Discovering how to appreciate art

an original drawing for a page in my manga :D!!

For art's apreciation, a big thing for us to be able to do is to recognize what art is, and try to dicover the value in art. For some, it comes naturally, ecspecially for those of us who are already artist to talk about, and pick apart in detail what we find intreresting about a piece of art. I know for some however, this does not come as easily as it does for others. Sometimes it's difficult to look at a piece and really try apperciating and talking about what it is you like about it. Sometimes, you may not like a thing about the artwork to begin with. However, i believe in some way or fashion, if it's real art, you'll be able to identify the values that make it  such. I know some have trouble with doing so. For example my own art got critiqued by other artist alot growing up, at first, i didn't know how they saw so much wrong with my art, but as i grew i started learning from them, and i began to get a feel for some things to look for in art which helped me to be able to now improve most of my mistakes. So now as an artist with a bit of experience i'd like to offer my assistance to those who may struggle. a great way too look at art sometimes is in the color. Try to see the color and how the artist used it. Is it painted in solid colors, which would make the piece look flat, or is it painted from lights to darks, to give it a more three-dimensional look. That's an important thing to look at. also look at how things fit on the page, does it appear that everything was made to appear as it does on paper. or does it somewhat look like an accident. That could be a factor in determining it's value, because some artist intention is to give there art value though the way they set things up. Now moving on to the actual subject matter, if any! what's going on inside the painting is a good way to analayze a piece. use the title of the piece for reference if you can. try to relate the art too the title, and see if you can identify EXACTLY why it would be named what it is. If you can, then you understand what the artist intention was, and are able to see a bigger thing than just the picture. However, this does not go to say that there is subject matter that will not attempt to mislead you. Just focus and try too see exactly what the artist were trying too make. Sometimes it is difficult, and sometimes you won't be able to guess at all. This does not mean you aren't good at appreciating art, this could simply mean the artist trick worked, which in that case you go to your best judgement about the piece, and put as much details about how it relates to the title in your mind. There are many other ways too interpret and analyze art. For now though i'll leave you with that for a start.It ultimatly however comes down to you. You have to find what attracts the art to you. if it doesn't, try too give it your best guess. I hope that this helps if anyones's having trouble. Well let's keep up the good work everyone!!!

Final Artwork collection post: 12

Title: Soul Eater

Artist: Ookubo Atsushi

Medium: Copic markers, ink, and pencil

Finally for the final piece of my art collection i present to you a work from my personal favorite Mangaka's work Soul Eater. Ookubo Atsushi does not have much history known on his early life escept as a child growing up, like most artist, he showed little interest in school. His soul objective was to become a better manga illustrator. There was even school notes of his that was discovered to have many sketches and doodles for the characters that would later appear in his manga B. Ichi. When he actually got into the buisness of being a mangaka, he first worked under Rando Ayamine, in the production of his manga Get Backers. He also worked too create artwork for a card game in Japan called The Lords of Vermillion. With the experience he gained from that he went on to produce his first manga B. ichi. It didn't really take him off in the manga world but it served as a foundation for Atsushi's gretest work Soul Eater. Too be honest I have no real words to descibe Soul Eater and how it affected me. It's everything i wanted to see in a anime, and manga, and surpasses even those expectations, even though it's ending was pretty questionable in the anime series haha. I simply LOVE it, the style of the characters, and world, the interactions betwen the characters, the characters backgrounds, and lives. I just love Soul eater enough said haha. It's hard to choose a favorite amongst his artwork for me, so i chose the one that i liked very recently. It's from an actual page of the manga. It depicts the main character Maka Albarn, emerging from smoke with her death sythe weapon partner Soul. I won't get into actual detail about the show. i'll just say that what i love about the picture most is the movement it gives. The way Maka appears to be hunched over, going downward, while her sythe goes upward just gives the picture nice balance in my opinion. I Love the side view angle as well. It makes the characters look so cool in my opinion. The colors are cool as well, the shading for the sythe is what i like the best. i Like how the shadow gives it that value, and makes it more realistic. I have so much i can say on this but i'll leave you with just that. I absoulutley must make a manga that will give my readers the same feeling or perhaps even a better one, that Soul Eater gave to me. It's the number one inspiration for me, no matter how my work progresses Soul Eater will always have a huge influence on it. 

