www.goodbrush.com/
Sketches
– practice hundred of rough, unfinished sketches to experiment
– learn new processes
– fail early and often on your own experiment time, so you can become more efficient and fail less on paid work
– pay attention to coherence. how elements are related, structure, materials, engineering aspect of a scene. Adds credibility
Digital vs traditional medium
– traditional = expensive (materials, paper, paint). Needs a lot of practice and thought
– digital is cheaper, infinitely changeable
– risk of loosing track of reflexion, deliberate process
Rules
– know them, break them
– find your own process
– validate your own approach, deliberate process
Contrast
– exaggerate differences : light/dark, neutral/intense, big/small, slow/fast, rough/detailed etc
– artist as visual entertainer, Keep the eye entertained
Drawing
– more than just drawing lines
– drawing is everything (outside of color and value maybe)
– every decision about what is detailed or not, what to keep and what to leave out
– good image remains good when turned in B&W, reduced as thumbnail or blurred
Photography
– forget the macho painting approach and use whatever tool is available to get the job done
– experiment with using photographs in various ways at experiment time
– learn to walk away from photography when you can afford it
– drawing from life a better way to learn subtleties of forms, light, materials instead of a fixed snapshot from a photograph
Demo
son approche est tres aleatoire… moins geometrique que Andrew Jones mais dans le meme genre
en gros, c’est du gribouillis controle
ou les formes emergent d’elles memes
tres impressionistique comme approche
c’est ce qu’il a fait… il est parti d’une de ses propres images
et barbouille
Bob Peak – www.bobpeak.com/artpage.cfm?artid=92
Don’t stop learning, trying new things, even if it has an effect on your painting – don’t stagnate –
Make time for experiments