I've been talking a lot about the answer always being in your sketchbook lately, so I thought I'd post a couple of pages from when I was living in San Francisco because they're indicitive of where I'd like to move artistically.
People frequently ask me what it was like living on the west coast, and what mattered most to me was the amount of time I had to explore my visual voice. It was the first time in my life that there was a true marriage between observing from life and unbridled creative embellishes. I only wish I had more time to develop unique iconography instead of regurgitating what I was already familiar with, the same symbolism born out of the San Francisco underground comix movement.
Obviously, I wish i had more time for a lot more reasons than that.
Either way, I spent last year in San Francisco exploring the inner workings of my mind, and I'm decoding what that means for my work today in Cleveland.
Interesting post. Why do you think that change in your style and technique happened? Was it purely the change in environment or other circumstances?
ReplyDeleteI think the change in environment pushed it along for sure, but more than anything it was moving out of my comfort zone artistically that motivated it. The Academy Of Art has a real rigid method of teaching (which is great) and you have no choice but to draw the "right way". I was given a new skill set, and I promptly applied it to my existing one based on learning to draw from comics.
ReplyDeleteWhile I didn't get to finish, knowing that I can push what I want to do further by learning multiple art techniques which at first seem unrelated is the best lesson I could expect to get.
That and SF has really good weed.