this understanding just recently,,, lived without this knowledge for so long. I only recently started to notice that shadows are not gray... they are much more sophisticated...never just black...

seeing through people... no. I don't have this... when I have some image about someone it is always just possibilities... guesses...
My aunt... she was a young woman in sixties, it is a romantic generation and besides she was born in Ukraine, with its richness and laziness in the air and poetry... she loved to dream. always ordered me to look at the sky, at clouds, asking me to fantasize: what do you think they look like... and i was cold as ice and didn't even want to look where she wanted me to... I felt it is pretentious. although it wasn't, she was just from sixties. I in general never wanted to look in direction where most people look, it insulted me somehow. Jeans were popular and I despised them for that. besides I thought the are ugly back then :). Mind you I was 14 year old....
Aunt didn't loose the hope and kept working on my romantic side... or observation skills... we met some young woman on our long walks, with a lot of jewelry all over her body and face, hanging like ornaments on the Christmas tree.. and my aunt told me... observe her...she is showing off. she is not confident... and i becasue of contradicting nature thought in my mind... or becasue she just recently got the possibility to buy it and wear it and plays with those like with new toys... I didn't believe in physiognomies...I still think it has a big diapason of errors. plus/ minus a mile... there is some solid things though in this... certain face muscles are responsible for certain reactions...Body language even more precise in giving information I think... it is reliable.

OK... are you sleeping already? hehe, sorry
to the art... my favorite were drawing of animals and birds and the most fav were those:
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=139265&stc=1&d=1179324914 weight, volume, heaviness of its body is awesome... it has a bit strange human like snout... but anyway i like it so very much... I like Holland still lives they painted for good appetite of their sovereigns... your fish has the same quality... liveliness and brightness...
then I liked this one:
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=139269&stc=1&d=1179324959 these fast pencils strokes, long and short , strong and light... so very tasty... overall the drawing has a rhythm and huge interest for eyes...
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=139269&stc=1&d=1179324959 maybe a little more contrast would be nice, but I do like this drawing alot... not very realistic, more like stylized sketch, and it even has human kind of expression on the snout... but it is great and I believe in this running somewhere...again, pencils create a pleasant diversity...
I liked karaoke people... the sketches are very good overall ,, they are super fast, but precise in forms, shapes and even more... they make me feel an atmosphere of this event... people trying their best.. their faces.. and body language... full of readiness and comical seriousness to sing and sing as best as they could... :). it is funny. like make pretend game for adults...
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=139258&stc=1&d=1179324819 sitting pose is so natural,,, you caught it momentarily, didn't you... it is very cool.

Smoking girl is great very comical, grotesque like... like Toulouse-Lautrec's awkward clownesses.
I like this one
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=138932&stc=1&d=1179250855 for inner rhythm of the body and expressiveness. head goes to one side, shoulders to another hips to the opposite direction, knees again far away... feet calm down the composition like skiing from a top to the very bottom ... very rhythmic...

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=131336&stc=1&d=1177872563 I like how this unbelievable blue in hair and pants plays against everything with some repetitive support on the horizon... so beautiful and believable... how did you catch it?

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=131337&stc=1&d=1177872572 here and in few next nudes i somehow don't believe in the combination of this colors... they don't create a harmony for me... looks broken apart. don't bind her figure together...I might be wrong...
I like last nudes though... rough sketch, I liked that.

I like gentleness of the last painting... maybe it is enough information for eyes... or maybe not... probably enough... it made me feel light in my heart, like in very early beginning of the day, or beginning of something good. and calm... and relieved...
ok... buy... hope everything is good with you and yours.

Your avatar... OMG... it makes me uneasy... hope you will paint something that replace this one soon ;).

[YouIsSpecial]

your versatility and talent are refreshing and awesome. I especially liked your watercolor experiments like
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=127362&stc=1&d=1177270780
and
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=127364&stc=1&d=1177270805
They require fast execution, composition skills and imagination.

Your green self portrait has great color tones. I also liked the stylized look and colors of the one next to it
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=138926&stc=1&d=1179250794

Your pencil sketches, though, come off a bit too busy sometimes because there are so many lines covering the page (and with many of them slanting in the same direction)... I think with your skills they can look more polished than they do.

[halflife99]

I like your line, it's really funky.

[blacky]

sve- yeah, I need to replace that avatar. I'll head for sth. simple. By an other artist though. You'll like it :) . Thx for your report on things. Actually quite interesting. But I actually believe in physiognomy to some extend, it's really important sometimes to judge people in the blink of an eye to make decisions.
Thank you for c&crits. Am kinda in a crunch time scool wise so I can't tacke the time to respond appropriatelly (unfortunatelly). I like my last paint a lot and am glad you like it too, but I will chance some details in the down left corner to try improve it some more. Did another landscape since, but its not the same. Quide hideous actually. Anyways, have a good one.

YouIsSpecial- thanks, those watercolours are actually inks and green portrait is a girl called Kata (I'm the stylised dood next to her :) ) You're right about the last part though, I tend to slant them. Am more comfortable with speed than with quality. (perhaps its laziness) :)

halflife99- thank you, trying to avoid dead, straight lines


Well, some new stuff, mostly lifedrawings.
Last 2 are for my Illustration class (last is not finnisched yet)

Edit: ups, forgot to post Pia and Kiril's portraits

[TheGnoll]

hey there blacky!

just thought i'd stop by n say 'ello :)

man, you've come a long way dude...lines are extremely expressive, loose and confident...the illustrations have a lot of personality, and its always cool to see all your different experiments ;)

keep sharing!
ciao

[afklamer]

hey! cooles zeug ich find die da sehr geil
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151714&stc=1&d=1181567114
machst mir richtig angst, so viel zeug ich komm mir wien fauler sack vor - bin ich vielecht auch X_x

naja ich wollt nochmal wegen den göttlichertexten fragen...

bis denne

[Stormcrow135]

nice studies and sketches, alot of thought provoking stuff here:)

[blacky]

TheGnoll-thanks man, trying to be as diversatile as possible, can't concentrate on one thing though fo too long.

afklamer-Danke, man sieht sich, bin gespannt was von dir bei Jahresausstellumg zu sehen sein wird.

