What inspired you to explore your artistic abilities? Who has helped you develop your artistic skills most of all? Whose artistic amazing-ness do you envy the most?
I'll start: I love all kinds of art forms and art styles from impressionist to realism to manga. I've been doodling and sketching for as long as I can remember, and I've been inspired most of all by the simple beauty and complexity of nature. I never really developed any specific art style though I strive to, and I admire artists who have a strong identity in the way they express their art. Lately the artists that have inspired me the most are:
#1 Toulouse Lautrec; mostly I love his drawings and their sketchy, scribbly qualities, full of movement and colour. The half-completed sketches are the best, I'm not really sure why I find them so beautiful, but they all look so natural and real. Some examples: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.
#2 Lucian Freud; I like the way he challenges conventional beauty and exaggerates the emotion and fragility of the human body. His work is bare, naked (often literally...) and sometimes almost grotesque, but in such a beautiful, real way. His work shows reality for what it really is, and it shows people for what they really are; something that we should never be ashamed of. Examples: HERE, HERE, HERE.
#3 Andy Beck; he isn't really famous or anything, but his work has inspired me most of all: His gallery is here
His use of bold, contrasting colours really make the picture pop out at you and fill his subject full of emotion and energy. I also love how he captures his subjects in a natural setting, expressing their real, true emotion - hardly anything is posed, they are just people living their lives. Also as you can see from his landscapes, his technical skills are amazing 3nodding
#1 Toulouse Lautrec; mostly I love his drawings and their sketchy, scribbly qualities, full of movement and colour. The half-completed sketches are the best, I'm not really sure why I find them so beautiful, but they all look so natural and real. Some examples: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.
#2 Lucian Freud; I like the way he challenges conventional beauty and exaggerates the emotion and fragility of the human body. His work is bare, naked (often literally...) and sometimes almost grotesque, but in such a beautiful, real way. His work shows reality for what it really is, and it shows people for what they really are; something that we should never be ashamed of. Examples: HERE, HERE, HERE.
#3 Andy Beck; he isn't really famous or anything, but his work has inspired me most of all: His gallery is here
His use of bold, contrasting colours really make the picture pop out at you and fill his subject full of emotion and energy. I also love how he captures his subjects in a natural setting, expressing their real, true emotion - hardly anything is posed, they are just people living their lives. Also as you can see from his landscapes, his technical skills are amazing 3nodding
