BurgledThe bloody idiots didn't even have the nous to take the usb cables and power cables that made the external hard drive work, so until they find the right cables, it's just a useless hunk of plastic and metal to them. It's like Iago says: 'Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands: but he that filches from me my external hard drive robs me of that which enriches him not and makes me poor indeed.' Too true.
It also had all the imags for the Boy with Nails for Eyes on it, which I've ben working on solidly for the last two months. I have the images available elsewhere in lower resolution, but not the PSDs. Goddam. I'm tempted to give up on the whole affair, but I figure I'll put it on hiatus and then it'll start up again. I've also got an interview for an art placement on Tuesday, and now I have no artwork to print out and show.
Pretty shitty weekend, all told.
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I would recommend drawing a detailed line sketch of the object you want to distort. Then draw a grid of squares over that (if you don't want to ruin the image, use a transparent overlay with a grid drawn on, but make sure to secure it with a pin or clip). Let's say this grid fully covers the sketch, and is ten by ten squares.
Then draw another grid of ten by ten, but make this distort this grid the amount you wish to distort your final image. So, if you want to distort the shape to the right (and thus, make it only properly visible from the left) tilt the ten by ten grid to the right, so that you get a grid made of rhomboids instead of squares.
Then, using the original grid as a reference point, simply draw a distorted version of the shape in the distorted grid. I can't explain it more easily without using a visual example, but lets say that a certain line on the original sketch crosses the bottom boundary of the top right square on the grid exactly half way along it. In this, just mark the point where the line would cross in the same place on the distorted grid: halfway along the bottom line of the top right rhomboid. Treat all other lines accordingly, and with practise you'll get it.
Hope that helps,
S
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Date: Aug 25, 2005, 7:45 AM
Thank you for your response, newepoch. I'm sorry to hear about your father.
However, the more I hear about popular culture, the more I detest it. Art, as its highest level, insits on a total conception of reality - to give in to popular culture would be to puncture this bubble. The artist is the man who does not live by memory, or by the generalisations of popular consensus (the sun like a brassy guinea in the sky) but who imaginatively charges his life.
The mind of the artist does not passively receive information through the eye's inlets. The eyes are the barrels by which the artist's mind is propelled outward, onto the world.
Forgive the overblown sentiment. I've been reading Blake again, and once again, feel the subtle quaking of a paradigm shift beneath my feet...
New Epoch's answer
Sorry for the delay. Wow what a fantastic comment!
Producing a 'comercial' line of art work has always been a part of the life of a professional artist. If Da Vinci did it then so can you. The real challenge of comercial work is to trancend the parameters of the commission WITHOUT upsetting the client. That can be a heap of anachestic fun. Just read the ledgend of Da Vinci and the battle shield.
Remember, art is NOT about creating ideas. Art is about realising ideas. It does not matter where those ideas come from. The profound conceptual and logistic limitations of comercial artwork provide an excellent framework for training your conceptual skills. Having strict guidelines for a work makes it that much more easy to do. Every line you cannot cross is a little bit of infinity you don't have to worry about for the moment. Comercial work also gives the artist the opportunity to pull their head in and get on with the buisness of making works of art. In order to observe any subject well, it is important to place its challenges above your ego.
And yes Blake may be the artist's artist, but he died a paupr. No only does that remain a crime, but it was totally unessessary.
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