What the strangest inspiration you’ve gotten for a drawing ?
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I haven’t done a real drawing in 3 months, but last weekend i started one.
And the whole inspiration came frome a phrase.
I was in an english class where the teacher was discussing with us how science has removed our sense of mystery and wonder.
While taking notes I mistakenly wrote “mystery and water” and from then on a picture has been formulating in my head.
How about you.
Words have always been a major source of inspiration to me in my art. Not only with drawings or design but also photography.
From my (old) website I recite:
“Taking text out of its original context and, intuitively, combining it with images was an experiment that was part of my graduation project at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. One of the results was “Every Stranger’s Eyes”: the text on the photographs is based on lyrics from Roger Waters’ “The Pros & Cons of Hitch-Hiking”, and, at first glance, has little to do with the pictures themselves; but two stories are being told here, separate and inseparable at the same time, meeting each other in the last image. Along the way they intensify each other, each giving the other a new dimension. The photographs, that could well have stood on their own, are woven into a personal, symbolic story of purification and self-awareness.
The format of each image is 50 x 60 cm. They were self-printed on photographic paper already 20 years old, which resulted in unexpected effects on the images. This, together with the chemicals not being completely washed and the hand-cut lettering, give the series a unique, personal character.
This series was first exhibited in the summer of 1995 in The Hague Municipal Museum, as part of the exhibition “De Ruimte 1995”.
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Well, I tryed drawing a picture of myself getting attacked by a ninja but I always ended up roundhouse kicking them into outerspace so I could never draw what I wanted.
References :
I’m Chuck Norris.
Words have always been a major source of inspiration to me in my art. Not only with drawings or design but also photography.
From my (old) website I recite:
“Taking text out of its original context and, intuitively, combining it with images was an experiment that was part of my graduation project at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. One of the results was “Every Stranger’s Eyes”: the text on the photographs is based on lyrics from Roger Waters’ “The Pros & Cons of Hitch-Hiking”, and, at first glance, has little to do with the pictures themselves; but two stories are being told here, separate and inseparable at the same time, meeting each other in the last image. Along the way they intensify each other, each giving the other a new dimension. The photographs, that could well have stood on their own, are woven into a personal, symbolic story of purification and self-awareness.
The format of each image is 50 x 60 cm. They were self-printed on photographic paper already 20 years old, which resulted in unexpected effects on the images. This, together with the chemicals not being completely washed and the hand-cut lettering, give the series a unique, personal character.
This series was first exhibited in the summer of 1995 in The Hague Municipal Museum, as part of the exhibition “De Ruimte 1995”.
References :
Check out this series here:
http://www.letterpress.nl/galerie/fotos/stranger/gallery_fotos_stranger_eng.htm (might work a bit clumsy on new browsers)
a frisbee hit me in the head and when i woke up ithe first thing i drew the karate kid “daniel son” kicking mister miaygi in the teeth. the student now becomes the master.
References :
the frisbee