Stormcrow135 - Thanks, nice to hear that.


Here are some scattered thingies.
First is a WIP, want to repaint it partially.
Some experimental lifedrawings and an Illustration.

Last is a paint I really like. (I'm probably the only one who knows what it is about though, hope you can find sth. for yourself in it too.)

[blacky]

Those two where done by my girlfriend

[blacky]

Some pieces for Illustration class.

[Chermilla]

Great variety of styles you have here, keep it up!! :)

Cx

[blacky]

Chermilla - Thanks, can't get myself an own picturelanguage yet though. We'll see what will come of all that :) .


A tiny update

[davi]

loving your water color life studies and the drunkard is fantastic!

[Zaknafain]

nice updates! Great livedrawings, as always.
My favorite on this page is that one though:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151722&stc=1&d=1181567218

I just read the comment on top of this thread... see you at the next artjam :)

can't get myself an own picturelanguage yet though.
not entirely true... On this last page I can spot a certain individual line economy that repeats over and over again. And I like it.
What pen are you using btw?

[blacky]

davi-thanks man, glad to have you stop by

Zak-thanks for the crit&c. , yeah lineeconomy is sth. I'm working on and that's been paying off lately (partially laziness too :) ) The pen I use is a cheap one, it's black, has a (kappe) in the colour you like on top and it says edding on the side. The clue is, that the tip is shaped like a rectangle, so you may have small or wide lines depending on how you hold it while drawing. I'd love to go to next Artjam for sure. Perhaps I could convince some more people from scool to go there too.


Last two are supposed to be Don Quichote and Sancho Pancho. Windmills are yet to come :)

[Jabo]

Alter, du rockst!

Sehr geil, sehr deutsch, sehr künstlerisch.

The "Fish"-portrait in post 305 is looking really good, my fav absolutely. Keep rocking, I'll be checking back.

[blacky]

Jabo- Danke mann. So einen überschwenglichen applaus bin ich ja gar nicht gewohnt, vor allem nicht von Leuten die selbst voll gut sind. Aber, ...Deutsch?
Was meinste denn damit. Wuste gar nicht das meine Ukrainisch/ Jüdischen Wurzeln für n bischen gotisch/ teutonische Sauerkrautatmosphäre gut sind :)


Here is some recent stuff.

[sve]

hello, my friend...hehe, did i make you doubt if you were too harsh in your last visit to my book?... well, you weren't. You were vague. You messed up my head and retreated... You should have stayed longer and give clear message of where the good taste stops and bad taste begins... I btw agree with you that my colors are joke, but you kind of surprised me that you let it go in Soul collector... where colors are as simple as they could be... Thank you btw for telling me that you liked this entry, you the third one who did... I liked it myself more than anything I did, probably becasue it is not my kind of theme. although I'm planning to comb brush strokes and colors a little bit there. But I wondered if I find someone who will see something good in it...

I don't know the recipe to make colors sophisticated just yet... I think the key probably in right values under it and in right consistent temperature in the whole image...When I was doing a copy Francois Boucher "Madame de Pompadour"" I noticed how many hues, tones of colors he used with the same value, to feed eyes, not letting them to be bored... He saw so many tones and tints of color... on the distance we ignore this diversity... so maybe it's not that important. In the contemporary art it is very often about first impression and becasue I grew up looking at subtlety of old masters it is a bit heavy for me to see...More of it I often hear advice to simplify and complains about values to be messy...And I understand it... but see so many examples of this not being an issue in artist work.

OK,,, you can see I don't have a clear vision about colors... if I understood how they work I would have been able to say it in clear form. I wish you told me wish examples of what is forgiven for you and what is too much taking my images for example or someone else's.
What did you discuss with your friend? I wish I could hear your arguing...

About physiognomy... when you start to see people as types, life is getting extremely boring. And you can use those guesses... but don't lay too carelessly on them... I see human mind as a black box,,, you never know what's gonna peek out of it,,, something beautiful or ugly.

don't take it as a preaching or last word... I'm a student myself, you know...walking in fog.

OK, back to earth...
How's life is treating you? hope everything is good and everyone is happy and healthy in your family and surrounding.
I do like you life drawing a lot... sometimes I look suspiciously at them, they are on borders to be guilty of bad anatomy... but maybe it is chase for artistic expressions...
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151712&stc=1&d=1181567076 here for example... count the heads in his figure... he lost one I think somewhere in the torso and legs. And he is slightly falling... but you know what.... you are starting to be very skillful with distracting you viewer with other features... it is your crazy. free lines... They flow like small and big springs, speed is huge and there is this self-forgetfulness in your drawings... all combines wonderfully with impression of foaming, curvy streams of water...
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151714&stc=1&d=1181567114 this one is a very good example of how disorder becomes organized... your lines look so unpredictable, wild and uncontrollable...but in the end the form is truthful and figure is appearing from nothing. And I see the age, truthful physique and state of mind of depicted... I can even see her white skin and soft female fat under it. So those are wonderful... but I always feel tense waiting that you are about to fall into chaos in your drawings.

My most favorite will be this romantic hero:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=165618&stc=1&d=1183921650
Tevye the Milkman from Sholom Aleichem or someone else form his unlucky characters? I can hear this playful melody in my ears when looking at his skeptical face:"if I were a rich man, la-lalalala-lala-la..."
I like this dialoque very much
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151725&stc=1&d=1181569663 although I again feel like I'm standing on shaky ground looking at those... it seems so ephemeral, like reflection on the water, easy to go wrong...I'm constantly having this feeling that you balancing on a very thin line here between harmony and disorder...
Expressions are gold though, shy or indefinite in making a decision... very light and fine.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151722&stc=1&d=1181567218 I like this one too for strange feeling of drowned body,,, will less, soft , submissive... a bit eerie image. Weird how he descends to the bottom without resistance and losing watch, his belongings, and his life slowly...

