Anyway, with that in mind, I hope to accomplish more in the coming days, and I hope to feel inspired to share those accomplishments, large and small. I also want to do some back tracking and share some of the projects I have actually been successful with. Turns out, when I pick a small enough project, I can actually finish it sometimes :D.
Something that's very exciting to me is one of my first drawings in months, if not years. I always doodle from time to time, but when I want to draw, I have to get myself in a completely different mindset. I'm trying to stop thinking about lines and start focusing on construction. I've been trying to start with shapes and then slowly refine and add more details. Not only do I think that it's resulted in better work, but I have also found the process more enjoyable. Here is my latest drawing, but not one of my best from my recent works. It's a bit eerie, I suppose. But I'm also trying to remind myself that art doesn't always have to have a deeper meaning. Expressing yourself doesn't mean that you have to share something meaningful, or even portray yourself as deep. It really is Ok to just draw what you want to when you want to, and it's still an expression. I kind of learned that by looking at Jeremy Geddes art. Geddes is my current favorite artist, and while I don't want to say that his art has no meaning, his subjects just seem so far out there that the meaning escapes me. Or, if there is meaning, then I believe that he is choosing to draw what he wants to draw as a symbol for his intended message. Either way, when you look at his art, the lighting, the motion, and the contrast all come off as being very dramatic.
Well, my latest drawing is hardly full of any deep meaning. It's just a quick sketch in GIMP inspired by an artist/writer that I have gained an immense appreciation for. I mostly just want to share it because it represents a new drawing style for me that I never thought I would be able to accomplish. I have been calling it ICUCME:
Nice, a bit creepy but well executed. Your talk about not necessarily seeking for deeper meaning reminded me of something Stephen King talked about. He said that if you start out by trying to create something deep and meaningful, you'll usually make crap. But if you start out just making something that appeals to you, and will hopefully appeal to others, then often a deeper meaning will come into it as you work on it. He, of course, was talking about writing, but it seems like it could very well apply to the visual arts.
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