THE PROMISE:
| Upon completion of ONE HUNDRED separate drawings, each following the guidelines and assignments spelled out below, and each accepted by the administrator to fulfill either assignment or count, Prolific Painter LLC, will send a fully loaded Sketchbox!! |
| After receiving the Sketchbox, do another ONE HUNDRED drawings with it, the tools or the like, also following the guidelines and assignments satisfactorily, and Prolific Painter LLC, will send a Fly on the Wall Easel!! |
| After receiving the Fly on the Wall Easel, do ONE HUNDRED oil paintings using the easel, following the guidelines and assignments satisfactorily, and Prolific Painter LLC, will send a Daytripper Palette and 18″ End Mount Upright Panel Holder! |
| All free of charge, but you’ll put in some drawing and painting mileage, which never hurt any artist I know of. Your improvements and work will aid the marketing efforts of my company, Prolific Painter LLC, but all ownership and all copyrights remain yours. Prolific Painter LLC, in exchange, aids your improvement on this journey of painting by offering insightful products which can be purchased or earned, and FREE knowledge. The insights gained by all, beginner to expert, through this level of observation, can do nothing but elevate our civilization, through and among many other ways, informing what is one of the primary, and most powerfully timeless of all visual artforms, PAINTING. Stay original. |
-Joshua Been |
I grow weary of seeing art competitions that reward already good artists with a new easel or art materials from so and so. As if these already very accomplished professionals need another easel or new and different art materials for a craft they’ve already dialed….am I right?
| THE 100 4 100 CHALLENGE HONORS THE INDUSTRIOUS!! |
I think hard work trumps so called “talent” all day every day. I’ve been called talented my whole life as the “resident” artist in every school I went to. It’s sort of a nice compliment…but in the end I’d know in my heart I was not some gifted individual, I just LOVED to draw. I drew constantly and it occupied so much of my childhood it’s remarkable. That and Legos. When you spend this much time doing anything, you get really good at it. But I fiddled around too thinking I was hot stuff, the compliments were a distraction to my growth. I would only realize this later after college and upon merging into the highly competitive on-ramp of a professional animation career in Los Angeles. And let me tell you, there are some really, I mean REALLY great artists!! Lit a Fire! Another story. This is what I’ve learned…
If you want to get radical at drawing or painting, and I mean compete on a professional level in pretty much any artistic or graphic arts profession, it begins with the translation from 3D to 2D. No one, and I mean no gallery, no animation studio, no art director…well, maybe 2 people, your mom and your grandma, wants to see how good you render the likes of a photo from a photo, whatever photo it is…no one. They want to see you translate 3D into 2D from your mind or life or both. If you do it well, and fast, and filter it through an interesting and curious brain, there are careers waiting. Careers where you work with other creatives in a creative atmosphere that dreams are made of. Interiors of studios that Mr. Walt Disney himself would be proud to hang out in sipping a kale-strawberry smoothie with you while you discuss the specifics of an alien invasion scene coming up in the story-line. Or the incredible freedom of punching out of your day-job for the last time as your fine art starts to gain an audience in galleries. No boss, just you doing what you love doing the most. Aside from possible monetary success, fluency in Visual Language will help your life in countless other ways, as you will see if you even go part of the way through this challenge, and truly even if you read one more sentence.
It all starts with getting awesome at translating 3D to 2D. At the completion of these 100 drawings, following the guidelines and assignments, you’ll just be starting your journey, but you’ll feel like Michelangelo. There’s a lot to learn, and it starts with the first try. You’re not alone, there have been many others that learn this Visual Language on their own, self taught. Nobody, however, locks themselves in a closet and learns this all by their genius selves. There is human history and volumes have been written about it. Very good volumes. And there are very good teachers of it. Galleries and museums have amazing collections to go look at. And there is lots of Youtube stuff to sift through. Nothing, though, will help you gain fluency in Visual Language like learning first to SEE, and recognize the Visual Language Elements, Value, Shape, Edge, and Texture in your mind or the world around you, and then practice translating them onto a substrate of some kind from life. Often.
| RULES FOR ALL CHALLENGES: |
FIRST!!
