My creative process is always interesting for me to be honest. It doesn't feel like I'm just writing, or painting, or drawing; it feels like I'm battling myself. It's always an adventure, and I always learn something new.
I started this drawing more than a month ago, as it was supposed to be a St. Valentine's gift. I didn't know what it was going to be, I don't plan my art, I just let it create itself. So I just go step by step, curious about how it'll turn out. And probably a bit anxious. Okay, really anxious.
I've shared in a couple of past posts the same drawing in different stages, because I liked every stage so much that I felt they could all be used for something different. In every stage I thought that was it, "It's finished!" But hey, I'm Ana, and the thing I discovered about myself this time was: You can always do more, but also, learn when to drop it.
It (as I) suffered a lot along the creation process, I cried on it, I screamed at it, I cried again. In the end, it all seemed to work out pretty well, and it was finally delivered as a present a few days ago.
The process:
1
General outlines, I'm the worst with proportions but it came out okay. I USED A RULER BECAUSE IF I DIDN'T IT'D BE A PICASSO HEART. I LIKE TO SHADE STUFF, I DON'T LIKE DRAWING OUTLINES. First I used a 3H pencil, and then I went again over the lines with a 2B.
2
My favorite part in ever drawing is shading, so I had fun and was actually surprised at how it turned out. Did I draw this? Oh yeah baby, you did.
3
This is stage one. The first time I thought it was ready. I wrote a post and I used this. I really liked it, it didn't take me so long and it was still fun. I felt like it could actually beat. I used 3B, 6B, 8B to shade all of this.
4
Stage two. I couldn't help it. It needed color. I saw a girl paint with watercolors over a pencil drawing and I loved the effect. Sadly, I can't find watercolor paper here, because it would have been even better. I LOVE painting with watercolors, and I've never even done it right (seriously, the paper), but I love to get messy with paint and just the colors and everything <3 I had never used watercolors like this, I fell even more in love. Again, this felt complete, I didn't want to make a mess out of it because it already looked so pretty... But...
I like to ruin beautiful things. There's always the possibility that something great will come out of the fires I set.
5
I had this vision. I wanted it to have flowers. But I don't draw flowers. I didn't know how it would turn out, as I don't know my own style yet, I had something in my mind but I knew that I couldn't recreate it, and that in the end, it would all create itself. As usual. I let it be. I used this one too, for a post. And yet again, I thought it was complete. I felt like somehow I had drawn my own heart. The black and white flowers seemed to express it very well. But it begged for more.
6
I went mad. DRAW ALL THE FLOWERS, MAKE IT BLOOM. TAKE THE RISK, MESS IT UP, SET IT ON FIRE. I mean... Girl, chill. But yeah, I was excited. Too late I realised what a pain in the ass it would be to shade all of this. But I had to go all the way through... right?
7
Flowers came out as mandalas, kind of, but they looked so pretty for me. I spent the whole day shading. My hand hurt. This was when I started to cry. A lot was going on in my life, painting was therapy but also it frustrated me. When it was over, I liked it so much, I didn't believe I was the one who had done it. I put so much effort in it, patience, love... It was beautiful... And it was over... Right?
8
Yeah, I could say it was done. I liked the result, the contrast between the colored heart and the B&W flowers, the shading was nice. I would leave it alone. But the next day it wanted color. So watercolors came to the rescue again. I really liked it though.
9
FINALLY. I spent so many days painting this because each flower was a pain in the ass. I had to plan colors, and it stressed me out. I don't know if I like it as much as I liked it with the B&W flowers, but I did feel like they needed color because otherwise it was kind of a sad heart. And my concept wasn't about a sad heart anymore. I ruined it adding it the prhase, but it had to go there, it has meaning for me.
Always let your heart bloom again. No matter how many times it shatters, no matter how much you want it to stay cold, black and white. Listen to it. It wants to bloom. It will always want to bloom. Don't be scared.
Let it.
