Art Study : ö𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐮𝐧ç - Round 2

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     As promised another study of this great artist.  But before I do, lets take a moment to gloat about day 5!  This piece was really fun to do, and I learned a ton.  This one really helped me understand the power of the eraser; laying down some confident shapes, and chipping away at them with the eraser tool - very reminiscent of the sculpting process.  Dragons are something I have always wanted to learn to draw, and I have by no grasped the art, but seeing the process he used made it very palatable.

Plein Air : Digital Adventure

      This is real and it... is... happening!  It's always nice to just be in the moment; life is this continuously revolving door, and it can be really easy to miss the beauty right in front of us.  Day mother flippin' 4, my comrades!  Wouldn't it be funny if one day I came in, and was just like, "blehhh whatever guys, day 243..."  Not this artist!  I will forever be excited because I love this.  It is so easy to stay excited about this when you incorporate neat ass things like digital plein air painting.  So French dudes way back during the impressionist period (1870s-1880s) used to fantasize over being able to capture the beautiful intricacies of light, and gorgeous vistas so much that they decided to leave their cavernous, dungeon like studios, step outside, and paint nature in all its glory.  With the help of paint being tubed, and ultimately portable they were free to do just that.  "En plein air" translates to, "in the open air."  The picture below is horrendous, but I freakin' LOVE it!  I took 20 minutes out of my lunch break at work today, and just decided to go for it.  I drove up some hills, found a great view, and just started to paint.  The beautiful thing is I am not that guy to just let loose, and just paint - I am so apprehensive of every mark I make on the canvas that sometimes after a painting session I feel bad about what I didn't just produce.  But not today!  This exercise is beautiful, and expect to see much more of this in the future (much better though. xD)

Personal Work : Pitlord

     Day 3 and it feels so good!  Yes I'm still here [ :  Today's post features a new piece I am working on called, Pitlord!  I'm going for a tense scene where these soldiers are charging down a hillside about to engage this gargantuan of a man, when suddenly!-- this unnamed warrior rips from his ranks, and charges the pitlord on his own!  Exciting stuff, I know.  as you probably noticed, the charging warrior is not present, but I am working on this characters charging pose in 3D (see image below.)  There is still a lot of 3D artifacts in the piece to cover, rough and un-fleshed out details, and funky colors to address, so I'll be updating you guys daily with my progress.  

     Side note : I have huge aspirations to plein air paint digitally, and cannot wait to incorporate that into my artvryday journey.  Stay tuned pimps and players.

Personal Work : Ignite

     Day 2 is upon us and I am PUMPED!  One day, on like day 462, I'll look back and revel in the early days, and how my only views were from my mother (she is in fact not viewing.)  But this is not for the rest of the world, although I am posting it on the interwebz; it is ultimately for me.  If I want to get better at my craft I need to dedicate myself to produce artwork everyday, or artvryday - even if its just adding to a piece.  

     I've made a promise to myself to post something everyday, and I intend to keep it.  Integrity is the name of the game, and it will evolve into consistency, and eventually massive results.  I'm diving deep into the practice of discipline and one of my favorite books is "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," written by Stephen R. Covey.  He sheds light on the subject of discipline that really resonates with me, he says, "Discipline derives from disciple-disciple to a philosophy, disciple to a set of principles, disciple to a set of values, disciple to an overriding purpose, to a subordinate goal or a person who represents that goal.  In other words, you are an effective manager of yourself, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will."   As soon as I read that I knew what it was I needed to do; marry the discipline of my art, and the art of my discipline.

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do.  They don't like doing them either necessarily.  But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."  - E.M Gray

 My name is Giovanni Nasser, and I'll be here artvryday.  Today's addition is a piece I like to call, Ignite.  The gist of the piece is a native unknown casting a brilliant spell across the night sky and igniting a tomb like structure, leading to its opening.

Art Study : ö𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐮𝐧ç

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     I have always been quite captivated over this artists' work.  He really has a way with mood that transports me into his worlds every time my eyes scan through his well composed canvases.  I also appreciate that he records many of his works and posts them to his page (link above.)  One day, when shamelessly drooling over a speed paint of his, I decided to slow that bad boy down to the equivalent of running in hummus; the hope was to observe his brush work, technique, and even how he traveled around his canvas.  In life we are always given the advice to find someone who is killing it at what you want to do, and model yourself after them.  And this dude is murdering it.  So I decided to flip my hat backwards in as close a fashion to Ash Ketchum as I could muster, and try my hand at following along with the artist.  The following image is the result of my study:

        I learned so much!  My library of techniques increased greatly, and this was the first time I attempted to use color in a painting.  I compare this process of following along with a master of their craft like a struggling basketball player getting the opportunity to sink some free throws; just seeing the ball go in gives the player their confidence back.  The study gave me the confidence to use these techniques in my own work, and I enjoyed the feeling so much that I decided to do another master study. Stay tuned, and stay hungry internet.

Giovanni