Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.
I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.