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this girl is an art student, cute too, and she has been posting theses drawings for a few years. ya gotta watch it, only a few minutes, and you will see a lifelike "painting" that we slave over to do. i read recently that you tubers are cashing in up to 100,000 a month. i hope heather is getting her fair share and using it for tuition or whatever, she is one of my favorite shows.
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But to answer your question: Because it's a passion of mine. I haven't reached my potential and until I do, I will keep doing it. If I can make some money on it along the way, that's a plus.
Thanks for the link. Heather produces outstanding work.
And seems to do it with consummate ease.
Denis
i met a lady named arlene steinberg who blew me away with her pencil art in philly art show last year. hyper realistic. i wanted to buy a small piece 8 x 10, only 3K, cheap.
I know I'm off topic. But money and art just don't go together. You are in the wrong business if you really want to make money doing art. There are so few people who actually make a living doing it. I refuse to use that as my marker of success as an artist. If I made 35K a year doing a painting a month, I'd have to sell the painting for at least 3K. Now, realistically, I could crank out more paintings than that and obviously, there are variables like taxes and material costs. But to sell a painting for that much would be awesome!
I hope Heather is making money, but I doubt that's why she draws.
I love watching the images come to life though. Nice find.
I'd like to see some truly original work from this artist, Heather. I was kind of just thinking out loud about copyright issues, and that it could possibly catch up with her, especially if her pieces start selling for a lot of money.
This thread is creeping into what is realism...again. I paint realism with oil paint because I like how little blobs of paint interact with each on a surface to get an image. Even though Heather's drawings are photo realistic, there is a flattening quality about them. Maybe it's because it looks like a photo with photo lighting. It's something that I struggle with personally because I believe the most interesting paintings don't have tight realism and yet that is what I'm painting. I'm trying to believe that I am still studying and that eventually my style will come about.
All three artists that have been mentioned uses photo manipulation and photography. In one of Volegov's vids, he showed how he goes about the process before he starts to paint. He gets photos of his subjects from various snapshots (not professional at all) in different poses. He then takes these photos, corrects color as much as he can, poses them in a serene background of some sort and somehow melds it all together. He does try to make his computer image as close to a painting as he can. Not a photo resembling real life, but a computer image that resembles a painting. Once in a while, I see where this gets him into trouble with things not in the right size. Flowers are all too big in his paintings. But he is able to achieve light, great color intensity and movement in all his paintings that I admire. He suggests where things are and our mind fills in the rest. That's the beauty of it. Every time I look at it, I see something new. I hope to get there someday. I want to paint the person and the personality of that person and not the photo of the person.
@oilpainter Why do you paint? Why is your name oilpainter and not pencilartist? People achieve that kind of realism with paint too, but usually it's bigger and much more labor intensive. It also will last about 200 years longer.
here is one. He has so many paintings and vids. But this is the one I was referencing.
what i enjoy is the feel of the brush stroke. that's where oil can't be beat.
oh...i found a great artist and just bought a large print: herbert james draper....kelpie.
@oilpainter I haven't really tried colored pencils. I'm pretty adept at graphite and charcoal. The reason I came to Mark is because I had trouble with the color aspect, not the value aspect. Since that is now improving in great strides, I wonder if I can do pastel and colored pencil now? It seems many workshops that teach people how to see prior to painting use pastel. It might be a good way to keep skills while traveling without the hassles of oil paint.
Drawing and painting from life is another story altogether.