How My Early Passion Projects Shaped Me
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I love seeing an artists early work. Thank you for sharing.
One thing that stands out to me about your high school work is that even at an early age you had an advanced process for developing an image in stages. This is something I need to improve on, and getting these peeks into your development helps.
LESSON NOTES
I've been looking through my old artwork and found a box full of personal projects. Applying what I learned to projects that excited me helped make the knowledge stick. Some of the work is a bit weird as I was still finding my path as an artist. I experimented with different techniques, like blending stumps and gouache, and studied anatomy and composition. Reflecting on these pieces, I realize how important they were in my journey, and it's made me want to create more and keep exploring new methods.
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I've been looking through my old artwork and found a box full of personal projects. Reflecting on these pieces, I realize how important they were in my journey, and it's made me want to create more and keep exploring new methods.
oh the pitilessness of youth, qua those juxtaposition pieces. We thought we were so clever and edgy didn't we? I don't have much of my art from high school any more. I've moved too many times and to be honest, I may have even burned a lot of it in fits of youthy angst before I left home at 17.
Thanks for diving into the vaults and putting it all out there, the cringe and the not so cringe. We need to see these things to know we're all on our own path.
one last thing: it's clear your devotion and youthful enthusiasm served you well, and hundreds of thousands of eyes are now looking to you. Brava Stan Prokopenko. Brava.
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