The Rghayati Thread
- shredkeenan
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You did such an amazing job on this! From 3 feet away, the thing seriously looks like a photograph.
I think anybody making that comparison is basing it mostly on the medium, and the level of detail. Patrick definitely has a recognizable style that is different from anyone else's (in my opinion).dsanacore wrote:I'm surprised to see multiple people referencing Horkey here. I don't think that your work resembles his even slightly (Which is a good thing!). I mean, sure, it's an ink drawing of a bird but your technique, style and linework is nothing like Aarons. Keep it that way! Killer work, keep it up.
Oh, no, though it's a bit of an easy comparison, my ink work is similar in Horkey's in all sorts of ways. This is 90% a factor of our using the same medium, but there's a dynamic of direct inspiration as well, and easily more so via Horkey than via any other ink artist I've studied / admired (Girard, Parker, Pope, etc). But I'd like to think I know inks well enough that what I learn from his pieces is as much What Horkey Isn't Doing as What He Is Doing---analysis of choice as much as result.dsanacore wrote:I'm surprised to see multiple people referencing Horkey here. I don't think that your work resembles his even slightly (Which is a good thing!). I mean, sure, it's an ink drawing of a bird but your technique, style and linework is nothing like Aarons. Keep it that way! Killer work, keep it up.
But even where that comparison is acknowledged, saying one artist is like one other artist is almost always a simplification. Even Horkey barely resembles Horkey sometimes.