How much isolation does an artist need? And, in it’s pursuit, do we lose something important with a lack of novelty in our lives?
Category: Making
Known unknowns
Knowing that there are things you don’t know means we can design a learning curve that is both interesting and well-paced.
Making authentic marks
To find your own identity amongst the cacophony of expectations of others might be the point of it all.
Containing infinity
Is my long struggle with digital art because there are just too many options? Do constraints unlock expression rather than contain it?
Sprinting to the finish
What would happen if the tortoise and the hare tried to help each other rather than beat each other?
How does everyone else work so fast?
There’s a difference between performance, and practice. But in our social media driven world, the lines are blurring, and nothing infuriates me quite as much as all those artists out there who are doing ‘quick sketches’ that aren’t sketches at all. This is thumbnail sheet of what I call ‘quick sketches’: And, if you search… Continue reading How does everyone else work so fast?
The law of diminishing returns
Do we really need to do 99 versions of the same illlustration to get to one we’re happy with? Probably not.
Stepping away
Although it may not feel like it, taking a break and stepping back from the work is always useful in re-thinking it.
Learning through play doesn’t have to stop at childhood
Does the availability and access of art materials prevent our ability to engage with art?
I am not my work
Why is it so easy to get disheartened with making stuff nobody asked for?