Did I ever mention to you guys about my final year thesis? Well to me it is more like project to me though. I am actually currently working/producing on a book about South East Asian’s traditional attire, with descriptions on simple history introductions and how does one tell the difference of this attire from the other nations. It’s not an easy work to complete since I work solo for this project. But I received help from my university’s mates and juniors, and from the wonderful Gin as well. While rushing my final year project, I get to have some opportunity to show people around my work. After that, things get a little awkward. Most of the time I get people who thinks it’s cool since Japan is not familiar with SEA yet. The other time, I will get the “You really think people are going to buy it? Your art looks very ‘unique’.” And by ‘unique’, we know it just the usual Japanese art of speech. They don’t want to hurt people feelings, so they tend to make a big turn, but sometimes you can still feel the thorn piercing. There are still another kind of reaction as well, which will always get into my nerves. They will go, “Why are you interested in such things?? They are useless aren’t they? Nobody gives a big deal on traditional attires anyway. It’s just final year thesis, you don’t need to accomplish that much perfection and profession.” As my followers, you guys who have been following me for some time, my art is more like my kind of style, not the mainstream style, nor the professional style like sakimichan, yuumei and many other great artists in DA we know. And you are really like my die-hard follower (lol wrong expression sorry with my weird English), I am still in the middle of experimenting. And, I think mostly of you get it, other than drawing originals, I draw stuffs which are related to my interests very often. You can find it in my fan arts, you can also find it in my originals too. To be frank, I do not see drawing as an activity, I see drawing as a tool of getting confirmation (idea expression side) and tool of expressing my mental state. I have some problems in conveying through speech, and it is stressing my out only with the art of talking. Plus, growing up in traditional Chinese family, right choice of words at the right choice of situation is killing me. That’s where I found my tool to convey. From then, drawing is not really something I like, it is something I cannot exclude in my life as a utensil to show my true self to the world. My style, to be honest, is what the Japanese says as “once accepted, it’s not about the love and hate anymore.” Means? My style of drawing, which is “Mixed-up” from one of them said, is not likely to be popular in Japan, but that’s not the point. The main point here is it will be difficult to let people to accept my style and get attached. I heard that and I gave up instantly for the contest of being a full-fledged illustrator. And that moment I decided to embrace digital art. Another thing I realised in many years of drawing life, if you are drawing you are have to be very, very good like the talented artists above; or your style will have to be dashing, unique but still providing the market quality; otherwise, market quality that only feeds the market with zero self-expression. If you are non above, you are not going to be acknowledged (here I mean let anyone to get to know you, not about being famous). Basically, people nowadays rarely care about what the artist try to convey, they only care about how the art look like, if it’s not decently done then no one will even look at it. (I am not going to the fandom problem) What about interest? How and why would I gain interest on traditional attires from Hanfu to 15~16th century European court dress, animation/anime/manga from RWBY to Psycho-Pass, DC comics, professional subject from philosophy (or maybe not that professional) to marketing, various artist from HuaSanChuan to Mucha, music from classical to pop-rock to recently vocaloid music and modern style traditional Chinese pop music. This I cannot say, despite it sounds awfully a lot and can get really annoying, but I am composed mostly from my interest. Without them, I will be nothing (this will go down to the philosophical side if I continue, so I will leave it here). Maybe this kind of person is quite acceptable in western countries, but not in my growing environment nor my studying environment. No one from my middle school talks about Da Vinci, no one in my family talks about Batman and no one around me is a traditional attire maniac like I do. I would really like to talk with people who share the same interests as I do, additionally, I also want to share what I know to people as well. Hence, the two dots are joined. So? Let’s conclude this shall we?? No one in the past, not even the modern artist say how someone’s drawing style should be like, so I am sticking with my current style. I am both content in terms of comfortable and unsatisfied in terms of technique. But let me be clear that, I draw what I wanted to draw because I want to. I want to share, learn, convey and communicate. Not just only my interests, also as the girl behind the PC monitor. Let me know about your interests and the reason you start creative activities as well. I would love to know. PS: I will post my final year project, maybe by late February.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:13:23 +0000
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