Zindy
02-06-2012, 09:11 PM
Just simple ol’ Mike ;)
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I’m currently 35 and live in Holland. I have a wife and two sons, almost 3 years and 5 months. I work as a chemical analyst. I’ve always loved to draw, but I never felt taken seriously or stimulated in this, so at some point, that lead to discouragement. Until I had nothing to lose, I just dare to draw because I want it… whatever what might happen, whatever they say or try to press me down; I love to draw. I love to write and puzzle as well. I’m interested in the how and why of people and their creations and ideas and I’m interested in personalities. I tend to seek the artist behind the work. I’m a detailist by nature and I’m not fond of “standard”, fashion and cocacola culture, where everybody is thronged up to love the same thing and be the same thing. I love good conversations, but I hate dogmatism. I’m a pretty direct person, but I always try to not disrespect the person, unless they give me a good reason to do so. I love people who are open minded. I hate people who are rude for the sake of honesty and “freedom of opinion” and find themselves totally honest. I just find it irritating, obnoxious, arrogant and definitely NOT honest! I’m not the positive type, but I can make a joke ;). I’m a self-taught free hander and I love to pencil :D. I like works of those that show passion, a strong expression, originality and with balance. I'm indiscriminate about the medium. I'm usually not fond of standard manga, look-at-me-I'm-interesting photo's and celebrity-realism, the so-much eye drawing unless it has something unique to it.
How did you find the ZindyZone Forums?
That is a long story…
When I was alone right after ending my relationship, I’ve picked up drawing again. I barely could hold a pencil and I had the ambition to draw from my mind. I found my quality is lacking big time and decided to practice with celebs to upgrade the technique. I was struggling with the hair at the time I was making an fire angel, so I’ve typed in google “Holly Marie Combs drawing”, to see if not 1000’nds of others had draw her, and at the same time, revealed how the hair should be drawn. I found this tiny image on google:
http://www.zindy-zone.dk/html/drawings/stars/holly_marie_combs.htm
I was very impressed, but I couldn’t enlarge it. When I mouse-over it I saw this “Zindy-zone”, and I thought it was another kind of spamming annoying site, because of the word “zone” and Zindy of some nickname (as Zindy often is written as Cyndi or Cindy); so I didn’t take the initial effort to press it. But I was determined to hunt the artist down, because I was so impressed; instead I typed the name in google, so there were much more drawings revealed. I became very curious and jumped in the site to explore Zindy’s drawings. I was trying to track down the Holly-drawing, but soon I was lost in other drawings. One of the first encounters was “Unclothed and Honest”:
http://www.zindy-zone.dk/html/drawings/fantasy/unclothed_and_honest.html
Which I’m now the proud owner of!
How long have you been doing art and what got you started?
I don’t really know, but I’m drawing more intense now for 5 years, but with periods when I have the time; my life is kinda hectic over the last few years. I drew unusual things as a kid. If a normal kid drew a sun, he/she drew a yellow sphere with 8 inaccurate stripes. When I drew a sun, it contained lots and lots of fine addressed strokes, in colors of yellow, orange red and blue. I drew Snoopy + figures in an own imagined story. I drew perspective cubistic things, like Esher, but with ecoline at young age. All of those drawings are in the bin. When I was 27 I temporarily got back into drawing. When I was 18 I watched a soap called “Paradise Beach”, with actress Raelee Hill. She was/is about the same age as me. She played a personality I strongly associate with. Unwanted it became a strong memory. To get back when I was 27 I had this advice to draw to get out my emotions. So I chose the actress…but…I could of course imagine she would be like 30 years, not knowing her real age. So I’ve imagined how she would look at this age, while the series was long gone from the Dutch TV. I drew her with a lot of passion, cause that is what I WANTED to draw and I drew her in the exact expression I wanted; and in translation in my own age, with the struggles of brainstorming I was having at the time. Someone else owes that particular 3rd drawing as a gift for the good help. It was not a particular good drawing. It lacked a lot of shading and sophisticated work. But the owner told me it was a great drawing, so I was curious how a Raelee Hill of 30 years old would look like now. The likeness, despite of the lack of shading was gruesome and scary close, inclusive age-developing of roughly 10 years. It was then I realized I could draw straight from the mind, without any need for pictures. That again meant I cloud draw anything I desire, naked, raw and untouched! But still I was living with my ex and I had a cattery of Maine-coons, so drawing was not really a fair option. It never left my mind and when my relationship ended and got myself another place to live, I grabbed my chance and began to draw again. But I could not even get close anymore to what I want and I was still lacking the technical strength. When I discovered Zindy around the age of 30; I mean the first encounters to her drawings, something just snapped. Looking at “the clown”, “Emptyness”, “Unclothed and honest” and some more important drawings that reflected exactly how I felt at that time. I was so intimidated and impressed… I can’t describe it. I was never able to express myself in any manner and I wanted it that way so bad….so unbelievable bad. I cannot describe how much, but for hours I stared with tears in my eyes. I WANT THIS TOO, I could scream that from the top of the world!! I mean, if you could do something like that to a person, then you are one heck of an artist! From that moment I really drew like a maniac. The fact that I’ve fitnessed every day for years to the edge of obsession, was vanished like snow before the sun. I drew straight away when I came back from work and in the weekend I made days of 12 hours. One time I drew 17 hours in one row. It happened in that fire angel (the 4th drawing) and the flame awoke. I felt so much fire within…especially after the Milano drawing I felt the time was ripe to get myself out for the first time of my life!!!!: the drawing “WHY”. Finally I’m mastering the better technique, for it was not much at the age of 27. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting closer…
What medium/materials do you like to work with the most?
