mustang GTR Pen & Ink.

[grantrl78]

Both of you rule!
Thanks for the help.
I really respect your opinions alot.
Bonzelite you have helped my drawing and confidence so much!
You were telling me what I needed to hear.
And Clearhooter thanks again for the reply.
Damn - you sound like an illustration prof too. You are both smarter than I am.
BTW you are right about that missing rear passenger side wheel.
Should be easy to fix though.

[lemorris]

The pen and ink work is great...ditto to you what I said to GirlBear.

You have a confident line and combined with a great eye for color your stuff rocks.

Now....DO MORE!!!

-Lemorris

[bonzelite]

grant, i am professional. now i suggest you become the same. you can do it. follow your true calling in life. enjoy your life with the gifts you already have. if others don't believe in you, then they are not important. don't listen to them. listen to us.

lemorris, hello.

[asaenz]

Wow! your digital coloring looks fantastic.
Awesome job.

al

[grantrl78]

Damn! lemorris - bonzelite and asaenz you are all awesome!
Thanks for the compliments. All of your work is to be envied. Bonzelite,
I have never had anybody suggest that to me. It makes me feel really good!
I will work very hard to finish enough stuff to put into a portfolio. Thankyou
for the advise.

[bonzelite]

Originally Posted by grantrl78

I have never had anybody suggest that to me. It makes me feel really good! I will work very hard to finish enough stuff to put into a portfolio. Thankyou for the advise.

your welcome. just stay focused: the years will get by. you will endure change. people. social scene. money. fortune. failure --your drawing life must cut through all of that. it must be protected and given a means to mature. walk away from bullshit. you will find things that work for you. other things will not. the drawing will find you as much as you pursue it. success will come for you in it's own way. it will suit who you are, as it will vary from artist to artist.

allow for time to unfold and reveal things: what was once cool for me, at a younger age, is no longer so fulfilling. your career will change as you personally change. yesterday's good thing may be today's old news. allow yourself the gift of flexibility. this will keep you hungry for another chapter of your life, as complacency is the death of all art.

this goes for all who happen to read this thread, as well: you know who you are. a good many of you are very gifted.

[knightvision]

^ these are some wise words. for real. I think I understand what you mean bonzelite. Most of us are quite young, 17 or younger, and there are a lot of things that change as time goes by.
I don't want to sound like a philosopher but I also think that a real artist should be open to everything new. new techniques, new methods, new themes to draw. There's so much everyone of us is able to do. Thatswhy this forum is that great. It opens new horizons.

[bonzelite]

right. you get it.

i will say that, particularly when you get to your twenties, the choices that you make about your life will heavily impact the rest of your life.

many people in this time of life are very immature and they "live for now." and that is all good. i did, too. but that is NOT all that i did.

you cannot just go about and sleepwalk. you *should* have fun and enjoy your youth. but while you are doing this, quietly be sitting back, looking at yourself from a close distance; keeping yourself on a general flight path.

mine was drawing. i was 22 when i decided to seriously pursue it as a career. not just because i was gifted. i wanted a real future: a house, an income, a car, a means to retirement. there was a practical side, as well, guiding my choices. in short, i had to sacrifice some things to play later. yet, the beauty of it was that i was always playing. i was drawing. paid or not. i just kept doing it until someone wanted to actually pay me.

rule #1: gifted people often end up broke and drunk or dead. their gift kills them because they think the gift alone will "save" them. but it does not. a prima donna will only last for so long before they end up old, passe', and invisible. many "talented" people are too soon given things that many must fight for. therefore, they can fall into a complacency trap. this keeps them at a mediocre level as the years roll by, and they remain the same. and the world is chock-full of it.

it takes total comittment and determination to pursue a career in the arts. and the development of skill. otherwise, you will become a has-been, and will work at starbucks when you are 36 years old.

believe me. i see it every day in los angeles: a town full of talented people, most of whom never really quite "make it." yet a good many do succeed. and most who do have done it because they invested years into themselves when their peers were out f*cking off.

[GirlBear]

Nice!! you did a good job homie

[grantrl78]

Bonzelite those are two amazing posts. :22yikes:
I will save them and look back over everything you have said and use it
for direction. In the small town where I live - it is impossible to get such great insight on the world of commercial art.

"it takes total comittment and determination to pursue a career in the arts. and the development of skill"

Man I have alot to learn. And I only hope that I have the serious drive and committment that you are talking about. I will definitely try my best. My only fear is that I will back myself into a corner and hurt my chances with other careers.

I agree with knightvision - your posts are really wize. I know that you will have a big impact on the direction that I go.

And thanx girlbear. You rock!