Everyone has something they love to do whether it is swim or write sheet music. Sometimes these are just hobbies and other times it is truly the persons passion.
I personally am passionate about art. I enjoy painting concepts for characters in film. Right now I am building 3D character models for films and commercials for a living. My major in college is Media arts and animation and I am months away from receiving my bachelors. Soon I will be creating art full time. I wouldn't have it any other way. I love it.
What are your passions or hobbies?
That's really cool thestory. I am just getting back into art myself. Most of it I do drawings and paintings in photoshop. Tho I do this stuff in spurts and never finish anything so my skill level is not where it could have been..
Well, anyone that knows me will know I consist of three things:
Anime/Manga
Video Games
Hovering around people and talking nonstop
lol. ^^
I try to combine it all into art. I don't do it, but I do facilitate it. And it sells. Well. If people are not willing to put into it something like money and time, then its not art its beating off. Art sells. Not everything that sell is art. But art sells. And I try to make some money off that.
Quote from: tekla on July 25, 2009, 10:46:49 PM
I try to combine it all into art. I don't do it, but I do facilitate it. And it sells. Well. If people are not willing to put into it something like money and time, then its not art its beating off. Art sells. Not everything that sell is art. But art sells. And I try to make some money off that.
Now Now, not all art sells.
Otherwise I wouldn't have to worry about being successful as an artist!
Art is what people are willing to call art. Perhaps you are ahead of your time, in which case, congratulations on being a starving artist, but real art at least supports the artist. Really good art supports a lot more people than just the artist.
Quote from: tekla on July 25, 2009, 10:52:41 PM
Art is what people are willing to call art. Perhaps you are ahead of your time, in which case, congratulations on being a starving artist, but real art at least supports the artist. Really good art supports a lot more people than just the artist.
Well, personaily, I believe art is real art if it's an expression of a person or an idea. If you make art just so you can sell it, it's more selling out to me. It's like drowning a tasty meal in sugar so that everyone will like it, when the dish is supposed to be bitter. Then again, there is nothing wrong with trying to make a living, and I suppose you could also aruge that art has more to do with the person beholding it then the person making it, but whatever.
This thread isn't about art. And I certainly don't want to get in an arguement with you, Telka. o.o;
Back on topic: I'm also really interested in space. I like expressing myself a lot through various ways, as well.
Quote from: Heartwood on July 25, 2009, 10:59:19 PM
Well, personaily, I believe art is real art if it's an expression of a person or an idea. If you make art just so you can sell it, it's more selling out to me.
I couldn't agree more. Art should be created for the artist making it, not for the audience. It is for you first and formost and for the veiwes secondly, as selfish as that can sound.
Of course you have to sell out somewhat to make a living. you either work on commission or for a studio if your in my position. But I never stop doing my own work for me on the side. That is where I really express myself and improve.
Sorry for continuing on the subject but I couldn't help it being a working artist and all.
Quote from: Heartwood on July 25, 2009, 10:44:24 PM
I consist of three things:
Anime/Manga
Video Games
Hovering around people and talking nonstop
I read comics and play games too. I'm a complete geek. What genres are you into?
Quote from: thestory on July 25, 2009, 11:11:02 PM
I read comics and play games too. I'm a complete geek. What genres are you into?
Manga, like I said. I like the really girly stories, you know, the ones intended for the 12 year old crowd? :P
I like Cardcaptor Sakura, for instance. I'm watching it right now acually.
And as for video games, I'm really into Sonic the Headgehog and Pokemon! But I also like FPS and Fighters for playing competivally.
I have a friend who's into the girly stuff. Nothing wrong with that. Though I like sci-fi and fantasy myself.
As far as games go I love role playing.
I write fantasy novels for fun as well. I plan on doing a comic sometime soon.
For almost 40 years now, my hobby, my passion has supported my life (and a few other lives beyond that). I've done lots of other things for other people, went to college to please my dad, got a phd because my mom though I should. But always there was the art, the show. It's taken very good care of me. But you can't do it forever. And so my other hobbies are writing, collecting stories, and taking pictures - pictures that other people can't take, never take. Some of them are on my flicker site, but only a few, out of the thousands and thousands I have. And when I can no longer do the art, no longer do the show, I'm going to tell the stories - with pictures - the way my phd taught me to tell them, and I hope that those hobbies and those passions will support me once the show is gone and people better than me, or at least younger than me, are doing it. The show must go on, and it will.
The point is, you have to follow your bliss. Do what you love, and it will never seem like work, never seem like a chore, and you'll never wake up thinking "damn I have to go to work today" but instead you'll wake up on your off days thinking "->-bleeped-<-, I don't have work today."
Most people sell themselves too short, for too much money. Neither brings happiness.
My hobby happens to be my job, and it also happens to pay quite well. I've recently stepped it down to part time to keep my stress level a bit lower, and it's awesome. If all goes well, inside of ten or twelve years I should be pretty comfortable.
See, I think that's the difference between hobby and passion. Hobby you can cut back on, scale it back. Passion, as soon as its done, all you want is more.
Quote from: tekla on July 26, 2009, 12:11:18 AM
See, I think that's the difference between hobby and passion. Hobby you can cut back on, scale it back. Passion, as soon as its done, all you want is more.
I scaled back the professional for-pay stuff to spend more time pursuing wherever I want to take things.
I guess that's the trouble with show biz. There is nothing like the show, it's only the show, and the next one can only be better.
Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't trade it for a sack o' gold
Let's go on with the show
I fail at art but I love computers. Does that count? Honestly, I told my ex that if computers could reciprocate affection I would have no need for a human companion.
I don't think I'm capable of much passion. I do have strong political convictions and work towards them as a member of the left-green political party of Iceland... suppose that counts.
What I do the most is art though.. the art is what I "do".. I'm an artist..
My hobby is breathing and my passion is living.
Those fit together nicely Lisa
I don't really have a passion, I'm a jack of all trades, master of none
I have an extremely short attention span, and about a zillion things I'd like to do, I start hundreds of projects that I never finish
I gotta say collecting, video games and drawing are my hobbies.
Of course I have to save up for gender therapy so I cant collect much anymore :/
Like so many here it seems, I draw. I'm passionate about stories and hope one day to write and pen my own comic.
Not surprising then that I love and collect comics, both Western and Japanese. I love Animation, again of all flavors.
I also play table top games. Warhammer (if you have ever heard of it) and the like. I can't wait to turn up to my gaming club as a woman, I plan to win tourneys purely on weirding out my oponents :D
What? freaking out the norms is one of the few advatages to our condition!
ou want hobbies or passions or mebbie both ? Shoot , lets go with hobbiies as I divulge in them to stay sane !
I have been a truck mechanic for most of my life . I know it was to mask me being a secret female in the 1950's
Look growing up , I wanted to be an artist but art people are generally starving . I taught myself photography, cabinet making , fiberglass repair, mold making , sheetmetal and some dressmaking . I didn't have anyone I could go to ! Meanwhile , I became an alcoholic . I knew I wanted to be a woman from the time I was four . I'm nearly sixty now .
My hobies include photography, old houses restoring Ford products from 1932 to 53. I love looking for vintage clothes . I build doll houses , contact me if you need something too, I am reasonable . Ellen Shaver