Tuesday, January 05, 2010

10 year art review

I'm not big on making resolutions at any specific point in the year, but I was feeling reflective. A few memes have been going around where artists are posting old art from the past 10 years.

From 2005 onward, most of these are from blog posts. Pre-2004 I didn't have a computer so to save the time of scanning stuff from old sketchbooks, most of it is from my early website. 2000-2001 was mainly from my portfolio and is relatively formal and art-schooly. If I had an intern, I'd have them scan more interesting stuff from my sketchbooks, but my cats haven't learned how to use the scanner yet.

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Some general observations on my progress and technique:

2000-mainly pencil sketchbook
-core art classes=giant charcoal hands
-sketchbook art was anime influenced

2001-sketching from life
-life drawing class

2002-graduated from SVA
-made first watercolor Christmas cards
-into faeries and medieval art

2003-animation centric
-back to life drawing class
-blue pencil and microns
-playing with photoshop color

2004-first website/ online reel
-plein air watercolors
-Christmas cards sold in AZ
-learned Flash
-I'd say I started to see marked improvement between 2004-05,
mainly due to the volume of drawing I was doing.

2005-rediscovered comics
-started drawing in Flash
-bought a computer and a used cintiq
-started lj to keep up with comic friends
-sketchcrawls
-mainly ink drawings in sketchbook

2006-work frustration drawings
-started blog
-sketchcrawls
-illustration Friday

2007-discovered sketchbook pro
-comic anthology submissions
-brush pens!
-more digital paintings

2008-more simplified-shape driven
-life drawing improvements
-pen and wash sketch techniques

2009-cleaner watercolor technique
-working more on illustration/portrait style
-Walt Stanchfield influence on life drawing

2 comments:

Bonnie Branson said...

Wow this is a fantastic idea. It's cool to see how your style progresses through the years!

mikecarloooyeah said...

I remember and still love the 'Zombies dont have deadlines" drawing!