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Drawings for Monday, November 30, 2009
On the heels of an interesting email conversation about finding and developing a personal style or artistic voice, I took a good, hard look at my own work and its straight-forwardness. When contrasted (and contrast is the correct term here) with works I’m attracted to, it became clear to me that injecting intentionality in my drawing process would be a Good Thing for me.
The above drawing arose from the prior blog entry. This is the wonder of digital drawing: one can save a new branch from the main tree and explore it simply by saving a new file and making changes. In this instance, I attempted to extend the curled branches into the rest of the drawing as well as reducing the background to a simple colour field.
Know that this process was very challenging for me: I went through hundreds of tree shapes before using (giving-up?) with the half-circle; I like the colours but find them out of tune; I resisted all attempts to change the robots and the dogs (something I really should change); and struggled to drop the Law of Accurate Form for whimsy and playful forms.