Artwork collection post: 11

Title: Kamina and Simon

Artist: Unkown

Medium Unknown

The image above is from one of the gretest animes of all time in my opinion, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan. The picture features too of the central main characters Simon(bottom left), and Kamina(top right). Whats important about the pic in my eyes is that the anime itself focused on a coming of age. In the series the main character Simon was never really confident about himself, he Just followed orders going along with anything everyone ever said, never questioning it or standing up for himself. Kamina taught him how to be a man, showing him that no matter what anyone says he should stand up and believe in himself, staying strong, and never letting himself be put down by others. The two began forming a bond sort of like a older, younger brother relationship. Kamina leading the way and Simon learning and following his "big bro" as he called him. However Kamina, doing what he could to protect his "little bro" Simon in battle, lost his life. Simon was devastated by this, However he continured to stay strong growing and living by the way that Kamina had paved for him. Finally while leading his squad into a battle he was confronted with visions of his past. In it stood Kamina that helped Simon once again come to grips with being himself and becoming a man. This is an image from that Scene as the two brothers stand together, as men. What i like about this pic is the positioning and detail of the characters. Kamina as the big bro is shown overshadowing Simon who is the little bro. This shows the kind of relationship the characters have with one another. i also like the attention to detail in the figure work. both of thier bodies appear to flow well, and everything matches up. All in all it's just an Inspirational pic for me in general, It reminds me of the relationship i have with my father. It's truly a great picture.     

Artwork collection post: 10

Title:The Old Guitarist

Artist: Pablo Picasso

Medium: Oil Painting

Now here is potentially my favorite artwork outside of anime and manga. It’s called The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer.  One of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20^th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. It is said that in Pablo Picasso’s early life, he always had a talent for drawing. At age seven that’s when he would begin to actually take up artistic lessons. He began learning things from him such as the human figure, and plaster drawings from his art teacher, Ruiz. However at age 13, Ruiz had already acknowledged Picasso as a greater artist than himself. Picasso did not have the easiest life growing up. This was due to the loss of his 17 year old sister which completely devastated him. Despite this however Pablo stuck with his passion and continued to create many paintings that would bring him great fame, Of course one of those paintings being The Old Guitarist, which he created during his blue period.  The piece depicts an old man, playing the guitar in a lifeless like state. What I enjoy about it is the realism in the color and shading of the hands, and feet. It shows incredible attention to detail, and understanding. Also I like the feeling that the painting gives to me. To me it gives the appearance of a man who’s clearly in love with the act of playing guitar.  It shows that no matter how old you are if you are willing and able to continue your passion, your craft. You do it because; it is precious to you and means a lot to you. Pablo Picasso did a great job on this. It’s an inspiration for ALL artists. It just goes to show that the past can be a great starting point for inspiration when developing new ideas as an artist.

Artwork collection post: 9

Title: Dragonball

Author: Akira Toriyama

Medium: watercolor, ink, pencil, copic markers

As a mangaka you must always have a favorite anime or inspiration, For many it is the artist of this drawing Akira Toriyama.Akira Toriyama was born on April 5th 1979, not much is known about his early life, however it's known that he debuted in 1979 with the story Wonder Island, published in Weekly Shonen Jump. After that what really began to make him famous and known in the manga world was his manga and anime series Dr. Slump, originally serialized weekly in Shonen Jump from 1980 to 1984. In 1982, he won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Dr. Slump for best shonen or shojo manga series of the year. After that he then produced the work that's being show cased here Dragon ball. Although dragonball is not my main inspiration, i cannot deny the force of it, the prescence it has throughout not only Japan, but the world. People who haven't even heard of manga, and anime in thier entire lives know what Dragon ball is. It's just argubly the gretest manga ever made, along with Naruto in my opinion. Although i'm not too big of a fan on the colors Akira used on this. i think the overall drawing is fantastic. An important thing to do in anime is to give your readers looks and expressions that clearly give your character's life and feeling. that's nicely portrayed here in this drawing. Like i said i'm not a fan of the colors. but some colors that do give this picture credit is the way he colored and shaded the clouds. LOVE how they appear, definitly wanna give a simular feel for my style. Although i do feel as if Mamashi kishimoto, creator of Naruto, and Oda Eiichiro creator of One piece come close. I don't think there is anyone who will be able to give us what Dragonball did. I see Dragonball as the Launching point that brought anime and manga to what it is today, and without it Anime and manga would never be the same.  Even though it's not my favorite! i loved it nonetheless, and recognize it as the greatest manga of all time.