I liked acrobats drawn in circle very much... all your art is like looking out of the box,,, fighting with banality and frozen mindset.


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=162750&stc=1&d=1183409229 Broccoli, no? That's probably what you were talking about... complimentary colors blue and orange looking more tasteful with swampy colors... I wish you would put more lacy lines to create round the clock motion and interest... not enough information to keep my eyes stay longer, i think.

Really like your girlfriend's paintings,,,that's a conversation with a viewer though soft colors and soulful faces... Very cozy and vulnerable.

About the composition made form the swirly parts.... well I like the simple one the most:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=172769&stc=1&d=1185042449
the rest is overloaded I think...

Don Quixote series... witty, i think, but it contradicts my own impressions of those two characters... They are lyrical, romantic personalities... altruists and space-cadets...everything mechanical looking and aggressive looking makes me reject it.

I stop here... hope you are good and all yours too.
Bye.

[Jabo]

Jabo- Danke mann. So einen überschwenglichen applaus bin ich ja gar nicht gewohnt, vor allem nicht von Leuten die selbst voll gut sind. Aber, ...Deutsch?
Was meinste denn damit. Wuste gar nicht das meine Ukrainisch/ Jüdischen Wurzeln für n bischen gotisch/ teutonische Sauerkrautatmosphäre gut sind :)

Naja, deine Aquarelle und vorallem deine wabernden Linien erinnern mich so stark an Horst Janssen's Arbeiten. Für mich einfach der deutsche Künstler. Vielleicht auch weil er der einzige ist, dessen Stil mir zusagt.

Deins (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=151722&stc=1&d=1181567218)

Janssens (http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/departments/ingenieurmathematik/Pesch/PrivPages/HorstJanssen_SelbstPortrait.jpg)

[blacky]

sve- Here are 3 examples for good colour shemes, as far as I could tell. First is Bogomotov and others are by Morandi http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z183/bogatir/bogom4.jpg http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z183/bogatir/431_1997S.jpg http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z183/bogatir/morandi2.jpg . The colours are pleasing and don't bother or hurt the eye. I'm a fan of the later, just discovered him recently and am stunned how exciting boredom can be. Sorry I don't remember what me and Matvej, the guy I told you about where talking about. But I came to learn he's a bit narrow minded and arrogant. Perhaps that's why I forgot. He's real stubburn too, it's hard to even convince him he possibly might be wrong. So it's been really exhausting arguing with him. Basically he was learning about colours from the masters, like Matisse, Kokoschka, DaKooning, Turner and Rembrandt. Physiognomy, - you're right but I still consider it being very usefull though. It's also often used in advantage of the artist to let the people get a certain impression of the character. Thanks for the good wishes, my fam. is fine my brother is in Florida for 6 weeks now and my parents work a lot to pay off the house they are building till next year. I've been on vacation with friends. Lots of partying, boredom and drinking at a very small place coulple hours down south. Visited Dresden though. Beatiful city. Great collection of old masters. Vermeer impressed me most and Madonna by Raffael was swell too. Need to work ore though. Need lots of money till November so I hopefully could go for 2 weeks to india.
Sometimes I simply am too lazy too get proportions and the like right, partially because I don't consider them to be important. Am trying to create sth, not merely copy it. Does not work all too often though. Have to admit that long-term works and perspective as well as proportions at times are great weaknesses of mine. Don't know Tevye the Milkman,sry, was merely doodling out of my head with inks. Had some 16th century Jew or sth. in mind. "Fighting with banality" might make it sound too favourable for me, actually i was going to do sth. very naive and trivial for the class I did those fighting circles for. But the teachers wouldn't let me :) . The fighters where still too comic-like and boring for them, probably because most are childbookillustrators. The Broccoli picture does not depict Broccoli, in fact its a picture I like a lot although I'm aware I'm the only one who can appreciate it to it's fullest, had an indepthful moment near a waterlens covered tarn. Felt like it was alive, though a stick at it and it looked like a wound, closing, not healing to the fullest. You are absolutely amazing at characterizing people by their pictures. Cozy and Vulnerable matches perfectly to my girlfriend. (took me a while to find out, took you only 2 pictures...) damn it. I have never actually read Don quichote heard a play one, ages ago. So I wasn't intending to depict the characters thruthfully. Had some ideas for some chreatures and decided they resembled DQ and SP. Yeah, bad excuse I know. Thank you a lot for your reply, till later.


Jabo- Ahh, Ok. Schätze HJ auch. Habe mich bisher aber nicht alzu viel mit ihm bevasst. Seine Farbwahl erschien mir zu antiquiert. Ala DDR-Möbel oder Biedermeierschlaafrock. Unter Deutschen K ist er aber sicher top.

Couple of Things I did. The outdoor ones where partually executed under rainy weather conditions, hence the weird look. The Van Gough -like one is a 7 min speedy after having had a glance at the orriginal. A good excercise from scool.

[sve]

Hello, Andrej... thank you so much for showing me examples of your range of a good taste in colors, that is always interesting to see. I guess it is not easy for you to surf through sketch books sometimes. Most people here are in the other camp, I think.

I think I understand the attraction of the last two painting you offered me as examples...The loveliness in this rich white which is not white at all... Some blue, or purplish or gray or yellow, or orange are swimming in it, but very light, just to be noticed in some corner of our brains. That's meditation like. I wonder how many people will noticed this subtlety being so occupied with life.

