For professional athletes, to be ‘machine-like’ is a good thing, a compliment. To return a perfect serve. To hit every green in regulation. To score 100% of penalty attempts. Those at the top of their game are machines – an almost robotic consistency with incredible accuracy. Perfect.But, no one ever calls an artist a machine.
There’s probably a reason for that.
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?
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?
The problem with digital art is that there’s always a piece of software between me and the work, but maybe that’s what makes it a craft?
Where do ideas come from? How does one make something from nothing? Perhaps it’s about recognising the importance of a state of receptivity?
Just because something takes a long time, doesn’t mean it’s old, slow or worse. In fact, in the case of cheese, it may be better.