Edit: I used this as a reference. I'm sure the original copied reality. Because it's a heart, and nature invented it, and 99% of people can't draw a heart without a reference.
Original Source: Steele, Joel Dorman Hygienic Physiology (New York, NY: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1888)
When I said I wanted some drama token, I didn't mean I wanted this drama, I swear.
Que talentosa esa muchiacha
Gracias a las musas.
Awesome drawing, to bad it stressed you out but good you went for the colours still. I think they really bring the magic to the piece. Thank you for the message <3
I think stress was probably necessary. Art is supposed to make you feel stuff. I know it all looks fun and enjoyable and etc. But like everything in life, it requires things from you, and the more you pour yourself into it, the more it will make you feel. <3 Thank you.
I guess you are right. I am putting myself another stress limit at the moment. I want none of my sketches to take more than two hours. But this is also because I feel like not taking the whole art-thing to serious lately. There where times when I let it stress me as well but at the moment I am creating only for the pleasure, and at least lately it is more enjoyable for me not to get to deep into one piece but rather to sketch a lot of fast things. But I know it can also be a pleasure to work very hard on one piece many many hours. Both ways have their times.
Oh I know that feeling too well. I love when I finish something really quick, it turns out to be just fun and stress relieving. But most of the time when I try to do this, I fail misserably and end up spending days on a piece of work haha. But I'm very new to this kind of art, so that's too why it takes me a lot of time. One thing is for sure, one way or another, art finds its way out.
This is BEAUTIFUL 😍 and you have so much patience, I would have said it was ready and done on stage 3 cause that's my patience level :D but you did such a good job till the end! All that stress and struggle was worth it, what you created is freakin beautiful :)
Thank you so much. It took me a whole month of patience though, don't be fooled. I think I painted a flower one day, waited more days, then another flower haha.
When posting content that either is owned by someone else or inspired by someone else’s works, it is proper to list the said source in your post with a link to the original.
Failing to do so is considered plagiarism, and could result in being blacklisted by curation groups or even flagged.
Examples include:
Nice art !
Source: https://yourdailymu.se/2017/10/25/anatomy/anatomy-31/
art paraphrasing
@steemflagrewards
You are a fraud and are trying to deceive curators.
Proportions? Shading? You traced the source so of course the proportions are right, and you copied the shading too.
@acidyo @ocd @ocdb please blacklist this poseur.
Okay so instantly going for:
is really bad mannered. Please stop this if you want anyone to bother wanting to have anything to do with you.
After reading the rest of the comments in here, I don't think she was trying to deceive curators, no ocd-resteem tag, and she wasn't even the one that used @ocdb on her own post.
Every case is different but in this case I don't think the user was trying to increase her rewards by plagiarising part of a reference. The history of the account does back it up.
Please try to chill out, if you were Dexter everyone would already have figured out that you're a forensic blood spatter analyst because you enjoy killing things.
How hard is it to just ask someone to provide a source and nicely warn them not to plagiarise or trace when you think that is the case?
The veins aren't the same. And the shading isn't exactly the same. She made the mistake of copying it too closely when using it as a reference, and then not citing, but there's no need to be an asshole.
minor details dont change the fact it is 99% traced, she made the grave mistake of trying to deceive curators
No it's not. I can tell by a glance. she did more curvature to the veins. They're like little tridents. The ugly glow effect created by the artist who drew the anatomical reference not coloring around the veins likewise was not copied. She also didn't copy that ugly stripe effect on one of the arteries. She did however use a ruler, as she does often when drawing. She clearly needs to learn to be more original, but many people use reference drawings for things like hearts, that most people cannot just draw freehand. She just needs to learn to use multiple references and not copy so accurately.
Edit: If you're gonna talk about grave mistakes. You're accusing her multiple times of deception. Do you have any proof that she did this intentionally? No, because there's no way you could. No one can but her.
