I'm Slowly Figuring Out My Art Style; The Progress
Last week, I was talking to myself, talking to myself means inside my mind. I got this click inside my brain that told me that this idea was a good art style. I was experimenting with several art styles for months now. I find my art style normal like "yeah" and I want to sprinkle uniqueness into it.
What I did is I used my emotion to execute that "sprinkle of uniqueness to it". What I observed was when I am mentally emotional I burst my artistic self out like I can't stop until you are satisfied, that is me. Yeah, I find it weird not in a bad way but in a good way. I got this quote from an actor that being weird is not a bad thing it is just you, your character, and that character of yours makes you look special to someone and everyone has a weirdness to themselves too.
At first, I was hesitant again to try this idea of mine. "Oh, will it work this time?" I was encouraging myself by telling myself I can do it and " just trust the process " this sentence really works for me in believing that I can do it. If you absorb that in your mind that will work instantly.
Back to my art.
Practice really does work! But there is still a lot of space needed for improvement and one of my biggest enemies is body anatomy which I am practicing now I am not still confident to go for it. There is this time that I didn't notice that I improve you will just notice when someone told you that or when you go back from your past arts. "Wow! practice really does work".
Like right now, The idea of me writing blogs is one of the scariest things to do. I realize the longer you're writing the more you improve the more natural you are because the more you share a little the natural flow of the sentence you write. People sometimes think that writing a blog is easy, no you need a lot of effort, focus, and time.
This is one of the best art I made this year. This is my new favorite so far. As I am writing this blog I already have an idea for my next piece. I am still thinking about what should I name this art I made. I just name it "portrait". LOL
This time I will explain in as much detail as possible to make this blog worth reading and interesting. I will make a hundred percent best!
This is the interface of the drawing program I used the name is Krita. Simple easy to understand and the good thing about this is this editor is free, with no monthly fee which is good for me beginner artists like me. Highly recommended! There are a lot of other features too. Maybe in the future, I might write a blog about it.
This is the graphic tablet I used to draw. XP-Pen budget-friendly tablet good investment If you are just starting digital art. If you prefer a pen display they sell that too. As I get into digital art I much prefer a pen display easy-to-draw line art. hehe. I am still saving money for that manifesting to get it before the new year. I still have bills to pay. LOL
The Idea
This idea started it all from scratch to digitalize art. As the sketch on the paper, there is this head in the middle, sunflowers, clouds, and eyes. My mind is messed up so what comes out of my mind randomly? At first sight, how will I execute this to be an art? You will see the process of it next.
The Process
The hardest thing about starting an art is the references so I decided to follow my gut and scroll through my gallery and find a perfect portrait for my art I found something that will represent what I like to portray in my art. I found one that is perfect emotion which looks emotionless.
I was rendering the face I knew that this art piece will work so I continue, at first I was doubting but It work so I keep working until ideas pop out one by one.
One reason why I choose this portrait as a reference is the way the hair naturally looks like that.
I get obsessed with sunflowers when my cousin requested to draw on one of his notebooks I like the flow of the petals and I have this feeling when I drew sunflowers made me calm. There is not only one kind of sunflower there are different kinds of it. I was going to make the sunflower die here but nahhh I can't. Hehehe.
Adding clouds was the best idea for the portrait, It makes the art-filled and the sunflower look like it is floating I guess that's the idea of it I will add more details to it. And the eyes, represent different kinds of emotions which I love.
for teared-up eyes, at first, I was just gonna put tears on her left side which base on my research "if the tears dropped on your left side of the eyes it means it is from sadness and if it is on the right side it means happiness. So what I did is I made it more dramatic and more meaningful.
For this part, I focus more on adding details like lighting, shadows, and details on subjects. I added a bract on the sunflowers so they will look more like a sunflower. LOL. And I added more details on the cloud.
"Lemme try to add lighting on the cloud" adjust this adjust that. I was like woooow~~~ looks good "Imma keeps you~~" hehe and I added a little smiley sticker to her left side to I forgot the meaning behind it so it was like " Always a smile covers up behind the pain".
I enjoyed making this art piece. You can make art if you believe you can do it. Sometimes I blame the materials I used, but I realize I am the one to blame because not believing you can do something will never go well. I was too late to realize that I like art. I wanted to be serious about it; "Artblock" is my number one problem. I once had an art block for a month or more. I can't draw anything because it's always trash for me; like, seriously, my materials are begging me to use them. As I remember, there is this someone who inspires me to draw again, and yeah, maybe this art block for me is a seasonal thing. Sometimes I have this idea while I am out and then forget to take note, and that idea will be forgotten forever, so when I go out and a sudden idea pops into my mind, I tend to take note of it. Forcing yourself to draw can also work, such as when you hate it at first but see the progress that makes you unconsciously enjoy it, and you're done. Art is unconditional love for me. LOL
I like how the artwork started on paper and progressed to a digital version. I like the shades on the face a lot. Congratulations!