Artwork collection post: 8

Title: Darin and Rea

Artist: Hattori Mitsuru

Medium: unknown

This is a page from the mangaka Hattori Mitsuru's Sankera . It depicts two of the main characters Darin, and Rea in cheerleader outfits. This to me is really cool, because in the manga the two are kind of polar oppisites, but the longer the two of them are together and are able to interact, they are able to look past those diffrences and begin to form a friendship. Thiers not much known  about the Mangaka himself Hittori Mitsuru but he is famous for a few other works other than Sankera, like his Manga series Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho, which got it's own 13 episode series produced by artland. Knowing what kind of artist i am it's easy to see why i'm taken with this piece. The Artist portrayed the characters awesomly. From the expression they carry, to the figure, too the folds of thier clothes, to the flow of thier hair. Out of the two i'd say Hattori did a better job with Darin (girl in the top left) her expression clearly let's you see she's a kind of laid back yet seductive in her own way type of girl. Also i love how he did Darin's hair down from the colors, too the way it flows down her body it's truly awesome. For Rea  (bottom right) i'd say my favorite thing Hattori did for her is her right leg, i like the shading he did too show the musle and better define the look of it, also i love the joy he was able to give Rea in her expression, he shows happiness so well in his characters. Hattori does an aweosme job with expressions, and giving his characters life. Hattori's style is truly something i can draw inspiratrion from as i grow more and more into forming a style of my own.

Artwork collection post: 7

Title: The Starry Night

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Medium: Unknown

Another famous painting that i do enjoy would be Vincent Van Gogh's Starry night. It is the depiction of the view outside his Sanatorium room window at Saint Remy de Provence. Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years, and in time that led him to take on the life as an artist. he continued to draw, and started painting in his late 20's. he would then go on too create some of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, of those paintings he produced 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work mainly cosisted of self portraits, landscapes, still lifes of flowers, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.By looking at the painting itself you could see why this painting is adored by so many, and is in my art colloection. Even though it doesn't appear to be realistic, it still shows great amounts of detail. and the painting can be easily imagined realistically. I love how he did the clouds in a kind of swirly fashion it makes the painting really flow in my eyes, it also gives it the sense that maybe it was windy that night. Landscapes aren't easy to do... although this may appear to be simple great amount's of detail went into bringing this painting ot life. It's awesome Vincent Van Gogh did an awesome job on this. 

Artwork collection post: 6

Title: Harley Quinn

Artist:Arkam city concept artist

Meduim:unknown

The above is a concept art design for the character Harley Quinn. because it is concept art not much is known about the artist who actually created it. However i HAD too add this one to my collection because i simply love it. it has a realistic/comic-book type feel too it. This is how American comics are mainly stylized. what i want too speak on about it is the way the artist colored the pic. The shading, and colors are EXCELLENT. i also love the body and figure work. the muscle for her shoulder, and underarm was shaded perfectly. I also love the feeling that's given here. It appears too me that Harley Quinn is giving up her old look, thus crushing her past identity, and taking on a new look trying to develop a new attitude. The attention too detail given in her hair and clothes are simply phenomonal. I can tell just by looking that this, it may have taken the artist so much work, Just too get the facial expression just right. I've never attempted too really draw American styled heroes and villans. Well i did attempt my favorite, Spiderman, and a few of his villans. I have always however been blown away by the amount detail and foucus that artist such as this put into there characters. i know i could never do it like they can, but This is truly an excellent pic, gotta love Harley Quinn hahaha!

Artwork collection post: 5

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Artist:Tite Kubo

Medium: pencil and ink

Going back to the central focus of my art collection. Here i give you an actual manga page from the manga Bleach. Bleach was created by Tite Kubo, Kubo was the son of a town concil member. he was inspired to create manga after reading the manga Saint Seiya. He created Zombie powder first, it only ran for 27 chapters then was canceled. It wasn't succesful at all, mainly because Kubo took advice from his editor instead of his own ideas, and on top of that he was in a very bad emotional state. He was in a position to give up on the manga industry until he was inspired to create another manga that he would purely use his own ideas on. That manga was Bleach, Bleach is now one of the most poupular manga ever made, and it's rivaled only by Naruto, and One Piece. The artist, Tite Kubo, in my opinion, doesn't have the best of story telling skills. For me however, it's the art that mainly make the manga, and through artwork Kubo delivers. The scene depicted is of the main character, Ichigo Kurosaki being stabbed through the chest by a close friend of his, Rukia Kuchki. Although it was to really help Ichigo regain his powers that he had lost, he doesn't know yet what's going on. So he believes his closest friend has betrayed him. the expression on his face clearly depicts the pain he feels. He believes that his friend truly came to kill him, and he is completly shocked beyond words. I LOVE this purely for the feeling it gives, also for the expressions both characters give off. While Ichigo's is one of pain and confusion, Rukia's is one of accomplishment, and happiness, because she knows that by stabbing him with the sword she will be able to restore her friend to his former self, and ultimatly give his life back. Kubo's artwork is just amazing. i seek too create a simular style, but not EXACTLY the same. It's always good to use another's art for inspiration, but it's also essential to create your own style of it as well. I'm glad Kubo's an inspiration for me, through him i know i will create something truly great one day.