Hi @geekpowered, art paraphrasing is a tricky one. One cannot say the users intent was deceptive or otherwise. This is why I think it is important to treat failure to cite source of inspiration the same independent of perceived intent.
If we want users to be more careful to cite source of inspiration, the payout is the best route to effect that change. We also must understand there are persons who will intentionally omit the source of inspiration in order to embellish their talent which is not good for honest creators.
Jaguar may be a bit brusque in how they go about it but think there is a valid point behind the presentation.
P.S. I don't really agree with the character judgments JF is trying to assert. It could be an honest mistake but it would be fair game to flag for art paraphrasing despite their treatment of the user.
It's likely a derivative work...but it's debatable if the added originality is truly deserving of extensive flags. It wasn't just a copy, but a copy of a reference for simply a portion of a work. I personally really liked the mandala flowers. Treating everyone the same regardless of circumstance ignores the fact that every situation is different. It's not an exact copy. It's far closer than she should have done...but she also did a lot of originality in the rest of the work.
Additionally, it's actually a public domain image.
https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/50600/50687/50687_heart.htm
That doesnt change anything. still needs to be cited, plagiarism isnt about the use rights of the image, is about lack of attribution, no matter what the status of the image.
Its the same as if you quote or copy a part of a book that is in the public domain, you still need to give attribution.
yes there is:
do you see that?, well, that is the user implying she drawed it free hand, with or without reference, when its clearly traced from that reference or a similar one(there are many, thats just one), thats 100% deceptive for if something is traced you will obviously respect the proportions of what you are tracing,
saying that you are not good with proportions but that it came out ok, is like saying its not traced, which is obviously a lie, additionally as you mention the source of the tracing is not atrributed, so its plagiarism.
In any case, thank you for your feedback.
Did I say that it was freehand? I said I suck at proportions because I do, it's the worst part of the drawing for me, the less enjoyable, it takes me an awul amount of time because I use a ruler. So, seriously, don't call me a liar because of that. Decieve curators? I didn't even draw it for Steem, it was meant to be a gift for someone, and I decided to post it because this is what my blog is for. So to say I'm trying to "decieve" anyone is very harsh. I wouldn't be able to find the original one even if I wanted to because 80% of heart art in the internet use the same reference. I can't even imply that I drew it without a reference because it's almost impossible to draw something like this without one. But there, I linked a source, which I'm sure it's also not the original drawing, because like I said, it's the standard for most heart art. Thanks.
The original source is the one we say is the original source, its a picture originally published in an old anatomy book, from which all other sources come.
"General outlines, I'm the worst with proportions but it came out okay."
When you say that you are implying it was freehand and not traced, if not how could proportions could come out wrong if you are tracing it????????????????
Thats why in making that comment you are inducing curators to believe its drawed free hand, because the only way the proportions could come out wrong is if its freehand, for a traced work always respects the proportions by definition.
Also when you say that:
"My favorite part in ever drawing is shading, so I had fun and was actually surprised at how it turned out."
You are deceiving curators too, because the shading is copied from the source too, so what are you surprised of if the shading turned out just the same as the place from where you copied it????
Saying you are surprised about how it turned out implies its not copied.
"I didn't even draw it for Steem, it was meant to be a gift for someone"
Right, and you took the process pics to show the recipient of the gift??????????? Please.....
have a wonderful day!!
Oh yeah because I can draw a heart without a reference, I'm gonna take mine out and use it. Sorry.
You are obviously trying to deceive curators, the comments highlighted above prove it.
Have a great day.
lol
I congratulate you for this great, I love it.
Hi,
You are very talented! I would love to have you check out the #ccc community and consider gracing your presence there.
But if not interested, no need to reply.
All the best!
!sources
You are hereby notified that you need to cite your sources, next time around you can't say you didnt know. Have a great day
Pure talent !
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I prefer water color over graphite, it doesn't make you !sneeze
You have been infected by the King of Disease!
Will you quarantine yourself?
Or will you spread the plague?
Fantastic Artwork. It Is Really