Comment on cutting ties to animu by paladinknight
Hey- Good on you!! I'm happy to hear you've drowned out all that people noise. They may mean well, but going with your own gut is highly important. Cus at the end of the day- it boils down to personal taste. And if you're not happy, then just what is the point??
My teachers used to pick at me for drawing such a highly anime-orientated style-- But I ignored em. Sometimes we just aren't ready to make such transitions. Either we aren't as inspired by whatevers waiting for us on the otherside, or we don't feel anything for the notion of doing it itself! We can only try to understand the opinion whoever came up with the opinion and reflect upon it..
Well, when I drew this picture, it was about that time when my interests began to wander. I found myself so sick with the majority of anime, more interested in manga, anatomy and european painters, and also this voice in my head called a 'self-obsessed philosophy'.
I felt that if I had to find my way through this field of 'style' then I had to quarantine myself for a bit. Hence, abandoning things such as dA for a couple of years.... And though I haven't shed my anime/manga roots entirely. I can also say that I don't concern myself with this so much anymore. I've just.. learnt to deal with the fact that anime/manga has now been part of my make-up for over half my life, and it's the same as wearing the skin of some hungry bears you've killed to survive. They're my war scars, hehehe.
My teachers used to pick at me for drawing such a highly anime-orientated style-- But I ignored em. Sometimes we just aren't ready to make such transitions. Either we aren't as inspired by whatevers waiting for us on the otherside, or we don't feel anything for the notion of doing it itself! We can only try to understand the opinion whoever came up with the opinion and reflect upon it..
Well, when I drew this picture, it was about that time when my interests began to wander. I found myself so sick with the majority of anime, more interested in manga, anatomy and european painters, and also this voice in my head called a 'self-obsessed philosophy'.
I felt that if I had to find my way through this field of 'style' then I had to quarantine myself for a bit. Hence, abandoning things such as dA for a couple of years.... And though I haven't shed my anime/manga roots entirely. I can also say that I don't concern myself with this so much anymore. I've just.. learnt to deal with the fact that anime/manga has now been part of my make-up for over half my life, and it's the same as wearing the skin of some hungry bears you've killed to survive. They're my war scars, hehehe.
I think style grows because of influences. Most teachers pick on anime style because a lot of anime artists doesn't have notions of anatomy and composition, don't want to learn and can't understand about how stylization works.
Then we have this extreme opposite, where artists toying with this aestetic just because they like it, gets a lot of flak for attitudes from other people.
Then we have this extreme opposite, where artists toying with this aestetic just because they like it, gets a lot of flak for attitudes from other people.
mm, indeed. Though these attitudes toward 'western styled artists with anime/manga influences' weren't as singled out as they were, say.. 10 years ago. It was harder back then to be of a 'cross-over' and be taken seriously. We had more purists who would only buy manga drawn by Eastern artists.. So I'd like to believe this attitude has matured. Perhaps due to the overall standard being raised.
Messiahs such as Van Gough, Whistler and Klimt who were influenced by Ukiyo-e.. I'd like to think we're the naive, backwards versions of them. In that our originality and technicality develop later instead of at the beginning (as it should've?).
Messiahs such as Van Gough, Whistler and Klimt who were influenced by Ukiyo-e.. I'd like to think we're the naive, backwards versions of them. In that our originality and technicality develop later instead of at the beginning (as it should've?).
Sometimes I think the acceptance of anime came since most teachers got used to the idea that the style was here to stay. Purism... can be good, when you want to stay true to the roots of a movement.
Now that anime is no longer The New Hot Thing, and carbon-copies of Dirty Pair or Rayheart no longer draw attention like before... new forms of art seems to be growing, I'm seeing a lot of korean influence and more attention to anatomy and colour.
But here we are in a very interesting position. We have a lot of influences from everywhere. Personally, I have american (Stuart Immonen, Jon Bogdanove, Frank Frazetta), european (Gustave Dore, Alfons Mucha, Jean Giraud) and asian (Katsuya Terada, Katushiro Otomo, Hiroshi Minagawa) influences. I built my style looking for lineart that could convey a lot of detail and ligthining, I liked how other artists created textures and volume only using black ink. And you may say that my main problem at this moment is balancing the color with this particular lineart style XD
I think our problem it's that we became in love with those new (to us) styles and we embraced with passion their aestetic before taking our time to understand their whys and hows. A lot of the expressionist work (and art noveau too!) started with a philosophy in mind, with an intention and goals.
It seems that we are just past our teenager's crush with oriental art and starting to look for a more mature "relationship" with art, maybe looking to grow beyond the surface of the animu and start to understand why we fell in love with this style in the first place.
Sorry, it seems that I'm able to pull out essays too...
Now that anime is no longer The New Hot Thing, and carbon-copies of Dirty Pair or Rayheart no longer draw attention like before... new forms of art seems to be growing, I'm seeing a lot of korean influence and more attention to anatomy and colour.
But here we are in a very interesting position. We have a lot of influences from everywhere. Personally, I have american (Stuart Immonen, Jon Bogdanove, Frank Frazetta), european (Gustave Dore, Alfons Mucha, Jean Giraud) and asian (Katsuya Terada, Katushiro Otomo, Hiroshi Minagawa) influences. I built my style looking for lineart that could convey a lot of detail and ligthining, I liked how other artists created textures and volume only using black ink. And you may say that my main problem at this moment is balancing the color with this particular lineart style XD
I think our problem it's that we became in love with those new (to us) styles and we embraced with passion their aestetic before taking our time to understand their whys and hows. A lot of the expressionist work (and art noveau too!) started with a philosophy in mind, with an intention and goals.
It seems that we are just past our teenager's crush with oriental art and starting to look for a more mature "relationship" with art, maybe looking to grow beyond the surface of the animu and start to understand why we fell in love with this style in the first place.
Sorry, it seems that I'm able to pull out essays too...