My Brain and my Art

Experimenter

Hi all, my brain makes me problems by creating 3D pictures.
Someone tells me that I think to much by everything I do. Now I have the same problem with the results of my work with DAZ.
Following situation; I bought a lot of content. Every content is very great and looks good but I can not image them in a full picture. They are like l...bricks. You can combine every part and the result is a new unit. But every image I tried does not fit my feelings for the picture.
For me a picture needs a visible or easy to understand mesage or story (maybe the pic is part of a greater story). And It is very hard for me to make a pic just for fun which fit my needs so I can say "yes, that is good. I like it".

Here are another problems which are going around in my head:
- Why should I creat art? In ancient times people creat art for culture and religues reasons. From round about 1400 till 1900 people creat art just like photos to save a moment or a person.
- Many pictures of 3D I have seen are very good technicaly and motif. But they have no story. They look nice, you like to watch them but without a meaning. As an well known example is the "Mona Lisa" form Leonardo DaVinci. Noone know who this woman was and what he want to tell us. It is very good painted but what was his intention to paint this picture noone knows it. I need a story or an explenation for my pics.
- How much do I copy a Movie, Comic or Book if I use a line/motivation/person to inspire my own work?

You see I thought alot about my problems with art but I do not finde a clue. I like to work with 3D-Modelliing and creating new pictures and contents. But I fear and finde the endresult is not what I want.
That is where I need your help. Does anybody have a clue for my problems or can understand me. Maybe someone had similar problems like me?
I would like to read from you
Thank you
Manfred

Whitehart Creative Arts 3-D (fionathegood)

I think that you should try the new user contest- particularly participating in the WIP thread It will give you an objective to focus on achieving, and whether or not your work ends up being "great art" is set aside for the opportunity to learn new things. The feedback from other artists, from a wide degree of experience and backgrounds, gives good perspective on how to improve. There is a new learning objective each month, the last three months have been "composition", "lighting" and "posing".

Another thing to try is the "freebie" contest. There is a new theme each month, and the opportunity to go on a treasure hunt of sorts for freebies all over the internet. I find that when I am given a theme, I can find lots of creativity to work within those constraints.

Some people need a goal or objective, a theme, and a deadline to really get their creativity flowing.

Hope this helps!

Paula Sanders

Manfred, you wrote why create art? The answer for me is simple. Because I have to. It is a passion. When I don't have ideas, I feel lost. I very much understand your feeling that an image should tell a story. I personally feel that way. If not a story, an emotion. I am a believer that one should not have to explain an image. Try to think of an emotion such as how someone might feel at the end of a day. Then, portray that in a picture. Make sure the whole scene works together. I get an idea and then choose the content to fulfill the idea. I do all my rendering and composing in VUE using a lot of DAZ items. I create the figures in Daz, and export to Vue. One reason is that I have been using Vue forever and I am ver comfortable in it. Once I have an idea and know the mood I want to portray, I choose an atmosphere in Vue to set the tone. Hopefully, this might give you another perspective.

Good luck.

Whitehart Creative Arts 3-D (fionathegood)

The primary difference between fine art and illustration is that fine art MAY tell a story, but does not have to, the only thing it must do is exist as a result of some drive from within its creator, and whether the viewer ever understands that drive is a complex issue. Illustration, on the other hand, exists primarily to tell a story, and if it does not tell a story in a way that its intended audience understands, then it fails.

I think that you may have the desire to be an illustrator moreo than a fine artist if the story is the most important thing.

I have only recently begun using art as a visual means to tell a story- all of my entries in the freebie contest tell fairly specific stories, and I would consider them illustrations more than fine art. My two entries in the new user contest have been less specific in their story- they were more about communicating a mood and emotion than details. They are trying to be "fine art", per se. How well they do that is another matter entirely. ;-)