Hi,
So work is kinda busy as of late....but I found some time today to compile these expressions that I had worked on for my head sculpture. All of these high poly sculpting packages continue to amaze me. I am still wrestling with the ZBrush interface a bit...but I think the fun part outweighs the technical interface gymnastics you have to perform when you hunker down to a ZBrush sculpting session....a little.
So my favorite figure drawing teacher had a favorite quote that he would often recite to his different classes. Because I had the fortune of taking an uncountable number of this teacher's classes, I had seen him refer to this quote many times. I have a theory that you won't hear something until you are "ready" to hear it. It was on a hot July day in a stuffy figure drawing room in the valley down in Los Angeles. We had just finished our morning session of drawing and I was ready for our lunch. Our teacher whipped out this familiar old paper back book and I knew he was going to break out the old "my favorite artist quote" chestnut again. So I ignored my grumbling stomach and listened. Going almost unnoticed, I could hear a lump in his throat as he read it slowly trying to communicate the gravity that this philosophy had for him and that he really wished that some of us could take away the spirit of the words with us throughout our careers as artists. I really did "hear" what he he wanted us to hear that day. The quote went like this:
From the age of six I had a penchant for copying the form of things, and from about fifty, my pictures were frequently published; but until the age of seventy, nothing that I drew was worthy of notice. At seventy-three years, I was somewhat able to fathom the growth of plants and trees, and the structure of birds, animals, insects, and fish. Thus when I reach eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I wil have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive. Those of you who live long enough, bear witness that these words of mine prove not false.
My teacher's name is Glenn Vilppu and the artist that he quoted was Hokusai.
Thanks Glenn!!!!!!!
later,
Chris
