The Creative Side

[Patricia]

This subforum is described as a place to talk about "things NOT related to fitness." What's funny, is that my creative side has very much affected my physically active side. And vice versa.

Both are very much a strong part of me. When I'm not physically active enough, my creative side suffers. When I'm my normal, hyper active self, my creative side blossoms. So you get the gist of it.

Anyways, here are some results of when both sides come together. BTW, I won't post all three (all that I'm posting here), in one post. Here's the first of three.

[Patricia]

Another one. This one is on my online portfolio site. And it the second of a series of about five (so far). I'm currently working on the next two of the series. Hopefully by next week, they'll both be completed via Photoshop.

[Patricia]

Character sketch. I'm doing a whole series of my "Women With Big Hair" (© PSmith, btw), in more futuristic/fantasy settings. Here's the first.....




Hope these were enjoyable. Now, I gotta get back to the drawing table and then finish a testimonial that I've been working on. Later.

[Jimbo]

Really kyoool art work. Sweet.

[Lost Dog]

Great stuff!

I think I remember you being a comic book fan, so I'm sure you won't take this the wrong way, but have you done any comics? You've got a flair...

While I don't think most comics are really art, they can be. I do like art in a "comic book" style, as well.

I get you on the physical and creative sides meshing. I have some of my best thoughts in and around my workouts. Unfortunately, I don't implement. Obviously, you do.

[Kaiser]

Cool stuff Patricia. The first one kinda looks like it is set in the James Bond 'eye'.

By chance, are you left handed? (ya know, the old thing about lefties and creativeness)

[Paradigm]

I too thought comic book at first, but then after coming back to look at them it's definitely different, and like I like the hair

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by Lost_Dog

Great stuff!

I think I remember you being a comic book fan, so I'm sure you won't take this the wrong way, but have you done any comics? You've got a flair...

While I don't think most comics are really art, they can be. I do like art in a "comic book" style, as well.

I get you on the physical and creative sides meshing. I have some of my best thoughts in and around my workouts. Unfortunately, I don't implement. Obviously, you do.

Comic books are indeed art. Or one part of it. They encompass all sorts of styles and show how visual storytelling can be succesful via a variety of visual stylings.

You have "classic", overly exagerrated, dynamic, cartoony and the medium ranges from typical pencil/pen to painted. And for the last twenty years, movie studios have been bringing comic book talent over for storyboarding and conceptual design tasks. Guys like Geoff Darrow (one of my faves, his current "Shaolin Cowboy" is a must read), whose storyboards and conceptual art is the basis of the "Matrix" - do very well in the movie industry.

Some of the best reads are comic books; for example, "The Watchmen" is probably the best damn read ever, IMO. What a book. Incredible stuff. It's an extremely layered story that every time I read it, I find something new. And the art is pitch perfect in providing the story visual depth.

I often jot down in my training log any thoughts or ideas that come to my mind; my logs are often covered in doodles.

[Patricia]

Originally Posted by Kaiser

Cool stuff Patricia. The first one kinda looks like it is set in the James Bond 'eye'.

By chance, are you left handed? (ya know, the old thing about lefties and creativeness)

I do draw/write/paint with my left hand. However, when I'm coloring or working via Photoshop on the computer - I still use my right hand. I'm also capable of playing soccer from either the right or left; which is why I was center midfielder since I can kick/pass from either leg. I also do not play softball "south paw", but just as a regular old right hander.

Crazy, eh?

My favorite artist, Frank Frazetta, had a stroke that disabled the use of his right hand so he had to relearn to draw using his left. And he now draws/paints just as good with the left. I think that whole, "lefty=creative" is a bit overexaggerated. I know several creative pros who are REALLY good - and they're righties.

[Patricia]

Some recent (from this last week) preliminary sketches. A couple have been inked in case I decided to use 'em (scan, complete in either Photoshop or Painter IX).

This one will be "Boink":




Not sure what this one will be, but something with "Wuxia" (anyone who knows of Shaw Brother films will know what that word means). And I'm still working out the background:

[Lost Dog]

"The Watchmen" was great, I agree. It's been years, though...

My best friend and I were really into comics, but he and I had a falling out/drifting apart/get while the gettin's good sorta thing. Pretty much everything we did (him, binge drinking, comics, living with parents, being a loser, etc), I ditched. Kinda miss the comics, though.

[kuri]

I'm digging your work Patricia!

Always wished I had some talent for visual arts but am missing that gene. So got into music as well. Yeah I'm a lefty but play guitar right handed.

[Deserve]

Being from Texas I have a thing for big hair. I like Checker from the online gallery.

Is Portland a semi-arts enclave? I've recently met several people from that area with an artistic bent.

Thank you for sharing.

[Jean-Paul]

I need to drag my artist brother up to this thread (he rarely ventures out of the CE forum). He will certainly appreciate these. Although your content is very different, your style seems similar to his... Especially with this photo:



He was a Disney animator for 12 years, so you could say he's drawn a few piccies!

cool

[Ruma]

Great work Patricia. Art is a great stress buster. Glad you have the ability.

[Kaiser]

Originally Posted by kuri

Always wished I had some talent for visual arts but am missing that gene. So got into music as well. Yeah I'm a lefty but play guitar right handed.

Jimi is rolling over in his grave right now.

Originally Posted by Patricia

I do draw/write/paint with my left hand. However, when I'm coloring or working via Photoshop on the computer - I still use my right hand. I'm also capable of playing soccer from either the right or left; which is why I was center midfielder since I can kick/pass from either leg. I also do not play softball "south paw", but just as a regular old right hander.

Crazy, eh?

My favorite artist, Frank Frazetta, had a stroke that disabled the use of his right hand so he had to relearn to draw using his left. And he now draws/paints just as good with the left. I think that whole, "lefty=creative" is a bit overexaggerated. I know several creative pros who are REALLY good - and they're righties.

I think it is an overgeneralization as well, but aprocryphal evidence (and my own need to feel 'special') always leads me to note when creative people are lefties.

I draw, write, paint left handed, but pixel paint/draw with my right (as you do). Interestingly, I also play soccer well with both feet and that is why I played center midfielder as well (interesting coincidence). But I bat and swing a gold club lefty (when I used to waste my time playing golf), but used to putt both ways: close up as a rightie and farther as a lefty. I think it came from my 2-handed tennis backhand, which was my better shot and leads me to play (street) hockey with a righty stick. When I played competitive tennis, for kicks we used to play entire sets with our non-dominant hand and I got pretty good at being a righty. I used to be accurately able to throw a football with my right hand for a distance of 30 yards (while my dominant left clocked in at a 67 yard long throw once). I can eat (with utensils) or drink equally well with both hands (not as easy as it sounds, from what I have been told - try to use a utensil with your non dominant hand to eat a meal; it's supposed to feel really awkward). But, oddly, I have to throw a frisbee with my right hand.

So I match you in hand craziness. Because of my mild ambidextrous nature, I've always found hand preference and studies of brain function fascinating.

[kuri]

Hey, you've never heard me play Kaiser. I don't think I'm that bad!