MY ART!!!!!!

[Ssteiny]

That is a good question. Most of my drawings from my senior year of highschool in studio art AP took a week to complete. We had assignments due every friday, and I spent lots of time working on those pieces. I had 3-4periods to work on art everyday. I find it funny how small they are and how long it took to draw them. All of my work now is completed 2 hour 20min class sessions or over a couple of days. I spent 2 hours each day for 3 days on that last drawing I posted to find out it was due at the end of the week.

As for imagination, I try to portray thing that look interesting to me. The way I look at things is how they become interesting on paper. This influences the imaginary and realistic art I make. As for style, I try to work with whats been done in the past for example; surrealism- work by magritte, dali, and de chirico are a big influence on my work. I have always had a large imagination. I have interesting dreams that I remember pretty clearly. There is so much more I could say. It's hard to put this all into words. I love art. Oh I have a deviant art site now, so check it out: maxaminus.deviantart.com/

[Ssteiny]

This is a project from 2-d design.

[Rakira]

Ooh. Niceness.

TEACH ME. (shot)

[Ssteiny]

Thank you, rakira!

Here is a drawing I did today. This one means a lot to me and I wish I had a better digital camera. This is a drawing of my girlfriend, from a photograph, the day I told her I love her. If I can get to a scanner I will repost it.

[sephicloud]

Your drawings are very impressive, and usually seem to have deep messages about the world. I find them intriguing, and riveting. In other words, good job!

[Sayoky]

So Ssteiny, you like the abstract style. One of my favourites..i usually draw clothes on models. And i love Salvador Dali's works....they are bizzare but intriguing(sp?) and most of them have a special message hidden, you just have to know how to see it. Anyway, your drawings are more than great! keep up the good work!

[Ssteiny]

Thank you very much. I'm glad people take a good liking to my work! Yes, I really like abstract and surreal art. Drawing clothes can be very interesting. It can be representational and nonrepresentational at the same time. I had an assignment in 2-d class where we had to print a very large picture of an animal and find abstract patterns within the image. I like to try all kinds of art. My 2-d proffessor describe my art very well. I don't do exactly what I should or what is within the guidelines of the assignment, but I'm good at it. I dont want my work to look like my classmates work. So, I'm good at not doing what I should within certain boundries. I think of it as imperfection. My teacher said, "I can see that you have this idea that you are trying to put out. It's visible in all of your work. You quite havent figured it out, and it may take a long time, but when you find the answer it will be huge." I like to think it will be something no one has ever seen.

Its also a good thing when your teacher compares your work to salvador dali. It's even better when he says it more interesting than what he was doing. He actually said that. That's one of the best compliments I have ever recieved.

[Ssteiny]

Here are a few shots of my final project from 3-D design. It's subtractive sculpture.

[Sayoky]

wow....that's amazing! i used to make all sorts of stuff from flour mixed with oil,salt and water....and then it got dried...and i could paint my sculptures....what do you like better? drawing or sculpture?

[Ssteiny]

Thank you so much ^_^
Sounds like you had a lot of fun with your sculpture. Getting messy is one of the fun parts, I think. I am definitly better at drawing than sculpture, however I enjoy both very much. One of my hobbies is carving swords out of wood. I've gotten pretty good at it. I'm looking forward to take more sculpture classes at school. With that said, have a look at the finished drawing of my girlfriend. I dubbed it, "Jane, fading into arches."

[Sayoky]

wow...amazing....tell me, do you ever draw about things you feel? I draw pictures of women that are sad and i don't colour them, when i feel blue.....usually i like to draw happy things...like a man and a woman holding hands in a park..or stuff like that. I think that emotions are the best art teacher.

[Ssteiny]

Love is very powerfull in art. Many times it is overexpressed though. If you can capture the way two lovers hold hands and just that alone that can be a very powerful statement. My feelings certainly come out in my drawings. Whether it has something to do with figures or simply the way I mark lines. Look how soft some parts of my drawings are and look at the other areas, usually the negative space and how harsh and rapid the lines are marked. Every artist draws what they see, but what comes out isn't what is truely in from of them. It's a representional depiction of how they feel about whats in front of them. Some artists don't draw whats in front them, like myself very often. I apologize if I have drone on too long. I am very happy to express what I think about art and take a high interest that others do so too.

[Sayoky]

you certainly didn't go to long and i think we all have art inside us. We just have to find it....lately i have been a bit down and all of my drawings are dark but i hope that my feelings will change...and then i'll draw hapy things. I have sent a picture to a magazine (it's a girl with cool clothes) and i hope i'll win ^_^

[Ssteiny]

It seems to me you draw the way you want to see yourself. There isn't anything wrong with art being dark. Sometimes the most beautiful images are one's that are so dark, yet bright, maybe grotesque but beauty illuminates from them. Look at work by Francisco de Goya. He could paint a beautidul figure painting. Then look at a painting like "Mars devouring Saturn." the grotesque can be beautiful. Lonliness, too, can be beautiful. look at paintings by georgio de chirico. His world is so empty and lonely, but there is something about it that I attracted to. Maybe because I understand what extreme lonliness feels like. What it feels like to have nothing, but yourself. I am glad I have shown that through my art, and I am blessed not to be alone anymore. My gf completed my world.

good luck on your contest Its good when you know a few people out there like your work. I don't have much of a following, but its really cool to think that people all over the world can see what I do.

[Sayoky]

Yey! My drawing appeared in the magazine...and i got a prize too! I just have to pick it up....will we be expecting more drawings from you? So far they are extraordinary! ^_^