Tevje the milkman is just what you described: A lyrical, naive character, a Moldavian Jew, but from 19th century, not 16th. That's not good you don't know his story, it is a classic, buddy. If you believe in reading people faces you should read some Russian writers, that's their strong side. His story is ironic and sad. Hard working man with wife, five pretty daughters and a cow.
All daughters are healthy and beautiful and all gave him troubles: one married a Bund's extremist of 19th century and followed his hard fate. Another married a poor guy by love, but he left her a widow with heap of babies, another one married money, and lived half dead since that, the fourth one wanted to marry a Russian guy and wasn't not allowed by Tevje, the last one married a fraud rich who soon went bankrupt. That's a good story telling, in my book :).

So ... it is fun how he came to your head and you doodle him... Fascinating really.

Water lens, when looking at little mountain lake (tarn) ... sorry, can't imagine it still. you tried to describe a water swirl, right? Claude Monet tried to catch this effect of rocks and pebbles on the bottom of the slightly moving water... see his water lilies, he put a lot of efforts in those.

Going to India, awesome... you know about their water, right? drink only from not opened before you bottle. There is some sort of bacteria which is not tolerable by tourists, but OK for local population.
Heh, I read in one of my favorite book... in the 19ty century British gentleman traveled to India and wrote enthusiastically after few weeks that he started to understand the loveliness of this place... after months he reported a progress in accommodation to local life and style... After year he complained about some differences in mindset, and after many years of living there he wrote he doesn't understand this life at all. :).

Now about art...
I like the last three landscapes, and mostly for how you caught the sensation of fresh air, and nice feeling of cool, pleasant water (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=188388&stc=1&d=1187565298

and wind, streams of air pulled in certain direction: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=188386&stc=1&d=1187565292

And shadows from trees in last one and the feeling of relaxed, disorderly life in camp.
I like this feeling of sun peeking here and there, and silence, and comfort and wind and fresh air in the other two pictures... all this is very truthful...

Crits: values are too even and you have no control in your pictures,,, everything is very scattered and left to live on their own.. it gives an impression of scattered mind as well... I would vote for some sharper contrast and making a decision of what is domineering and what is submissive in your picture in sense of information and priority and depth.

Want to drag this one figure drawing once again,,, it is good:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=164558&stc=1&d=1183715171

Her hips and legs and feet should be just a tad more massive, IMO, because of the bigger closeness to us... but overall, it is lovely and fast.

Bye, and be well.

[ciots]

oh my lord, sorry for not coming down more often (used to be asoir)
your stuff is just so beautiful now, man.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=165619&stc=1&d=1183921655
and the picture next to it is just fantastic, your strokes are so solid now. incredible progress, im happy to see it :)

[blacky]

sve- I don't browse all that much through other peoples SB's any more. For various reasons. You stated one of them. The time to use ration doesn't seem to work that well any longer.
Gere are links to those twins I remember telling you about. Matvej is the one I go paint outdoors sometimes and their Dad was my teacher for portfolio preparation for art scool.
http://markslavin.de/
http://kunst.ag/MatveySlavin/
its in German though.

My mom was very pleased to hear that you're tacking care of my literature-education :) and invited you over. So feel free to drop in, next time you're within spitting distance :)
I actually just completed on reading Tevje the milkman. I loved it. I especially was found of the authors Name Scholom Alejchum. That's very amusing i thing. I had some difficulties with vocabularies, like 1 or 2 per page. But my mom helped me "translating".
A friend of ours is getting married. A jewish girl. I decided to send her that Tevje scetch along with some lines.
The waterlens-pic is one that I painted for myself, without worrying about spectators, not about making a "pretty" picture neither. I liked doing so but am uncertain if that kind of monologue is of any use to anybody but me.

I have bad news, I might not be able to go to India.
Because I'm planning on going to St. Petersburg in February too, for a month.
So I'm not sure if I could afford both.
My dad is a surgeon/ anasthesist, one of his patients is a former in-charge worker at the Eremitage and still has lots of connections to there. He was generous enough to offer me an internship in the Eremitage and the Russian Museum for 1 month. I really want to go, but I could do so only in February and no one knows if that guy won't change his mind till then.

That's an interesting anekdote, you're telling about India. Thx.
Also it's quite helpfull to read your crits. I guess I need to record those thing on tape and listen to them any time I go paint, because I got told those crits repeatedly and little has changed. I'm trying though.

Hope you're well and am sending greetings from overseas.
A.H

[blacky]

ciots- hey man what happened to you? why a namechange? I thought you where proud of your postcount. Anyways I appreciate you stopped by. thanks.


I have been lazy lately, here are some scattered things. First are from an East-German village-eparty, lots of scinneheads running around.

[Newbs]

I really enjoy all the experimentation you are doing and the willingness to mix things up. the watercolors are probably my favorites and your life drawing is loose and refreshing!! looking forward to more!

[blacky]

All right, its time to revive this thingy.

Newbs-thank you, I used to be more experimental. I'll be working on it again. Got too comfortable with watercolours and lifedrawings :) Need some different topics.


This first one, is from Illustration classs. After a shortstory called "Love For 17.5$" where a guy has a fetish for dolls. He buys a display dummy from a jew for 17.5$ to make love to her. His girlfriend fiends out and puts it to a violant end. (all stories we receive deal with boobs and stuff, mostly because our teacher's kinda voluptuary, he, he)
Besides, I've been to India for (only) 2 Weeks. Way too short, but managed to do some scetches there too.
The rest is kanda random and selfexplaining
cheers

[blacky]

more...

[blacky]

he, he... +1

[blacky]

quick update

[octopus_interphone]

IT IS ON! (GRR OR SOMETHING)

and I suppose this is not the customary trash talk, but I like how you use colours in your sketchbook, very loose and bold.

good luck to you too :)

[blacky]

octopus interphone -I'm so ready for rumble

some recent stuff,
and hey,
It's me!

