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.
Surrounding the idea
Might the act of mark-making be a pathway to the subconscious where we get to meet a version of ourselves we’ve never met before?
Feeling useful
Why are there so many people wanting to be published in children’s literature?
Abstraction and invitation
What benefits come from leaving room for another human or two to intepret and find meaning in the work we make?
The amateur artist
Why do so many kids stop drawing at the age of about 10. And what if they didn’t?
Who decides?
Who decides what gets to embed and live continuously in our culture for hundreds of years? And if it does, does it mean it’s good?