Okay I am trying this again...can anyone see my post. If you cannot then I must find the right way to collect the url address.

A "Big" initiative. Hope you enjoy!

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Original Book by Verna Aardema

Hope you enjoy. Traditional mixed media. Much love and God bless!

Traditional art: pencil, inks, watercolor. Hope you enjoy. Much love and God bless!

My submission.

I decided to be inspired by one of my favorite musical artist, Marvin Gaye.

As for my piece, I envision myself living in harmony with the blessings that comes from God's love. On of those blessings are my wife.

Despite the person in the picture, the troubles, the darkness in them, God gives them...Gives you the opportunity to enjoy something more peaceful than what we are so that we can grow to be something inspiring for the good of mankind.

I hope you enjoy!

Here is the song and some quick lyrics since they are not online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFxIXJKvNIE

Dreams of you
dreams of you are so fine so fine baby
since i woke up
so is my state of mind ooooo
since we been apart baby
God has healed my heart
and darling your love
is just like music

(Cant you see you and me are meant to be)
music
(Come share your song with me sweet melody)
doobie doobie Just like music
(Come and free your song and just be)
music ... ahhh baby
(come share your song in harmony)

and darling your love is just like music
just like music
and darling your love is just like music
just like music
(Cant you see you and me are meant to be)
music
(Come share your song with me sweet melody)
doobie doobie Just like music
(Come and free your song and just be)
music ... ahhh baby
(come share your song in harmony)

Music is the soul of the man
music makes a happy day
music makes the cloud roll by baby slow
your music kiss my tears inside my eyes
your music make me want to sing
your music is a joy to bring

Much love and God Bless!

Hello my name is Frank. I a fairly new to the art scene, however I am in my 30's. I grew up a specific and personal way. What i would like to share about my childhood is that I did not have to worry about fluff because i always got the brutally honest truth. There is always something great to say about encouragement and encouraging words should never go unnoticed. One of my frustrations in pursuing art right now is that i cannot find honest feedback. I get the American Idol treatment. You know the "who told you that you can sing...my mom did."

My question is this: Is there somewhere on this thread where i can get honest feedback of my work? I'm not looking for approval or feeling boosters. I am looking to find ways to see the wrongs that i do not see. I have to catch up fo the 15 or so years of neglect that i have committed. Sure art has loose to no boundaries. I get that. But is there a group forum i can be directed to for straight up truthful can constructive criticism?

Much love and God Bless!

I hope you all enjoy. Much love and God bless!

Again i say there is something great about encouragement especially if it is honest and or constructive.

In my city im around a group of artist that always says in front the artist nice stuff and then when they are gone tough stuff. Sometimes honest sometimes trash.

But for some reason i can see something is wrong but i can put my finger on it. When i ask my local group. I get practice. Haha

So on here i was just gonna bypass any grouos like that and get to those who can reveal to me my reality. Im on a mission to catchup 20 years. The niceness is good but sometimes not true. Im simply just saying i value the truth regardless on how it is delivered.

Witb that said thank you for all your feedback. I look forward in growing with you all. Im also excited for this community. I apologize if spread some negativity. That was not my intentions.

Much love and God bless!

Not as clean as digital but still an original by hand piece. I hope you like!

Instagram: @dafoota

@Chip-Valecek praying this works.

“Lisa’s robot invention worked great, until it had to monitor detention.”

@sarahlash glad you made it too! Beautiful!

Wow! Thank you for sharing! This shading has a certain smoothness to my liking. Great job!

@jdubz Children are the beauty of the world. They contain a genuineness that so many adults get striped of over the coarse of time.

Could a person not have been draw to a practice simply because they love to do it regardless of knowing what it is exactly? For your friend who has but didn’t know doesn’t mean they were just gifted with this skill. It could also be a possibility that they were drawn to a practice that builds it up naturally without even intentionally knowing it was a practice.

I believe that it is that intuition and natural unconscious practice of said thing.

For example I do not listen music and sounds like my cousin does. She has a keen awareness to music notes before she knew what they are. Didn’t mean it was something untaught just means it was a natural attraction to an aspect of life. Constantly practicing before she knew what practicing was.

I still do not believe that people are allotted a gift. Or you are just “born with it.” I have four boys and at every birth I learned that they were totally dependent on me with no abilities, but with endless amount of potential. Watching them grow I recognized glimpses of what guided them to be who they are. Still there is much unknown. I do believe people can have a better understanding of different aspects of life even at a younger age. I just believe that people work at these things during their life especially in their childhood.

The brain is the instrument of knowledge, the mind is the use of knowledge and the conscience is the manipulation of the brain to produce mind.

No worries at all. Thanks for the reply and food for thought.

I’ll give another example. Kim jung gi explained that he was drawing 3D shapes in kindergarten when the other students were learning what shapes are. Many would say that he was gifted with the ability to see in perspective. However, he would tell you it came with practice. Not just our typical idea of practice but also the tasks here and there that enhances our abilities that we do not even know is practice.

Anyway much love and have a blessed day!

Children are the beauty of the world. They process a genuineness that so many adults get striped of over the coarse of time.