[marioucci]

Wow Blacky!!! Its you!!!

Sooo nice to put a face in an idea. I had in mind someone like your old avatar.. a mozartian face with mad hair.

Your recent work carries the same usual energy but it seems to me more under control?? very visible here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=244345&stc=1&d=1195675484

and here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=244351&stc=1&d=1195675521

as always, I love the agression you unleash with your work.

[Alexandr Pascenko]

moin blacky ,

your life drawings are really impressive , your style looks like a mix of schiele and heinrich kley and still is yours.
hope to see you at the " german workshop" next year , good to see a photo of your here so i know who to bugg on :D

keep it coming!

btw: my fave
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=244351&stc=1&d=1195675521

[blacky]

u p d a t e
some, partially experimental lifedrawings

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/7889/andreaskohleza4.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3986/stinemildxk1.jpg

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3527/stinebuntol0.jpg

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5084/thorstenrg2.jpg

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6748/thorstenschlechtud7.jpg

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5673/thabstrbl8.jpg

[blacky]

The russians are comming!

[blacky]

Yesterday was one hell of a night. At our scool there was a Lifedrawing-jam from 20:30-til 3:00 in the morning. Crazy, and so where the models and the whole show.
This is what came out of it.
(poses where 10 min at the most, so at times I had to finish from memmory)

First 2 are the real short ones

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1513/madameskcj0.jpg
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1474/slimdancerq6.jpg

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6443/ghaeennv0.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8376/marlenesknf0.jpg

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1250/marlenecouchjb5.jpg

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/6887/meangirlskzo1.jpg

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4409/monoboobtwinstl6.jpg

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/7534/sherlockdivacs4.jpg

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/7093/lyingljudmilakb0.jpg

http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4268/ljudameinteubchenmx8.jpg

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5098/ludmiljainchairbestfs1.jpg

[ciots]

hey blacky, very fine latest works, the last life drawings in particular have a lot of character
take care man!

[blacky]

something to wind the year up
(first one is a Rembrandt study in Painter)

[TheGnoll]

always a pleasure to stop in here blacky, and to finally see yer mug :D

luvly waercolors and life drawings as usual (especially enjoyed the experimental ones)

keep sharing, i'm still watchin' :D

ciao

[Lege1]

I like your stuff but study more on the anatomy and never loose that sylization you got going on. Very cool work!

[blacky]

TheGnoll- he, he,....yeah, ..my mug is the highlight of this thread, it's the fire of Prometheus compared to my litle humble graphite-scratches on papper :) thx for stopping by

Lege1- that's a good point, actually I was trying to borrow some books on anatomy today from the library, but most books have ugly pictures in them. Despite all their anatomical correctness. Still, I won't be able to avoid another round of anatomy in near future, since I keep forgeting about proportions, numbr of limbs and so on :)


Well, a little update to hone myself. Not that I would be cocky or arrogant. But I'm in a good mood right now ( it's 7 o'clock in the morning, have been drinking and dancing)So I beg your mercy :p

honing my soviet roots:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4734/quadratgesicht1ho5.jpg



me becoming old:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6594/turning22fp8.jpg

[marioucci]

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6594/turning22fp8.jpg

Damn it man. this is emblematic of how I feel. The composition and execution are just there. love it with hate.

Your drunk speech on my SB was a great way to start 2008 hehe cheers for that.

The girl in boots series is incredibly sexy.

cheers man

Mario

[sve]

Hello, Andrej! Here I am, it took me less than three months to keep my promise and don't let the conversation stop... Please don't take it in some self belittling way... take it that you need to open more with me and give me more information to think and talk about... I'm a greedy person :).
Thanks for giving me links to your snobbish comrades, Slavin's brothers.
Their judgmental dad ( ehehe, runs in family apparently) is worth your money. both brothers have something attractive about their art. The Matvej's link is not working anymore... but I remember impression from his work... it was positive.

Mark has a lovely sense of color and a special mood in his paintings I think. The mood of passive passers-by, you know, reflecting, not participating... he speaks by colors most of all and a bit by shapes... but they are not so expressive and composition in his images ... well in my opinion only of course is not developed still. there are some empty spots, some not desirable stops in rhythm of the picture... I might be wrong though. I think he understands and appreciates beauty and pretty accomplished in capturing it... but a bit cold by nature, distanced. Color is deep though and rich in his paintings and nuances are many in his charcoals... But there is some strange tendency not to stir things up in his art but smoothly flow with currents.

Ha! You are his opposite... You are wrong that your own photo is the only thing able to ignite fire... As I said some time ago... your drawings are a constantly changing reality or imagination, always trembling and changing contours. They are restless and very alive,
If only you could add some self control to this :).

Thank you for letting me know I earned some trust from your mom by my taste in literature. Always great to have a family on my side :). Although I suspect the approval has a local interest so to speak. Don't get it as offense though... it is a natural human feature. But I hope you accept me as who I am though... and that will be cosmopolitan :).
So glad you were in India, it is really, really the best thing in the world... traveling.. I even got some breeze, some taste of the country from your paintings: heat, a lot of places to worship in comfort, grandiosity and space :).
I'm especially fond of this one:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=238843&stc=1&d=1194993167

Lovely mood in this image: calm and grand and transparent in the same time... I love it although I might wish for a little stricter approach and more air, a little more air.
I would remove too many details, make the blue color even lighter. But nevertheless you transfered me to this place and I felt standing down there and looking up, feeling small and silly comparing to it.
On the other hand maybe I'm prejudiced by earlier similar work:
http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper932/stills/434edfcd9c90d-21-1.jpg


I like the strange drawing of noisy company of people carrying a guy in front of the old palaces... I felt the jolly mood and absurdity of it. I like it.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=238845&stc=1&d=1194993188 I like this one so very much... it has more than the story and good composition... the diversity and richness of nuances and pencils strokes are very attractive in this one as well. IMO. There are many things for eyes to feast here: short and long, roundish and edgy, smooth and prickly, strong and transparent... Very enjoyable... And you keep a pretty good control here, not too wild or overwhelming.

