I like a whole lot of mediums, but my absolute favorite is the humble drawing. If pressed, I’d say pen on paper is my preferred category.
I love how one can take the simplest of materials and create a window into an abstracted reality. It’s a raw medium, where it’s hard to undo what is already there, so one has to either incorporate errors into the final piece or avoid them entirely.
So what is your favorite medium for visual art? Have you attempted it yourself?
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Purely visual art: Digital drawings. I love making them, I love seeing them, and coloring is way nicer than using color pencils.
Mixed art: Those really good 3d animated movies, like Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Spiderverse, etc.
Video games are number 1.
Cartoons are number 2. Particularly cartoons featuring anthropomorphic animal people.
And while I have made video games, I didn’t do much to create the visual elements of them. I’m capable of making the logic, but I can’t draw for shit. Arranging others’ art into the scene, however, is something I think I do pretty well with. It’s like being good at decorating your house but not building the furnishings yourself.
This 1970s style of sci fi art:
It always felt like it spoke of a brilliant and fantastic future.
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Didn’t it just. So bold, and free. Happy, beautiful people, exploring extraordinary worlds, in confidence and health.
I like all kinds of art but if I absolutely had to pick one, I think it would be graffiti. I don’t make any myself, but I’ve been obsessed with them since I first played Jet Set Radio in my teens.
I’m a huge lifelong fan of photography!
I have a softspot for edo (drawing and woodprint). In some of them you can pretty much see what would have been a fine pencil line…then carved and reproduced. It is skillful and decadent, but basic a the same time.
I also like the Art Nouveau illustrations, the colour the curves, the earth-fullness. And the fact this was intertwined into architecture made some beautiful sights for our eyes.
I’ve been really enjoying art that implements a light aspect… for example Seontae Hwang’s use of backlit panels to show incoming light, or Lucinda Dilworth’s use of projection mapping to animate their paintings.
I’ve been getting really into nature photography over the last 9 months. I love being immersed in nature on the hunt for anything cool doing anything cool.
Comic book art, which encompasses a huge variety … but the generally string lines and colours are appealing to me :-)
Close runner up would be tattoos … the way some artists Dan overcome the limitations of the medium is fascinating
Fractals, or any type of recursion.
The results can be beautiful. My favorite part is knowing some type of formula makes up the image.
To do? Charcoal, or pencil drawing. Yes I try not great but it feels good to do. Nudes mostly. Followed by nature photography, if I can catch something cool. Here is one from my work’s office park.
To see? Animated stories and comics are my favorite.
I also like charcoal. its very tactile and forgiving.
i found it to be the least forgiving, no erasing and your touch needs to be super light and also deliberate, but maybe i didnt do it right, i was trying to replicate James Cameron’s style from Titanic
Use an eraser to add highlights and don’t be scared to get stuck in, redo, refine. Also try using something like a brown paper rather than white. I go in with the idea of creating a dark image/object, with highlights, rather than a white sheet with perfect lines. In general i find a block of white a hindrance. Its too clean and makes me reluctant to get started or make marks.
To do, or to view?
Water colour for the former, for similar reasons to your comments on pen.
To view, maybe some highly technical graffiti?
If the process counts, stone lithography. Hands down, love the whole process, and its the only art form I’ve seen, while helping someone pull their first print that fills them with such joy they dance lol
Artists that paint light, like Turner and Monet.
Vermeer was a master at that
Tbh, really neat architectural renderings best scratch the itch for me. And I therefore prefer photography and digital drawings more than paintings.
I don’t mind a good structured illustration. There was a 00-10s trend, foe example the grand budapest hotel style. Seeing the fine lines combine to create depth speaks to detail and perfection.
There was a 00-10s trend, for example the grand budapest hotel style. Seeing the fine lines combine to create depth speaks to detail and perfection.
Oh yeah! Maybe that’s why i’m so into them then