Artwork collection post: 4

Title:Sistene chapel

Artist:Michelangelo

Medium: unknown

Stepping away from Anime for a moment, i'd like to show you a diffrennt kind of art piece in my collection. This is a section of Michelangelo's Sistene Chapel. the Sistene chapel was a work that was meant to illustrate the events of the Genisis book in the bible. That in itself can explain half of my fasination with it. as an illustrator, i know the challenge to take someones words and create it in your own vision can be a little difficult if the words aren't your own. For Michealangelo to have taken the scene from the bible where God creates man, and portray it like this! it shows that he truely was an amazing artist, someone who definitly was a factor in creating the art we see today. Michelangelo was born on  March 6, 1475. After the death of his mother, he lived with his father. Who would later send him too a school too learn grammer, but like most artist Michelangelo showed little intrest in schooling, he rather focused on copying paintings from churches. he was later apprenticed to the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. from then on he would begin his life as an artist. In his adult life, Michelangelo would go on to create many masterpieces in art. Such as the Statue of David, and the pieta, but his crowning work will always be when he was commisioned to make the Sistene chapel. The amount of detail in this work is unreal. It's painted realistically, the figurework is outstanding. It clearly is a great depiction of the creation of man. It just does it's job and does it well. I doubt my skills will ever be on par with Michealangelo's, but seeing his work truly is inspiring. i hope to one day i can create a piece that can effect and have such an impact on the art world such as this did. It's certainly one of the best with no question.

Artwork collection post: 3

Title:Nausicaa

Author: Studio Ghibli illustrator

medium: ink, pencil watercolor

My favoite movie pertaining to anime so far, currently, is Nausicaa of the valley of the wind. The movie is a Studio Ghibli production, directed by one of the greatest anime film producers of all time Hayao Miyazaki. Hayao Miyazaki is the genuis not only behind this film, but also other famous anime films such as Spirited away, and Princess mononoke. the storys he creates have ALWAYS fasinated me. Even as a child, I loved princess Mononoke. When i got older, i decided to look up his other films. That's when i discovered Nausicaa of the valley of th wind, and i was completly taken with it. It was amazing in my eyes, i loved the characters, the world, and the story being told. I'm not exactly sure who the author of this painting that i posted is, and whether or not it's a watercolor painting is realy just a guess. looking at how washed out the colors look though. I think watercolor is a pretty accurate guess. I love the look of this...the color definitly gives it that old world feel..the darks, and lights of the colors really draw me in as well. i love how her pants were shaded. and how the hair looks so vibrant. I do wish the illustrator gave her face my tone, such as he did with her neck and arms, of some sort. However! that doesn't make it a bad picture at all. I love it nonetheless for what the illustrator DID do. It's just as an artist, I always try too look for what can make something i like even better. Nausicaa is beutiful, and how the illustrator handeled this greatly depicted this. Really love this pic! i hope to do something simular one day. 

