IndigoGeminiWolf's Artistic Journey

[MangusKhan]

Are those yours, Gem? It brings back nostalgia in me... it reminds me of our 5 minute charcoal sketches we started with. The purpose was to train your eye, he believed if you get your composition wrong in the first 5 minutes, there's no fix, abandon it.

I was going to post the aforementioned Hitler portrait as well as a terrible original attempt in order to prove your teacher correct. Unfortunately, these pictures seem to have disappeared from my files. Digging back further into the past yielded this gem from my teenage years though. I'd forgotten about this thing for ages, and now looking at it some five years later is so interesting. The great thing about art, that I love, is that it provides you with a kind of record of your self. Especially if your work has expressionist elements. You can look back and recapture feelings from long in the past just by looking at what was created from your thoughts back then. I really hope you continue your artistic journey IGW because it is great fun to be able to look back at your creations. Seeing technical progress is very satisfying as well. This artwork I love though because there was no real technique or training that went into it, it just emerged from the chaos with a bit of splattering and gentle guiding.

Ahh, sharpening pencils the fun way, one slice at a time, no finer point can be made

Funny I was so focused on the metaphorical value of slowly sharpening a pencil that I completely missed the joke before. Brilliant.

The discussion in this thread has got me gung-ho about art again. I'd kind of abandoned art when I went to study physics, but I'm taking a break from uni for a while after this year and now I want to start again.