A bunch of mostly anime style character art...

[Bianca MarOu]

Uh- sorry about that, but I was pretty much kidding with you.

Hey, do I look personally offended? I thought not.

 

[Bianca MarOu]

*Waits patiently to see new art*

I sooo need to get to a scanner, but I work all the hours that the college scanner is available for use. If someone would be willing to scan for me, I could snail mail 'em copies *hopeful looks*

 

[Bianca MarOu]

Nice work! I like the face in the first pic. I have never been able to draw faces, in any style.

Don't worry about negative feedback. Everyone who hangs out down here in the "Art Gallery & Miniatures" basement is generally supportive. When I've seen criticism offered it's always been constructive.

Please post more and thank you for sharing.

I tend to get paranoid about such things though. Cartoon/anime style work is very shunned in our college's art department, as is most fantasy art. And yet, it's my primary work. Go figure.

 

[Bianca MarOu]

More dragons... badly scanned pencil work...

 

[Sialia]

Yay! Thank you for whole thread.

 

[LrdApoc]

Art styles and 'colleges'

Bianca something I learned a long time ago is that there are very few people in Art education who have not been trained to think in commercial or fine art style.

Fantasy art is regarded as something you do if you're not a serious artist.. but we all know that art is our own expression, whatever the style or medium.

Unfortunately I've never had much luck getting over that stigma in my studies.. most professors regaile pop art and the 60's stuff and in the same breath revile fantasy and anime style. No one ever seems to do what a good artist should, judge the emotion, composition and technical skill an artist exercises.

Hang in there, jump through the 'institutional' hoops and then do what you want to. Know that others can and do like your work, and if you like it above all that is the most important thing.

Okay, off the soap box Apoc.. back into the pit..

 

[Bianca MarOu]

Yay! Thank you for whole thread.

And thank you for yours too, which I must say is far more entertaining.

 

[Bianca MarOu]

Re: Art styles and 'colleges'

Bianca something I learned a long time ago is that there are very few people in Art education who have not been trained to think in commercial or fine art style.

Fantasy art is regarded as something you do if you're not a serious artist.. but we all know that art is our own expression, whatever the style or medium.

Many classical artists have struck me as fantasy artists anyway, I just wish most of my instructors could see that.

Unfortunately I've never had much luck getting over that stigma in my studies.. most professors regaile pop art and the 60's stuff and in the same breath revile fantasy and anime style. No one ever seems to do what a good artist should, judge the emotion, composition and technical skill an artist exercises.

Hang in there, jump through the 'institutional' hoops and then do what you want to. Know that others can and do like your work, and if you like it above all that is the most important thing.

Okay, off the soap box Apoc.. back into the pit..

Luckilly I have an instructor who is very suportive and tends to do Brom/Geiger-esque work himself (forgive mispellings, I need to download a dictionary in my brain)

Another huge problem I've noticed is an automatic negative reaction to anime style presented by many hardcore fantasy fans. I used to not like it myself, and then I started using is on a frequent basis...

I already do the hoop thing. Hopefully soon though I can find an actual art school I can go to...

 

[Cpt. Anonymous]

Great art work here. I love Anime. I happen to be an anime, fantasy, and classical music freak. I understand that not many people see anime as an art but. It has its own emotion and style behind it. people who say it isn't art is a sculptor saying painting is just smucky oil thrown on paper. 2 artforms each incredible in their own way.


Keep up the fine art I am waiting to see more. I would have posted my own art by now but I have the same scanner (or lack of) difficulties.

 

[Bianca MarOu]

Great art work here. I love Anime. I happen to be an anime, fantasy, and classical music freak. I understand that not many people see anime as an art but, it has its own emotion and style behind it. people who say it isn't art is a sculptor saying painting is just smucky oil thrown on paper. 2 artforms each incredible in their own way.

It's true that anime doesn't get enough respect, as o many other forms of art. Are you drawing an example from Michealangelo about the sculptor/painter thing?

Keep up the fine art I am waiting to see more. I would have posted my own art by now but I have the same scanner (or lack of) difficulties.

I'm just going to keep posting work I have already scanned until I can take advantage of a scanner. I have a bunch of stuff for Rune's "Kingdoms of Kalamar in The Dream" story hour, which I will probably make a new thread for because almost everyone in that has drawn one rendition of a character or another (I play Las' Parida, the frustrated Kalamari bi*** Sorceress/Aristocrat).