I’m a little embarrassed to admit I haven’t done anything truly artistic in awhile. It’s really quite pathetic an I’m shocked I let it go this long. I could hang myself with the laundry list of pointless excuses, but I won’t bother you by going on about that. Instead, I’m looking forward to getting back to creative awesomeness.
Looking back on my last creative burst, I realize now that it’s all about pushing the potential energy into kinetic energy. The more creative stuff I do, the more I want to do. Put the pencil to paper now in order to do it again tomorrow.
I follow a lot if artsy types in Facebook and Twitter, and I see myself gravitating to the ones that showcase different artists daily, different pieces of art or actually creating some sort of art every single day. It reminds me if a conversation I had with family friend and artist, R. Kenton Nelson. I asked how he got to his level of success. To which he answered, “I paint every single day, even if it sucks, even if it kills me.”
So, starting today, I’m going to be documenting some sort of artistic release every single day. It could be a sketch, a scribble, a painting, some design experiment or a complete fucking mess, but I’m going to do it, even if it sucks, even if it kills me.
This is a quick sketch in the moleskin with gel pen.
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I like this one better than the guru ones. Also, I think that “Behind the Curtain” acrylic you did of Orange County is great. Are you going to be getting any more postcards made?
You bring up an interesting point, one that I always seem to forget. My work is never, ever going to be on the realistic side, yet I constantly try to make it that way. I’m not sure what it is about my figurative work, but no matter how many times I draw someone, it never comes out looking like them, so why would I try to push that idea? I guess I need to figure out how to make my interpretations more real to my nature and style than to reality.