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I personally think that it's not a good idea to inject so much professionalism into the education, if not at least for the course that I'm in. Focusing so much about abiding rules here and there really sets the limit for learners to learn and explore. In professionalism, it's a taboo to show mistakes to the clients, we are even taught this during our presentation. Whereas I think its a good thing to learn from mistakes. If what you and I say are true, than why don't we make big mistakes now during learning period before stepping into the "professional" industry.

When I was graduating in high school, this beautiful quote which I'd read before in some magazine stays with me until this very moment,
"The beauty of learning is that no one can take it away from you."

I'm still learning with open mind. I am an optimistic person and also pessimistic. This paradoxical state of mind is what human can utilize with rational, no other machine can mimic this thinking. But then why do I say this? I've learned that people can get upset mostly because others could not achieve their expectation and hence blaming the other for their laziness, un-cooperativeness, stupidity, so on and so forth.

If I turn the table around and say, it's us who did not prepare for the unexpected, you might question why are we putting the blames unto ourselves. But I think the main key point here is "preparation". If we have prepared an extra route for that unexpected case, then it still be in accord with our own plan.

In order to lead a team, I choose to be optimistic about the result, but I am also pessimistic which helps me to see the undesirable scenarios, it helps me to plan ahead. I'm happy to lead a team with talented people namely,

Hafiz
Sau Keong
Jason Pua
Jonathan
Boon Kien
Yong Taik

Well this is your director, and I'm proud of our team, which doesn't have a name at the moment. Hafiz came out with interesting list of names but no matter what it gonna sound like, we are still us and our portfolio will make the voice for us.

Thanks! And good luck to the other group members!


Sincerely,
Randy Robin

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Most of the time, I have noticed when I compliment a work, people just do not believe it. They think I'm fake, or maybe I'm just saying it out for the sake of impression or what, and look, I'm not saying that I'm good for saying something like this. And I usually don't explain to people to clear some misunderstanding, because I personally think it is not my responsibility to think what other think of me, but I've learned that sometimes it is necessary to do so.

Let me explain my own definition of art, I understand it's quite a subjective thing, but everyone should have their own value and so have I. And I've mentioned this in my last journal too with different emphasis, but generally for me, art should be judge by your heart. When I tell you that something is beautiful, it is beautiful. Sometimes I feel reluctant tho to say it because people just don't believe it. And I think I know why.

I would like to explain it further by using a few example here. When you look at a painting of a famous painter, like Da Vinci for example. Do you think it's beautiful? If so why? If not why? You move on to another painting, it's a painting done by Michaelangelo, again the same questions, then why? And whether you think they look beautiful or not, I doubt, I certainly sure that you did not compare this two artwork to judge it's beauty.

Now my point has been made clear, I think a lot of people judge a work by comparison especially in the industry, in school, in college. I'm not saying that it's wrong, but it is somehow quite inappropriate to think that every one thinks the same way, I'm one of them to say at least. I do not compare any form of artwork to judge the beauty of an art, it's all based on my heart, my feeling.

Well now you believe? Maybe not, I know what I'm missing here. See, there is a difference between the works by the people I know versus people that I don't. It is the effort that I see, effort to me is most certain a beautiful thing too. Everyone starts from a different ground, and to me, it is improper to compare them for their result and sometimes it's quite sad that people fail to see the effort behind the work. In my humble opinion, especially the lecturers, should at least see this for the least and not demanding for high quality of work only! There are people who are struggling their best to cope up and it's not helping them by stepping on their head.

Before I end this let me make use of my subscription a little by posting a picture.


Big deal, you can do better than this no? What if I say that it's a painting done by an elephant for saving-asian-elephants-from-extinction campaign? Beautiful? no?

Art does have a heart, the moment you created it, you've made a heart for it. I can see it, and it's very very beautiful. Have a nice day people.

EDIT:
A [link] to that elephant in action.

]]> ~RanDize http://RanDize.deviantart.com/journal/22791932/ http://RanDize.deviantart.com/journal/22791932/ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:49:46 PST Let me explain first with my definition of working and studying.
Working = Completing a task. In the industry, you need to be professional, and deliver fine works.
Studying = Basically you already know what you are lack of, and seek to improve that particular weakness by studying.

I am still a student and my school always strives to work their student to their limit. Whether the limit is creating their best artwork, or pushing their skill sets to the limit I do not know, but I probably guess it's artwork. You may be confused by now because you think they are the same, well, I say no. Why? Because these two are based on two different objectives, hence the action driven by different motives isn't the same. Still confused?

Let's get that into a little more detail, I'll start off with the intention to push artwork to the limit. First, this case is similar to the industry environment, you have a director/client, and you are working one-one. Given a specific task, and it's to be done in his desire. So your assigned task now has to be done and you are relying what skills you have and what knowledge you know to get the things done. You cannot afford to lose the time doing other things or you'll lose the job.

