Doodle time!

It’s been a while since the last art blog critique here on amazinglyartisticadvice dot tumblr dot com. Let’s start again. Reblog this post from your art blog, or with a link to your art, and receive a critique!

What’s a critique? It’s a thing with four parts!

1. Some super positive encouragement! Making art can be frustrating if you’re not getting the results you want. Having someone rooting for you can help.

2. Phenomenology A careful description, a report of what I think and feel when I look at your work, and/or how it relates to other ideas and other work I’ve seen.

A lot of critique gets caught up in ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and ‘like’ and ‘dislike’. In the right setting, that kind of judgement can be really helpful. At the heart of art critique, though, is just an honest reporting of “here’s what happens to me when I’m looking at it”.  If your work is making me think and feel exactly what you want me to think and feel, then it doesn’t matter if I hate your work – it’s doing it’s job. (I don’t hate your work!) 3. Artists to look at Some links to artists (you may already know), whose work seems relevant to yours. 4. Exercises If parts of your work seem technically weak, I’ll suggest a few exercises to help strengthen those art-muscles. I’m excited to see what y’all are up to!

Life would be grand if we only did what our fleeting hearts wanted to do, each moment of the day. Unfortunately, the laundry, taxes and difficult conversations would never get done. The best books would never be written. All the achievements of humankind would be imagined, not realized.

So what should we do if we’re facing a task we don’t want to do? Well, we can run, and find distraction. That usually works, until it causes problems. Or we can find a way to get crap done.

**SPOILERS FOR THE PIXAR SHORT BEFORE FINDING DORY**

Watch a short preview above from Piper, Disney-Pixar’s latest short film, slated to accompany Finding Dory, which opens this week in the U.S. (June 17). 

Directed by Alan Barillaro, who began his time with Pixar as an animator on A Bug’s Life (1998) and was supervising animator on The Incredibles, WALL-E, and Brave, the short film Piper follows the story of a sandpiper chick trying to overcome its fear of the ocean, reported Collider on June 13.