Art Critique of viewer artwork!! (Episode 01) I'm brutally honest about YOUR art

Thanks everyone! This is a super new thing for me, so I hope you love it! Your feedback would be amazing in the comments!

FEATURED ARTISTS (check them out on their socials) -----------

Robin Roy:

Bill from Tampa:

Rana Samir:

HOW TO SUBMIT (for future episodes) --------------------

If you’re interested in submitting work for a future critique, here are the THREE things I need from you. Please send all of this in the public comments below. I will put your name in a blind raffle! (you never have to submit more than once, if you're not picked, you'll stay in the "hat")

I need:

1. Give me a link to one of your artworks! (can be a website, or instagram, or facebook, or anything!)
- If the link doesn’t mention the size, please tell me the size.

2. Ask me a question you have about your work. (anything)

3. Tell me the percentage of positive to negative feedback you would like. Do you want 100% positive? 100% negative? 50/50? Or 70/30? Or 25/75? (the positive number should be first).

WHY?!?!
Because sometimes need to know what they’re doing RIGHT so they can continue in that direction, and sometimes artists KNOW what's right but want to hear what they can work on, or hear suggestions of other artists that are doing it better. I don't know what you need, so TELL ME!

Also it prevents these videos from being a “dog show” where I pick a 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place. Giving you control over that percentage of positivity means that these videos are never about “IF” it’s good or bad, and instead 100% about “WHY” it’s good or bad.

And finally, it’s a fun game for me and viewers when you pick the percentage and I do my best to match it in a video. It “gameifys” the critique and makes it fun for me AND viewers.

[solovief]

David, thanks so much for your thorough and helpful critiques of our work. I especially enjoyed how you expanded Rana's piece based on the binder clip. Small details like that show your effort and care in doing these reviews. I want to mention two things in response to the critique you did for me. First, I wanted to mention that in my mind I'm far from violent thoughts, but yes, I do often have thoughts of the strange and dreams. Second, I wanted to mention that at least one of the images you showed from my flickr feed, one featuring a stairwell, was a combined work with my art partner Revansj. He and I have been friends for years but we've been doing joint works since 2011. Again, thanks for taking your time to look at our work and share your thoughts, and also pointing out other artist that we can check out.

[superterro]

nice vid, willing to see the next one <3

[thenemorensis]

Just saw this... like Mr Redvoid :) I have known Bill for a long time. Some of his art (and some of revansj) is on my walls at home and it's a constant pleasure having it around. I love your take on what he is up to, the sense of wonder you have for all art is inspiring in itself. I'm now looking at the white lines! I'm super excited that Bill is getting some public recognition from someone who knows the art world and has a deep connection to art.


All of Bill's stuff has always leaned spooky! For sure! At the same time he's one of the gentlest beings on planet, bar none, in my personal opinion. From my understanding, a lot of what he paints and draws comes out of dreams, recollections of dreams or spiritual inspiration of some kind. The way he describes his process, it's like he's seeing a fantastical movie, and painting it in real time. Bill tell me if I'm off here.


2% you made me feel better about life today, all the way around. Thanks so much for what you do.

[redvid]

I was a college roommate of Bill from Tampa aka giveawayboy during years when I was a music major, and he an art major @ USF, and we are still close decades later, so I am personally stoked you are reviewing his work, as he is an amazingly gifted artist, with a strong artistic language uniquely his own, who deserves wider recognition, and his life is a work of art aligned with the work he so prolifically creates. I've attended many of his art shows over the years, and even DJ'd one of them, so I have a few thoughts of my own.

I think you properly give credit to his intensity of technique, color, and image, and are seeing the mysterious darkness & angst being depicted, that can often be deeply personal, but perhaps you may not be seeing the ecstatic joy, the sense of wonder, the dreamlike states, and the spelunking of the inner shadow realms, with character archetypes arising from the darkness who are friends and helpers, with the unification of the self that is also present, pointing the way toward a unified whole. I feel he is uniting inner and outer worlds, cosmic and ordinary worlds, and dark and light themes. My words not his, but I see the deeply personal things you correctly cite, alongside a more universal sense of connectedness, where the spiritual and mundane intersect, to form a unified gestalt that transcends both. To me the Christmas trees are both a meditation on the flippant suburban casualness of tossing out a living thing carelessly, without mindfulness, being married to a joyful celebration of all the things Christmas or Winter Solstice simply or symbolize on the grand scale of human existence and time, as the infinitely spinning wheel of seasons revolving also implies, the grander life & death cycle, as well as showing us how even a seemingly barren landscape has the power to invade our inner consciousness, with outer maps of places other people might not see as significant, but Bill gives a sense of grandeur to these forgotten things, honoring these inner and outer maps in the process, creating meaning through visual story telling. It is precisely the holding of two potentially opposing things as complimentary truths at once, that might sound contradictory, that gives the work the balance and tension that I see when I view it. His eye is catching and capturing things most of the rest of us would miss, so he is showing us things that go typically unseen through a variety of means. His artistic craft and techniques mirror this opposing but unified polarities motif.

I'm also fortunate enough to have some of his marker works, and paintings on canvas in my home where the brush marks, or the shockingly disparate but similar values of colors, collide and compliment each other to form a thing of beauty. The expressionistic elements in the work really shine when in the presence of the physical object.

Love your reviews here. They are very thoughtful and considerate. :)

[sailingmongoose]

Thank you so much, I learnt a so much just listening to your wonderful crit. To the artists that submitted your works , thank you .. Bill , your stuff rocks ..

[ABEHR]

Hey David. This is one of my favorite videos to date. Great concept and insight! I hope this becomes a regular feature of your channel.

[robsmith]

Thanks for the review of my work Robin Roy. I liked your idea that my work is one painting. I do think of it as a diary, a process. i think of the work as digital objects, That's why the owner gets the digital file. The pieces are not fabricated. I am in Mexico I am not confident they can be fabricated here, so I appreciate you projecting one to scale.

I am very happy with the dimensions.

I know and like the work of Petra Cortright. She sells her work as unique digital objects. I am not sure if the buyer gets the digital file, probably not. I feel the buyer is buying a digital object so they should get the file. I suppose they could do whatever they want with it. I would not approve of it though. because the value as a unique object would be destroyed.

I took to heart your comment that there are no physical objects in my feed. Even though the dimensions are given in the description. I think it is not read. I did not say be 100% negitive ha ha I said just be honest.

I really appreciate your time to look at my work. I think your critique idea is a good one.

Regards Robin Roy

[eugenietung]

Great work Dave! Very thoughtfully done in terms of format and timing. You packed in what could be a one hour of lecture into 23 mins with the help of great editing and prep work. The succinct and concise quality of your presentation should be the standard for all to adopt so that art criticism can be much more enjoyable and relatable to the masse! Keep them coming!

[janesato]

Love all your videos. You are such a thoughtful content creator. Thanks for taking the time to share these great artists. I learned so much, and look forward to the next one.

[ashoey]

Enjoyed ... you love to give feedback! Excellent.

[ranasamir]

Hi David, thanks for a great review! You have raised some important points which I can use as guideline for future work especially the presentation and display. While Instagram is considered a good tool for artists to have a presence on social media it does require a bit of an effort to create a post that best represents one's work!


I look forward to exploring/researching the artists you mentioned. I sometimes find it difficult to describe my work in artist statements, etc. and getting to know these artists will help a lot. I especially like Fifield and Gilbert's work.


You have started a great platform and it will benefit a lot of artists at various points in their careers. The format of critiquing artwork is well thought and I must congratulate you on this. Thanks again for your time and effort.
Looking forward to more of these videos. Wish you all the best.