ryanlaughlin said:
pennywise that's really lookin good man!
here's a quicky i did for my name with some new pens i just got.
Thanks ryan.
I actually really like your piece here. I think it's probably my favorite of yours of the ones I have seen so far. Your abstract style works really well as text ornamentation. I think some of your designs would work really well on clothing...especially in making logos and stuff like the one quoted above.
I'm not saying that just because you commented on my piece. While I think it's great that you liked it, I really value honesty in people's comments about my art and others art in this forum. I wouldn't say something if I didn't totally believe it to be true, regardless of what anyone said about my work. I think everyone who has posted in this thread can appreciate that.
It's so irritating when people just give you a cursory "that's nice." I think anyone who is an artist has experienced that frustration. We'd rather hear an honest criticism than empty praise or bland patronization. Am I wrong about this?
Anyway...I digress. The point is that I really dig this piece of work, in all honesty. I think that it's because it's a little bit more focused than some of your other work. While you have a crazy awesome style and clearly have good technique, I sometimes find it hard to focus on some of your work. I think that this piece works especially well because it has the text to ground it, to anchor it. It mixes the abstraction that is your specialty with something to solidify focus, to make the work more understandable. I get a sense of this as an expression of yourself through your work, as if it's sprouting or growing out of your name. lol I hope I'm not coming off as pretentious or over-analytic...I'm just trying to explain why I like it.
Finally, at the risk of turning this into one of my patented "tl;dr" posts. I just wanted to thank you for your contributions to the arts content of this forum, in this thread and elsewhere. I have been happy to see this thread getting some activity, and the art-minded people of BL showing up and contributing. That goes for not just ryan, but all of you who have been contributing to this thread and other arts threads. I won't even try to start a list for fear of forgetting someone, so I just want to give a general thumbs up and thanks to all of you who have been contributing to our arts content. Thanks, and keep up the awesome work! :D