Color pencils, graphite pencils and Ecoline, a synthetic ink. On the contrary to most artist, I rather work with hards than bolds. Favorite pencils are 4H, 2H. I don’t like “messy” mats… respect to those that can work with it! I demand a smooth surface, because I’m a detailed artist, who wants to draw to the limits of the paper. So it is mostly I choose hotpressed heavyweight smooth ivory cardboard or Bristol. I use the cheapest paper for ramp-sketching and protecting paper. Further I use gallet, mars and lumoplastic erasers, an automatic sharpener, a nailveil to fine sharpen it, making the resolution I want possible. I use 0.3 mechanic B, 0.5 mechanic 3B to use it for edging, contrasting and streamlining. The rest I solve with woods. I use stump wood to color and stretch, and sharps to draw. I use toilet paper, graphite powder and a nylon pencil if I want smooth surfaces, and a lumoplastic eraser to make it grainless and to rub it in the surface. I use a knife to cut off my erasers, so I can retouch lines and areas. I don’t erase-erase often. Instead I manipulate them or dissolve them.
What's your favorite motive and why?
I just draw for myself; I just love to captivate what I want and I want this to be “frozen” in art “in memorial” effect, with your own touches to it. I know I’m capable to recall my memory very strongly. The drawings I had are those, mostly consisting of exercise. I’m going to distance more and more from fact-realism and especially celebs, but maintaining its convincing factor. But what I really have as a goal is to draw literally what is inside my head and heart and do that with a powerful blow; Especially to get it out. What others think or perform…not important for my motivation/inspiration; I just enjoy, observe and live what I view. Other works can feed the urge to draw though. I just want to channelize and get out my emotions. I want to draw and make it worth such an effort to reflect what I feel. When the drawing is finished, I don’t like the result, because it was me who drew it. A stupid reason in fact. Why draw then? I enjoy the progress, the growth, create and holding the pencil and relief my state of mind. I draw; I just do…
Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
I’m currently 35 and live in Holland. I have a wife and two sons, almost 3 years and 5 months. I work as a chemical analyst. I’ve always loved to draw, but I never felt taken seriously or stimulated in this, so at some point, that lead to discouragement. Until I had nothing to lose, I just dare to draw because I want it… whatever what might happen, whatever they say or try to press me down; I love to draw. I love to write and puzzle as well. I’m interested in the how and why of people and their creations and ideas and I’m interested in personalities. I tend to seek the artist behind the work. I’m a detailist by nature and I’m not fond of “standard”, fashion and cocacola culture, where everybody is thronged up to love the same thing and be the same thing. I love good conversations, but I hate dogmatism. I’m a pretty direct person, but I always try to not disrespect the person, unless they give me a good reason to do so. I love people who are open minded. I hate people who are rude for the sake of honesty and “freedom of opinion” and find themselves totally honest. I just find it irritating, obnoxious, arrogant and definitely NOT honest! I’m not the positive type, but I can make a joke ;). I’m a self-taught free hander and I love to pencil :D. I like works of those that show passion, a strong expression, originality and with balance. I'm indiscriminate about the medium. I'm usually not fond of standard manga, look-at-me-I'm-interesting photo's and celebrity-realism, the so-much eye drawing unless it has something unique to it.
How did you find the ZindyZone Forums?
That is a long story…
When I was alone right after ending my relationship, I’ve picked up drawing again. I barely could hold a pencil and I had the ambition to draw from my mind. I found my quality is lacking big time and decided to practice with celebs to upgrade the technique. I was struggling with the hair at the time I was making an fire angel, so I’ve typed in google “Holly Marie Combs drawing”, to see if not 1000’nds of others had draw her, and at the same time, revealed how the hair should be drawn. I found this tiny image on google:
http://www.zindy-zone.dk/html/drawings/stars/holly_marie_combs.htm
I was very impressed, but I couldn’t enlarge it. When I mouse-over it I saw this “Zindy-zone”, and I thought it was another kind of spamming annoying site, because of the word “zone” and Zindy of some nickname (as Zindy often is written as Cyndi or Cindy); so I didn’t take the initial effort to press it. But I was determined to hunt the artist down, because I was so impressed; instead I typed the name in google, so there were much more drawings revealed. I became very curious and jumped in the site to explore Zindy’s drawings. I was trying to track down the Holly-drawing, but soon I was lost in other drawings. One of the first encounters was “Unclothed and Honest”:
http://www.zindy-zone.dk/html/drawings/fantasy/unclothed_and_honest.html
Which I’m now the proud owner of!
