Topic: The Art Thread

@Zuljaras very cool, well done

@kyleforrester87 Thank you!

And here is the video of the making

This is my imagining of the Merman from Castlevania 1.

@Zuljaras that looks amazing. Your statues are top notch also!

@MightyDemon82 Thank you!

I made a short comic for drawing lesson grade 4 and 5 about Talking Parrot.

@RogerRoger
Thanks. 😃
That was my example for drawing lesson.
I let my students thinking the storyline that fit with their idea and it should be funny enough.
So for the students, I printed the template of comic worksheet with one example from number 1, the other parts they have to continue by themself.

I made a Dragon drawing for drawing lesson grade 1 - 3 this afternoon.

Today I found one of my old designs! Old because it is on paper Maybe more than 10 years ago

@Zuljaras nice. Where is his weapon? Or is he stabbing with the shield?

@kyleforrester87 I think that he was supposed to be like that or use the leg of the corpse on the coffin lid as a club.

Does this count?😆😆

New project on the horizon! Castlevania 1 diorama with sculpted mini-figures!

This is Simon Belmont! He is so small

Haven't been here in awhile and man there's some cool stuff since I last checked in.

@Zuljaras love the turtles and love the repurposing of the defective cartridge on the doom slayer sculpture. reminds me of the time I had to take a picture of a fan with the cord cut off so they'd send me another under warranty. Regrettably I did not reuse it as art though.

@Anti-Matter great work on the 3D DJ piece. I agree it translates well. Also digging that Switch anniversary drawing. Props.

Anyway here's a pic from my struggling artist progeny. It's from their Patreon but seemed appropriate here:

@zupertramp
Thanks. 😃
I will make some hand drawing pictures for next academic year drawing lesson.
3D DJ was part of my drawing lesson for grade 4 & 5 by providing my students with 2 copies of DJ templates and I put two different DJ design (boy and girl version with no faces since I asked the students to choose the DJ based on their gender, draw the face and the hair style by themself) and they have to decorate the DJ booth template with their imagination and assemble the templates after they cut the template.

@zupertramp I’d buy a comic with art like that! It reminds me of that early to mid 00s comic book art where the colours are nice and blocky and really pop off the page. If they haven’t already then they should definitely check out Adrian Alphona’s work, it’s in the same ballpark and could serve as some inspiration!

@nessisonett looked him up and I recognize the art (some of the Ms. Marvel covers anyway) but hadn't heard of him. I kinda don't have enough of an eye for art specifics to draw comparisons - I typically find I Iike what I like and don't what I don't with very little justification - so I'll take your word for it and pass the mention along.

@zupertramp Ahh, the tried and true method of art criticism - It just looks nice/not nice! I can tell you right now, I’ve written essays about art and I still judge a lot of art based on that exact same principle. Probably why I’ve never really taken to Picasso, Modigliani etc. Whereas painters like JMW Turner, Jackson Pollock and Umberto Boccioni, they might all have incredibly different styles but I look at their work and I think ‘yep, that’s visually appealing’. It’s all well and good to write a thousand words on the sociopolitical statement behind a painting, Picasso’s Guernica is a powerful statement on war for example, but I wouldn’t say I enjoy looking at something that I don’t really like that much. Minor tangent aside, I’d recommend the original Runaways volumes, that drawing really feels like what would happen if Heather Mason was sucked into that world!

@nessisonett yeah I remember BS-ing my way through Art Appreciation and don't get me wrong, it was nice to be introduced to all the artists and their various works throughout history but yeah at the end of the day some things are just more visually arresting than others and I'm not sure I'm all that interested in why. Like the first time I saw Map by Jasper Johns. Mesmerized. Why? No idea really.

Might pick up a Runaways TPB if I see a used copy at the comic shop.