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Submitted: December 31, 2008
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Untitled0903by ~Joaris333

Digital Art / Vexel / People

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

This illustration is one of the many fast-as-hell pieces, made with gradients, for my Graduate School Portfolio. I found myself running low on time (and reference images) and needed to come up with something fast.

Helpers for my graduate portfolio were few and far in between, but I was lucky enough to get some guidance from a great professor of mine at NYU.

Before working with my professor, I had put little thought into WHY I did these paintings and what effect they may have on my viewers. I most of all never really thought about why I use celebrities as references for portraits.

I guess through art, the viewer gets to experience someone they would never normally be able to experience. After all, isn't that how we experience most celebrities? Usually through a medium, whether it be photography or a painting, but rarely as a true physical representation. Through art, we get the chance to connect with a very real person through a very unreal medium.

Wrestling with these thoughts made my head hurt, and drove me bat crazy. But in the end, I'm glad my professor challenged me and made me think: Why... Why am I doing this? Why do I make these paintings? And of all the people and things I could draw, why this particular person?

I think it's something to consider when dealing with art and expression. It may not be an easy question to answer, but hey, maybe there doesn't have to be an answer

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Given 2009-08-23

Untitled0903 by ~Joaris333 "is the type of vexel that is DD worthy". Absolutely correct, this NEEDS to be featured! ( Suggested by ~xyphid and Featured by `Jules1983 )

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~Jahlouse Oct 2, 2012

full of happyness : like it !!!

~Joaris333 Oct 6, 2012

Thanks!

*Puppetcancer Aug 28, 2011

It says something that I clicked on this drawing, read your comments, and THEN scrolled down to suddenly notice, "Oh. It won a DD, too. My bad." LOL Great job on this, and thanks big time for typing out your comments, especially on the bit about self-reflection and WHY you chose celebrities as reference material.