/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

if you can't enjoy abstract art then you can't enjoy looking at reality, as reality is as abstract as you can get since it is not a representation of anything, it's the pure aesthetic experience

look at this photograph, it itself is not abstract of course, but the view in person would be even greater and that view would be completely abstract. What is it representing? Nothing, the vista is itself. You think an abstract painting is "nothing" when it is itself just like any other non-illusory object, the only issue is that it's too unique to yet be named

of course, that's not to say all abstract art is good

You either have the "spark" or you don't. I'm a person who wants to create. Build upon. Every personality test I've ever taken has espoused that.

When I play a video game, I want to draw something from that universe. When I read a book, I instantly imagine my perspective on the setting I'm reading, and have interest in seeing it laid out before me physically.

My dreams have always been vivid. I've dreamed of exotic worlds and locations, a car driving through a low bridge connected to a lake on one side, and a towering skyscraper on the other, with a nearby planet overlooking it.

I've dreamed of chasing people through my old home town, going through the oldtown and passing some buildings and then a hill, which leads into a tunnel with a vast complex of railroads in any shape or direction possible, with water rushing in between.

Imagination. Willpower. Ambition. These are the tools of life.

Okay for your first assignment I want you guys to recreate this landscape as best you can.

You can look at it for 1 whole minute. Then get to drawing. :^)