Artwork collection post: 2

Title:Naruto

Artist: Mamashi Kishimoto

Medium: Copic Markers, ink, pencil, water-color

Of course if i'm doing an art collection mostly centered around manga, and anime then my collection would not be complete without a piece from Mamashi Kishimoto. The piece that i have included, is voulume cover art for the 7th installment of the manga series Naruto. Naruto is the most poupular manga series out today, and arguebly the greatest manga of all time. Mamashi Kishimoto is the genuis behind Naruto.  Masashi Kashimoto was born on November 8, 1974 as the older identical twin of Seishi Kishimoto in the Okayama Prefecture, Japan. He grew up watching and drawing characters from many manga and anime such as Dr. Slump, and kinnikuman. His major inspiration however was the work of Akira Toriyama. Akira is the creator of Dragon ball, which in my opinion and surely Mamashi's is the greatest manga of all time. Mamashi Kishimoto would later by 1997 release a one shot manga called Naruto which would be published in Akamaru Jump Summer. and now it is a HUGE success, not only attracting many fans in Japan, but the U.S as well. Mamashi will forever be immortalized as one of the greatest mangaka whoever lived, alongide his idol Akira Toriyama. What i like about this most is the actual poses of the characters themselves. I am an artist who LOVES too see cool, gestural movement, or dynamic poses. In this pic i love how Naruto appears too be hunched over, and have a fearsome look on his face. While his friend Sasuke sits behind him, in a pose that shows "hey if you get past him you have to deal with me" or that kind of look. it shows that the two are together against whatever force threatens them, and with one of the antagonist Orachimaru faded by water color, as an after thought in the back. it shows the force that opposes them. Also it is a good fill for the negative space. Although it's one of Mamashi's earlier works, it's awesome, he did a great job with the colors, characters everything! It's great!!

Chasing Your Dreams

in our last class we watched a documeteray on a print making artist known as Amos Kennedy. he had peculiar behaivor, but at times when he needed to be, he showed that he was truly a genius which is something i particullary got a kick out of. When the question was raised "what do you like about the film?". I wanted too give my thoughts, but i was afraid to really speak my mind to be perfectly honest. Now however, i wish to share what i liked about the film, which i found truly inspiring. Amos at first worked in the buisness world. he was very well-off even had kids. however he was never truly happy until he discovered print making. When he did he finnally discovered what his true calling was, and knew he was destined too be a print maker. he gave up the buisness industry, and did what he loved , by becoming an artist. That for me was so! inspiring. I like to look at myself as an artist, however time and time again, im told what i do is not REAL art. To want too be a manga illustrator in alot of peoples eyes is frowned upon. ECSPECIALLY with most art teachers. They say it looks too cartooney, and shows no real value. For some that is the case, however for those who really work at it. studying and understanding many diffrent forms of art, and its principles are the only way we can create the artwork that we do. For some teachers to say my work isn't art is just completly ridiculous. they see it as simple. However they have no idea of the time it took too get an eye drawn completly perfect. or get the shading tones or color tones just right. They just instantly see CARTOON. so they put down, and discourage something that's my passion, and i think that's utter garbage. Art is not defined by another artist previous work, but how YOU express yourself through some sort of medium,  or talent, well that's what i believe. If i didn't wanna go futher with my artwork i don't know what i would do. Illustration is everything too me and i wish too pursue it no matter who, or what puts me down. it is my passion, and i will do what God put me on this planet to do. It makes me truly happy too create something purely from my imagination, and try too bring it too life. I love it, and to whoever is reading this, i suggest you do whatever makes you happy. No matter what it is, if your called to do it, then do it. Chase your dreams, and make them reality


  

  Here's just a little somthing i've been working on ^__^d!!...it's a character for a manga of mine 

Albright Knox gallery

on our last excursion we took a trip too the Albright Knox art gallery. There we came upon many diffrent types of artworks by many famous artist. we also were introuduced too the work of the 80's as well. which was so fasinating too see. my favorite thing in the tour was definitly seeing the room of photos by Cindy Sherman . Cindy Sherman's work is phenomonal in my opinion. What i loved about it was that her pictures uniquely told a story too her audience. in one scene you would see something happning like for example, two people would be talking. Then in the next scene a new character would enter the scene. Then next, the two characters would interact with the new character in a negative, or positive way, judging by the characters apperance. Or at least something along those lines. it was great! heres a depiction of one of the many images that Cindy Sheman inserted into her piece.

The Albright Know is an awesome place too see amazing artwork of many diffrent types. Although the kind of art im completly taken with is not, and may never be in the Albright Knox. It's still an awesome place too see art none the less. i've taken so many trips there in my life time. and had too do alot of reports on many diffrent types of artist in High school. although i wans't too pleased on my report having too be 5 pages. it taught me how too truly appreciate artwork, and be able too get into detail about the kind of works that may catch my eye. that in itself has improved me as an artist. and it's a skill i will continue to work on as i carry on. you can have a favorite work of art however! as an artist it's beneficial to always be able to explore other forms of art as well. who knows, maybr by looking and being inspired by diffrent kinds of artist. the work that you mainly do can undergoe amazing changes, because of your drive too discover other forms of art as well.

