IndigoGeminiWolf's Artistic Journey

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This is a good guide, because I eventually want to draw a mandala.

[When I read this I envisioned for a moment an animal called a "mandala" -- sort of a small Beanie-Baby-like distant cousin of a panda. Doubtless in some alternate universe the gingko-tree forests are teeming with these critters. Another strange Earthling who might have reflexively thought this way was James Thurber, the 20th-century humorous writer and cartoonist, long associated with The New Yorker, who had a curious tendency to take abstractions for concrete things, and vice-versa: http://chawedrosin.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/thurbers-new-natural-history ]
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I want to eventually draw magic between anthros and humans.

[Some lesser-known animal types with which to explore interspecial hybridization: https://urban75.net/forums/threads/animals-you-never-knew-existed.309625]

But one step at a time.

[As the Wise say: Patience, Grasshopper, we'll fall off that bridge when we come to it -- after first making sure we leave it burnt behind us! ]
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I'm drawing pretty much every reference in Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life.

[You might find some inspiration and ideas in these instructional works by Andrew Loomis, a successful illustrator/author with a wonderful idiosyncratic style, who died the very year (1959) I appeared on the terrestrial scene, a Wanderer gone wrong, kicking & screaming over the outrageous inconvenience of having to rusticate thus in this cockamamie galactic backwater & plague-spot, especially now, what with the upcoming planetary cataclysms and all (they told me this whole planet would be like a mega-Tahiti, overrun with hot babes, cold beer, and warm fuzzies -- those higher-density lyin' sons-of-guns Confederation-recruiters and their phony-baloney full-color travel brochures!!). My sainted Father, who as a lad aspired to be an architect & wished to broaden his general drawing technique, acquired a copy of Loomis' first art-instruction book, Fun With A Pencil  hot off the presses in 1939. See  http://www.alexhays.com/loomis for PDFs of this work & others by Loomis. (Note: no foxes were actually hurt in the book-throwing gif. )



This book I actually still have, 78 years later, one of a mere handful saved from a personal library of over five thousand volumes which I seem to have mislaid. [*Takes five to cry into his beer.*] When I was a wee impressionable lad & an aspiring artiste myself, I pored obsessively with beady unblinking eyes (not unlike those of an ambulatory mental outpatient's) over Loomis' work, time and again. Also did I stare compulsively at ca. 1950s & early-1960s issues of Mad magazine, with its amazing cartoon-work by Will Elder, Wallace Wood, Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, et al, not to mention also the mind-blowing then-cutting-edge underground-comix of Robert Crumb), mystically drawn to the idea of producing savagely cutting cartoon-caricatures of humankind with which to while away the fleeting hours amassing artistic fame and fortune until the final apocalyptic world-upheaval, which I planned to sketch with one hand as it bore down on me even as I gave it the finger with the other hand (this is why to this day I make sure I have a charcoal pencil and a sketch-pad on me at all times, and do middle-finger exercises daily).




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Cheers!