Anyone learn how to draw or sketch?

[Crowbob]

Thank you, Dixie!

Here’s another. The photo doesn’t do it justice. It’s actually very detailed and ‘painterly’. Zooming in helps a little. The subject is a ruin near The Forum in Rome. The rose bush is about the size of a dime:

[Crowbob]

[LEAKYSEALS951]

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[Crowbob]

[Crowbob]

[Crowbob]

Better…gettin’ there

[Crowbob]

DONE!

[dad911]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Great questions.
......

But then this painting I did years ago using no skill at all, is it art? Or the study in blue? What is that?

Stoned or Drunk? (like quite a few of the greats)

[dad911]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

......My sense is I will take pics of my own cars or from the web and then apply some Photoshop filters and additional vector art from Illustrator. Then give that to a professional artist for marker sketches. .......

Or try a $50 projector (Amazon) to project your pic on paper and trace it.

Yes, I know, old thread.......

[rfuerst911sc]

You folks have artistic skills ! I can barely use an Etch - a - sketch

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by dad911

Stoned or Drunk? (like quite a few of the greats)

That's why I've moved on to sculpture.

[Crowbob]

[Crowbob]

‘Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake.’

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Great questions.

I've always felt art required skill, otherwise it's just a manifestation of imagination. So when, some day, I get the chance to create some sculpture on the scale of Richard Serra using carbon fiber instead of steel, it certainly won't just be some large bolts of fabric set with epoxy.

But then this painting I did years ago using no skill at all, is it art? Or the study in blue? What is that?

That's what they will tell you, you need training, education and skill. I think you show skill and creativity. But if you try and enter the world of art and pass their BS for acceptance, you won't make the grade.

I've been close to that world before. It's jacked up, but there is something to having some substance behind your work, whether you use that to justify it or not. The "art world" will. I think when an "artist" steps out of the box like Jackson Pollock, there may be nothing but thin ice when it comes to judgement of substance.

And who is judging? There are a lot of commercial artists that aren't really doing much mentally, but they are selling million$.

I like to think of an example when this discussion comes up. That would be when computers were first able to produce complicated geometric designs. The first one (or few) was unique. Someone had the thought to program it. Was that art?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Painting will be dead or least have a bad cold with AI maturing.

I have moved on to sculpture and am working on a project that if I can complete it (that's laughable given everything else going on), you could say Richard Serra's work would be a reductive representation of it.

[javadog]

Like Richard Serra's work....

Surely it's not of the same scale...

[Shaun @ Tru6]

it is.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

it is.

Wow. I cannot imagine how Serra's work is constructed, or what it might cost. It's huge. And heavy. And how is it transported?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

My only concerns is cost. It's very expensive.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

My only concerns is cost. It's very expensive.

In the case of Serra's work, at least the ones I've seen in person, it has to be in the millions.