Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been drawing almost everyday. Not in a sketchbook, like I’m used to, but digitally. I’ve never felt that drawing digitally was drawing at all, it often felt like a different thing. But now, I’m finding that whilst it does feel different; it’s doing the same thing to my brain. The more I draw, the more I write. The more I write, the more ideas I generate. The more ideas I generate, the more I need to visualise them – it’s a self-fuelling loop and one that is nourished by the same activity of drawing whether using traditional or digital techniques.
Mis en place
Might I make better work if, at the end of everyday, I put everything back in its place – just like they do in commercial kitchens?
Artificial intelligence and art
Are artists under threat from generative artificial intelligence? Or is the ‘competition’ we see just misunderstood?
It ain’t gonna draw itself
What happens to an idea if I’m too scared to draw it? If I don’t feel skilled enough? If I’m just not ready?
Like a machine
Should artists aspire for robotic-like accurate and consistency like those who are the best in their sport?
Escaping the gravity of commerce
Who or what am I really looking for when I put our work out in the world? How do I know it’s any good?