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well i did not think my opinion would be appropriate since i am an older person and not of the demographic that you are seeking opinions from, but anyway, i see your picture as an embryonic insect inside a cellular structure that reminds me of a leaf style cellular composition.

i did look at it for quite some time, and i did find it rather intriguing in as far as the insect seems to be compressed and almost eager to break free, but i am not a good judge of art.

anyway, i am going back to edit my post now because i am blasted well annoyed that it was not displayed correctly.

I'm hardly at liberty to comment on much visual art. If I knew how to best communicate my opinions on your work, trust me--I would!

Don't feel bad, though. I didn't get any comments on the little animations I've done, and I'm already well aware that I'm a loser of a visual artist. I think more often it's not so much that your work (or anyone's work) is really bad. It's probably more that people don't understand what it is you're trying to do to say one way or another how they feel about it.

Back in the day when I was still teaching high school music in a public school, I made a point of informing my students of all the kinds of contests and auditions they might consider doing, since there are all kinds of opportunities for young musicians. One audition I told them about was for a publicly-funded arts boarding school. This young lady approached me after class about applying for the next year. I told her that I hadn't heard her sing, but I was willing to do everything I could to help her build her portfolio, get her some performance experience, help her improve her music theory skills, etc. She told me she didn't want to go in music, that she wanted to go in art. I was, like, "whuuuut?" So I told her to let me see her art so at least I'd have something to go on when I wrote her letter of recommendation. The girl had some SKILLZ, and in my letter I wrote that I have no art experience whatsoever but that I was amazed at what she was able to do in just a notebook while she was bored in class. I also spoke highly of her character and work ethic, pointed out that she did everything I asked her to do--a failing of her classmates--that I was proud to have her in my classroom and that they would be proud to have her as an art student. Even though I wasn't "technically" qualified to write that letter, I believe the fact that at least I believed in her was enough to convince admissions to accept her. And that was having absolutely no idea what I was doing!

A problem you might face on this site is that people generally dislike giving negative comments because people often do not handle criticism very well. I make a point if I'm offering music criticism to start by validating what the person is doing, whether I personally like it or not. But beyond that I won't hold back on negative comments. And that's just the stuff I actually LIKE. If I DON'T comment on something, it's either because I don't understand it and thus don't know how to critique it or because it's so awful I can see no salvageable material that might even remotely resurrect it as a workable piece.

I'm kinda with b9 on your strange drawing. Why not try telling us what it IS exactly, or if it's just something abstract. I think it looks kinda cool.

It is abstract. I do girl's faces and flowers in them most of the time. That was meant to be an eye, but it turned out wrong.

I was just thinking earlier that it looks like some sort of reptilian eye!

well i do not see how you could describe the whole image as an eye, but i will explain what i saw in it.


i drew a crude line around what i saw as an insect (something like a mosquito), and i have pointed out the incidental references crudely, but i will accept that my mind is unable to resolve what she drew.

Grayscale sketch of my OC Ouggiri that was drawn on a 14 cm x 20 cm piece of paper (that is, a very small sketchbook).

Well, this I CAN comment on...

What you're saying makes sense. To resolve this as an eye more easily, she'd need to provide us with a little more context. The way I see it, your "yolk sac" would be either be a pupil or a compound eye, though oddly shaped for what we're used to seeing; the embryo that you see would be what I see as the lower part of the eyelid, and the white space above that I see as a brow ridge.

You do have to admit it has very scaly features which could identify it as reptilian or somehow what we sometimes imagine to be extra-terrestrial. She intended it to be abstract, so it's difficult to claim any one explanation as the "correct" interpretation.

Just finished my Flash car. Hard to do these without any references. Don't think this one turned out too badly.

[img][800:540]http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/525404_358219600888250_100001006380126_1013494_1576517744_n.jpg[/img]

This isn't my own artwork, but instead something I had commissioned from a friend on DeviantArt:



It's my OC Ouggiri.

Delayed, but thank you.

[img][800:675]http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/096/c/8/not_quite_warm_by_thewickedkid-d4v8r9o.jpg[/img]
Finally drew something that isn't a cartoon [using my tablet, anyways].

Here's an example of a girl's face, and flowers.

i can see it as a girls face and flowers when it is described that way.
it is like a mosaic. it would look good as tiles cut and laid and colored to iterate it.

anyway, i am a bastard and i am going to post my finished animation.

this is a sequence i programmed and i had high hopes for, but the finished result is somewhat less than was imagined by me, but nevertheless it is display worthy i suspect.

i should have muted the metronome track but i forgot to do so, so whatever.



[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqC1TkAVLj4&list=UUpB1H594Ek2H_hWBxJ7ja7g&index=1&feature=plcp[/youtube]

Coloured!

Dude, if it came from your mind, and some degree of emotion ether went into its creation, or is inspired by its existence, it's art. And that my friend, is art.

there is no emotion involved, but it came from my mind completely.
i was happily occupied for a few days in developing the program that produced it.

i played the song that is attached more than a year before the creation of the animation.

anyway i am happy that you chose to respond.

there is a major likelyhood that no one would ever consider it noteworthy, and in ten days time, it would be ten pages back in unresponded to history.

it certainly is not sexy. that is for sure.

Insert into video game please. Raccoon Tournament. Deathmatch.