can you show your borchuga sketches if you still have them or if you made any?
spire, ill be honest, but I really do envy your artistic talent
The sketches were little doodles on a notepad. Nothing worth showing, trust me
And thank you zrky, you flatter me.
Pretty cool stuff, I really like the 4th one. And I love the way you portray Zelda! It's cool to get a different view on a character!
I enjoy portraying characters as how I'd like to see them. I guess my view is different from that of Nintendo, eh? The fourth, while the oldest of the bunch, still means a lot to me. These have all come out of rough times in my life, but "Aphorism" came out of a time where I thought things were going well for myself, but they truly weren't (hence the title of the piece).
Wow, your drawings are amazing :] I seriously envy you for being able to do such amazing and elaborate backgrounds and scenery, great colour schemes and toning! I particularily like the second piece, very pretty :]
Thanks a million, Thundermistress
I work my hardest to capture very specific color schemes by limiting my palette in order to create a certain atmosphere.
First off, those pictures are fantastic, I especially like the 2nd one, as I believe it fills this: "Currently, my aim is to create meditative worlds in which the viewer may find their self positioned." perfectly.
What materials do you use to make those pictures? I've not actually drawn anything proper since I left school, and this makes me want to draw again.
Keep up the fantastic work Spire
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Oh, I will keep up the fantastic work! I'll be completing the painting that I've promised you all very soon along with some new ones in the next couple of weeks.
The purpose of these paintings is for the viewer to bring into them what ever they wish, as that is what they'll have to meditate on while experiencing these worlds. I create them very distinctively so that each feels very different from the last. However, I've yet to really branch away from the jagged-rock scheme, with "Web" being my closest encounter. It is this hindrance that I fall back to changing other elements to convey a different atmosphere rather than changing the 'material' of what the subject matter is composed of. I can't say why exactly I've not deviated from painting such intense rock formations, as you'll definitely see in my coming piece.
Perhaps I'm holding on to something of my past so firmly, yet desperately, which is why I've painted so many jagged rocks. Maybe it's time for me to let go and move on to something far more... "living", if you will - painting subject matter that breathes rather than worlds void of life other than the viewer alone. It is this constant struggle that acts both as an impetus to continue painting and as a hindrance to keep me from painting more than I already am.
