Artists of Erotica...

[BlackSnake]

Not mine, but I can lie and say it is.

It looks like your AV, that's why I asked....

 

[ABSTRUSE]

It looks like your AV, that's why I asked....

My AV is an Olivia...but I can see the similarities. I love black and white.

 

[BlackSnake]

BlackSnake, as usual someone else is getting far better luck than I.

Keep in touch with her and see if you can shoot some pics of her work for this thread. It would be great to have some sculpture work in here.

Rhino, my problem has always been that I have a very difficult time with just sketching. I have a tendency to only sit down and work when an idea comes to mind that I'm really interested in. I don't even do a rough sketch of the piece I'm going to create, I simply start with a 9H pencil to outline the subjects of the piece and then detail from there, but differently than doing sketch work...

Horns,

She is making plans for what she wants me to accomplish next year, so I believe an opportunity will arrive.

I usually start with a 4H pencil and go over using a softer lead. Just move the pencil on the paper, you don't have to finish every piece, but you might be able to capture some ideas to use at a later time.

Rhino,

That's a library. I've been worried about what I'm going to do once I filled my note book. My written notes are what's most important in my book. It's a soft leather bound graph paper.

 

[BlackSnake]

My AV is an Olivia...but I can see the similarities. I love black and white.

I hadn't seen that one by Olivia. You'll have to help me out...

 

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[BlackSnake]

"worried"? why?.
start a new one! the ANOTHER! I have some letaher bound ones too...at first it feels that THOSE drawings and note should be more IMPORTANT...just a jumble of brilliance (seldom) and rubbish (frequent)
you can also transcribe your notes..you can scan (as you HAVE) the sketches. I have at least four going at once. At some points i THINK i will keep work in THIS one...and erotica in THAT, but invariably my ideas come without sequential "permission" or organisation. so they are all comingled.

Has made for some nearly embaressing/surprising meetings...especially considering that work is all childrens' product. I try to keep paper clips...such that i can open DIRECTLY to a desired page as required. I am not myself embaressed by what i do...but I AM embaressed when OTHERs are (embaressed or uncomfortable).

This is exactly the thing. I've solved a lot of programming problems in my notebook, came up with some good ideas, and drew a torso in a meeting. It was the speaker, less her clothes.

I felt flush when I noticed that the lady I was doing work for was looking over my shoulder. I was so happy that she was cool with it. I'm thinking of making a poster size drawing of and for her.

 

[BlackSnake]

These were taken with my camera phone, so please excuse the quality:

http://www.barnburnermag.com/phone/image1.jpg
http://www.barnburnermag.com/phone/image2.jpg
http://www.barnburnermag.com/phone/image3.jpg
http://www.barnburnermag.com/phone/image4.jpg

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Wow! That last one with the building with the Coca Cola truck parked by it looks totally realistic. Nice work.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

More seriously though, BlackSnake, it's really obvious how much you're enjoying what you're sketching. I'm trying sketching for fun again, reviving some old characters that I had enjoyed years ago. I'm still finding myself putting a lot of effort into something that's supposed to be fairly simple and rough, but I guess that's just the way I am bound to be.

 

[Black Tulip]

Halo,

That sounds as if you have lost some of the fun in the process itself?
Enjoy the creating itself, your abilities.
Maybe you got more focussed on the end result along the way somewhere?

Just a thought.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

You're definitely partly right. Truth is that I've always had a much greater fascination with the end result than the journey that brought that end result into fruition. That's where I've always received the most fun and fulfillment, at the end of the work.

Even when I took a few simple art classes for the easy credits, my so-called instructors couldn't figure out how it was that I could start so many projects and finish them as completed pieces without ever sketching any of them out first.

Is that something that a lot of artists do?

I actually can't stand the process itself and find myself not completing a number of pieces because I can already see the finished idea in my head. I had an artist try to tell me once that we can never really see the end result of each piece of our work until it's actually done. I have yet to prove him right. Then I see another idea and I want to move on.