How long have you been doing art and what got you started?
I don’t really know, but I’m drawing more intense now for 5 years, but with periods when I have the time; my life is kinda hectic over the last few years. I drew unusual things as a kid. If a normal kid drew a sun, he/she drew a yellow sphere with 8 inaccurate stripes. When I drew a sun, it contained lots and lots of fine addressed strokes, in colors of yellow, orange red and blue. I drew Snoopy + figures in an own imagined story. I drew perspective cubistic things, like Esher, but with ecoline at young age. All of those drawings are in the bin. When I was 27 I temporarily got back into drawing. When I was 18 I watched a soap called “Paradise Beach”, with actress Raelee Hill. She was/is about the same age as me. She played a personality I strongly associate with. Unwanted it became a strong memory. To get back when I was 27 I had this advice to draw to get out my emotions. So I chose the actress…but…I could of course imagine she would be like 30 years, not knowing her real age. So I’ve imagined how she would look at this age, while the series was long gone from the Dutch TV. I drew her with a lot of passion, cause that is what I WANTED to draw and I drew her in the exact expression I wanted; and in translation in my own age, with the struggles of brainstorming I was having at the time. Someone else owes that particular 3rd drawing as a gift for the good help. It was not a particular good drawing. It lacked a lot of shading and sophisticated work. But the owner told me it was a great drawing, so I was curious how a Raelee Hill of 30 years old would look like now. The likeness, despite of the lack of shading was gruesome and scary close, inclusive age-developing of roughly 10 years. It was then I realized I could draw straight from the mind, without any need for pictures. That again meant I cloud draw anything I desire, naked, raw and untouched! But still I was living with my ex and I had a cattery of Maine-coons, so drawing was not really a fair option. It never left my mind and when my relationship ended and got myself another place to live, I grabbed my chance and began to draw again. But I could not even get close anymore to what I want and I was still lacking the technical strength. When I discovered Zindy around the age of 30; I mean the first encounters to her drawings, something just snapped. Looking at “the clown”, “Emptyness”, “Unclothed and honest” and some more important drawings that reflected exactly how I felt at that time. I was so intimidated and impressed… I can’t describe it. I was never able to express myself in any manner and I wanted it that way so bad….so unbelievable bad. I cannot describe how much, but for hours I stared with tears in my eyes. I WANT THIS TOO, I could scream that from the top of the world!! I mean, if you could do something like that to a person, then you are one heck of an artist! From that moment I really drew like a maniac. The fact that I’ve fitnessed every day for years to the edge of obsession, was vanished like snow before the sun. I drew straight away when I came back from work and in the weekend I made days of 12 hours. One time I drew 17 hours in one row. It happened in that fire angel (the 4th drawing) and the flame awoke. I felt so much fire within…especially after the Milano drawing I felt the time was ripe to get myself out for the first time of my life!!!!: the drawing “WHY”. Finally I’m mastering the better technique, for it was not much at the age of 27. I’m not there yet, but I’m getting closer…
What medium/materials do you like to work with the most?
Color pencils, graphite pencils and Ecoline, a synthetic ink. On the contrary to most artist, I rather work with hards than bolds. Favorite pencils are 4H, 2H. I don’t like “messy” mats… respect to those that can work with it! I demand a smooth surface, because I’m a detailed artist, who wants to draw to the limits of the paper. So it is mostly I choose hotpressed heavyweight smooth ivory cardboard or Bristol. I use the cheapest paper for ramp-sketching and protecting paper. Further I use gallet, mars and lumoplastic erasers, an automatic sharpener, a nailveil to fine sharpen it, making the resolution I want possible. I use 0.3 mechanic B, 0.5 mechanic 3B to use it for edging, contrasting and streamlining. The rest I solve with woods. I use stump wood to color and stretch, and sharps to draw. I use toilet paper, graphite powder and a nylon pencil if I want smooth surfaces, and a lumoplastic eraser to make it grainless and to rub it in the surface. I use a knife to cut off my erasers, so I can retouch lines and areas. I don’t erase-erase often. Instead I manipulate them or dissolve them.
What's your favorite motive and why?
I just draw for myself; I just love to captivate what I want and I want this to be “frozen” in art “in memorial” effect, with your own touches to it. I know I’m capable to recall my memory very strongly. The drawings I had are those, mostly consisting of exercise. I’m going to distance more and more from fact-realism and especially celebs, but maintaining its convincing factor. But what I really have as a goal is to draw literally what is inside my head and heart and do that with a powerful blow; Especially to get it out. What others think or perform…not important for my motivation/inspiration; I just enjoy, observe and live what I view. Other works can feed the urge to draw though. I just want to channelize and get out my emotions. I want to draw and make it worth such an effort to reflect what I feel. When the drawing is finished, I don’t like the result, because it was me who drew it. A stupid reason in fact. Why draw then? I enjoy the progress, the growth, create and holding the pencil and relief my state of mind. I draw; I just do…