August 20, 2024

The more I draw, the more I write

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.

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June 17, 2025

An act of defiance

Is there are point to making anything when computers (or someone else) already has?

June 10, 2025

Watch to the end

Are we complicit in providing ‘addictive’ content, dressed up as ‘art’ or ‘good marketing’?

June 3, 2025

The secondary job

Am I a software designer who practices art ‘on the side’ or is it the other way around?

May 27, 2025

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?

May 20, 2025

Artificial intelligence and art

Are artists under threat from generative artificial intelligence? Or is the ‘competition’ we see just misunderstood?

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