Lullaby and Goodnight

This video was made by Yuri Norstien.  This was a very extensive video telling the story of the Russian lullaby where the wolf would come and steal babies into the woods.  I adored the animation and the story that went along with the lullaby.  I wish that the video was shorter.  For a lullaby, it really did put me to sleep with all the dark tones and the music.

This artist uses a lot of dark tones and bases a lot of his work at night.  He has many different styles, but I can all detect bits and pieces that lead to him.

While I've been learning how to become an artist and developing my own style, I'm taking bits and pieces of other artist style and applying them to my own work.  It's amazing to see how much I'm learning from other artist.  A lot of people look down on artist for copying their styles, but that's not how artist learn or grow.  When I was in third grade, my art teacher told us it was better to look at something and copy than to use a light board.  Copying was frowned upon, but I used it to develop my skill at copying be seeing.

I want to grow into a better artist, but I don't want to be the next Picasso. I want to be the best artist I can be.