How did you find your artistic voice?

LeatherGryphon

I know what my artistic voice is, but it's not permitted to voice itself here.  So there aren't any in DAZ's gallery. 

How I found it isn't worth telling, but it had a lot to do with voyeurism.

AgitatedRiot

WendyLuvsCatz said:

marble said:

WendyLuvsCatz said:

N-RArts said:

I wasn't aware that I had one. I just rendered pictures of video game characters that I liked.

If I did have one, it's disappeared. I haven't had it since I lost my feline muse last September.

having lost a beloved friend (my forum avatar) last month, I feel your pain  

Wendy, I'm sorry ... I sobbed for a week after losing my kitty 20 years ago and have not had the heart to get another only to go through that again. I don't know if you have Amazon Prime Video but last night I watched this movie and I imagine it would interest you:

and  N-RArts too, I was devastated and still am, my brother lost a kitty too but he went missing and fate unknown

I was in the backyard when a Red Tail grab one of my cats. Then we lost another due to old age. Our Rabbit at 12 years old. You can housebreak them and they will go in the litter box. Then I may have accidentally may have killed my third cat. He had an allergic reaction to Ash trees. and I burnt one in my fireplace. Poor guy broke out in scabs and threw a blood clot out. Had to put him down. A 60-year man is about to cry again over that. All but the one is on my mantel in little jars. Still have 2 one is way old and I won't take her to the vet ever again. It's because of her age. I don't have outdoor cats, and the little one just turn one. He's a riot.

BandoriFan

I try to be organized

You cannot have a good painting without a good underdrawing 

I like lights so I try making them pop more 

WendyLuvsCatz

BandoriFan said:

I try to be organized

You cannot have a good painting without a good underdrawing 

I like lights so I try making them pop more 

would you believe this was a revelation to me, I was floored going to actual exhibitions of great artists and seeing their work in progress sketches and learning for the first time in my life

they sketch or lightly paint on the canvas first !!!!

I had lousy teachers in school when it came to art, I drew a lot myself of my own volition but when it came to painting they were very much you just paint a background IE sky, land etc

then do the next layer

NO PAINT BY NUMBERS, Trancing etc IT HADTO BE FREEHAND with the brush

Hell all the drawings I could have done free hand from my own imagination and then traced and transfered to my canvas to paint over, if only I knew!

nicstt

I'm still looking.

Paintbox

Well, it all starts with your desk. Creativity needs a place and a time, and from there your fancy can just grow into an imaginative garden. Watch this video from a long time ago , in a galaxy far away : The Common Desk.

juvesatriani

When doing music ,I`ve searching inspiration  from movie or novel synopsis meanwhile for images I`m always starting from short and popular phrase /slogan

Then I`m creating several scene until I find something which I think close enough to capture that text or phrase .

Another trick my teacher told me was Observe - Duplicate - Modify,  then after master with all of  the knowleddges try create it from scratch with my style 

NotAnArtist

I'm not even at the level yet of 'frustrated artist.' But I know art because my parents were great artists. From watching them, I learned:

Using an artistic voice is like speaking a language.

People imitate each other in their speech patterns, right? But what they say is uniquely from their own spirit. A really good speaker can have the listener sensing that he's listening to a unique piece of art.

Writing music is an even more complex art, because you're dealing with chords, melody, rhythms, and combinations of instruments, all working together like colors and objects in a landscape, except with a time factor.

Once you've reached a level of competence in your art, it becomes almost as natural as speaking. I watched my Mom create a landscape or a Sumi-e painting with such speed and flow it was as if she were speaking it. And her style was very much her own.

My Dad was a concert pianist who could play anything from ear after hearing it just once. But he did it with an 'accent' that was clearly his alone - at least when playing dance tunes and the like. His classical music was so complex I have no idea what he was doing. But judging from his fans, I know I was missing something important.

I should mention - I did not inherit their artistic genes! I can't even draw a stick-man! (No, I do not look like the postman, and I am offended by that joke! My Mom would think it's hilarious, though).

I do have an artistic voice, but it mumbles too much so I keep my radio on for distraction.

I mostly use DS for the fun of it, and I don't need to be good at it. But that's not art! And now I'm sounding like my parents.

I'm so glad the OP asked the question, and I really appreciate the responses! It's a fascinating thread.

watchdog79

I am still looking for my own.

I like to imagine I do have one already, but let us be realistic - I am merely a Daz hobbyist, basically still a beginner. Since my drawing skills stopped improving mid-kindergarten, I had to find other ways to express myself. Painting wargames miniatures and writing. Then I found Daz Studio, and I was suddenly able to visualize my imagination for the others on a level I had never thought possible before. A handful of people seem to like my art, and I am trying to find out what works best for them. Other than attractive, well-endowed, scantily clad ladies, that is, because that just seems to work every time.