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Queen_EnchantedLuck Captain
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 Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:59 pm
Landscapes
Do you draw or paint landscapes? Are their any particular Landscape artists that you look up too. What country, city/town would you paint. Do you enjoy city or nature landscapes. Do you like cluttered landscapes or landscapes that are spread apart?
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:11 am
Well, I like to draw landscapes, but in a strange way, if that makes sense.
You know how old computer games used to look? Basically elaborate mosaics where the pixels were large and you could tell that it was all comprised of little squares of color? That's the kind of art I like to draw.
It has this super nostalgic feeling to me. I used to love a particular series of old computer adventure games that were heavily puzzle-driven when I was a kid, since I was growing up when those kinds of games were popular.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
If I knew how to describe how seeing that pixelated bitmap art makes me feel, then you would... be overcome by it. I wish I could somehow convey it, but I can't. One of the games I liked in particular had a really medieval England kind of feel, and so I emulate that a lot. I have a few woodwind instruments that I can play (ocarinas and panflutes) with which I play the tunes from the game.
I suppose this is true of many artists who draw to express emotional things. For me, it's this potent nostalgia for a time before my childhood became excruciatingly difficult, which happened more as I got older due to... certain circumstances.
So whenever I pull out an ocarina or panflute or sit at a piano and play those tunes or look at these pictures that are super bitmapped and pixelated, I feel it. Sometimes, I feel kind of cool because as I feel that nostalgia, it's somewhat intensified by the fact that I did that. Simple little me with barely any artistic skill.
I suppose I look up to the people who created the art and music for those kinds of games, though most of them are probably much older and retired by now. That's okay, though. They worked with what they had and made wonderful things, and that's what matters.
So all that ranting aside, let me talk about the art itself. It's actually very rare that I do draw this stuff, since I don't think I'm actually that good. Motivation for it is rare. When it does happen (once every five thousand years, when the planets align and the solar radiation interferes with my brain waves and generates this phenomenon where I draw stuff), I usually draw landscapes. Sometimes I use them as backgrounds for my phone, and I'm a bit strange, so I made a picture that represents each of the four seasons. So now that summer's almost done, I'mma swap out my summer background for my autumn one soon. :B
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