ROY G. BIV

SPRING 2019 | ISSUE NO. 1

FIERCE FEMALE A RT I ST S ABIGAIL

AVRY

SABRINA

CARSON

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Editor’s MESSAGE

ROY G. BIV reativity is my oxygen. Art is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. This dictionary definition does not even brush the many things art is or can be. For everyone art has a different meaning.

For me art is my life. If I did not have my creativity or my music I would not be the same person. I hope ROY G. BIV gives inspiration and sparks creativity.

GO MAKE ART.

CEYENNA BARNHILL Editor- in- Chief

ISSUE 01 | APRIL 2019

AVRY VICTOR AGE: 18 MEDIUM: Digital Art WHEN DID YOU START ART? I started art honestly since I could hold a crayon, so that was probably 4 but I didn’t start to take it very seriously until I was 11.

A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR ART. My art doesn’t have deep profound meaning.

It’s pretty surface level material, and it’s taken me a long time to accept that that’s just how my brain creates stuff. But I love experimenting with colors and styles!

WHY DO YOU THINK MAKING ART IS IMPORTANT? It’s all about feeling, even the pieces that don’t necessarily “mean” anything deep. It’s a way that people are able to really express themselves where words fail and everyone can find at least one piece of art that relates to them somehow.

HOW DO YOU FEEL AS ARTISTS WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE? I think artists have a huge platform to make a change by giving people a different way to look at things whether that’s emotional topics, mental health, political, or just aesthetic.

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SABRINA SOMMER AGE: 20 MEDIUM: Mixed Media WHEN DID YOU START ART? Art had always been my favorite subject as a kid. It wasn’t until I was a sophomore in high school, I took a digital art and media class. My teacher taught me everything I know about photoshop. In about 3 years, I had taken every art class offered and actually started winning some competitions.

A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR ART. People have said I have a distinct style. The most important thing to me about art in any form I’m working in is the idea. A lot of my pieces are concept heavy mainly because that’s what I like about art the most. When an image can tell a story or send message.

WHY DO YOU THINK MAKING ART IS IMPORTANT? I think making art is important because it helps an individual grow. Most of the things I make I don’t make for commercial or my portfolio or anyone else, I just make it because I’m curious to what it’ll look like and how I can get there.

HOW DO YOU FEEL AS ARTISTS WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE? As an artist you make a change by being blatant. Being purposeful. Those types of things are impactful on the people around you. It’s noticeable. Once you have those two things, the rest is all technicalities.

ABIGAIL E. P. AGE: 23 MEDIUM: Ink/ Digital Media

CARSON GOSE AGE: 27 MEDIUM: Illustration

WHAT ARE YOU PURSUING WITH YOUR ART?

WHEN DID YOU START ART?

I’m pursuing storytelling in whatever facet I can. Whether it’s my own story, someone else’s story, or the story of a business.

I was really young. I told my mom I wanted to be Picasso when I grew up. I didn’t start actively pursuing it as something I wanted as a career choice until senior year of high school.

WHEN DID YOU START ART? I don’t remember not making art.

A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR ART. My art is really vulnerable.

WHY DO YOU THINK MAKING ART IS IMPORTANT? I like to make art because I feel like it makes relationships and humanity more tangible and more approachable.

HOW DO YOU FEEL AS ARTISTS WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE? Keep putting shit OUT!

A LITTLE ABOUT YOUR ART. My style started when I stopped pretending that things had to be perfect to be good.

Lumpy curves and uneven lines add something special and personal to your art. My creativity is making ugly things seem beautiful.

WHY DO YOU THINK MAKING ART IS IMPORTANT? I think art gives us a vessel to speak truth.

Especially if you’re creating something others can connect with.

HOW DO YOU FEEL AS ARTISTS WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE? Art sticks with people. Find something you’re passionate about and make other people passionate about it too. It’s so easy to spread awareness when you have beautiful visuals to go with it. People learn better through visuals.

If a little girl were to see one of my illustrations of my characters with the words “this is beautiful” attached to it, in her mind, she might go “so if that’s beautiful, I must be too”.

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HOW TO DEVELOP

YOUR

UNIQUE ARTISTIC STYLE

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iven the time and resources, I believe ANYONE can learn to draw, or paint, or write. But making art is more than just studying anatomy, learning to mix paint, and mastering grammar.

Development #1: Interest

There’s a special mental side to making art that deals with voice, style, originality, and authenticity.

But the good news is that, in my opinion, you can learn how to master all those things too.

Development #2: Craft

The reason is that no one really knows the exact steps they took to develop their style, and even if they did, it wouldn’t be much help to anyone but themselves, because your artistic style is totally specific to you.

Development #3: Taste

Just as you develop your Self and become more like “you” as you grow up, your artistic voice is doing the same thing. With every experience you have, your Self changes and grows, and with every piece of art you make, your style changes and grows.

You follow your obsessions and curiosity.

You draw, paint, write, and make a lot of stuff as a child. Eventually you find the basic art form you enjoy making most.

Once the interest is planted, you dive in, aiming to improve your craft. You copy other artists, trying to learn how the artwork is made.

You see a piece of art that speaks to you more deeply than anything else has before.

D e v e l o p m e n t # 4 : Yo u r V o i c e

D e v e l o p m e n t # 5 : Yo u r S t y l e You notice and pay attention to which elements keep popping up in your artwork.

This leads you to discover what makes a piece of art look like you. This includes color palettes, overall drawing style, textures, voice/ subject, and specific techniques.

It’s important to keep in mind, that this is a continuing development, that can and should keep evolving throughout your life as an artist.

But each one will lead you to the next if you follow them.

The Step that Makes it All Happen

THOSE are the Things that Make up Your Style

There’s one crucial step that happens throughout this progression, and without it, nothing will happen and your style will never be found. So what is this secret step to find your artistic style?

But you can’t just choose them, you have to find them. And you find them by making lots and lots of art.

Your Mistakes Will Guide You All the failed pieces, all the work you created where you had no idea what you were doing and were totally unhappy with the results — all of that is an essential part of the process, and is exactly what will lead you to finding your artistic voice.

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Your style is the result of a honed interest, all the things you’ve absorbed over your lifetime, an appreciation of the art, a refined craft, a sense of curiosity, the ability to notice and follow the leads your work shows you, and finally the repetition of creating art over and over.

It’s Making Art These habits are the things that just begin happening in your artwork almost in an automatic, subconscious way. The topics that keep popping up, the pencil texture you keep automatically drawing.

It’s just a matter of persevering through the rough, floundering periods where you’re trying to figure out who you are and what you’re all about.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting.

Make. Good. Art.”

— Neil Gaiman

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