Senior Experience Final Week

I have to say I'm experiencing the biggest and most important obstacle now, the lacking of imagination and impression. Like one manga artist once said: "manga seems easy in other's mind, but a true mangaka converts complicated object to simple to create impression. That is totally true, and I believe that is also why professional manga artists spend tens of years to strengthen their skills. For example, it is so freaking easy for me using thousands of strokes to sketch realistic human body when there is a reference, but when it comes using couple lines to presents an action of human only through the brain, it becomes harder. For now I can only draw some simple actions, but the hard part for me to create an impressive image because my imaginations isn't at the same stage as skills. Most tutorials suggest I should trace pro's pieces, and I never tried it because of that stupid stubbornness of originality, but now I think that may be the shortest way to improve my skills, so... I think I will try it during this summer!!! BTW, reading mangas help developing ideas a lot, but like I said, the hard part is merging the ideas with skills, the process of creating own style. What changes my mind is also the manga I'm reading these weeks: Fairy Tails. I believe every anime fan should be able to find out some similarities either from the style and story line between Fairy Tail and other popular mangas from Jump like One Piece, Bleach, Gintama, Dragon Ball, etc. Blah, blah, blah...(the following omits thousand words). Anyway, in the piece below, most of the image is sky because when artists don't have ideas, they use clouds (this can be verify through pieces in any art museum), and ...(the following omits thousand words again)...

Senior Experience 2nd Week

Stayed at home whole week and spent most of time reading tutorials still, and finished one trail. Now I' m working on a multi-figure complex composition painting, hope I can finish it before the end of senior experience.

Outlining.

Fill with base colors.

Add effects and adjust colors.

Ditto.

Change levels, contrast, hue and saturation.

Senior Experience...

Here is my first week summary of senior experience...out of schedule (still kept on track of reading tutorials of manga and digital drawing). Eh, I have to say without schedule seems like my only schedule because I couldn't control my curiosity and I learn many others things without letting others know (not because of selfish, but the ego tells me I better not showing in front of others when I suck). So, the first week is busy as usual and I went to Niagara Fall and art museums (national one in DC and Cocoran) to seek inspirations (in fact I wanted to relax... but I accidentally connected all my ideas to draw the outline of my philosophical system during this week). BTW,I have to say most modern art pieces in the museums are disgusting. Anyway, there are some raw pictures (not edited) of fall below:

Love this one without reason.

I don't know why colors turned out so weird...

The place where I took bird view of fall.

What a coincidence, the paintings of Niagara Fall in the museum.

Never feel good about modern arts, but like the fashion colors in this piece.

Imperial decorations during medieval period.

...are you kidding me... wth is this...

This piece reminded me of the joke "How to draw a portrait", draw a circle then finish the f***ing rest.

I wonder if they picked this up from the trash can of a art school...

Feel like digital design, and colors are vivid.

Stop hurting my eyes!!!

Intro, of Avi Gupta, a photojournalist. The exhibit in Cocoran this time is about his experiences in India. Here are some of his photographs took inside different houses of India.