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I don't know if its just the style but adding darker colors on the outside of small objects, like if you look at the blonde man's feet if you added darker shading on the sides it would look neater, but great!!! I also love the work on the coffee cups and the angle of the eyebrows show the facial expressions and feeling great work!!!! Its really easy to tell what each character is doing in the picture, and the positions and anatomy work is fantastic. on a scale of one to ten, Id rate a ten. Amazing and keep up the good work!!!
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I donβt have a definite style (yet), but this is something that I thought about. Itβs really cool how little complexity can make such a beautiful picture. The lighting is also impressive! The contrast between warm and cool colors is one of my favorite themes in your art. Thanks for drawing this!
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my comment bugged out on the apostrophes what the hell ββββ
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Classic internet. It hates proper grammar! I knew it!
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. Personally I think composition is a very important thing, and having experimented over time, the more complex details I add for no reason other than "to make it look epic" the worse the final image looks. (How other people do full complex images and not have it look a mess of details I have no clue) I actually have a system of "what's the least amount of detail I can add and still make a strong image?" Not to be lazy and get away without working hard, or to say I don't still add a lot of detail, but it's fun to add detail in a considered, compositional way instead of a "because... detail looks impressive... doesn't it?" way. I'm still struggling to find the point of balance but if I had the perfect formula I wouldn't need to keep making art to discover new things XD
That.. and I do have a lot of fun with light and colour and mood. It ties into composition for me, how you can draw the eye to look at certain things is just illusionary magic and I love playing with it. As you've noticed.
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That was it! Every time I do a draft of a picture, I always kept thinking βHow do I make this look even better?β The major problem was that I was focused on adding as much detail as possible, stuck on the line between realistic art or a cartoonish style. Maybe once I figure that out, Iβll start adding detail. Needed that. Thanks!
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There's a great deal to be learned from great abstract painting. Because Abstract art doesn't have a figuritive subject matter, it's all about colour and composition to convey an idea.
Artists like Rothko has a lot of strong composition using just colour blocks.
Mondrian for instance has an interesting development over time, while he's known for his strong line and colour grids in the 60s if you look at his work as a whole there's an amazing journey of decades leading up to that (starting from a patterns found in tree branches) He did a lot of work on "perfect" composition using the simplest colours he coulr.
Barnet Newman is another who explores composition and such though just blocks of colour.
I could go on... lol and I know a lot of people snort and go "but it's just blocks of colour on a page anyone could do it!" but they're missing the skill when they say that, yes there's no perfectly rendered figure in the picture, but what colours, what's the ratio, the orientation of the marks etc etc these are what makes it great. If 98% red with a stripe of yellow and a tripe of orange makes a perfect colour balance on a Newman painting, what could you do with this ratio in your own figurative picture with the same combination? And what kind of green? Blueish, yellowish? etc.
Ofc this is just how I look at it, I enjoy looking at abstract painting quite a lot, so it's more interesting to me to draw ideas from that than always to look at people who make the same kind of work I do.
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Neat. I never thought myself someone could be well-known from drawing solid blocks and the skill behind it.
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I have a lot of art history knowledge and I respect where a lot of these things fit in history. Some I like and some I dislike but respect. The stuff I like I learn from, even if it's not my genre I ask myself "what do I like" and then "how can I apply that to what I make?"
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Oh. Is this from just studying it directly or just learning it over the years?Β
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Bit of both. 
It's fascinating because I can maybe look at Dadaism in the 1930s and go "I don't want to make work like that" but I can see how it also directly relates to all the other art movements that came after (and then to what we make now) so I respect what those people in that context were doing and how they felt.
Or such as how globalisation impacted art, for instance there's a whole european movement in the 1800s called "Japonisme" where artists in europe first saw prints and paintings from Japan and went "HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME I WANNA MAKE THIS" much in the same way people draw Anime now. So their work is this weird blend of european painting and Japanese fine art. (Van Gogh for instance has done some paintings heavily inspired by Japanese art.)
Or like how technology directly impacts art, especially the more commercial aspects like graphic design and illustration...
It's endless... So yes it's amazing to find living breathing artists making amazing things it's also fascinating to look at historical ones.
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This stuff really is cool! Do you know any resources where I can check this out? I wouldn't even be able to know where to start o.o .
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Ah.... I own a book that came from one of those bargain books places that's like european art history from the renaissance til the 1950s or something, and I was hooked to it as a teen, but it's so brief on each era I would then like just... flit about with "I like this artist, I wonder if there's a book at the library on them" cos... the internet wasn't the powerhouse it is now XD You could probably spend hours browsing wikipeadia the same way now.
So it was just a lot of browsing and reading and looking. Mostly based on "I kinda like this I want to know more" so I know a lot about impressionism and pre raphealites, and next to nothing about a movement like Fauvism other than I know it exists....
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(theres a chance I might double reply)
All of this stuff is really cool! Especially considering many of the things that we see today has a style that has been blended by many in the past! I never thought much about art, knowing just about Mona Lisa. How much the history of it affecting a lot of things gave me a feeling of amazement. I was a bit of a fan with Japanese art but I never checked out Europeans... yet. Thanks so much for all of this neat information! 
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I used to be super into anime, and even looking up the history of anime like... why it looks the way it does now is fascinating, ofc it has it's japanese history but also it wasΒ heavily influenced by the likes of Loony Tunes, early Disney (snow white etc) and Betty Boop. There's a direct correlation between Astro Boy (one of the first Animes) and Mickey Mouse (his hair and mickey's ears share the same styling).
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And yet all this time I kept thinking we were taking all the stuff from Japan and not giving hardly anything back. When it comes to art, I never really thought the USA brought anything new, because all of the people from all over the world came there, so was just a display of everything around the world. It's really cool people like you know a lot of this stuff, making it easier to learn many of the things that the world has to offer!
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The Japanese are as obsessed with western style work as many westerners are with the Japanese work. It's a constant bounce.
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Ah. I've been browsing a bit of Wikipedia and even got myself a journal to write down all the stuff I learned. Sandro Botticelli art interested me and some Impressionist stuff as well. Checking out Van Gogh, but I wanted to know where could I start in learning the history of Japanese art?Β
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Oh how fun! I'll never be a proper art history student myself I'm too focuesed on the shit I like. Tbh history of japanese art would be the same, browsing things, finding documentaries etc etc. Youtube often has some informative stuff made by people with good knowledge too.
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