Art, and the furthering thereof
Dec. 2nd, 2012 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinAs anyone keeping tabs on the number of image posts I've made lately has probably been able to tell, I've been in a bit of an artistic slump. There are manifold reasons for this, some of which I have yet to find, and many of which I'd really rather not post about, but one significant one is the awareness that I am in desperate need of taking things to the next level. It's hard to pursue this adequately when it comes in conjunction with lack of inspiration and motivation – how do you turn out frontier-expanding work when you don't really want to do anything? – but it's something that has to be done.
I have devised a scheme that will give me material to work with, to push and improve, without the hard part of generating ideas: Revisit old drawings, treat them like initial sketches, and use skills learned and being learned to develop them into something actually nice. I have an enormous library of past sketches though, so I don't know where to start ... and so I come to you.
Is there a drawing of mine you particularly like, which you'd like to see brushed up and made presentable? Something from ye olden days which doesn't really stand up anymore but has sentimental value? A character or scene you'd like to see a new take on?
I don't know how quickly I'll be able to get through these, as there are other exercises I have to do as well, but it'll be something for a bit of fun, at least. A little, y'know ... like this. (OK, probably nothing at all like that, but the parallels amuse me.)
I have devised a scheme that will give me material to work with, to push and improve, without the hard part of generating ideas: Revisit old drawings, treat them like initial sketches, and use skills learned and being learned to develop them into something actually nice. I have an enormous library of past sketches though, so I don't know where to start ... and so I come to you.
Is there a drawing of mine you particularly like, which you'd like to see brushed up and made presentable? Something from ye olden days which doesn't really stand up anymore but has sentimental value? A character or scene you'd like to see a new take on?
I don't know how quickly I'll be able to get through these, as there are other exercises I have to do as well, but it'll be something for a bit of fun, at least. A little, y'know ... like this. (OK, probably nothing at all like that, but the parallels amuse me.)
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Date: 2012-12-03 05:52 pm (UTC)I know it's probably not something that's easy to adapt because the charm of it lay in the roughness of it, but the Library of Reactions to the Bean is still one of my all-time favourite pieces of Chicago art, by you or anyone else. :)