#17

Good drawings IMO

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#18

I remember I had a teacher who insisted it was unacceptable to ever ever work from a reference photo, it always had to be from real life. I don’t know what she thinks book illustrators do.

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#19

Did a huge pencil drawing of myself, sat in the palm of my own hand for A level art. Worked solidly on in for a whole weekend and was really proud of it then the bastards went and lost it before the final exhibiton and I had to have a note in it’s place from my teacher explaining to the exam board that they had lost the work.

#20

I did a brilliant picture of a man in a full Manchester United kit (circa 1989/90) holding hands with a man in a full Arsenal yellow shirt with black sleeves away kit (circa 1989/90) and a mitre delta football with red chevrons between them at the age of 9.

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#21

This specific teacher in question had it in for me after Sean threw a bit of fluff in the VCR and it inexplicably stopped working as a result and none of us would own up as to who had done it

#22

Dunno what the best is. I’m never satisfied with anything I do anyway, it’s the nature of the thing. This one has always been popular as a print:

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#23

I can understand this one though, as a teaching technique.

#24

what does it say? looks cool

#25

Yes but she also insisted no “real” artist had ever done it.

#26

It’s a quote from the Bacchae by Euripedes. At the end the main character’s head is torn off by his own mother with her bare hands under the influence of Dionysus and she parades it round saying “look at this young lion I caught without a trap”. The text at the bottom says Bacchae and Euripides.

#27

One of my favourite comic-book things is seeing the reference photos that artists have of partners and family members in various dramatic poses.

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#28

An illustrator friend of mine often has to resort to taking movement photos of herself with gormless expressions and she puts them up on FB every so often for a laugh.

#29

Drew a really good picture in primary 2 or 3 (so I’d have been 6 or 7 years old) as part of some nativity drawing competition. It was shepherds on a hill overlooking nazareth, with wee sheep :sheep: and the star :star2: and everything. It didn’t win.

A year later the same competition was happening again. I drew an identical picture, and again failed to win.

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#31

Do you know Cy Twombly?

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#32

Yes I like him a lot.

#33

Not sure I’ll top these, mates

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#34

Exceptional drawings pal

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#36

me too

#37

I saw some of his stuff at the Gagosian. the size and energy made the room feel like it was vibrating