French Ballet Dancer in Oriental Costume circa 1900s
Written by Teresita Blanco (The Artsy Sister)
This is one of my most recent dancer maidens. She took a bit longer to draw because of all the small the small jewelry and details. Some of the patterns in her pants were a bit cookie. I added eyes on them. The costume is one of my favorites. There is always a nice joy trying to draw something complicated with a lot of small moving parts.
These days most outfits are complete eyesores, except for those who use traditional outfits. As far as innovation is concerned everything is sadly lacking. It would be nice to see dancers with fancy jewelry and all that nonsense. Then again, that would be expensive and creative and no one wants that.
I have been rather bored lately with modern or postmodern things. Most of my knowledge of art stops around the 1920s. I have no interest in things closer to my generation. There are some noteworthy exceptions. Digital Artists are doing it right. The problem is the academic art. When did it become good to draw bad. Very rarely do I see something that makes me go Woah!
Most artworks in the academic department are mostly meh! They focus so much on being deep and pretentious, instead of being good. My sensibility belongs to the art for arts sake movement. Everyone wants to be pretend to be more than what they are. It's like "Look at me, I am so awesome and deep". If you look closely, such artworks are only paper thin with cliché content.