I remember seeing some Renoir's pencil drawings... he controlled the viewer's attention so skillfully with those. I remember he drew a dame coated in luscious firs and the loveliness of the drawing was in this flow and texture made from many different pencils strokes. Kept me staring again and again at the simple sketch. I don't have this art card with me now, but the picture and tornado of the lines is still in front of my eyes and I still feel its seduction.

I'm telling you this because you have the same wonderful quality... it is in the first images of your sketch book already: your crocodiles and spiders and dog on the tiles and many more.

What is absent in your art it's right values, I think. Which could give order and weight.
I might be wrong of course...
But...
This little Rembrandt study you did like a good plan before starting an adventure put everything on their places. Your own studies don't have this calm, solid base. They are light air balloons comparing to this little study.
The muscles have weight though in your images, and age, but it is always some other force together with gravity which effects their posture and outlines :). I'm afraid I'm being too harsh on you though.

There are many images in those updates which I like so very much:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=238863&stc=1&d=1194993613 Wonderful and strange, wonderfully strange and thank God you decided not to put the muddy BG there. I love clearness of those lines and their spasmodic motion.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=244350&stc=1&d=1195675515
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=244351&stc=1&d=1195675521
I like the starling gesture in the first and the big, voluptuary ;) gums in the second... They both are very good, but those little characteristics, very personal hooked me right away and decided everything for me. That's a good story telling and charisma :). Ha,,, I'm waiting for you to start to resent my flattery... it was not that though...
Love your photo! Smile and gesture especially. you are right... fire...

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/5084/thorstenrg2.jpg
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5673/thabstrbl8.jpg
Very, very interesting. I'm looking forward to see more of those bold experiments, interesting.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=263829&stc=1&d=1198233713 I like this one and two images that go after this one... Mainly textures and strange prickliness, quirkiness attracted me and bold, clear colors...


Oh... So many words... how you tolerate me...
See you buddy and if you need anything I'm always here, don't think twice.
I'm proud you are my friend, you are an unusual and good natured guy, great combination. I mostly encountered only one of each.

[DeJakhalz]

can really see u got a creative brain in that head of yours :D
Loving especially the coloring, its very loose but still very strong.. Keep it coming plz.

[blacky]

mario- Oh well, it sucks to get older. There's no way back, but time's supposedly merely an illusion anyway so it helps think it doesn't matter :) . You know the saying ?; with age comes wisdom, but most often age comes by oneself. I just hope not to loose the curiosity that makes one be in awe before the little things of one's everyday life.

sve- yeah, the Matvej's..... by now I don't like them any that much as I used to. One, the elder sold 5 paintigs for between 800 and 2000 Dollars. He's 20 and I don't think the succes made him become any more critical with his own works. Too bad. Now he discovers new things to lood down upon by the day.
anyways, decided to start posting occasionally again. I'm very thankfull to you that you tacke your time to observe (not only my work) in such detail and are able to put it in words that describe your feelings and the painting's effects so accurate. The dogs in India where awesome. Specially one we met in the mountains. He was more of a Yoga than the Yogamasters we met up the mountain. Refused cookies, brownies, anything merely wanted his rest. Later he trotted his way. Many Yogas where fake. They wanted to make you buy them stuff. Shoes, cloth, rice.... . If the money you gave them was too little, the'd swear at yoo.
Values is quite a big thing, still for me to be tacken care of. Will tacke lots of time, but thanks for pointing out. Wouldn't have realised that clearly. The fire from my photo merely comes from my medical emergency assistant-Jacket. So people wouldn't drive me over when I'm out at work :p . Oh, dear, it's late and I'll definatelly have to get back to talk to you some time soon. It's been a while.

DeJakhalz- actually I took 3 classes in theory this term at scool and none i painting coz I felt like my creativity was stagnant and opening up for too much cheesy kitsch. But glad to hear such nice words. Will try my best.

A small update for now. Will try to assemble some more tomorrow.
(When's been the last time?, like ...3 month ago?)
anyway,
lifedrawings:

[blacky]

various other stuff, scetches, illustrations for scool:

[blacky]

A SP , a sceleton and a Vermeer study in acrylics.

[Moftah]

the greyhound's sketch is pretty cool...hope to see more of that style


Moftah's Sketchbook

[blacky]

thanks, it as fun doing that scetch, but by now it looks a bit too cute/ picturesque to me. But I hope to do more in that direktion sometime

while I've been to St. Petersbourg, I was allowed to scetch from behind the scenes during an Swanlake ballet. t was quite a highlite of the trip

[blacky]

A skythian and an egypt mummy I saw at the Eremitage in St. Petersbourg

[blacky]

Was also very much impressed by the interior of a curch called "Saint Blood",
just had to capture it somehow. Too bad I wasn't allwed to use collours though.

[sve]

Hello, my friend. You decided to post again and I decided to comment again, it noticeably makes me feel better. I observe with an interest how you travel to new places and despite that it is what I want for myself I don't feel any jealousy, just pleasure, very peaceful feeling. To say it I made it my goal to destroy any seed of envy or jealousy in the very beginning when it shows its ugly self. It is a very destructive, low feeling. And I speak of course only for myself.

I wish you said more about your visit to Russia and the last your meeting with German artists interests me a lot. But it is up to you, if you have time and energy to say something. Saw you on photos and recognized you immediately. you always have something stand-offish about yourself, different form the rest people in the room and something, delightfully energetic, greedy for life. I saw it in the Egypt photos as well. You are open and still you have your own space in the room.

I can't see you drawn of energy just yet.

I bought a new piano btw and enjoy it very much.

