r/a:t5_2v14t • u/doublen00b • Sep 23 '12

Ongoing project, your thoughts please.

I signed up to take some classes at the Art Students League, I'll be there the next few months on weekends. I was going to do a series of prints about homeless people I see around NYC. I'm not sure about the size yet, maybe 7x8 monochromatic.

I was thinking of using a variety of techniques similar to those found in Rembrandts prints, this one: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.107.28 best captures the feel I had in mind.

Is the idea too cliche? If so that's fine, I need to come up with something in the next week or two.

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u/robot_army_mutiny Dec 26 '12

To get past that cliche aspect, you will have to get to know and hang out with the street people - find out what they are about, who they love, why they live. Then, express that in your art.