Ming-Na Wen

[cagathoc]

http://www.wetcanvas.com/Critiques/User/ming.JPG

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Cindy Agathocleous

"What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience?" - Rollo May from The Courage to Create

[tammy]

Sometimes the simplist is the most beautiful!
I like it.
Nice clean lines

[Kimber74]

Cindy,

This one has such a serene look, very simple and calm. Are you thinking about doing a collage based on this?

[Mayet Ankh]

This is a nice composition. Simple lines. I agree with Kimber it would make a nice collage.
Mayet

[Painter]

Nice! Good use of the page.

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God Blesses!
Ched

[loenart]

Was this done without preliminary sketch lines? Drawn from life, photo, or memory?

It's very difficult to create an image with a minimum number of lines and no roughed out sketch.

This one is like a haiku.

My only quibble with the composition are those two horizontal lines that touch the head. I might have left them looser, not touching the hair. A very small thing. Might have left them out, as on the right.


http://www.wetcanvas.com/Critiques/User/ming2.jpg

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Michael Loen



[This message has been edited by loenart (edited May 30, 2000).]

[MichaelRH]

VERY nice Cindy. Your lines say a lot. Interesting how the straight lines and angles work with the curved ones. They work very well on the page, I agree with Ched and Mayet Ankh.

[Gerak]

Cindy, I like her, she's lovely!
Her fingers a bit strange, looks like she's holding a cigarette. I know she's not! http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/smile.gif

[cagathoc]

Originally posted by loenart:
Was this done without preliminary sketch lines? Drawn from life, photo, or memory?
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No preliminary sketch lines - directly drawn in china marker on manilla paper. Inspiration from a photo & a lot of emotion and memory put into manipulating the forms into the drawing.


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Cindy Agathocleous

"What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience?" - Rollo May from The Courage to Create

[Cindy]

Originally posted by Sandi:
those same lines curve back down into the comp... and they allow the imagination to play, ie.. wings? couch back? mountains?
Which is always fun for the viewer.


I won't tell then. http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/wink.gif

[loenart]

What happened? Did you change your sign-on so you can start over accumulating stars?

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Michael Loen

[Cindy]

Originally posted by loenart:
What happened? Did you change your sign-on so you can start over accumulating stars?



Michael,

Yes, it's still me 'cagathoc' - just going by 'Cindy' to make things easier ...

http://www.wetcanvas.com/ubb/wink.gif


Cindy aka cagathoc

[Painter]

I like the horizontal lines. I think they are very important to the composition.

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God Blesses!
Ched

[loenart]

Ok...now that I've seen all three versions of your drawing a few times, I think the original is the best. Those lines create some sort of tension (?).

Design is very subtle. I'm working on a one page flyer, mostly type, and the smallest adjustments in the type and the white space change the whole demeanor of the layout, adding another kind of commmunication to the written word.

When the two lines are removed, the drawing becomes less interesting and ordinary.

Composition is a mystery to me. Small changes make a big difference, especially in a fragile drawing.

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Michael Loen

[This message has been edited by loenart (edited May 31, 2000).]