, check out her awesome Haida Hare design (or even DevArt search: Haida Hare) and thank her, because she was the one who sent me that link.
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Your "tribal" designs have a beautiful flow to them, so I look forward to seeing what you do within the formal constraints of the formline style. I'm curious, though, where you learned to do tribal art. Where does that style come from? Is it a unified style, or is a general term for art that looks like that?
By the way, you should check out ~Xaadaas if you haven't already. He's an actual Haida artist, with some great stuff.
AS TO TRIBAL... Unlike Haida, I don't think there are any strict guidelines that define tribal. I'm sure tribal forms have roots somewhere, or even from many places such as the Maori designs of New Zealand. Not sure.
These days, the more traditional 'tribal designs' people get on their skin or watnot seem to be defined by very crisp, bold, and sharp lines. Yet I would go as far as calling some stencils 'tribal,' whether they are 'sharp' or not. I guess to answer your question, I'd say it is a general term for this kind of art. OR I might just be horribly misled.
But this is also why I love this style so much! It come without restrictions so it is completely molded to each artist, and each person's approach to this form is SO different. You can make it graceful or cutting, flowing or abrupt. Yet the design is always bold. And if there are any rules in designing tribal I have surely broken them! The way that this style of art is set up, I kind of taught it to myself through pure experimentation. I'm not quite sure but I think it started with me just breaking animals down into shapes and following the natural curves and points that occur on them (like musculature and fur). Somehow it became what it is today, though my style is constantly changing.
Hope this... somewhat answers your question? :]
P.S. Keep up your formline. Maybe it's my lack of experience with the style as opposed to the others, but your designs look genuine to me! (Genuinely beautiful at the very least ; )
And yeah, I feel that "wall" too when it comes to formline art. It's not the only reason that I haven't been doing much of it anymore, but it's one of them. For me it's not the rules - my favorite part about this is figuring out how to do things within these very restrictive rules. But it's just the cultural barrier. I mean, I'm not doing more of this because I have plenty of other things to do that are more urgent or important. But I might be making time to do it if I got more encouragement from the people whose advice I might be inclined to take on the matter. Instead, the people who I've encountered are neutral or negative about people like me messing around with this art style (which I can understand) so I'm not particularly motivated to push it.
For example, I could probably make some amount of money by doing this kind of art and selling it. But I wouldn't do that because it would feel wrong and inappropriate in a way that selling some more generic style of art wouldn't. So even though I could spend a lot of time and become very good at formline art, I choose to become good at other things instead. Things that I can actually make money from, like developing computer games. And obscure hobbies that I *am* encouraged to continue, where my progress delights rather than offends people, like Persian ney flute or Aikido.
Anyway, I'll still do formline art. Just not as often.
I'm glad you found the link as helpful as I did! I'll definitely have to get back into drawing Haida again, when I get a break at Uni
Good luck, I look forward to seeing the results! xxx
good luck broadening your horizons ^^
Well jeez. Shoulda told me sooner!
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Then check out Tarheki
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Try that XD.