Right now I have a stack of ideas sitting in my id that I'll never get to the bottom of. It's not pretty in there...

 

[BlackSnake]

You're definitely partly right. Truth is that I've always had a much greater fascination with the end result than the journey that brought that end result into fruition. That's where I've always received the most fun and fulfillment, at the end of the work.

Even when I took a few simple art classes for the easy credits, my so-called instructors couldn't figure out how it was that I could start so many projects and finish them as completed pieces without ever sketching any of them out first.

Is that something that a lot of artists do?

I actually can't stand the process itself and find myself not completing a number of pieces because I can already see the finished idea in my head. I had an artist try to tell me once that we can never really see the end result of each piece of our work until it's actually done. I have yet to prove him right. Then I see another idea and I want to move on.

Right now I have a stack of ideas sitting in my id that I'll never get to the bottom of. It's not pretty in there...

Man, it sounds like you're thinking too much. Just pick up a pencil and move it on the paper, just for the hell of doing it. Don't worry about finishing it. If you don't finish a piece, don't waste the paper start another on the same page. I like the way a collection of partially finished drawings look.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Have you ever seen the works of Antonio, he's the mustached guy in my AV. He was the greatest fashion illustrator of our time.
He died about 20 yrs ago this month at age 44. What a waste of trememdous talent.

a small taste of his works.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Man, it sounds like you're thinking too much. Just pick up a pencil and move it on the paper, just for the hell of doing it. Don't worry about finishing it. If you don't finish a piece, don't waste the paper start another on the same page. I like the way a collection of partially finished drawings look.

Actually, when my pencil hits that paper for the first time, and it's a subject that I was particularly interested in when I sat down, there's no real thought involved. My wife has told me that it seems like my mind isn't even present when she sees me really into a piece of work. I just become oblivious. I'm surprised I don't sit there drooling the way that she describes it.

In hindsight, being that I never really thought about it until this conversation, when I'm into a piece that I'm doing, it feels more like instinct than thought. I guess the one thing that I can add to this is that in my head I always seem to be "sketching," but only the ones that really pique my interest make it to a physical form.

Abstruse, I can't honestly say that I know that name you've mentioned. Chances are that I know the work, but I'm incredible miserable with names. The loss of almost any artist is a waste of talent. Especially if that talent was never brought to fruition for some reason.

The years of my all time favorite artist have become incredibly limited. I'll definitely mourn that one.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Abstruse, I can't honestly say that I know that name you've mentioned. Chances are that I know the work, but I'm incredible miserable with names. The loss of almost any artist is a waste of talent. Especially if that talent was never brought to fruition for some reason.

The years of my all time favorite artist have become incredibly limited. I'll definitely mourn that one.

He was the most unpretentious artist ever, very sweet and personable. He donated his works to the school I was attending and spoke to everyone that was brave enough to go and speak to him.
I'll have to scan some of his works.
Here's a link:
Antonio

 

[Halo_n_horns]

He was the most unpretentious artist ever, very sweet and personable. He donated his works to the school I was attending and spoke to everyone that was brave enough to go and speak to him.
I'll have to scan some of his works.
Here's a link:
Antonio

Nice work. I like the "Growing Old in America"...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Nice work. I like the "Growing Old in America"...

It's hard to find his stuff, I have two books, one autographed and there are very hard to come by...there are two other's out there I plan on getting my grubby mitts on...he was an influence to me on a major scale...as was Stavrinos, Viramontes, Majera...I had visions of being a fashion illustrator...now computers and photography have changed all that pretty much.

I stumbled upon that gallery, it's pretty cool. I wanted to share it.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

It's hard to find his stuff, I have two books, one autographed and there are very hard to come by...there are two other's out there I plan on getting my grubby mitts on...he was an influence to me on a major scale...as was Stavrinos, Viramontes, Majera...I had visions of being a fashion illustrator...now computers and photography have changed all that pretty much.

