Some of my works from high school...

Cool...

I need to dig out my art supplies as it has been a couple years since I've done anything. I find myself getting bored after a while and instead of walking away, rushing to finish whatever I'm working on.

 

I feel you there man...although I don't really believe in the notion of "messing" up while creating art (that's only my opinion regarding my style of art though) all to often I find that whenever I rush like that it just doesn't turn out the way I wish it would have. Then again, that's why I enjoy art so much in the first place, that being its ability to change so long as you continue to work on it. The process of making the art itself is like a metaphor for life. It involves your thoughts, emotions and everything that makes us human, we can choose to rush things, take things slowly and really it's representative of our ability to choose. Our choices formulate the change that takes place in whatever it is we are creating. Just as our choices dictate what we've done in life and in turn who we are so do they drastically change whatever it is we are creating through a medium which in this case is our pen/paper, brush/canvas, etc...The same concept applies to any form of art, writing, music, and so on....

Its good to know that there are many others who have such a strong passion for the arts. They require both logical thought and a very capable imagination. The combination of idealism and realism....simply amazing. (My old Lit teacher would shit his pants when I'd try to tell him it was very possible for one to be both a realist and idealist.)

 

In my case it's a matter of processing the passion in a way where it endures through the entire creation of a piece. I suppose I could say that I have attention span issues with regard to being an artist and if I lobbied hard enough a pharmaceutical company would develop a med to address that... I'd prefer a clear capsule that looked like a lava lamp.

Combining seemingly contradictory concepts can make for interesting and fun art.

 

Thank you. I really enjoyed these

Nothing like what I was into in high school. Love to see more awake kiddies nowadays.

 

Honestly there were very few kids at or around my age, especially at my school that cared about what was going on in the world. That's all I put on paper too, were my thoughts regarding what was taking place around us. Most kids only care about pop culture, brands, gossip, status, material goods, T.V., movies, video games etc...etc....so many of them were and still are completely oblivious to what's really going on around them. Some willingly others not....but really for the most part ignorance to that degree in this day and age (all the readily available information ie. internet, books, papers etc...) is mostly voluntary, rather than completely involuntary. So, I don't know how many "awake kiddies" there really are out there...if I had to judge based upon what I've seen and heard from others I'd say they are definetely a very small minority. Plus, at a school like the one I went to I'd get ostracized for my thoughts...they were simply to hmmm "outside the box" if you will.

So, in a way it's hard for people, especially kids to care about real shit that's happening every day around the world. If they stray from the average pop culture conversation, talking about things like how hot Paris Hilton is or how cool the new escalades are and discuss worldly issues they'd basically be laughed at or not talked to. In most cases I've just seen people regard them as "pessimists", although that exact word isn't used, as most kids these days probably have no ideal what it means. It's a sad society we live in, when young people put their priorities on what has just been discussed, then once they get to be older it seems as though they only care more for material goods rather than humanity, the condition of our earth, animals etc...

 

Preoccupation with the superficial is a cultural disease that the newest generation has not cornered the market on. The biggest difference now is the sheer volume of fluff out there. The corporate power brokers who pull the puppet strings of the elected politicians whose campaigns they helped to bankroll do not want large scale social and environmental reform because this threatens their bottom lines. Whether celeb-utantes train wreck lives are the product of sheer coincidence or whether they are carefully crafted dramas intent on distracting people, they work to effectively draw and hold the rubber-neck mentalities of so many out there who feed off the entertainment value that is so very absent in pursuing issues of social, political, and environmental justice that have so much potential for making life better for so very many. Unfortunately the majority do not have any power whatsoever and the elite will do whatever in their power to keep it that way.

Intricate works of art that convey social and environmental messages could include commentary on the part of the artist- with the details and stories available in written form to help educate those drawn in to the artwork. Appetite for real information needs to be cultivated and your art can be an avenue to that end. Unfortunately there as such sheer volume of passionless and boring agenda-driven misinformation out there that as a whole we want nothing to do with any of it. Scandal and sensationalism have long been used as tools to associate the sins of one with a larger group in order to smear its credibility in the minds of an impressionable and significant portion of the population in order to prejudice them against potential agents of change.

Voices of dissent against this are kept isolated and are characterized as extreme and unpatriotic... and their numbers which COULD be used to effectively unseat the corrupt power brokers are effectively divided- at election time this is done by the corrupt elitists promoting third party candidates that focus the opposition on its internal divisions (Green party) while suppressing other third party runs that could expose cracks in their own base (Libertarian)... all this is fodder for caricatures in a yet to be composed piece of art that could illustrate how the elite perpetuates and furthers its own hold on power, enabling the pillaging of resources and resulting environmental assault to continue. Funny caricatures can draw the eye in and associated written material can be easily accessible to quench the thirst for information that gets cultivated.

