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The Curious Artwork of i-am-your-idea- feedback pls!

i-am-your-idea said:
it looks he is scared to use anything but grey pencil? its very neat, and the detail is painful! i like images that look like people have really enjoyed making them. the subject matter is very emotional, but the mark making seems cold to me. the faces are very impersonal.

i prefer more folky stuff.
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I like all the shades of grey/segueing (sp?) and some of the clever stuff such as being able to make the ladybird fly away. And some of the subtle movement, catch it in the corner of your eye.

I thought you'd quite like what s/he expresses on the last page though.

S/he's tle on deviantart btw. Some of their pre depressive work is in colour.

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By the by, it's quite interesting how the female posters pick up on the sinister sex aspect, but the male ones don't seem to (or want it explained further).
 
Some lovely stuff, and really interesting / unsettling.

If you want constructive criticism, i'd avoid text in pictures, it's rarely un-clunky (or something) - especially the 'reality' sign, that really drags down an otherwise interesting piece.

But genuinely really impressive stuff
 
I like the colours best, especially the limited use of primaries (and always in the negative sense).

It'll be interesting to see your own unique style develop, i-am-your-idea. At the moment you seem to be drawing (haha) from a few obvious influences. That's a temporal thing though, I reckon.
 
El Jefe said:
Some lovely stuff, and really interesting / unsettling.

If you want constructive criticism, i'd avoid text in pictures, it's rarely un-clunky (or something) - especially the 'reality' sign, that really drags down an otherwise interesting piece.

But genuinely really impressive stuff
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thanks! yes, i'ld agree with that. i've been trying to be experimental with creating tension between text and image.

i like the text in this photo-

http://www.noise.net/featured-work.asp?artist_id=6893&wid=32521

not sure bout the handwriting in this one-

http://www.noise.net/featured-work.asp?artist_id=6893&wid=32656

tension between text and image? -

http://www.noise.net/featured-work.asp?artist_id=6893&wid=32920
http://www.noise.net/featured-work.asp?artist_id=6893&wid=32945
http://www.noise.net/featured-work.asp?artist_id=6893&wid=32946
http://www.noise.net/featured-work.asp?artist_id=6893&wid=33033

i've only done my first year of uni (on me 2nd gap year now), but looking forward to going back this september! hopefully i'll learn more about using text in my images then. :) i would be interested to get some feedback on those images. i think in some of them the text is successful?
 
Much of it looks like the kind of thing I saw fine art students producing when I went to art school. I imagine that you have had some sort of art school / alevel bacakground as there is a strong sense of trappings that art school gives, you have been moulded. If you keep your art up for long enough you may lose the that watermark. Which manifests yourself in your work by being sexual with strong conflicting elements such as shock or disgust. It is pretty good but it does not jump out at me, looks like the kind of thing I have seen a thousand times before and had presented to me, in the hope that we would hang it or sell it in the gallery. Your work strikes me as that of someone who is an adolescent and quite immature.
 
i-am-your-idea said:
i've only done my first year of uni
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I was right. Your work will be much better when you leave university and develop your own style rather than the style of art students at university. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but your work isn't really that original. It will become original when you leave university and as you become more experienced in life.
 
isitme said:
I was right. Your work will be much better when you leave university and develop your own style rather than the style of art students at university. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude, but your work isn't really that original. It will become original when you leave university and as you become more experienced in life.
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cesare said:
It'll be interesting to see your own unique style develop, i-am-your-idea. At the moment you seem to be drawing (haha) from a few obvious influences. That's a temporal thing though, I reckon.
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I was being kinder :mad::D

I do like the use of colour though.
 
