Poetry's drawings and stuff

Back to that last maple work. Using info from this http://muddycolors.blogspot.com.au/2014/...nting.html I'm trying to drag the viewer much closer to the action, mainly through the distortion of the sword into the foreground. Looking at some LoL art (from the "Rito Store" thread) I noticed a very similar trend.

Attempts at value massing, gesture and composition.


How I want to control the viewers eye

 Spoiler

• i. First read of the darker larger figure (1)
  ii.Up through the intended swing of the sword or through the force behind the cape folds to the second figure (2)
  iii. Contain their vision with the concentric rings behind the lighter figure
  iv. Make the focal point (F) the point of highest contrast.

Inspired by a visit to the Art Gallery of News South Wales, I just paid attention to how my vision flowed through the different paintings and I'm trying to apply that to what I make.

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Literally copy pasted this from my permanoobs sketchbook... I was flipping images before to make my online history harder to track, e.g. my posts on southperry being linkable to my (very small) identity as an artist but. eh screwit.
In general more diary like news (which I keep out of the other thread):

My ATAR and final highschool marks are coming out in a week. The things that are 66% of my criteria to get into Optometry school. Woo. Keen for that.
My wrist issues seem to be decreasing in severity, I was able to doodle on my tablet for hours today.


Also in about... uhm 30 days? Itll be the one year anniversary of that second defining moment where two people commented:

• "This should be in the cringeworthy gallery"
  "Looks like something -blah-* would upload"

*-blah- was a user who normally uploaded very weirdly drawn mylittlepony fanart. Yea. I drew terrible fanart but its made me the person I am now.

Funny how just two, two posts could kickstart the path I took to my current mindset and skills (however minor). Those two people (and the odd 7 that downvoted) don't even know the impact their words had. Without them I would've never found that real ambition to improve, I never would've wound up on /ic/, I never would've read this, I never would've read all those books and watched all those videos. I never would've drained hundreds of pages of paper on practice. I never would've seethed with envy over other people's work or experienced that insane satisfaction of realizing drawing well was no longer magic or unattainable , I never would've become so against the word "talent". I never would've had the same sense of purpose in life.

Damn. Drawing is so much different now to me, both in how I go about it and my attitude, and whats cool is I know that as I go on this will continue to evolve.

Lookin forward to how I handle this with university and life in general next year.