Could a person not have been draw to a practice simply because they love to do it regardless of knowing what it is exactly. For your friend who has but didn’t know doesn’t mean they were just gifted with this skill. It could also be a possibility that they were drawn to a practice that builds it up naturally without even intentionally knowing it was a practice.

I believe that it is that intuition and natural unconscious practice of said thing.

For example I do not listen music and sounds like my cousin does. She has a keen awareness to music notes before she knew what they are. Didn’t mean it was something untaught just means it was a natural attraction to an aspect of life. Constantly practicing before she knew what practicing was.

I still do not believe that people are allotted a gift. Or you are just “born with it.” I have four boys and at every birth I learned that they were totally dependent on me with no abilities, but with endless amount of potential. Watching them grow I recognized glimpses of what guided them to be who they are. Still there is much unknown. I do believe people can have a better understanding of different aspects of life even at a younger age. I just believe that people work at these things during their life especially in their childhood.

The brain is the instrument of knowledge, the mind is the use of knowledge and the conscience is the manipulation of the brain to produce mind.

No worries at all. Thanks for the reply and food for thought.

I’ll give another example. Kim jung gi explained that he was drawing 3D shapes in kindergarten when the other students were learning what shapes are. Many would say that he was gifted with the ability to see in perspective. However, he would tell you it came with practice. Not just our typical idea of practice but also the tasks here and there that enhances our abilities that we do not even know is practice.

Anyway much love and have a blessed day!

I dream a lot...I can control my dreams. In fact, I was in a dream the other night and my mother in law was there and she was mad so I decided to go ahead and wake up haha.

Here is my understanding on visualizing. A photographic memory is not a gifted skill it is a trained one. I heard it on a ted talk.

There are ways to practice this and other memory techniques.

A simple one is to sit a dark closet with a flashlight and a picture or list of text. Shine light on the piece until you see it and shut the light off. Keep visualizing it until the mental image is gone and repeat it theI started my 11 year old on this a year ago and he says it helps a lot for his tests.

On the flip side I learned some other mindsets when drawing.

Like focusing on shapes and just building as it goes. Like in layers. Peter Han and Kim jung gi are good for this type of art. With enough practice you can build and bend the art to your will. Once you are able to recognize the brief times you can keep building upon that. This is what I am currently doing while I learn more and more about different aspects ... shape Theory, color theory, proportions, perspective, tones and values.

Anyways that is enough rambling on. Be encouraged and enjoy the process. Have a blessed one!

This week has been a great big jump in artistic growth from inspiration for me and my extra time. 4 people and 3 ideas spark such great growth. .
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This journey began on @irezumicollective page where he posted to pick the brains of his followers about artist credit and copying. I remembered idea one. The idea comes in the form of a challenge I heard from @jakeparker ... On his podcast he did the activity of imagining his artistry 10 years from now in the context of fan art. I was inspired to not only build my archive of personal art but to build my skill set. .
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I usually draw late at night with YouTube playing without guidance. YouTube crossed a video of @peterhanstyle at a convention. His hammer equipped dwarf was highly impressive for his 30 or so minutes. What was inspirational was the wisdom he painted with his words. .
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The second idea comes from his critic of his own piece where he explains he could draw his piece better. Every attempt afterwards will always improve. This reiterated an art mantra I learned, which is to simply “enjoy the process.” Mr. Han later on delivers the final inspiring idea … draw with intention. .
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In my post you will see 10 pictures of no references just creating. I started with the activity of “how would my dragon look after being moved from irezumi’s post?” I teamed this up with the challenge to not look at anything. Don’t reference just create. If you don't like something, redo it. Bend it until it is … well...it is, you know? .
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I started with a very fun and fast quick sketch with inks like what I saw from Peter Han. The next day I said let’s see how this improves. Where is this going to take me?
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So I sent it to the iPad and began constructing. I choose to enjoy the ride as some would say by taking my time. I chunked. "Let's start with the eyes - head - hands etc... .
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The 4th person that I have not mentioned is actually the first which is God, my master/mentor. I am thankful that I am able to partake in the enjoyment of being a creator.
Hope you enjoy! .

@chrisaakins Hello Chris. My name is Frank Johnson III. I am currently working on well just practicing and getting better haha.

There are a lot of great comic book artist. I follow some on Instagram along with tattoo artist and others types. Here are a few I would recommend: Arthur Adams, joe madureira, Eddie Nunez, Tyler kirkman, Peter Han, Kim jung go, irezumi,

One artist that has been great for me was Lorenzo etheringron. He has one of the most popular Kickstarter series called “ how to think when you draw.” You can find his tutorials on theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.com

As for your other questions I think svslearn is a really great community. As I am personally trying to find my style and my genre I think there is a ton of wisdom and encouragement here in the community. I am also working with a well-known comic book artist. I will tell you though that sequential art is a task to be wrestled with.

As for the question, what we can do to help each other. Well with anything it starts with building a strong relationship. Though I think it is a little more difficult on this site. Maybe a mobile version with notifications would help.

Hope something in this helps. Have a blessed one.

I think you can draw much inspiration from the artist ... Art Baltazar and Franco. Itty bitty hell boy

@Miriam thank you ... it is just taking my photo and putting it on the internet to create a url address to upload. I have not figured out the easiest process yet. Sometimes this is why i do not post my submissions.