isitme said:
Much of it looks like the kind of thing I saw fine art students producing when I went to art school. I imagine that you have had some sort of art school / alevel bacakground as there is a strong sense of trappings that art school gives, you have been moulded. If you keep your art up for long enough you may lose the that watermark. Which manifests yourself in your work by being sexual with strong conflicting elements such as shock or disgust. It is pretty good but it does not jump out at me, looks like the kind of thing I have seen a thousand times before and had presented to me, in the hope that we would hang it or sell it in the gallery. Your work strikes me as that of someone who is an adolescent and quite immature.
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thanks for your feedback. :) im still finding my style, every year it changes. its exciting!

some illustrators i like, who used to be on my course at kingston-

http://www.amyillustration.com/

and

http://www.juliapott.com/


i think you could make a similar criticism of their work (underlined bit), but they are still doing well. do you like their work?
 
cesare said:
Yeah, it's not so long ago that isitme was at that same place as i-am-your-idea. Although it might seem like it to him.
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It does not seem that long ago to me, and I am not trying to be clever. Simply giving my opinion, and that is that I have seen that kind of work before. Funnily enough from the same place as IAYA goes to. Must be something in the water at the Eldon Building.

Why not pick on any of the other number of opinions on this thread?
 
isitme said:
It does not seem that long ago to me, and I am not trying to be clever. Simply giving my opinion, and that is that I have seen that kind of work before. Funnily enough from the same place as IAYA goes to. Must be something in the water at the Eldon Building.

Why not pick on any of the other number of opinions on this thread?
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Bosky (I think) and I weren't picking up on your opinion, more picking up on that 'fools seldom differ :)' comment.
 
i-am-your-idea said:
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I want this outfit so I can talk to the pigeons...:D

Really enjoying looking at your artwork.
 
isitme said:
It does not seem that long ago to me, and I am not trying to be clever. Simply giving my opinion, and that is that I have seen that kind of work before. Funnily enough from the same place as IAYA goes to. Must be something in the water at the Eldon Building.
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no, im not at portsmouth. im at kingston- the best place in the country to study illustration and animation! :cool:
 
i-am-your-idea said:
no, im not at portsmouth. im at kingston- the best place in the country to study illustration and animation! :cool:
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You're lucky, UoP is shit. They spend more on a crap student union night club than they do on Education and books, then wonder why nearly every student complains at lack of materials and good teaching staff.
 
No it wasn't, it was a shortened version of "great minds think alike or fools seldom differ?". Interesting and also worrying that you interpreted it that way. :\
 
Some of it is very good. Some of it does nothing for me. But the good stuff is the sort of good that makes me smile happily and try and work out what it means.
 
like i say, its not me best work. quite a few of em drawn on post-its at work!

quite doodley stuff, and all of it done since i've been away from uni. so i haven't had an actual project to work on, or any real feedback. i love the way people talk so openly on urban. nobodys ever looked at my work and say 'looks like sexual abuse to me' ! this is really interesting.
 
i-am-your-idea said:
like i say, its not me best work. quite a few of em drawn on post-its at work!

quite doodley stuff, and all of it doen since i've been away from uni. so i haven't had an actual project to work on, or any real feedback. i love the way people talk so openly on urban. nobodys ever looked at my work and say 'looks like sexual abuse to me' ! this is really interesting.
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Thats why I like it round these here parts.

:)
 
I'm quite prepared to believe that my local art school is the exception! but there's a lot of work even at postgraduate levels which is all too often based only on what they think will be expected of them when they leave, looking far too similar to each others, and far less original than this.

I won't re-post all the images I liked but I will add this one:

i-am-your-idea said:
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It's the look on the real bird's face which creases me up :D
 
Wow some of these are fantastic (not all), really really good stuff. I am a fan. keep them coming.

Did you say there was a site with them all on?
 
I agree with isitme, sort of. I do genuinely like some of this work, and some of the ideas you have, but it's definately obvious that you are a first year. There's nowt wrong with that though, and there's nothing wrong with being 'unoriginal' at this point - other people might have done it all before but you haven't yet and you need to learn through doing this and experimenting etc. Just keep going! Not much student work is original, I would say none but you never know!

I'm a fine art student.
 
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