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~PoetryMan1
Andre Allen
Artist | Student | Film & Animation
Canada
Current Residence: Brampton
Favourite genre of music: gospel, jazz, pop, soft rock, r&b, soul, spoken word, acapella auditions, epic music, anything that's good!
Favourite photographer: I like pictures!
Favourite style of art: I like art!
Operating System: vista kinda sucks!
MP3 player of choice: Mine Got Stolen...
Shell of choice: ???
Wallpaper of choice: The ones I change on my wall...
Skin of choice: black, lol
Favourite cartoon character: Goofy's son max i guess, there's a lot to choose from.
Personal Quote: imagination is more important than knowledge- Albert Einstein
Are you "Cool"?: well... duh!
Say something else funny: ...
Interests
  • Listening to: The beauty of life.
  • Reading: God's word.
  • Watching: the world pass by
  • Playing: the game of life.
  • Eating: food for thought.
  • Drinking: happiness water.??
Yes, they do.

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:iconkungfoowiz:
Merry Christmas man! =)
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Mood: Joy ~PoetryMan1 Dec 22, 2012  Student Filmographer
same to you Ed. Merry Christmas!!
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Mood: Joy ~PoetryMan1 Jul 5, 2012  Student Filmographer
thanks. Muchos Gracias!
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~JHoFuyuki Mar 11, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
how's it goin buddy...
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~PoetryMan1 Mar 16, 2012  Student Filmographer
yea, not bad. how u doin?
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~JHoFuyuki Mar 16, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
not bad either.....lol...just bored...
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~PoetryMan1 Mar 19, 2012  Student Filmographer
u workin with rigging now right?
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~Debido-San Feb 18, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I stumbled upon your page today by searching dA for "Line Economy". After looking through here and your conceptart.org sketchbook, I have to say I am astounded and inspired by all of the effort you've been pouring into art over the past few years!

I don't put in a fraction of the work you do because I am honestly scared to do it. I know I should be drawing boxes and spheres and such, but it's such a challenge for me to get anything decently looking. I read on one page of your sketchbook that you think the fundamentals are undertaught, and that you managed to structure your learning to help you improve methodically. I am really interested in how you organized it and what kinds of exercises you did to get you your most basic levels of proficiency.

You're the shit! God bless you man.
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Mood: Joy ~PoetryMan1 Feb 20, 2012  Student Filmographer
Hey Man! Thanks for the kind words. It helps to know my work is not in vain lol. Interesting that you stumbled upon my page by searching for 'line economy'. Perhaps I mentioned that somewhere here lol- i don't remember. But in terms of being scared-- never be. I like what a life-drawing teacher once told me-- mentioning my gestures and o.k lines, he said "your not afraid to take risks". I believed that, and I keep that thought as a motivation for when I don't know what exactly to draw. I scribble... and through many developing efforts- I used that teacher's saying to keep me motivated for what/or how to draw, when I'm not inspired at all! my point is, taking risks for an artist- is a very true statement, and if you don't fall into the "it's never good enough" trap each time you draw, all those lessons of risk taking will turn out to be a very powerful weapon! trust me. And yes, you definitely Should be learning with each "risk" you take. If you simply take risks for the sake of being 'different' or w/e- you'll most likely fall into making 'abstract' art with little or no purpose. You can observe the 'abstract art' failures in my dA scrapbook of what misery I'm telling you about lol.

You shouldn't be afraid to take risks! Ever! Look what happened to the works of picasso before and after his cubism discovery. In one sense-- da man went 'insane' lol. He was particularly interested in the shapes and abstract thought processes of things he observed (if I'm correct). Pictures say a thousand words- it's true (even more than that actually). But, what makes a picture? well, there are 'elements' and there are 'principles'. I remembered them from my middle-school/high-school days- and I started to 'actualize' them into my works, seeing it from a professional degree. I examined artists I admired, (I mean really good artists) and sought if they themselves even used these elementary principles of design. And they did! I realized then, that a lot of tutorials don't actually "teach" you these elements and principles. Things like: line, space, value, shape, rhythm, balance, etc. There are a whole bunch to know about... the majority of tutorials I see, simply mention perspective, anatomy and whatnot, but I don't think a lot of them do the kind of teaching that people-like-me need to know about, for making altitudes of similarly amazing images!

So, I began a journey! I told myself... I must go back to the caveman drawings, I mean like "pre-school-paper-on-the-fridge" type drawings lol. I was serious! I went back to all those BASICS. I asked myself, "what on earth is a line anyway?" why are certain lines used? I studied the atmosphere of graphite on certain sketchbook drawings and tried to differentiate the artists use of line and tone. I also then, began to collect a massive reference folder, and organized it based on my aspirations, and also on images which didn't really meet what I thought was "awesome", but that I might learn from either the mistakes which I saw in them, or simply be influenced by 'gazing' at these images for a 'long' time, and mentally re-creating them without drawing anything at all. That journey made me develop a bookmarks list of websites that focused on basic drawing skills.. (not those really crappy ones though); I already considered myself as a (developing- (almost-semi)- pro) seeing I was learning from industry experts in college-- but I dropped my enthusiasm because I felt I wasn't learning what I "needed" to.

That journey also made me be able to figure out when a principle or an element was being used- which increased my ability to critique artwork somewhat. I then bought a few pocket sketchbooks so that I could literally whip it out and 'draw', whenever my hands were free. At the grocery store, at the mall, etc. No-one needed to know, that's why it was small, and also it was convenient in the car or whatever. I took little scribbles of people walking, dogs running, any gesture I could try and grasp. Most of them looked like garbage. But I was proud! because my ultimate goal of this was to help me recognize what I was trying to recognize in my sketchbook folder of reference images-- that is, what strokes help make a more 'graceful' line, and when does it count to do this? how do I develop this so it's consistent? and, how do I disregard that "irritable" jot-jot (chicken-scratch) line technique which seemed to ruin anybody's good drawing idea? It was things like that I did. I even got so convinced in all of this artistic-method restructuring, that I created a daily list of simple art exercises. yo, it's like eating a spoon! but it works man. It's like tasting horribe medicine. These exercises simply emerged from observing artwork that I admired. I would pinpoint a line, or a shape, or some abstract structure, or color, and I would ask how does that little spot in the image justify the entirety of the rest of the image? and also, how did they do it as a whole process before finishing the strokes they made? I then thought of ways to make that process internally executable, so it would become of a second-nature. If that happens, we as artists can focus more on designing than wasting time trying to figure out if 'this line' or 'that line' works best.

I really admired automotive/interior design, product design, and architectural illustrators, and those artists who did highly technical freehand work, because I thought to myself-- If we as artists can achieve that level of skill freehand, then doing the cartoony stuff will be soo much easier!

As far as I'm concerned that is very true on my part. But this only comes from knowing how you as an artist learn best. Everyone's method is different. There are commonalities, but... not everyone learns this way.

I'm only telling you MY experience, and how I got to the point of developing my strategies (which I'm still developing by the way)- yet, I haven't actually told you the strategies themselves, but I can photocopy my daily list of exercises or give you some names of artists or links if you like... sorry if I bored you. It's not my "life-story" I promise, lol... I'm just a really elaborate speaker when it comes to expressing my thoughts on the written canvas. But my spoken speech is much shorter, and seemingly less hmm... articulate. maybe I'm weird, I dunno.

make a CA sketchbook, I wanna see you progress well dude!
God bless you too!

:peace:

p.s. - In terms of putting in the Work to do it- that's all on you man. no pain no gain. practice makes perfect. Note me if you want my personal exercises or links.
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