Okay, so what if the intention is to push skills instead? Rather than focusing what great work you can do, the emphasis is given to how great you can get your work done. Nuff' said? You skills grow better and so is your work although you probably need more time in this process.

And maybe you start to question this, can't we learn while we are working to produce great artwork? Of course we can, and this is the point why I'm addressing this topic.

In our school, we are always given tasks, specific ones, same goes in the industry. And there are dozen more out there, each having different sets of knowledge to be done. The job is always different, but the skills that you have is all similar, in fact they grow in general. However most lecturers focus to guide the students on how to produce great work for that specific task instead of their weaknesses in skills. For that matter, the students are guided in their visions not the students', works are created with their knowledge not the students'. Let's throw two questions to ponder upon.
a.) Do we want to create great artwork? Or
b.) Do we want to be a great artist?

I don't know if you get what I mean, but this is the fine line that I'm talking about. One have to think in psychological manner in order decipher the syntax in our daily flow. I was at between this two term, working and studying, but I realized that one has to be prioritized, I choose to study more as the school doesn't provide all and improve what I can do with my work. I may have insufficient time to produce great artwork, but this is the path that I choose and I don't think I have the time to do the same when I start working in the industry. So why not make some mistakes now? We wouldn't risk it in working environment, would we?

I know not why I'm writing this, perhaps to justify my personal belief for the sake of my own pleasure, although I think nobody will agree or understand. Just in case you know how to correct me, please do.

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Lets talk about beauty, and I say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, one could tell whether the art is beautiful or not based on their feelings, without knowing the rules and principles of art. So the question is, do we really need those formula to make an art? Since most people are not judging your art by the principle, why do we need them?

Typical response you might get is 'to break the rules you must first know them'. But I believe we should look further than the rules we are talking about, because art is justify by raw feelings and thus it should be looked that way. Why even bother the principles to judge an art?

By the time you read to this line, I believe some of you may or may not see eye to eye with me. Even so, I still, at this point, believe that these principles are for us to solve our problem in our art but the justification of the beauty of our art should be made by our feelings not the principles. Don't let the principles guide you, let your heart feels your art. Tell me what you think about this.

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"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals; That is, goals that do not inspire them." by Anthony Robbins.

I just feel that I'm lazy and acting rebellious, showing dissatisfaction, I know how to improve myself but I just disagree with some of their ideals. If by any chance you think I don't get you, explain it to me, because that's the very reason I say it.

]]> ~RanDize http://RanDize.deviantart.com/journal/17614724/ http://RanDize.deviantart.com/journal/17614724/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:55:11 PDT Latest Happening of My Boring Insignificant Little Life

I went to National Zoo yesterday for a life drawing session but due to the rain, I had only managed to draw a horse, a parrot, few monkeys, insects and some people. WHYYY did it have to rain?? Sob...

Anyway, I drew some dragons that came out really nice in composition from the session while I was waiting for the not-so-rapidkl. And I thought I might develop them further, and will post it here later when it's done.

I have also received quite a few new espada work, really really happy! Thank you so much for making them. Really really appreciate it. Q_QV Sorry for being lazy and not so serious in this trading though, you guys are awesome!!!!

Posted on: April 28 2008
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Feeling lazy lately. Why am I always sleepy? I love to sleep sleep sleep sleep.

Here's a brief of my holiday's resolution, just to remind myself of my goal:
Finish David Edding's The Tamuli Trilogy
Finish up my art trade request
Create a masterpiece
Increase my painting speed
Study, observe, analyze, learn and not to be lazy

Posted on: April 10 2008
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Hello all, I'm opening art trade for now to improve my painting skills. There is a lot of things that I want to learn and improve in painting but generally my painting speed. It's fun to take some time painting something, but at the same time, I really need some speed to improve the other aspects. So, here I am, desperately requesting for an art trade. If you are interested, look further below.

By the way, for those who are interested in joining speed paint session this Saturday, head on to:



Posted on: April 01 2008

http://RanDize.deviantart.com/journal/15633827/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:45:02 PST
*NOTE - Every word before the asterisk sign (*) is just crap.

I just want to share my favorite artists, most of them are professional and well-known artists, having strong aesthetic plus great skills. I mean common baby, they are pro! So, hopefully you'll find this useful as you browse through their BIG gallery and be amazed by their crazy works:

Christian Lorenz Scheurer

Craig Mullins

Dusso

Dylan Cole

Feng Zhu Design

George Hull

Khang Le

Matthew Allsopp

Peter Gric

Ryan Church

Scott Robertson

STEPHANART

Stephen Martiniere

Werner Hornung

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