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Redminus - Destroyed Portrait

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I just recently finished up an intensive art course in University - chose to study portraiture and observational figure drawing, so I asked a bunch of inspiring artist friends to send over photos of themselves so I could try to make a portrait for them as practice. Originally, I intended to send them all the artwork when it was done. Just about all of them were drawn with alcohol-based markers and acrylic paint pens and they took anywhere from 30 minutes to 4 hours.

Unfortunately, the general vibe that I got from my class critiques were that the drawings lacked depth and needed more of a deeper meaning and they weren't good enough just being objective studies of my friends because that was boring. "There [wasn't] anything separating my drawings from the random farmer's market caricature artists who sell their drawings for 40 bucks a piece on weekends."

Long story short, I got really frustrated with conceptual avant garde art because I felt that the subjects I chose to draw were relevant to me and it wasn't good enough in the end, so I chose to destroy all of my portraits as a performance piece. My drawings were "pretty", but people had no reason to care about them. Needless to say, I took that to heart.

I ended up using a water gun full of rubbing alcohol to do so -- got the whole class in on it, too. For the most part, all of the portraits look really creepy now, but Mick and Stamper's almost ended up looking cooler.

Check out this photo set if you wanted to see the rest!
http://sabtastique.tumblr.com/post/121392565734/destroyed-my-own-original-artwork-using-ethanol-as

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Really good

So your art and styles seem to always get better the shades are very nice the linework is amazing the improved detail from old to new is really good and shows your talent with this style so overall you have some really nice work some good energy in all this as well very well done but anyways nice work here and I look forward to much more from you

~X~

I didn't know William shakespear had grandsons,Still Good art any ways.

Newgrounds celebrities FTW!

Gotta admit, the post-treatment version DO look kinda cooler. So If they weren't original enough they now are. Wouldn't mind keeping one of those now, if it was a portrait of me.

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