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![This is a page from earlier this year, back during my “heyday” when I was doing various drawing gigs at Macy’s, Dillards, and private functions (birthday parties, band practices, etc). I should have really taken pictures of some of those I did. Some of them were rather good. But now they’re gone in the ether…FOR-EV-ER.
It’s weird to think that hundreds of people have my artwork, but I have nothing to show for it online. Two years ago I did the Six Flags caricature gig, but it wasn’t until a few weeks after the park closed for the season that I had something somewhat of a breakthrough. Something weird snapped on in me while I was doing ink based art. Everything became more natural, more intuitive, and especially, more automatic. Am I perfect with it yet? Hell no. But I’m finally on to something, and I’ll get there.
It kind of bothers me that nobody in art schools teach that approach in thinking, because doing so forms a “gestalt” approach in every discipline you have learned. Anyway, I think it’s time to pick up where I left off with this formula, since this all doesn’t exactly end with Step #6.
TRANSCRIPT:
Use your fears (and loves) for inspiration
Be inspired by mistakes [or one of my favorite quotes, “Deny the mistake” - Jackson Pollock]
Glorify no established style; Only imitate to learn new techniques and reappropriate later
If you don’t have fun making it, no one will have fun looking at it — people are almost psychic in this way!
Draw from only what you see and [then only] what you want to see!! (Life as reference; Imagination as navigator)
ABOVE ALL — Don’t force your own path! Be… INTUITIVE](http://24.media.tumblr.com/1aJyH2Rcxesm230vGhu1vwFIo1_400.jpg)
This is a page from earlier this year, back during my “heyday” when I was doing various drawing gigs at Macy’s, Dillards, and private functions (birthday parties, band practices, etc). I should have really taken pictures of some of those I did. Some of them were rather good. But now they’re gone in the ether…FOR-EV-ER.
It’s weird to think that hundreds of people have my artwork, but I have nothing to show for it online. Two years ago I did the Six Flags caricature gig, but it wasn’t until a few weeks after the park closed for the season that I had something somewhat of a breakthrough. Something weird snapped on in me while I was doing ink based art. Everything became more natural, more intuitive, and especially, more automatic. Am I perfect with it yet? Hell no. But I’m finally on to something, and I’ll get there.
It kind of bothers me that nobody in art schools teach that approach in thinking, because doing so forms a “gestalt” approach in every discipline you have learned. Anyway, I think it’s time to pick up where I left off with this formula, since this all doesn’t exactly end with Step #6.
TRANSCRIPT:
- Use your fears (and loves) for inspiration
- Be inspired by mistakes [or one of my favorite quotes, “Deny the mistake” - Jackson Pollock]
- Glorify no established style; Only imitate to learn new techniques and reappropriate later
- If you don’t have fun making it, no one will have fun looking at it — people are almost psychic in this way!
- Draw from only what you see and [then only] what you want to see!! (Life as reference; Imagination as navigator)
- ABOVE ALL — Don’t force your own path! Be… INTUITIVE
