/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

A response: The reason I have not updated Goodbrush in so long is I felt my work was not good enough to bother people with. To hear people praise it is kind of painful sometimes. As a person I feel pretty secure, but as an artist not so much.
People are always asking about my "Method" and as I have said before, I don't have a set method, on purpose. I have experimented with SO many different ways of working. In the Gnomon Master class I did I spoke at some length about it. I have used photos, 3d models (mine and others) paintings (mine and others) in every combination you can think of. If I had to ask what method I use mostly, it would be a simple block model (that I make) and painting with that in a reference layer. But 90% of the work I have done is pretty much straight painting.
I have also talked at length about the difference between Art and commercial art. I am an illustrator and paid to make an image that satisfies a client. I would say every technique is totally OK- AS LONG AS WHAT WAS DONE IS CLEAR. Roy Lichtenstein was pretty clear about his process. This was not the case here.
Hopefully looking at the bulk of my work you can see that I am competent enough to have done this painting in a different way than I did. Was it laziness? Dishonesty? Curiosity? Impatience? You might ask "if he can do "that" why did he resort to "that"?" I ask myself the same question. Experimental working methods can not explain it entirely.
There is a line here that I crossed. I did that piece during a rather dark period in my life and I still cringe to look at it. I just wanted to get it done so badly. The image posted is not the final product, it was a working comp for a physical oil painting. That is got posted and presented as concept work was a result of throwing a folder full of images on the new site in a batch.