5/25/2009

Hack is a four letter word...

It has been quite some time since I have written a post with any meat on it. I've posted a new entry on influence to the following:

http://illustrationacademy.com/new/blog/

5 comments:

Lune said...

I wrote a mental memo on your quote: "-artists, are charged with the overwhelming responsibility to record the time in which we live. We have the technology to record the way that things look, sound, etc. But nothing, and I mean nothing, can convey human emotion -".

I don't think it had never been described so well. it's very, very true.

Mariko

Mike Bear said...

Hi Sterling,

Thank you for putting one more mark on the Illustration career path for me. I think every week I have a new love; either comics, illustration, or concept art. I'm finding that my main reason for making art is for communicating my ideas, trying to bind all of them, no matter how non-visual into visual form. I often want to go back to school to help myself push past the walls that I hit when I try to bring a sketch to a finished illustration. I would like to try and find the ability to push past those walls myself, but it's proving a little difficult. I usually work on a drawing or painting for just one sitting.

Do you have any advice when it comes to producing an illustration from concept to completion? I find it happening all the time where I'll sketch and sketch ideas and some I really like, but then when it comes to producing them into finished works I lose steam and move on to some other idea. In school, assignments helped give me the motivation to see projects to completion, but now that I'm working I find that I don't have that same motivation.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge online and guiding folks like myself.

-Mike

Michelle deMars said...

::poke!::

~Michelle deMars
http://www.white-gazelle.com

Bill Koeb said...

Great post Sterling. Thanks for the kind words on my work. I would have loved to be able to meet you when I was down at the Academy. Maybe sometime we can figure out a way to get together in Virginia or down here. All my best to you, your wife, and new baby.

Sterling Hundley said...

Lune, Mike, Michelle, and Bill-

thank you all for posting. I've replied to your comments on the Illustration Academy website. Thank you for your continued support.

best regards,

Sterling

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