When you’re developing your art style, one of the main things you have to do is choose your Art Parents. Marshall and I talk all about it on the new Draftsmen Podcast Ep 5
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ANX804U
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DONE S1E05 (mar25th/25)
ANX804U
4d
my take to this argument would be there are every kind of people, there is every kind of style, from people to people, style to style everyone approach varies. As much as I love Andrew Loomis or Frank Frazetta, I cannot stop people from approaching Picaso. It's like we have seen evolution in art and people love to see versatility, its sad that the names I mentioned did not do the same numbers in reaching the world due to varied factors which to this day are well and alive in the society such as biased rules in that time period or other factors but that was whole point of movement as it is named during that period "modernism" or "post modernism" as the artist we are talking about were present when there was shift in whole world, in starting of 20th centuries there were wars and art was also going through the same phase, people matters and diversity matters. But shifting to post modern this lacked and created a sense of materialistic approach which majorly depended on capitalism and industrialism. I am explaining all this because there are many people doing something known as pop-art or pop-music, they are grinding day in and day out, to them this knowledge of professionalism doesn't matter but what matters is the lean dependancy on fame and well manifested styles, you all know what's going in pop music, (like hip hop and stuff) in the same way this pop art is well definitive in graffiti styles, video designs, fashion designs and graphic designs, it is important to understand because that whole composition of small collages around 1960 started by Picasso would result in this never ending argument of what abstract marks delivers to this aspect of art. In the end I would say it is subjective of person to chose their artistic approach and style and master, but it is very important to understand how this style of art was created, what factors affected this approach, how could have this manipulated and what might manipulate this sense of aesthetics in upcoming future.

@rfeistauer
11mo
Awesome video, very inspiring. This is the first I see from this series of podcasts, I will certainly watch more of these. Like @Marshall Vandruff I really liked Mad Magazine in my 15-18 years, Don Martin, Sergio Aragones and Al Jaffee, very funny and interesting characters. Other art parents I would choose would be Moebius and Manara, I really like their way of drawing. Congratulations!

@daniellee
2yr
Oh my god! I've had a vague memory of a learn to draw book that I had as a very young child. I could not remember the author or title. For months I've been poking around in the attic and through old boxes trying to find it. For months I've been trying to find it with just my vague recollection. It was Jon Gnagy learn to draw! I recognized the cover immediately! THANK YOU!!!
@pizzle
2yr
Feeling called out on this episode as FRANK FRAZETTA is my favorite. And who is one of whom I want to adopt. Though I never really thought of it, I am influenced by Glen Keane, J. Scott Campbell, Michael Turner, to name a few.
William Horton
3yr
WOW!!! I totally forgot about BLACKSAD!!! I was coming into this episode lost on where to start when it came to adopting "art parents" but Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido's style when working on that comic series really stands out to me a lot. I forgot if we were only supposed to adopt 2 art parents or multiple, but I understand the gist of it being to take bits and pieces from other artists like at a buffet and making your own thing. I also really enjoy Junji Ito's horrifying characters. I think he'd be my other art parent. :)

Liath Hawke
4yr
Art parents. I do enjoy Zdzisław Beksiński style but I'm studying in ink to start out so i've got several ink artists i'm exploring.
T.M. Dusablon
4yr
I enjoyed the podcast, thank you! My present Art Parent is Aaron Blaise, whom you introduced me to in a different video. I loved his ink w/ a dab of water color daily sketching journal, just wonderful way to capture daily life-
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