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TheArtOfQuietBear β One Million Lines - Panel 1
Published: 2014-01-06 01:01:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 2356; Favourites: 68; Downloads: 0
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Since my art is a collection of straight lines, I was once asked how many lines are in my usual drawings. At the time I had never counted how many. So the next drawing I did after that question, I counted the lines and it turns out that the average drawing has about 10,000 lines per 11x14 in paper.So then I wondered how many lines I could fit on a large piece of paper. So I went out and got a 28x36in piece of paper and started to draw. Counting every line, pausing periodically, writing the number I was at on the far side of the paper; adding them up as I went along. The result is the drawing you see here. It is the first of five panels that will eventually contain a minimum of one MILLION lines total. This particular drawing has 171,483 lines. This first of five panels will be the center piece of the finished product. This drawing took ten months, working approximately three hours per session, at least four times a week.
The original of this panel is available for sale for $7500, or the equivalent in BitCoin, with a 20% discount for BitCoin purchases.
The value of each panel will increase with the completion of each subsequent panel, and an over-all price will be determined for the whole set once it is completed.
Any comments are always appreciated, so please feel free to express how this, and any of my other works of art make you feel or what you see in them. Everyone see's something different in my work and I would love to hear from each of you. Especially if you look at the drawings from different angels.
Have a blessed and wonderful day
~Bear
please visit my daughter's page as well, for she is a stupendous photographer and dabbles in digital art herself.
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Comments: 33
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Bear your work is awesome my name is Robert I've been drawing since I could pick up a pencil been tattooing for almost 14 yrs do you do any tattooing?
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One of these days I gotta get me one of these wonderful works of art and give it to DK
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Oh sweet lord O.O This is an incredible paraphernalia of shapes and lines.
The complexity is overwhelming
But everything looks so well drawn and lit.
I just don't know what to say anymore
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Thank you for the kind comment!
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No need
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I love how much attention you pay to the details and how much effort you put in your art. I also like how certain shapes are repeated.
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thank you!
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The amount of detail in this is absolutely incredible! I love how you have varied the contrast throughout as well as creating so much depth - particularly at the left of the image. Great work.
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thank you very much!
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The details on this are impressive! I envy your patience, this is really fantastic!
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I can't give much critique, but the thumbnail to this caught my eye because it has a sort of gradient. I like how it's light in the center and then gets progressively darker; it adds a smooth quality to the piece. Very well done; you have the patience of a saint (especially so since you counted the lines).
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This looks like it took so long. Β I really admire your craft.
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It really did. Thank you for your words.
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blimey this is an outstanding piece of art! I'd wish I was rich enough to buy it!Β Β
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the fact that you want to purchase it at all makes me heart soar! thank you so very very much!
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Thanks! This, and it's subsequent pieces are and will be!
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I had a project similar to this last semester called 30,000 marks, in which you had to do a self portrait using at least 30,000 marks and develop a way to count them. Every professor that teaches that class assigns this project, however i think mine was the only one who required it to be a self portrait
you did a very nice job on this, however I'd like to suggest making it less busy. Give the eye a place to rest, its quite overwhelming which is a bit of a shame since there is so many wonderful details
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The point of this image isn't to have a center point. I didn't name it One Million Lines for nothing. The point of this piece (and the subsequent pieces) is to literally fit one million lines in the whole image. So having a center piece or make it any less busy would make the drawing either not have one million lines or wouldn't give it the impact. I appreciate your insight though, and I thank you for the suggestions. However I do feel like you missed the over all feel of this particular drawing. Thanks again!
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it looks like a pencil factory after earth-quake !Β Β
very nice
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Incredibly complex, wonderful piece of work.
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thank you very much!
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Oh I like this much better black. Β The value makes much more sense when it's not green. Β This is PERFECT. Β
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I'm going to feature this in a different place than where I was intending to feature the other pieces you submitted via the forum. Β I'm featuring this under a widget called "Amazing" Β where I feature ONE image that I find absolutely amazing. Β I should have it up in about 10 minutes. Β
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Wow, thank you so very very much. You have no idea how long I've waited to have my art appreciated to it's fullest and with people like you I feel like it is now. Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!
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