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So i decided i was going to do daily speedpaintings, to help boost my skill in shade and landscapes and whatnot without taking up too much time from my day, as i'm a very busy person.

I got three out and stopped.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A LAZINESS PROBLEM. I WAS BUSY ON THE FRIDAY AND THE SATURDAY AND THE SUNDAY, AND NOW THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING IN THE WORKS.

Something that will keep me busy even long enough to not do speedpaintings. I will resume speedpaintings when this is over/if this falls through.

may have something to do with it.

Stay classy.

P.S. I have been doing nothing but Bridgman and Loomis and Matessi studies on the bus, and drawn nothing but cartoons at work, and speedpainted at home. I am going to get better or kill myself.

Drawing scares me in one aspect.

This fear has always been nagging me at the back of my mind, chewing away at whatever pride i have left, and sometimes taking big chunks away. This fear is the biggest fear most artists have and i share it with them. This is the only thing that has ever scared me about drawing. Everything else i take in stride, work towards, and i'm confident i'll find a way around it somehow. I don't feel that way about this fear. This fear threatens me and beats me into submission and demoralizes me.

And i think i'm starting to get over it.

This fear was in fact, the fear of not improving enough. Everywhere i go i get people telling me that i'm improving (because compared to last year, i really have), but at the same time i look around during life drawing sessions at Capilano and i see where everyone's at. I see the people who got into the program and i see the people who came out of the program and they all scare me. They're all much better than me. And it scared me that i may not be able to go to cap.

But now i'm finally starting to see improvement. I'm not just looking at one drawing and telling myself that i'm getting better, i'm looking at the whole of them, and looking at my knowledge, and realizing that i'm finally understanding different parts of anatomy and structure and life and art. The pieces are finally coming together in a way that i can see them, and it's really cheering me up.

If there's one thing i always tell myself when thinking about art, it's that you don't improve until you understand the subject you're studying. You can't just copy and say you've got it, you can't just give it a go and then give up, you can't find ways around it. You've got to understand. You've got to fully understand why things work the way they do, and how you can apply that everywhere in your art. I'm finally gaining this understanding in the places i want it.

I may have a chance at Cap after all.

I'm sure every single one of you has seen the nude art discussion made by the HQ of deviantart. While i do not respect a lot of the community of deviantart, i must give credit where it is due, and i admit that there are some great brains behind the website in itself, even if their april fool's pranks have been lackluster and the site is broken a lot of the time.

But anyways, the nudes topic asked five questions, and i threw my comment into the mix. But before i let it wash out to sea without anyone noticing, i figured i might as well post my answers here.


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Questions for the reader:
1. Do you think there is too much nude subject matter on deviantART or is it a non-issue for you? How much do you think your gender or sexual preferences might influence your answer?
2. When is censorship of art permissible? Where would you draw the line? What rational rule could you offer as a practical guideline?
3. Have you ever had a work of art you created censored or banned in any way?
4. If an artist really believes in what he or she has created, how should the artist respond to censorship of that art? Have you been made aware of an instance of "art suppression" via the Internet?
5. Would you ever suggest to another artist that he or she should tone a work of art down or agree to the censorship of an art object in a specific situation?


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1: I do not believe there is too much nude art on deviantart, however i believe there is too much confusion and misinterpretation on what the nude art is supposed to represent, and as a result we get conflict

2: There is no place to draw the line for art. Art is everything and anything, art is meaningful and informational. If your picture includes gore, then who cares if it's tasteless, provided it send the message across. Is your model underage? Well there's no age limit for nude models, that exists solely for the porn industry. You can't put limits on art.

3: No, as i do not do nude other than life drawings. I have had people express slight disgust or discomfort at the idea of me, or anyone drawing a live nude person in front of them. The problem is that people view the body as so sexual lately that they fail to notice the beauty in the curves and muscles and forget what makes someone beautiful.

4: If an artist truly believes in his work, there should be no censorship. This is the artist's message to the world, and just because you disagree with the statement does not mean you have the write to hide it.

5: Never.

I think this is a really great topic to bring up, I've seen a lot of complaints about the amount of artistic nudes on the front page and debate on whether or not it is pornography. Even the picture of the girl in the saddle could be interpreted artistically, or with a sexual statement without being pornography. The problem is that a lot of people don't understand the difference between porn and art, and as such confuse it with being one and the same, while really you can have a sexual statement in your piece while still having full artistic principle behind it. We put so much shame and embarrassment into sex that when people throw the subject into the open it is met with hate and disdain, without anyone trying to understand why it was thrown out in the first place.

I feel like we as a human race have been ignoring the beauty of the body for far too long.

One year exactly since my last journal.
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