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[gryn]

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[baby219]

You are so talented! WOW! I'm impressed ; )

Gin

[gryn]

Thank you so much!

please help save poor fishes souls

[anonymous]

They may be on dry land but they sure can handle their truth

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[theextra]

Thank you very much for you comment. I appreciate it a lot. I don't know how you managed to stumble across my page, but it's kind of neat when people you don't really know post a comment. I am sure though, from you 111 comments that I see thus far in this journal entry alone, that you are quite used to it. I enjoy looking at your drawings. They are very well developed. (The artist in me wants to make critiques, but only if you wish to recieve them.) I went over to your site, and that clay sculpture is very interesting. :) I like looking at sculptures more hands on, though.
I trust that your day will go well, my day will be a little hard, but like all things, this too will pass...to quote a not so great movie (The Glass House).
Take care,
Samantha

[gryn]

Thanks! And yes, I'd love a critique. Anything that might help me improve would be great. =)

[theextra]

cool.. the only things i thought of was that in that picture of the girl with the nose ring...maria, i believe it's called...just focusing on that picture alone, i see that your value needs to have more of a vocabulary with it. you're using it very well, but i know that you could probably go a step further and pop everything out a little more and give it a more realistic look. you might want to put a little dark shadowing on the left side for that shoulder to show up a lot better, and my main little thing that i thought of was that that nose ring simply looks drawn. i don't see an ounce of value in there. you want to make that look more metallic.
i hope that helps you out a bit. (i'm an art education major. it's my job to nitpick and help people better themselves...lol. don't hurt me!)
Sam

[gryn]

Not at all! I respect your point of view.

The thing about my stuff that I hear a lot is that it looks like a photograph.. the biggest problem I have with that is I don't want it to look too realistic. I know many artists who won't even comment on realism because they don't believe it's "art." I'm almost of the same belief.

I know that many people think the closer to a realistic image a drawing looks, the better it is.. but I feel cursed, to tell you the truth. If a drawing looks too much like a real picture, then I haven't really accomplished anything. Pictures are what cameras do best, and I wish to pull away from realism when I can.

[batgirl37]

Thank you for your post, it was very inspiring. And as for the lady love... Im sorry to hear it went that way =( Maybe things will turn around tho.. once she realizes what a great loss it is to lose you... as a friend or more so.

-bG

[gryn]

It's ok.. it was just a bout of emotional short-circuit. She wasn't really a love of mine, but more of a figment.

She was someone I met online, but never met.. or even talked to her on the phone.

When I posted that about me feeling that way for her, it was a pretty weird night for me. =)

[ednamillion]

very nice work, thanks for dropping by my blog, btw.
i'll add you to my LJ friends