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About Me Member Art Student magicnmyth20/Female/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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artistic direction...

Sun May 31, 2009, 2:41 PM
  • Mood: Peaceful
  • Listening to: Mr. Know it All - Primus
  • Watching: nothing, just listening to music
  • Eating: just had some spaghetti pizza aha.. yum
  • Drinking: sprite
Hmm, this is something I've been thinking about a lot lately: finding where I'm going artistically and what to make art about is something that has confused me ever since I've been an artist.

Thinking about my work in general, most of it I did because I thought other people would like it moreso than because I wanted to do it. IE, the Amy Lee portrait from way back when. Things like that are fun in the end because of the product, but sooo time consuming, and don't come from a completely sincere place for me. My strength lies in doing super realistic digital work, typically portraits, but I think I'm growing tired of that. I'll probably still work on stuff like that, but I haven't actually finished something like that in forever...

I'm increasingly wanting to put more of myself into my work, because when I do that I have more fun with the actual process. During my final painting crit, my prof said that if continued to make more personal work like I was starting to, even though it can be hard, then I would have a better chance of relating to people through it. And during my final illustration crit, my prof and classmates said that my final project was the most "me" thing they'd seen me do, and that I should continue doing that because it looks better when I have fun doing it.

...But then how do I translate that into a career?! My illustration prof also said she could see a "childlike imagination and sense of wonder" emerging in my work, which is cool because she owns a small, successful children's book publishing company. But I would also be happy doing commercial work (CD covers, magazine/ book illustrations), gallery work, photography, concept art for video games...

Sorry for the rambling! My point: any new art you see from me might be different than what I've posted before, but I hope my watcher's don't mind ...watching haha, as I'm experimenting to figure out where I'm going artistically... thanks! :)

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  • Current Residence: MA/ RISD
  • Interests: art (duh!), reading, writing, music
  • Favourite movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dead Poets Society, Amelie, Equilibrium
  • Favourite band or musician: Evanescence, Tool, The Beatles, Radiohead, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, The Clash
  • Favourite artist: Hopper, Caravaggio, Andrew Wyeth, Kollwitz, Close, Munch, Schiele, Dali, Rockwell, Van Gogh... etc.
  • Favourite poet or writer: TS Eliot, WS Merwin, Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  • Favourite game: DDR and Zelda
  • Favourite cartoon character: InuYasha, Spike (Cowboy Bebop), L (Death Note)
  • Personal Quote: If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? -TS Eliot
  • Tools of the Trade: pencils, photoshop, wacom tablet, oils

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:iconleyota:
Thank you for the fave!

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:iconsquishimiss:
thank you for the fave! C:
:iconanarchypress:
Thank you for the favorite, Ashley. I like your artwork.

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:iconmagda-lenaa:
Truly impressive gallery :clap::clap::clap:

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:iconbee7890:
thank you for the fav and the comments, your gallery is stunning btw!
:iconmagicnmyth:
No prob, love your stuff, and thanks :)!

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:iconsinaduxela:
thanks for the fav ashley :w00t:
:iconkat545625:
I know this is late, but please except my thank you :+fav: :aww:.

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:iconkatja-spectraliquid:
Thank you so much for the fav on 'Athens Riots' :hug:

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:iconfredfree:
thanks for the4 faving. (:

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