Hi, friends, for the drawing plan 84, yesterday, I met with my friend Steve over Zoom to discuss Algorithmic Artwork. During the event, the most challenging part was keeping the conversation natural and free-flowing. Such as not interrupting each other with our questions or getting too excited. Meanwhile, the best part was watching my friend show me the tooling. For example, love his use of Rhino, NetLogo, and Zbrush. Therefore, for the drawing plan 84, let’s start algorithmic artwork illustration.
Hi, friends, for the drawing plan 80, I convinced myself to have fun and play Final Fantasy 7 Remake after dinner. While playing, I realized that I made it to chapter 6. Also, I’m up to the part where I have to blow up reactor 5. On our way to reactor 5, we bumped into Roach, who tried to destroy us as we biked through the train tunnels. After the showdown, we made it to the top where reactor 5 hovers over sector five slums. I’m thrilled that I got to play a little while I don’t play games as often as I would like. Therefore, for the drawing plan 80, let’s keep playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
Yesterday, I was hosting the Imaginative Illustrators of NYC, and our drawing prompt was dancing dancers. Not really knowing what to draw, I went on autopilot and started to sketch clouds. Arrg, 20 mins later I saw lovers dancing in the vapors under the 🌒⚡!
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
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Dancing Lovers in the Clouds
Experience with Imaginative Illustrators of NYC
During my commute to the meetup, I was thinking about the topic. What should I draw? If you already guessed, you get a gold star! Badum Tish! While I googled dancing poses and silhouettes, we had various characters pop in the subway car.
What happened at the meetup?
As you know, New York City is a busy wild place! Especially on a Saturday! For now, I’ll leave you with that got a little inspiration from the commute to the meetup. Upon arrival, I was eager to meet people and hopefully see a few familiar faces. lub-dub-lub-dub-lub-dub … I was the host today! Being nervous, I greeted the ladies and gents and quickly spewed out my art supplies on the table. Almost mechanically, I explained what the topic was about and did my best to answer questions. So we started drawing images of “Dancing Dancers.”
Dancing and Dancers Comic
Why you should be inspired by dancing as a form of art?
During the meetup, a question poped up. Why do I choose dancing as the topic? BWEEP bip bip BWEEP! While alarms were going off in my mind trying to come up with a reasonable explanation, I managed to stitch together the following concoction. Dancing is an art form; it will show emotion and how the body stretches.
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Thank you for reading my story about Dancing Dancers meetup. I posted everybody else art pieces. If you like to see them, please visit our page at meetup.com
Looking forward to going Imaginative Illustrators of NYC, wait! 🛑 New readers? Welcome to my blog! It might be worth reading my intro at striving-pro-artist. Hey, I got to look out for the newbies, but, meanwhile, I’m sketching at lighting speed, looking for purpose and running into challenges every day. While on my journey, I came across a meetup called “Just Draw” and immediately fell for it. Artists of many skill levels mashed together to draw a prompt for the day. I wanted to write more about it, but I wanted to experience the community, and warm up to it. We meet up on Saturday’s and draw for a few hours. During the event, at halftime, we share our progress and describe what we did. Occasionally we go out afterword for dinner or drinks. Although, I don’t prefer the drinking scene.
Imaginative Illustrators Feature
Imaginative Illustrators: City nights
The past two meetups were about video game concept art and city nights. I came in with the plan 🤔 of using 7th Dragon 3 Code: VFO art book for reference material. City Nights wasn’t precisely what the art book contained, but since I was drawing and toning with pencil, it was okay. While drafting my scene, my mind forced me into a tense state. I am new, and I want to impress. Also, it was loud and distracting, but spacious. The skilled crowd of artists spoke about what they created and used various artistic languages to describe the work. Overall, they left me impressed and was entirely into coming back again.
Imaginative Illustrators: City Nights
Prompt: Video Game Concept Art
Back again with Imaginative Illustrators! Okay, the second run in was about environments, villains, heroes, and weapons. Hold it! ✋ I am afraid, I said to myself. I have never drawn scoundrels and protagonists or armaments for that matter. My solution to that issue is to always go in with an open mind. I would recommend that for anybody who is starting out. In fact, the worst thing is that you show up and you can always leave. Luckily for me, I have done a beautiful waterfall picture in the past, so I felt confident. Do you face these issues in your routine? Where do you go? What do you do?
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WAIT… I have more SWEETS to give!
I spoke to a few artists at Imaginative Illustrators that give me a lot of things to check out. In fact, I have a screenshot of a Google Keep with a wealth of information! For whatever reason, I’m impressed that the Cranberry Cafe, has a bathroom on the second floor! Truth! I didn’t know they had a bathroom until I came back a second time. 😂 In other news, do you know whether I should get another mentor? I’m currently reporting to “The Studio Fine Art Gallery.”
