Overcoming Mindsets
In our culture when we are growing up we are learning the basic things of survival. Not how to survive in the nature, but how to survive in the community we are living in. How to talk to each other what body sings should we use, how to fit in perfectly in a place. This sort of kills the imagination and the creativity in a young person. But if you stand out and aren’t necessarily following all the rules, you can still fit in. I think a good artist is who can create something exciting from subjects, materials, pictures what others would avoid even looking at.
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| Niemann’s illustrations are very simple but he still fills the simplest image with humour, delight and criticism as well. And there is no other way, you have to be straightforward or your audience might get confused or just bored. |
No one ever publishes what he or she draws down first. You’re experimenting with angles, changing colours, taking things out, and putting new ideas in. You might not even realize how much you went through to do one piece of work, but that’s a good thing because that means that you enjoyed it. If you are struggling with something maybe you’re on the wrong path and you have to open your mind to view things from different aspects.
I have never draw a lot. I thought I wasn’t good at it but it’s all about practice and how much you put in it. Although I’m into photography I started drawing for this project at my university. They are simple but I like to put humour in them, which hopefully makes them enjoyable to look at. I like to experiment, make many variations of one picture and then chose the one that really gets my attention even if I look at it days/weeks later.
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| The thinking Man |
Getting Rid of Assumptions
We believe in a lot of things, we believe we know a lot of things. You know what music they listen to, what places they go, that they’re happy or not from just looking at their clothes. The cloth you ware, what hairstyle you have obviously important in today’s world but making conclusion without talking to someone can be dangerous. After all you will stuck in the same false thinking. Don’t be afraid to change they way of your thinking and other’s either.
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| Sam Webber's painting of Cleopatra for National Geographic |
As he didn’t have a lot of resources to work from, he had to create something from his own knowledge. “We wanted to show both her strength and character while at the same time evoking the mystery that has become synonymous with her legend and name” – says Webber. A very detailed artwork, like the earring refers that she killed herself with a snake.
For the magazine we are making as part of a university project about Birmingham, I’m writing about J.R.R. Tolkien’s relationship with the city.
Other then just taking a picture of places that influenced him, I’m going to make a drawing including a place that may have inspired the images of the dark towers with fictional pictures out of the story itself.
I’ll put these on the blog later on.
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