SurrealPlaces:
I do apologise if my comments were rather harsh, usually I wouldn't post in that manner unless I was really bothered about a particular design, in which case, I was. I'm not making a personal attack on you at all, I think you have excellent skills with 3D softwares and a vast potential in designing that can be greatly developed (you would make a fine designer), but I really felt that I needed to be honest about my opinion concerning the architectural style with which you presented in your work (this is to do with your cityscape work, respectively(your other works appear fine by contrast)), yet to me they appeared quite disturbing, why that is, is down to the way I envision the world to be. Again I am sorry that my comment in my previous post came out as an extreme form of criticism, looking back yes, it does give others the impression that I am a small, narrow-minded person, I admit to that. I am trying however, my best at all times to be open, and it does usually require others to give me the kick in the backside. I would not usually give extreme criticisms to anyone's work unless I really felt it needed it. In any case, no hard feelings at all.
Now returning back to some of the points raised, again, I am sorry for misunderstanding that you are not a designer? I had assumed you were; I am myself a student of architecture. At my university we are somehow taught to design, in any design, to incorporate at least, the natural orders of the world. It has almost become my personal ideology; a doctrine if you will. Something that MUST be done. Anything that is not, is simply not design. It has led me to the belief that radical designs beyond imagining can be conceived; one must be ambitious and fanatical...and so on and so on. To change the world
And so when I began to observe your work, I literally felt I could not breathe! I just felt your designs could do with more contrasts, more green, more freedom! This is me in my utmost honesty here. However, if this was your intention, then I do respect that. The intention of creating artistic work that conforms to surrealist landscape.
Nevertheless, I feel it is important to clarify what exactly that means; I've defined art as 'a manifestation of expression', and surrealism as 'expressions into the workings of the subconscious', and when i looked at your work, i just felt it simply lacked that feeling of 'surreal-ness' to them because they compare too closely with reality itself and nothing into the mind, for example, you have mentioned the 'square buildings' and 'city grid', therefore I couldn't see it as art either for they were neither expressions but mere reproductions, which led me to the conclusion that, it was simply created for the hell of it, like photocopying, which I indeed felt, lacked depth and meaning, to which point I thought the designer didn't understand his work either. That's when I was really moved to post the way I did. I did post because I care.
It is true to say that I do over-analyze everything, which can have its advantages and disadvantages depending on the circumstances and or context of the work, but this is how I have been taught in my school; an important part of the design process requires one to be analytical, and alongside my idealogy for an ideal way to design, I think that perhaps caused a little tension which I did not intend as such, in otherwords, I ment good, probably not brought in the best way, but then again, I do commend you in your efforts. I am confident your skills will progress in good time provided sufficient practice, and I do look forward to seeing more work from you in the future, just to compare how they evolve through time.
I am curious to ask whether you have taken courses in art, graphics design, engineering, or architecture by any chance?
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