You MUST be able to document your study through the challenge, and not all, but many of the assignments are outside. You must be able to take a digital photo of your drawing in front of the very subject you just drew from life as shown. Each and every 100 drawings will be from-life but under various conditions in the assignment. Each assignment is designed to give you the maximum amount of challenge and variety in building your knowledge foundation in Visual Language fluency. Of course if you draw frequently already, this will be like a warm-up, no sweat, and a lot of review, show us whatcha’ got, and be an inspiration. If you’re a rank beginner, get ready…This is gonna use all of your brain. NOTE: Be sure to finish and upload the assignments in order as their date and time will be assessed.
SECOND!!
To participate in the 1004100Challenge, you must have a Facebook account, and you must LIKE the business Prolific Painter. This is the only way I can keep track of your progress in the 1004100 Challenge. Of course, your very progress is of great aid to the marketing efforts of Prolific Painter LLC, and is how to a large degree my business builds its reputation and name. Prolific Painter’s mission is helping those on the journey of painting through being a place of insight sharing, encouragement, inspiration, and camaraderie among all of us on the journey. Artists help others to see how amazing this existence is, lets help each other. The more people getting out and taking the time to SEE and translate the world as they experience it around them, brings about wonderful insightful changes on all levels of a civilization. Changes including but not limited: Empathy, Appreciation of Life and Land, Land Conservation, Land Preservation, People getting to see others enjoying the scenery in a new and cool way, People enjoying the scenery in a new and cool way, People getting outside, etc..
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THIRD!!
There will be no nudes allowed, and not because I don’t think they are valid for learning Visual Language, quite the opposite. No nudes because it’s very difficult to moderate the genre, and I believe it a violation of a nude model’s privacy to take pictures of your drawing with the model, which is a critical element of the obligation on your part if participating.
FOURTH!!
Eligibility. This challenge is open to anyone in the Universe, but if you live outside of the United States, Planet Earth, you’ll have to pay your own shipping on the won items. You have to be at least 18 years old, and be able to correspond with me in English. If you have or know of a child that is interested, you must sponsor them as an adult and correspond with me on their behalf, and they must do all of the drawing work themselves, but I am all for it. And you can NOT be a jerk! If you’re a jerk, too bad for you. I reserve the right to call out “jerkiness” in anyone at anytime, at which time, jerky person will be disqualified from participating.
100 4 A SKETCHBOX CHALLENGE!
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Even if you have no need or desire to win the free stuff as you progress through the challenges, and are only interested in learning to draw and paint better, it’s all good!! I hope you love them all and you grow as an artist and a person. But you’re still going to want to purchase a few key things on the list to help you on your way, either from me or anywhere.
I want these 100 drawings done in order, and a certain way so that there is some semblance of a curvature of growth, learning, and comprehension that is easily recognizable by anyone assessing the body of work. The assignments are carefully organized and ordered to give you the best learning scenarios for the Visual Language property that is most important at that moment. I’m not putting restraints on creativity or doing this to conform anyone to anyway of doing things, just that in learning Visual Language, especially with representational painting of some kind as a dominant intent, THIS is the best way. Through the practice of drawing from life, doing the actual translation from 3D to 2D over and over again, with assignments that progress upon each other, you’ll build a solid foundation from which to blossom in any visual artistic direction you choose.
Do yourself a favor and purchase my book, Learn to SEE, Learn to PAINT, for $10.00 which will help guide you on your way though this. If you don’t elect to purchase the book now, the entire book is posted on my website with links to key pages from the assignments, so you won’t need it immediately, but it sure will be convenient to have.
Do whatever you want outside of this, but for a free Sketchbox and more, it’ll be some disciplined work. Work for you and work for me, but in the end it will help you more than I. It’s an investment you and I are both making in YOU and our world.
100 4 A FLY ON THE WALL EASEL CHALLENGE!
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100 4 A DAYTRIPPER EASEL CHALLENGE!
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