Your new updates are wonderful. I came to comment and thought the ballet dancers will be the light of the all drawings, but then I saw you posted this interesting sketch of inside of the church and I love it. The most interesting about it is the fact that air is present in this picture and it is trembling and moving. And I see and recognize the light as I remember it from plenty of gold and candles in there.
I look at the picture and imagine sounds and steps and good acoustics and echo of voices and hotness of all those warm colors from icons and chandeliers.
So, this sketch is very much successful, done with a feeling and a lot of talent. Magically contagious with life.

As always, the most wonderful and charming quality of yours is that life is happening in your pictures, you didn't catch and nail it like a dead butterfly with a pin, it is still happening, moving, coughing, breathing loudly, disturbing silence, fighting back, making waves... :). Maybe not always pretty, but sure full of healthy force life has as its main feature.
I looked again, Really love hoe you sent my eyes to the lightest spot on the ceiling, good control of the composition, consciously or not.

The next I would chose to mention the sketches of the ballet dancers. Well what can I say, Andrej? I can only repeat again how much I like that truthfulness of yours, that honesty in depicted those people. I would say they almost look like blue color workers instead of entertainers. Those overdeveloped muscles of legs, big feet, short, careless mentioning of face features. They are machines for grandiose jumps. Well, my impression of course. But I do see them as ugly, overworked people, meticulously counting the minutes when they should jump and join the show. Professional jumpers.
You can see from what ugly, prosaic things this magic is born,

Reminds me how Degas painted his ballerinas. with strong, meaty, short legs, not very attractive athletes actually instead of fairies. :). Yours are long stemmed, but still there is something rough and everyday like in them :)... and I enjoy that. In whatever fantasy forest I were wandering I always return to my beloved realism.
I see alive people there rather than abstract generalizations. It is good, Andrej. Maybe it is will your specialty: presence of reality, truthfulness.

I like the Vermeer's copy as will, she is different, but still I can believe it is the same woman, but painted by a person with a different temperament, much less flattering :).

Yours self portrait is lacking physical similarity in the most, maybe there is some in general, but there is something from your positive look at things IMO: colors are bold and optimistic, brushstrokes as well. I didn't like the portrait much though. It lacks something which would make me want to return to look at it one more time... some spice. I'm adding this because you always complain about too rosy comments, so here... out of respect to you: I didn't like it much :).

Absolutely love the bony dog, as design smartly placed on page (across) and as a full of life drawing as well. It is elegant. You probably caught what this breed was all about: whimsical, light lines of the graceful body, weightless, aristocratic in some way. So I like it a lot.

The sketches of the figure and the head in the same post are both good, but they are colder and more conventional, expected, I would say. I would write much more kindly about them, but you last update overshined them and put them in shame with presence of so much life. They're good, but more like effective, then soulful IMO.

I like the first life drawing in the post above, the woman leaning to wall... for extreme boldness and again the nice feeling of design, symbol, you know? it happens when a drawing, outline hast this finished feeling and doesn't require any details and BG anymore. Good emblem, you know.

Well enough for today. Hope you and yours are doing great.
yours truly
Sveta

[blacky]

Hey sve,
concerning Russia there's really a lot to talk about. Don't even know where to start. .... I stayed for the first week at a hostel quite in the center of the city. 200m from the Eremitage. Last 2 weeks I stayed at the flat of Wladir Snatenkov (the traveler) I told you about. I had the flat all for myself and it was located 20 (bus, subway) min from Nevskij Pr. First week my Internship included 4 "Sabori" the Spas na Krowi (I made the frwaing of, abofe), Smolnij, Simsonskij and Isaakowskij. At each I was able to attend guide tours and scetch freely. At Isaakovskij, I had chats with the tourguides in their citchen downstairs, in the cellar, where I also was schown Manuscripts, drafts, from the architekt and Illustrations of how the Church was build. I became friends with Sveta :) , a tourguide. We visited concerts at the Smolnij and at the Theatre of the Eremitage. The people there where very caring. At the Spas na Krowi, I was blown away by the Mosaiks. Interiour and exteriour. Artists like Nesterow, Iwanow and Wasnetzow where represented there. During that week I also went to the Marinskij Theatre to see Firebird and Princess Sherezade, after musik by Kramskoj. During my stay I also saw "Pikowaja Dama" , "The Dutchman", and "Faust" as an Oper. Also some choir concerts, one classic musik with Haydn (I think), and for 3 times Swanlake. Once in Michaelowskij and twice at the Eremitage Theatre. Where I also saw a concert of young solo singers. Second week was entirely spent on the Eremitage. At least I can say that I've walked through all of the rooms that where accesable at that time. Was also schown the studio of the fine art restauratorators. (That was really something) . Was given a pass, so I could go anywhere, like the Cafeteria, also to the "treasure chests", where I especially liked the Scythian goldcollection. Unfortunately I barely had time to scetch there. Just way too much to see and read (and walk :) ) there. That week wasn't enough. Last one was spent on Russian Museum (they had a great exhibition of Archip Kuindshi, and of Private collections of R. art from abroad. where I saw a verry stunning piece by Maljawin "Princess fighting a Lobster", I'm doing a comic and some paints based on the impressions from that picture now) when I saw works by Filonow I was stoked, such ginius. Saw many other paints by artists I hadn't even heard of bevore, that I liked. Also went to the Academy of fine arts. Hoped to find out about exchange programms. Won't work. Was kinda dissapointed though. They try to preserve their values from the 18th and 19thcentury. A stay of 6 month would be awesome there, but to actually get a diplome there seems pathetic to me. Why would one want to copy , copies of copies for years and do little else? Anyway, later on I heard I should have visited Muchinskij Institute, too bad. Visited friends of a friend of mine, they are both artist. Have troubles surviving and in retrospective found me cuite naive, I left a good impression though I think. They hadn't heard of Storyboard, not to speak of conceptart. Liked their works. Also was introduced to a Photographer, who's making hundreds of 360-views of St. Petersbourg right now and other ambitious projekts. He's bursting of sheer energy. Sleeps 4-5 hours. Completely selftaught. (studied 15h a day, 7 days a week for month to learn programming, chemistry, colourtheorie and so on...) It was really interesting. Also Visited the Man whom I owe this all. Former vice Prsident of the Eremitage, and direktor of the E. Theatre. Was cuite pleasant, they liked my scetches. Specially the more accademic ones. Which is funny because those where the ones I was the least proud of. The're no match to any Acadamy student's works. The Cultureclash between Old and new, between East and West was funny and a pitty to observe too. The City is georgous, although I had little time to wander through it, but lacks a single modern art institute or museum. Anything shortly before WW2 is considert "modern". Have seen barely anything from the time after. The only streetartists are tourists and Gasprom is going to build a 300m+ building on "The Sands", destroing the entire citycite. In total the trip was a blast and although I might say that I spend the time quite productive, 3 weeks were way too short.
I liked the german scetchmeet too, great location and people. Very good for morale and motivation. Will try to attend the next one in Hellmont.
I'm getting tired since it is already late, so I will reply to the rest of your post upon next update. Congrats on the piano though. Great to hear you have one always in your reach and can cast tunes out of it I never could. (not is me who needs to fight my envy. and it is way harder than one might think. I'd give up years of drawingexpirience for just some hunmble understanding in playing and listening to music)


