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JMFenner91 In reply to kindasilence [2015-06-02 19:49:10 +0000 UTC]

Awwww jeez thank you! That's such a nice thing to say! I'm always trying to get better though so hopefully I keep on improving.

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kindasilence In reply to JMFenner91 [2015-06-02 19:55:03 +0000 UTC]

Of course we always improve and blah blah but it's also important to realize sometimes that you're actually very good. Well not too lose your head because of it. And certainly not to become a snob.
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btw sorry but I want to sleep too much and I'm too lazy to write comments under all your works, but I'll try it some time. Also +watch

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JMFenner91 In reply to kindasilence [2015-06-02 19:58:42 +0000 UTC]

Haha of course! To me art is always about the artist - your endgoal is to become your own favorite artist. Just compile all the bits you like about others into one place and I know I'm slowly working towards that. So I always gotta like my stuff personally to some extent but it's easy to get discouraged looking at all my idols haha! It's a good balance though.

And haha! No worries. Have a lovely night and thank you!

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kindasilence In reply to JMFenner91 [2015-06-03 17:47:47 +0000 UTC]

Ok now I'm dying to know WHO are your idols? 

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JMFenner91 In reply to kindasilence [2015-06-03 23:29:06 +0000 UTC]

My idols are; Sterling Hundley, Edward Kinsella, Sachin Teng, Victo Ngai, Audrey Benjaminsen, Adam Tan & Andrew Hem.

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kindasilence In reply to JMFenner91 [2015-06-04 19:08:13 +0000 UTC]

I knew most f them except for Victo Ngai, and I see a lot of surrealists. I'm making a guess that it's your favorite direction, but how about some post-impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec or Cezanne ? 

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JMFenner91 In reply to kindasilence [2015-06-08 06:34:19 +0000 UTC]

I don't really think about my direction that way, moreso I just think of it as a field. I'm an editorial illustrator and so since there's a lot of metaphors and stuff visually it just makes more sense to go a surrealist route, yknow? I have had pretty much no classical art education so admittedly I had to look up both to remind myself of their work. Though I do get inspired by this stuff I'm usually more drawn to contemporary illustrators at the time being. Sort of a mentality like 'these are who I am competing with right now'. I don't feel like I'm good enough to even compare myself to the classic illustrators like that yet haha. When I achieve some goals I'll begin looking at them a lot more. I have a whole weird and convoluted thought process about that stuff.

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