Sunday, March 18
Creativity
I've been thinking about how I often want to draw, or rather doodle and have it look like something, but I can't. When I took my art class I think what I learned more than anything else in that time was patience to just draw slowly and wait for it to become something over the span of several hours (and what really should have been days but that didn't quite happen).For years now I've wanted to specifically draw a desktop image (mostly for myself) and look at that 1024x768 jpg and say "I did that." But somehow whenever I create that big a canvas in photoshop, I just stare at it blankly and don't know how to fill it up, even if I had some rough ideas just minutes and seconds before. Similarly when I draw on paper and try to fill up a whole 8 1/2" x 11" page my doodlish drawings will end up either too small or off the page or just way too awkward for me to try and scan in and deal with.
I know in my head that art doesn't just happen. But partially I don't look at what I do as art art. I'm just taking an element of myself and putting it into the garb of a super hero, or pirate, or japenese school girl etc. It's more narcissism than anything else.
Further I'm looking around at the people that I'm getting to know here in Rochester, and partially b/c most of them were Scott's friends first, they're more inclined to express themselves through music rather than pictures. But like I said, I don't see myself as enough of an artist to seek out other people that actually value what they create on multiple levels like that.
In the end I'm not sure what I really want to glean from the outside world if anything.
Posted by Avila at 11:19 AM
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::poke::
By Erica, at 1:10 AM, April 06, 2007