Artwork collection post: 1

Title: Black Rock Shooter

Artist: Huke 

Not much is known about the artist Huke, except that he went too an Animation college. and then took up Illustration as a career for character design for a gaming company. He eventually would resign and become a freelance artist, creating original characters from his experience being a professional. One of those characters  happened too be an illustration of a character he named Black Rock Shooter. This would inspire a man named Ryo a band leader of a group called Supercell too create a song dedicated too the character, and amazingly, not long after the Character illustration, and the song inspired an anime which was first created as a movie, and is now an ongoing anime on this very day. the thing i like most about this is the high attention too detail in this pic. Huke is an amazing artist not only does the character Black Rock Shooter, have great detail, but great body composition as well.. The shading used too help her body appear too pop is very accurate in my opinion. there's not too much so that we can tell her skin is very pale, but there is just enough too bring her out so she is not flat. If the beauty of the character wasn't enough the background is great as well. The detail in the ruin and the chain's are awesome. It's portrayed in a realistic manner, but also it feels fantasy like too give it, it's own unique feeling..instead of just being boring ruin. If you look closely you can notice the star in the corner, which is basically the symbol for Black Rock shooter, and you can also see the checkerboard design which gives the boring ruin a bit more flavor in my opinion. This has too be one of my favorite pieces of art, and Huke is definitely one of the many inspirations for me. He continue's too work on many original concepts and designs for other anime, Like Stein's gate.

Favorite work so far of the Excursions

   So far we have took two excursions, to two different art galleries. The galleries, portrayed many different forms of art. The art ranged from art about weather patterns, too life as an insect and the evolution they go through along with their family trees. You can see the hard work and dedication that the artist portrayed in their subject matter. Although some may view some of there work as just purely sexual, others can truly look at the art and see a deeper meaning, that others can't interpret. One artist that i feel may give that feeling is, Jakie Felix, Jakie's art was powerful in that it normally showed a sexual image, but it was meant too really give you a view on how men treat woman in today's world. Her Blue Mary series, in my opinion clearly depicts this.

   This image in my opinion shows Mary probably declining an offer at the last second too be photographed and exploited. Mary was never really portrayed as a sexual figure because of her reputation as pure, and a virgin. However Jackie Felix took the world's most pure girl, and showed her in a modern setting being made into a sexual figure. I believe Jackie nailed this message if this was the true intent of her work, and their are also many other works in the Blue Mary series that basically give off the same message perfectly. there were many other artist viewed in our excursions, but so far Jackie Felix really caught my attention. i look forward too the next excursions too discover more powerful artwork like hers.

   

The inspiration

Hey my name is Derrick Floyd, and i myself am an artist. ever since the day that I've picked up a pencil art has been my life. It has affected me heavily, and without it, i'd be in a pretty bad spot. There are many things which inspire artist too pursue a life of art. Where my interest lie, and what inspired me into the life of an artist was anime and manga.Akira Toriyama's, Dragon ball z, first gave me the inspiration. It's action, awesome story concepts, brilliant characters, and interesting art style, captivated me as a child. It made me go further into anime and manga, and soon i discovered other shows, and other artist from Masashi Kishimoto, creator of the anime Naruto, and Tite Kubo, the creator of the anime Bleach. There are many different forms of drawing anime and manga, telling your story, and creating your characters, but the artist that ultimately inspired me too become a Mangaka was Atsushi Ohkubo. Atsushi Ohkubo, created the anime Soul Eater. Soul Eater had the hugest influence on me, it made me get a handle on the type of manga i wish too create, and the ideas, characters, and story i absoulutly LOVED! right now my goal is too study illustration, so that i may one day make my own manga, Spirit-Breaker, the best i can possibly create. I've started working on the story, i have many concepts, and alot of characters. Everything however still needs alot of work unfortunately. However with time i one day hope too make my manga, Spirit -Breaker, as famous as SoulEater.

Above is one of the many characters i was able too create for Spirit-Breaker. Why is art important you may ask, well in my opinion art is what challenges you too take your creativity, and place it on a canvas of your choice. it is your free expression of what it is you hold inside, what it is that makes you, you. there are many forms of art, and they're are still forms out there that are yet too be discovered. I know that they're is a form of art for everyone out there, all you need too do is find what art style appeals too you and explore into the world as much as you can. i can tell by taking this Art's Appreciation class, i will learn too look at art even in more detail then i already do. I've learned a'lot of the art principles we discussed already, but soon i know that this class can show me how too look at art in a new way. I look forward too seeing how everything goes, and all the things i will learn.