Film critics should stick to critiquing an actor’s performance: some of them are far too obsessed with the superficial – with people’s appearance – and there’s nothing worse than a critic being bitchy. Some can be really unkind, and it’s just not fun to read, especially if it’s you they’re writing about. Even if you have 10 really good reviews, it’s the one bad one that sticks in your mind.
Rupert Grint
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child
Pablo PicassoAbout two years ago I got a LJ message from a young woman where she asked me for advices about how to draw.
Although lots of times people write comments asking me how I have done a certain scene, which technique it was used, this unexpected approach had taken me by surprise.
I’m not sure about all the things I wrote on my reply but certainly, one of them, was the answer I give to everybody that ask me tips about to draw: be a good observer, to draw a lot and just be yourself.
I use to say that, as time passes by, people give up of one of the first pleasures we have in life that is to communicate through the drawings.
My vision is that nobody should do this.
Yes, we have differences in how to express by them, some people could do more easily or even in a special way, but they are like our “fingerprints”, a unique way to each one to show our visions of the world.
Although some try to reach the “perfection” of a Raphael or a Picasso (and lots do), much important is not to lose the happiness of drawing, to paint like a child.
This happiness can be easily go when we face every “artist” hardest critic: ourselves. I think this is the point where lots of artists stop to draw.
Those who didn’t give up, maybe keep doing this because make art is like a psychological and urgent need that makes an artist feel complete.
But we still find, from time to times, people that can’t see the biggest pleasure on this work and worse, only have the feeling of not help you to improve but to hurt by their words, as like they know that an artist’s work is like an extension of our hearts, minds and souls.
Even we know their intention, like Rupert said, those words are the ones that “stick” in your mind.
Like I said in this same journal, a few times ago, no one in the entire world has the ability of to pleasure everybody, being an unanimity, not even God, but it’s not easy when you find a “bitchy critic” in your way.
Doing what we should do in every bad event of our lives, we need to learn from it, remembering us the real reason of still doing art.
I started this work I’m showing you today more than one year ago, and like it happens with lots of sketches that are “in my drawer” (or ideas in my mind), they keep “asking” me to finish them, to accept the “critic” inside of me and just do the thing for having fun.
So I did this with this one, that I think highlights, in the best way, a characteristic of my work that some of my viewers, I noticed by the comments, haven’t noticed until now: I try to make them look like, by the light, the pose of the characters, as if they were an instantaneous photo from those old “Polaroid” cameras.
A caption of a quick passing moment.
It’s a sequence scene of my last fanart posted here,
A Second Chance, from the same chapter of Kele’s
More than Memories and I would like to dedicate it to that young woman that became my friend two years ago, also my great inspiration in never lose that “childish” joy in to draw, the awesome, sweet, and most productive
no pathetic and talented HP fanartist we have in this fandom, Dove aka
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redheadsarehot.
Remember, my dear: by the end, the fun and the pleasure are what you’ll take from your work, and it’ll keep here
around the universe forever, eternal, much longer after
everything and
everyone you know
now were gone! ;)
True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent
I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
No I could never take a chance
‘Cos I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
You can run from love
And if it's really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
But you can't be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when I'm holding you?
I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
And you're the one, there's no-one else
You make me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants... the soul waits ...( MORE THAN MEMORIES- Chapter 16 scene- Rated R )
( FANART - WE'RE GOING TO PLAY A GAME )
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