I think I owe you a justification
Posted a year ago"Nyce style!"
That's something I have read a few times now, usually before someone watches me... and then I never post something like that again - or at least not in a loooong time. This has been bothering me for a while because I feel like I am goading people into something that I am not delivering.
I don't mean to "scam" people or bait them. It's just that I haven't settled for a style yet. I am eternally curious and as a result. I experiment a lot. I started doing art around one year ago after breaking my arm in a car accident to escape the pain. Art came to me as a form of escapism and has remained that way for me.
For many people, art is a career. They need consistent styles to draw a specific crowd who will hire them to deliver something based on what they have already seen. In that way, the regular artist looks to the past when doing something new. I don't mean it in a bad way, mind you. I've stopped listening to a lot of bands I liked because they changed too much and I don't recognize them anymore (looking at you, Silverchair).
However, I don't see myself working as a digital artist. That isn't my career path. It's a fun hobby... at least for now. It's one of the reasons why I haven't posted a comms sheet (and I have one, mind you): because I don't want to be bound to do something that may not be what I want to draw. And honestly, if I am to sit and do something mechanically, I already have a job for that.
The thing is that for me, art is about what I haven't seen and done yet. It's about the future and experimentation. Maybe that's why I'm such a progressive rock fan. If art was a science form, your regular artist would be a pharmacist, delivering safe, consistent and reliable results, and I'd be a mad scientist, mixing mercury with arsenic and nitrine and hoping it DOES explode in a fantastical way. Then take some notes and try it again in the future with some degree of variation.
Will I draw fantasy werewolves in the future? Very likely! Will I draw geometrical cyberpunk in the future? You bet! But I also want to mix it with more organic shapes, too. Mice in power suits? Yup. That's conceptual art for my game. Will any of these look like what I draw right now?
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I don't know. I can't promise things will go down in any given way. What I can say is that I am very curious to see where this road will lead me and that I welcome any travellers who are also willing to explore Artmerica with me and I'm glad to have you guys watching. Hopefully I can deliver some more cool stuff for your appreciation.
P.S. I call dibs on Br-art-zil.
That's something I have read a few times now, usually before someone watches me... and then I never post something like that again - or at least not in a loooong time. This has been bothering me for a while because I feel like I am goading people into something that I am not delivering.
I don't mean to "scam" people or bait them. It's just that I haven't settled for a style yet. I am eternally curious and as a result. I experiment a lot. I started doing art around one year ago after breaking my arm in a car accident to escape the pain. Art came to me as a form of escapism and has remained that way for me.
For many people, art is a career. They need consistent styles to draw a specific crowd who will hire them to deliver something based on what they have already seen. In that way, the regular artist looks to the past when doing something new. I don't mean it in a bad way, mind you. I've stopped listening to a lot of bands I liked because they changed too much and I don't recognize them anymore (looking at you, Silverchair).
However, I don't see myself working as a digital artist. That isn't my career path. It's a fun hobby... at least for now. It's one of the reasons why I haven't posted a comms sheet (and I have one, mind you): because I don't want to be bound to do something that may not be what I want to draw. And honestly, if I am to sit and do something mechanically, I already have a job for that.
The thing is that for me, art is about what I haven't seen and done yet. It's about the future and experimentation. Maybe that's why I'm such a progressive rock fan. If art was a science form, your regular artist would be a pharmacist, delivering safe, consistent and reliable results, and I'd be a mad scientist, mixing mercury with arsenic and nitrine and hoping it DOES explode in a fantastical way. Then take some notes and try it again in the future with some degree of variation.
Will I draw fantasy werewolves in the future? Very likely! Will I draw geometrical cyberpunk in the future? You bet! But I also want to mix it with more organic shapes, too. Mice in power suits? Yup. That's conceptual art for my game. Will any of these look like what I draw right now?
...
I don't know. I can't promise things will go down in any given way. What I can say is that I am very curious to see where this road will lead me and that I welcome any travellers who are also willing to explore Artmerica with me and I'm glad to have you guys watching. Hopefully I can deliver some more cool stuff for your appreciation.
P.S. I call dibs on Br-art-zil.