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RE: Miniaturism, pointillism : To infinity and beyond !
Thank you @thermoplastic :)
Hehe, I remember having been forced right from the start of this drawing to go on the dwarf/hobbit theme by a stupid mistake on the central character's proportions. :D
Building from random and let progressively something more structured emerge is something I love too, as composing with mistakes and unpredictability offers so much to work on.
Anyways, I'm not skilled enough from a technical point of view nor disciplined enough to fully take control of what I create, so I let randomness teach me part of what's possible :)
that is quite a testimonial, and I must say, particularly the "disciplined" part is true with me also. If I have to be disciplined, I get bored. When I get bored, my work is at best mediocre. I did, from time to time prove that I could be disciplined also, but there is no joy in it. I have a whole portfolio of disciplined work I rarely if ever show. It is as boring as could be. Great disciplined rendering, a show-off of skills but ........ yawn
Same here. Even if I regularily force myself to work on illustrations (because I find it an excellent exercise for explicit graphic storytelling), I know only luck will help get something interesting from the final result.
Like any training, it's useful, but too directed, too conscious to be complete.
Creative people, from any kind of art (visual, but also musicians, and so on), including experienced craftsmen and anybody who can find solutions to their problems thinking out of the box, are lucky enough to have access to a part of themselves that can work at a subconscious level... They are also lucky enough to have found a way to get connected to that part via their art, or their job.
Bringing their work back to excessive conscious control would be like curbing their abilities to a shallow level whereas there is so much to explore, discover, and depict deep into their own mind.
I'm glad I've found this place for that : when I see people's work, like yours, @krasnec, @patschwork, @romanie, and all those I can't name right now, I get an insight of what's an artist's goal or mission : depicting their own travel's vision influenced by their tools, surrounding events, experience and mood at that moment...
Discipline and control only become useful for the finishing touch, I think, and their function is clear : give a stop to that inner creative chaos and lead to a piece's end.
And...
It's time to call them here to stop myself...
... Just noticed how long was my answer ! :D
Thanks @thermoplastic for helping me putting words on these raw thoughts, though :)
Interesting! My opinion is that there's an equilibrium in between discipline and letting your mind go. Once you trained with discipline on some techniques, you can let your mind take over and what you've learn the hard way will help you get where you want (even if you don't know or don't want to know where you go). But too much of control it and indeed you might end up with something shallow. Espcecially if there's boredom involved! I compare it a bit with driving, once you learned, it's automatic. While on the road, don't think too much and let your training operate or you get confused!
There also a lot this in electronic music, impressive display of mastered techniques with a totally boring result.
Also personnally I like to sketch a lot to not have the constrain of having something good but then when I start a project, I like to have that constrain. I actually get bored without it.
Thanks @haedre for the return :)
I never do preparation sketches... I simply can't work twice on the same thing. All enregy goes in initial creation and then into its organic progressive modifications.
That said... That could simply mean all my work is a sketching session :D