 modelchasm wrote: |
| If I'm reading it right, I think it might just be that they are in-progress shots. I too think that it looks a little funny, but its only b/c your HMMWV looks right off the showroom floor, and all your guys have "starched" DCUs. Besides the building ... its all very clean. |
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Your Buddy kinda said it there ^^^^^ Look CJ, sorry I didn't get back to you until now, away all day at work and all. I don't go posting replies to be a buzzkill especially to someone I like doing work that I like. You have a nice little following here and these guys love your figure painting so if you just don't want to hear it fine, sorry man. On the other hand, if I said your photos suck using nicer words,while suggesting an easy way to get better ones, well, you shouldn't be bothered as you already said pretty much the same thing. I don't think anyones model figures look too good with a direct flash, but in the case of your pic's, the U.S. personel look bright & shiny-- like action figures. It's a huge contrast with the very-real-looking backdrop. Honestly the Arabs look alot better to me, better integrated. Now i'm not taking the time to tell you this because I want to burst your bubble, I actually think you are on your way to being a world-class modeler, but not there yet(who is?) The thing is, if an artist is 70 o/o toward an ideal with a work and people come in and say--"Oh man thats awsome/amazing,ect, sometimes that artist will neglect to go the other 30 o/o having already gotten the kind of reaction he'd been after from a few onlookers, but never having met his potentional. This is a common artistic tragedy of sorts. Now, would you agree with me that what we are involved in with diorama building is an artform? I don't think there's any doubt about it. And my friend,,,,,,,,,,I know what art is,,,,,,,which is no small accomplishment. Something I have enjoyed doing over the years is going to art opennings and meeting the artist(all kinds, all mediums)If I get the chance, I like to ask the artist a really common question in such circles, and usually get pretty mundane, milky, incomplete awnsers. The simple question :"What is Art?" Usual awnsers include "Art is in the eye of the beholder" or" art is anything"or "art is the beauty of life",blah,blah,blah,"ect,ect well I will tell what it is.......Art is an expression, shared through a medium. That's it. always. Any kind of expression, any kind of medium. And, for the artist, Art is always a study in contrast and consistancy. (You have to have both) this is the secret to creatiing a good,effective work-a good balance of both.
So what I was seeing was something unfinished, and you have to take with a grain of salt all the comments you get(good & bad) and do as you feel your work needs--while trying to look at your oun work objectively, which is really difficult to do, because as you said-this is your baby, you've been developing it for nine months! I just saw these figures that were very thoughtfully painted, but not quite finished(to me)and showed up too well against the backdrop(much too much contrast) trust me I wouldn't take this kind of time for someone I didn't like. doing work I don't like. I just think that you need to be encouraged to reach your potentional, not encouraged to feel you've reached it. until next....................Indy