I would also like to suggest to engage with others too as it can bring you more readers to your post. Hive is a social platform, engagement is key here.
Me who made this art can't even believe that I made this art piece. like wow~ when did I improve like magically improved out of nowhere? hihihi Thank you so much :)) Your encouragement helps me a lot to draw more. :))
I love to see more of this from you. The writing as well as art has improved so much. I like how you are forming your own style. I know it's very hard to create one. From what I noticed from most of your arts is that you seem to like adding sunflowers in your paintings. Any particular reason to why you keep adding it? Is there a meaning behind it?
By the way, artpark is conducting activities again. Why don't you try participating in that as well. We are very active in the discord community. Hop in there sometime😃 hehe.
Forgive me for butting in here, what is artpark? And is the discord you're talking about open to outsiders too? 🤓
Artpark is an art community which was formed in a crypto platform called noisecash. That platform is almost dead now and they are already building a new one but it doesn't have group feature yet.
You can join us Emma so if you post your discord Id here I'll send it to the the admin to add you in there :)
Just finished reading the read.cash faq and "artpark: artists' biggest supporter" post. Artpark looks intriguing. Did art park move from read.cash to noise.cash? I'm a little bit lost, although I see a number of familiar names on noisecash. Anyway,
On discord my username is Ema#6250. Thanks! : )
Nah artpark posts compilation posts on readcash but events are conducted mainly on noisecash.
Here is the invite linkhttps://discord.gg/QjqH2gCc8x
Oh, okay. I'm pretty unfamiliar with both of those. Read.cash seems like it's on life support, noise.cash looks pretty straightforward.
Also I just started using discord like a few months ago. So I know a little about how to use it, but also still getting to know its features. Thanks again.
I'm new to discord as well hehe. It has a lot of functions so I thought it's a good idea to join there as well.
Readcash and noise is being funded by some sponsors to create awareness about crypto and it's future but you know the past 2 years were bad for crypto so they lost a lot of money and funding started to diminish as well. There was a time it was doing really well.
As for noisecash they made an app version for that recently and it's called noiseapp. I think it's not available directly on playstore yet so you need a playstore invite link from someone else. I have it actually and if you are interested I can send it you on discord.
I sent you a reply message on discord : )
I just replied back :)
Yes, I like to me like that too, the writing I consumed all my brain cells for it hehehe I sacrifice my sweat, blood, and tears for it. I hope this art style will stay with me because sometimes I always forgot how to do it again it is like one-time use only. I just love sunflowers, my cousin influence me to love them so here I am adding sunflowers to every artwork I made. LOL
Ohh I saw it last week, maybe I will join. I forgot my email and password in discord hahaha totally forgot. Yeah yeah if I remember my email I will for sure :)))
You should practice it whenever you get some free time then. That way you won't loose what you learned here. I mean participating in some contests or activities are the best way to ensure that hehe.
Why don't you make a new discord account if you don't remember the credentials? I lose my old one some months ago so I made a new one just to join artpark and some other hive groups.
That's true that is the best way. Practice, practice, practice 😂
I can't I hate having multiple accounts hahahhaha.
It's different from your usual work. I'd love to see more of this art style from you. 🤩
I am currently exploring my art style this is one style I made, that I like so much. Thank you ate :)))
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Thank you :)))
I like seeing your process on this one. And I like your new style, it makes me think of street art with its boldness and symbolism. Have you ever made a mural or big painting? The sunflowers are great! They make for a nice contrast to the heavier emotions in your piece.
Art block is natural, and you're getting through it the only way it can be :D brute force.
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Thank you :)) Yeah I really like my new style too I might stick to it maybe~ hihihi. I have never tried mural or wall art before, on canvas yes~ Yeah I love sunflowers so much that I blame my cousin for influencing me~ HEHEHE. Yeah, that's why I love adding sunflowers the flow of it makes the portrait more interesting.
When I was starting art I always see artists suffering from art block, and me who was highly motivated to learn had no idea about it, so when I get serious about art I was like "oooohhhh~~~ now I know XD"
Thank you for visiting :)))
No pain, no gain right? :) art block kind of sucks, but it's also rewarding to break down the barriers and accomplish our goals. We all have to start somewhere!
Maybe sunflowers are one of your artistic icons, something that makes your work identifiable as yours, especially since you find special significance with them beccause if your cousin. (The sunflower also represents loyalty and friendship.) 🧡
Have a great day!🌻🌼🌞
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This is really amazing 🤩 Keep up the good work 👍
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