My apologies for rambling... I've striven to keep it from veering too far off course.

 

dude that's cool stuff :tongue:

i love that pattern/texture you use in some of your drawings, the billowing circle-like things, they give lots of dimension.

you should start drawing more

 

No need to apologize for discussing what you've just discussed, even if it was off topic (which it really isn't). I'd much rather talk about "meaningful" things like that than the ridiculous shit like celebrities, sports, pop culture, etc....There's just always so much more "depth" to the conversation. Which just continually reiterates WHY true art that is based off ones perceptions on what they've experienced (through all of our senses...not just limited to the physically visible 5!) is so beautiful. Some see it, some do not...just as Vegitation said in poormans battle, "Some of them care but they don't know, Some of them know but they don't care....what's really going on out there...... And some of them walk with their eyes closed, just doing what their told, following the herds of blinded to their slaughter. Never a question, Never a question oh no, just doing what they're told."

Oh and thanks for the kind words Dallas...Unfortunately the only thing I've worked on lately was completing that last work. When I have the time to sit down by myself lately I've just been playing the guitar or reading for the most part....perhaps soon I'll start to draw more consistently again....

 

very simple made art with no real emphasis on detail or expression.

 

It is very simple made art and there's isn't much of an emphasis on "detail", rather my mind naturally puts an emphasis on content (thoughts). Expression...hmmm I'm just expressing my thoughts in a simple way.

I'm clearly no "artist" and never had the intention of pursuing this art any further than just a quick way to express my thoughts rather than just writing letters that amounted to words. You're absolutely right in saying that this art takes little skill...I'm not a skilled artist in that sense, however please do not sit there and tell me there's no expression in it....that's the sole reason I doodled these in the first place. I'll be the first to admit...my art is "shitty"...so I agree with what you're trying to say (if that is indeed what you are trying to say).

 

I didn't want to come off like an asshole but I guess I kinda did. When I started drawing my art was constantly evolving after each page. If you draw, your an artist. If you whistle songs your an artist. I would just like to see more details in your work because you got potential.

 

yeah man many thoughts in one peice of paper

 

I play the guitar and sing now....other than finishing that one piece around a week ago that I had started senior year I haven't really drawn anything in some time. So, regardless of any potential I may or may not have in this form of art, I've decided to put my "art efforts" towards something else. I've never been very good at drawing 3-d objects and the like, I feel it's mainly because when I'm in the process of transferring my thoughts through that medium (pen and paper) they don't appear to be exactly like what we would see in this world. I mean, they are represented by things that are familiar to me and most others, but they aren't meant to be exact or even close to exact replicas of what they "are" so to say. Basically everything that's on the paper is as close to the way I see it in my mind as I can get. Doesn't take much "skill", but it serves its purpose, which is really just to relaying my thoughts at a certain point in time to myself...so if others find it interesting, then great, but that's not my intention.

(All that being said, I never went about this with the mentality that I wanted to "improve".)

Yep...that's all they are....not really "works of art".

 

they certainly could be re-rendered and refined to not only be works of art but masterpieces. So many pieces out there pictorial projections of what's going on in the artist's mind.

 

Indeed they could....but they are what they are, and I'm ok with them being just that.

Art really is something though (all forms). I've slowly discovered that if the arts aren't the single most beautiful thing(s) humans can do they are certainly close. I'm not really "good" at any single form, I just like to create "art" (mainly music now) for myself. If it has the ability to bring others even close to the amount of joy I receive from it, or relays a message more clearly than just words, then that's all I could have ever asked of it.

 

Well if the result includes a feeling of fulfillment on your part you can't go wrong and don't sell yourself short on your talents.

 

im diggin the buddha.

 

dude... nice!!

 

I've come to realize that's pretty much all I want out of art (personal fulfillment). Whether or not others enjoy "it" doesn't really matter, as clearly I'm not making any money off it. I have considered dedicating much more time to making music, as I've played on the street here and there to make a few bucks when in need. Perhaps I could actually get to the point that I could play at local venues etc...but that involves lots of practice, after all you have to commit to memory many different songs.

Many thanks, yea that's my favorite piece I ever made ceramic wise. I left it in Philly with my friend to hopefully bring him and the sailboat good fortune. It never really brought me any (at least not that I'm aware of), so I guess it's just superstition.

My cousin as of lately has been trying to convince me to start drawing again....not too sure if I will though, every time I get an "art crave" it's usually for creating music.