art meme!

[amberdreams]

I was going to do the fic one then I saw this on chomaisky's page and thought - no! Let's art instead for a change!

Give me a number - or two if you really can't just pick one - and I'll endeavour to reply...

1. When did you get into art?

2. What art-related sites have you ever signed up for?

3. Show us your oldest piece of art you have on hand.

4. What defines your artistic style?

5. Do you practice other styles/have you tried other styles in the past?

6. What levels of artistic education have you had?

7. Show us at least one picture you drew or sketched recently that you did not put on a public site.

8. What is your favourite piece that you have done?

9. What is your least favourite piece that you have done?

10.What do you like most about your art?

11.What do you like least about your art?

12.Have you ever considered taking commissions?

14.What do you like drawing the most?

15.What do you like drawing the least?

16.Do you draw more fanart or original art? If fanart, what fandom do you draw the most of?

17.What would you absolutely refuse to draw?

18.What is your purpose for drawing?

19.What medium/program do you use the most in your art?

20.How would you rank your art? (poor, mediocre, good, etc.)

22.Do you believe there is such thing as “bad art?”

23.List at least one of your “artspirations.”

24.What do you think you could stand to improve on?

25.Do you have a shameful art past? (recolour sprite comics, tracing art, etc.?

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19. What medium/programme do I use most?
Traditional mediums I use 2B-8B pencils or sometimes ball point pen. I used to use gouache for painting but I haven't done much of that for a longs time.

Digital art - I have GIMP, which I used for a couple of years before biting the bullet and buying PS-6, which I am still learning to use. Because of that, I tend to jump around between the two - I fins GIMP's cutting tool works better than PS, plus I tend to use PaintTool Sai for Mac for colouring, because it has a beautiful watercolour and blur which feel like real watercolour and blend so lovely.

23. List my 'artspirations'

Oh so many... When I was at school I was a big fan of Michelangelo and Botticelli, and the Pre Raphaelites, particularly Burne Jones. I was also really into Brian Froud and Alan Lee, and loved the fabulous black & white illustrations by Charles Keeping and Victor Ambrus.

Now I trawl the internet for inspiration - I'll spend hours image searching for ideas and have discovered some amazing and different artists that I probably would never have come across otherwise - like Ivan Bilibin, Paitoon Jummee, Craig Kosak, Joao Ruas, John Bauer, Juan Gatti (I'm sure he was the inspiration for one of the murder displays in Hannibal), Lorenzo Duran (cut leaves!)... and that doesn't include the photos...