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Paul Mennea Hello, my name is Paul Mennea,
and I'm a doodle addict.

Drawing is the activity that most directly records my kind of inspiration and individuality. Considering the range of my drawing styles, I have experienced the qualities of more detailed drawings versus quick doodles, and I note that because of the time constraints and/or rapid gestures of the latter, they have become more simplified and linear. The challenge for my art is finding a good midpoint, where the finished drawing is solid and unmistakable in form, but still retains some of the "oomph" of the action doodle. My single pieces are in fact the product of a lifetime of practice: the actual moment of production lasts just a few seconds, constructed with very fast gestures. Drawings which take longer than two minutes cannot usually be considered gestures: inevitably, they allow the artist more time to measure and plan the drawing, or to begin to define the form with modelling. And once an artist begins measuring, erasing, shading or otherwise improving the drawing with a second pass, he or she has ceased to "˜gesture-draw', and has begun rendering. To work over a drawing, to try to polish it, is no longer practicing the ability to draw an instant impression, and it is this ability to draw with something approaching the speed of the unconscious gesture in a pure emotional analytical eye, that I most highly value.

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Kiss Me, Im Stupid

21 NOV 2023

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Enveloped
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Hand and drapery sketchbook drawing. This combo never gets old for me. Faber-Castell PITT pastel pencils, charcoal pencils on 9” x 12” Strathmore Toned Grey sketchbook paper.

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Sketchbook Work - NatSeated - November 2023
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2023, Ballpoint Pen on 5.5” x 7” (11” x 7” double page spread) Midori FO Cotton Sketchbook.

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Sujoy Bera 3D Visualizer Interior Designer

I am a professional CG Artist offering high-quality 3D rendering services worldwide. WhatsApp +91 7980561059

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winter feeling

pencil sketch

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Pocket of Land

Ink and graphite

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Coraline Drawings

Other Mothers Hand, Coraline and the Key.

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Fear

We all have a fear of the unsual so this is exactley that.

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Take in the View

Oil on wood panel 8”x8”

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Celery

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Romantic Joker

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Firefly perch

Gnome sits in the dark and has fireflies keep him company

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Gouache portrait

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Sightless Child

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Hexdump

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Fall selfie on cape cod

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Drawtober23 Day 20- Orc

My first, and only orc female character. Her name's Orc-Livia.

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exhausting love sketch

exhausting love sketch

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storyboard gulash

storyboard gulash

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baroque soldier

drawing shape paper cut

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Tomorrow We Get Healthy

16 NOV 2023

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