For those of you who are not aware, I, a 3D artist, have to learn how to paint on an AP level by next fall, and I am currently trying to teach myself how to paint. For some context: I am not experienced with painting on a flat surface beyond the occasional painting I did with my grandmother when I was very young and I do not think of anything as being strictly two dimensional, so even just the idea of painting or making other 2D artworks is a difficult thing for me to wrap my head around. Most of this difficulty is caused by how restrained I feel in 2D artworks and the seemingly endless sets of rules with painting and having a very defined boarder where you either have to stop or hope you can make it flow nicely between two canvases, where as in 3D artworks, there is little to no limit outside of my budget and the size of a kiln. To me, everything is 3D, even if it is just on a molecular level and I want to emphasize this quality to everyone and to encourage the objects to interact with each other and with space. But on a canvas, to me, there is no true interaction with space. There is no true negative space in traditional painting. The artworks do not interact with the space around them, and on the rare occasions where they do, it is unintentional. Everything in 2D is an illusion. In 2D, nothing is real. Everything is flat with different values added in to trick you into thinking something. As someone who loves to do special effects makeup, "normal/glam" makeup, and body painting, you would think I would be better at this considering how well I do at those forms of make up (I will admit my body painting abilities are mediocre at best) but to me, makeup is different because it is meant or emphasize the already 3D features of the body where as with painting you are starting from nothing. I am trying my best to use all of the tips and tricks I have learned from makeup and 3D but they don't translate as well in practice as they did in my brain which leaves something to be desired in most cases.
So, that is a not so quick update on my journey through trying to learn to paint on an AP level by myself. P.S. I know the date may seem wrong but it is correct in that this article was ready on that date I have just forgot to edit and post it until today, over a month later (Sorry creature readers)
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Cinder Blackwater
An artist who is constantly looking for new things or new ways to use old things. Honest to a fault. As frugal as a broke college student. Individuals in the Creature Family
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