/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1935877
A symbol is a symbol. The figures in which you put on canvas are nothing but symbols - however if you posses the ability to describe these symbols in space you begin to fool the eye into an illusion that the symbol may exist in space. If you further describe the symbol by providing a pattern we see from life you begin to fool the mind into recognizing something in nature as nature plays a pattern game found in the proportion of plants and animals and people.

If you add even more information onto your symbol by providing it form and shape you begin to further fool your audience into believing this is real and you may keep providing this information depending on how much anatomy you know but that's not the most important part the one and single most important thing that will provide life to your symbol is a gesture, an attitude, a sense of movement and rhythm that will finally persuade the eye into actually believing this exists and is communicating with the world.

>>1500156
I am somewhat guilty of this mindset, this was my first impression that only Asians knew how to draw Animu and my only excuse is that I was a victim of ignorant misconceptions because I had never personally witnessed somebody else draw this style.

I even thought that you needed some special kind of pen to ink with, or some kind of special training that only "they" knew...it sounds silly but yes I used to think that way, sort of.

Not that Anon by the way.