/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3306298
>you trace nigga
Well technically it's graphite transfer. Nigga. And it's such a funny thing how it's only something that people that don't paint care about. Every painter does a transfer, particularly if they're going for a proportional aesthetic, and particularly if they don't feel like wasting hours setting up a grid and doing it by hand just to get to the same place. Nobody really cares about how good you can draw, and if you can draw well enough people assume it's a transfer anyway. You think anybody that buys art gives a shit if it was hand drawn versus a transfer?

What about when painters use a projector? What about when niggas make prints? Have you ever spent ANY time learning ANY thing about art history? Have you ever been in a fucking museum in your life? You know what you rarely see in them? Free hand drawings. Because it's unimpressive baby shit.

If I liked the aesthetic of my hand drawing style for this series of would have done it. I'm pretty good at drawing, particularly faces. I used to be exceptionally good. I don't care about proving that I can draw, I care about making shit I want to look at.

>USE MORE PAINT.
No. Go fuck yourself. Not using enough Acrylic is one of the most novel aspects of my aesthetic. The dirtiness and the translucence and the smudginess is one of the most characteristic things I do.

>whats the point?
Of what? One must imagine Sisyphus smiling. There isn't a "point" to anything. You roll the rock up the hill and laugh when it inevitably crashes back down. Then repeat.

>>3304918
>What medium?
Basically all of them are entirely Acrylic on canvas panel. Some have some water color mixed in.
>Are these traced from the photos or drawn?
Only a few are freehand drawn. >>301506, >>3301402 >>3301405, I think >>3301407, >>3301462 , >>3301569

The overwhelming majority where done by editing and blocking in photoshop, printing onto a piece of legal paper, then graphite transfer onto canvas.

The first 6 were done by printing out the pictures, and then removing one color at a time with an exact-o knife, then tracing the cuts onto the canvas to mark where each color went. Was a real hassle.
>How do you find enough time to paint this much?
I work in batches. I have dozens of canvasses being worked on at a time. When I mix a color for one canvas, I'll then keep applying it to the other canvasses as needed after the first one is done until I'm out of that color. A lot of the reason why it seems like many of them are unfinished is that they were coat-tailing in the rotation with the paintings I was more focused on, eventually shifted out of the rotation, and I just got used to them looking unfinished until I wasn't motivated to fuck with them anymore. For instance, >>3301487 and >>3301486 were mostly just backwash from >>3301489. >>3301509 is backwash from >>3301508 and >>3301506

Also it's kind of something that I'm spending over 40 hours a week working on when I'm not on a production or whatever. I've been treating it like a business, which it legally is, and I'm an employee, which I legally am, starting on January 1.
>>3304920
None. They're all treated as incomplete. They're all stacked against each other with no protection in bins. And every week I hang up different ones on my autism wall with little regard for avoiding damage or preserving them. >>3301381 has a chip missing, >>3300392 is covered in scratches. There was a bunch of pot wax spilled on the back of >>3304897 and it got stacked on top of >>3301547