This is somewhat of a parody on a student I scetched at the museum of the Academy of fine arts in St. Petersbourg. He, being about 30 copied a copy of a study, done by a 17 year old in the 18th century. During my 4h stay at the museum nothing seemed to have changed on his still quite earlystaged paint.Which I thought being pretty funny :)
Last is a drawing that is supposed to depict Cortez's men fighting with the azteks. Am not very happy with it but decided to post it anyway.

[blacky]

2 Pictures from a fairytale-projekt from scool and a pseudo surreal scetch.

[blacky]

Some recent scetches

[blacky]

shaman
(or so)

[sve]

hello, Andrej. So sorry for writing a bit too late, I was stuck with some image and actually I was badly obsessed with changes. As always when the image is more or less defined I'm starting to endlessly change it. Do you do this? You once wrote in my sketch book, that one drawing of my daughter would be good if someone would have stopped her on time. Makes me think you killed some of yours.
But I saw all your updates and thought about them. Something is changing with your images and I don't know what is going on. Maybe you are trying to meet requirements in your class, or maybe you are becoming someone else. Or maybe I'm imagining things. It is just you are starting to draw densely and your drawing has some pauses now, rest areas for eyes and mind so to speak. Before your images were like your hand was chasing your thought with crazy speed and now there is more pondering in your images... in this light coming from gaps, in calmer manner of filling your drawing with darks. Like you breath now between every pencil stroke, you know.
I actually like it.
One more thing, you images are getting a bit on scary side for me. Before they were sweet drawings and were reminding me my children books a lot... Now when I look at them I have some fear crawling into my heart. Would you believe me? it's true.
For example this man with guitar riding a crazy cripple. It feels spooky for me. To say the truth, nothing is obviously scary about the image, but he sits in this awkward pose, and his figure and face carry something dementing about them. You know like some dimwit person, everyone is mocking him, laughing at him, despises him, kick him, but everyone knows, that they force, they will regret it.
So... that what I feel looking at your drawing... allegory if you will. Slow working brains sitting above crazy, potentially destroying force, some primitive instincts. Expectation of disaster.

I like all your illustrations of fairy tales. I didn't guess right what fairy tale you chose, but it looks very scary as well. And mostly because of this feeling of madness. Light is falling silently, everything is grand and soundless. Unkempt. And then this strange creature is laying on the top of the long, narrow table... so unexpected. Feels like creepy nightmare as well, expectation of disaster.
Ha! I wonder if my homeland gave you those curious feelings. I felt something of this sort during and after my trip there.
No critique for you now, buddy, I'm looking froward to see more of those. they look different.
And thank you for detailed report about your traveling. Despite that you were a tourist there, it felt a bit bitter sweet. Yep, that's a taste of Russia.
You saw a lot, and I'm happy for you. Several Swan lakes... hehe. well anyways... it is some adventure. I read with interest your take and I'm glad you look at it with your own eyes. have your own thoughts.

You got me all curious about who is this 17years old master of the 18th century... hmm... Give me a hint. I like guessing games.

I never noticed the absent of modern art in my home country, but I guess you are right. And I start better understand myself after you pointed it to me.

Still, it is a bit strange to me that understanding of beauty can become old fashioned and need some catching up with time. Franky I don't want to believe in this. Could it be like a story with Picasso? young prodigy, he was doing wonderful figure drawings and was an accomplished draftsman in a very young age and then spent his life exploring drawings of children and trying to catch their mad energy... forgetting commonly accepted beauty.

Thank you again, buddy,
hope to see more of your images soon.
be well.

[blacky]

sve- I'm sorry I'l reply as soon as possible, your post is very vast and helpfull and I need time to do it some justice by a proper reply.

So far, I've been working on a scool projekt. A comic called Long Live The King, in which the king inevitably dies. (he'l get eaten by the lady creature :) ). So far the first chapter and a Wip (underpainting), where I'm trying to tacke the subjekt matter into paint.

[blacky]

Also some recent lifedrawings

[blacky]

Just came back from the Helmouth scetchmeet which was a blast.
Finished Page 7 and did Pages 8 and 11 of the comic there.
Besides the Thunderdome, we also had some lifedrawing going on.

[MeTaL-Mike]

hey man, you have a very nice sketchbook. i didn't actually check it until now but very nice works.

[Slash]

It was good meeting you again! You have some cool stuff in here! Lovely linework on the gun girl.