I stumbled upon that gallery, it's pretty cool. I wanted to share it.

Thank you very much for doing so.

I have a few autographed books from my favorite also. Out of a set of 5 he autographed 3. I've thought about sending them to him for a complete set of autographs. He's right-handed, but because of several strokes he does almost all of his work now with his left hand now. The nice thing about being an artist is the immortality that comes with the work. I may never be a famous or even a well-recognized artist, but I know that at least some of the work I've done will be here long after I'm feeding the worms.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Thank you very much for doing so.

I have a few autographed books from my favorite also. Out of a set of 5 he autographed 3. I've thought about sending them to him for a complete set of autographs. He's right-handed, but because of several strokes he does almost all of his work now with his left hand now. The nice thing about being an artist is the immortality that comes with the work. I may never be a famous or even a well-recognized artist, but I know that at least some of the work I've done will be here long after I'm feeding the worms.

I always said I wanted to be famous after I died too...then people will feel bad about not being nicer to me...LOL.

It's like everything else, there is good stuff and crap, but Art is a matter of opinion. You like it or you don't. Same with music, writing and the food channel.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I always said I wanted to be famous after I died too...then people will feel bad about not being nicer to me...LOL.

It's like everything else, there is good stuff and crap, but Art is a matter of opinion. You like it or you don't. Same with music, writing and the food channel.

Well said.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Well said.

Thank you, I've enjoyed the chat.

 

[BlackSnake]

Thank you, I've enjoyed the chat.

Fun with ditigal images....create a comix:
http://www.barnburnermag.com/art/img20.jpg

 

[Halo_n_horns]

That's pretty slick, Brent. I've enjoyed a number of these that you've done. Recognized a few of the models and what not also. In a few instances I think you did the model more justice than I've seen otherwise.

Nice work. Keep it coming!

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Keeping with the sketching exercises...

When I was in middle school so many moons ago, I had created what I thought was a pretty original character that I called "Tigress." I had illustrated a whole slew of pictures of her. Today I have no idea as to the whereabouts of those works.

Tigress was drawn in a huge array of very dynamic, action-packed and often erotic poses, many of which also included large and intimidating tigers, as well as an occasional laxidasical one rolling around in the grass beside my feline femme fatale.

Not long after I had done a good deal of works involving this character I saw some similar characters popping up from well-known and very established artists. One of which was Olivia and a piece that she had done with a zebra-type woman sitting on the back of a zebra.

Almost instantly I abandoned my Tigress and didn't look back. My thought process was that because a well established artist had published such a similar work to mine that I would only be accused of emulating, if not somehow stealing, the ideas of another artist.

Today I got a hankerin' to see my favorite feline. The sketch, as so many sketches are, is rough and the pose is rigid rather than dynamic, and her features aren't quite as sleek as I would otherwise intend. But alas, here she is...

 

[BlackSnake]

Keeping with the sketching exercises...

When I was in middle school so many moons ago, I had created what I thought was a pretty original character that I called "Tigress." I had illustrated a whole slew of pictures of her. Today I have no idea as to the whereabouts of those works.

Tigress was drawn in a huge array of very dynamic, action-packed and often erotic poses, many of which also included large and intimidating tigers, as well as an occasional laxidasical one rolling around in the grass beside my feline femme fatale.

Not long after I had done a good deal of works involving this character I saw some similar characters popping up from well-known and very established artists. One of which was Olivia and a piece that she had done with a zebra-type woman sitting on the back of a zebra.

Almost instantly I abandoned my Tigress and didn't look back. My thought process was that because a well established artist had published such a similar work to mine that I would only be accused of emulating, if not somehow stealing, the ideas of another artist.

Today I got a hankerin' to see my favorite feline. The sketch, as so many sketches are, is rough and the pose is rigid rather than dynamic, and her features aren't quite as sleek as I would otherwise intend. But alas, here she is...

Remember the "Thunder Cats"? Cheetra was very hot, but didn't have a main like your character....I like that touch