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Art related question
Aug. 21st, 2011 12:01 amI know I don't exactly have a whole lot of artists contacts, or that anyone would stumble on this accidentally... but this is still my largest-reaching platform in the Internet to ask this question to:
For the artists still working in traditional media, what do you guys do with your originals?
I got loaded down with Art Guilt earlier tonight as I was cleaning off my workspace from my last project, shuffling sketchbooks from one shelf to another, and started really questioning why I haven't done more with my work. I have tons of art supplies still left to use, and more than twenty full sketchbooks... most of which still have rough thumbnails of, "Man, I really wanna do this some day." or "This is an awesome sketch, it totally needs to be finished."
My sketch to production ratio is horrendously low, however. And now I'm really starting to question that. Is it because I have no place to put the finished pictures? Is it because I don't really see much of a point in doing a real media piece, without a home for it to go to (preferably with the exchange of money in the process)? Digital media is so much cleaner in that aspect. Have an idea, do a sketch, color, finish, post to the world wide web, then just stick the finall jpg/gif/psd/pdf into a "Done" folder and call it a day. No supplies to clean or put away, nothing to scan in and fuss with level adjustments on, nothing to drag outside to photograph in natural light - very clean medium.
I have dabbled in digital art as well. I was just trying to learn digital media, at the same time I was learning traditional media. This created a slow learning curve on BOTH ends, and when I realized I was only marginally happier with my traditional art than I was with my digital art, I chose to stop burning the candle at both ends and improve in ONE area first, before trying to get into the other.
... I just also realize, with as many sketchbooks as I've filled up with learning doodles and exercise sketches, that I am going to go through a LOT of paintings, marker pieces, colored pencil pictures as I build up my experience with real media. Obviously cause meets effect here, and that means I am going to amass a small army of images as I go along.
And I have absolutely no idea what to do with them.
Obviously scan/post them to image galleries, but that will just create a digital copy of a hard copy that will still be there after it is scanned and posted. Do I just toss that into a bin and call it a day? Pop it into a matte frame and hang it on the wall? Pop it into a matte frame and drag it along to cons with me, in hopes that someone might like it enough to buy it?
I'm ashamed to admit that it is thoughts like these that keep me from going forward with finishing a lot of my sketches. I have a LOT of doodles. Years worth of doodles. I've generated a LOT of art over the years, and the gears in my head have just turned long enough to realize, "I am going to have nearly the same volume of finished pieces, as sketches, if I actually bothered to finish half of these things."
... so any advice?
Y'know, besides LESS TYPING, MORE COLORING. I got that part loud and clear boss.
For the artists still working in traditional media, what do you guys do with your originals?
I got loaded down with Art Guilt earlier tonight as I was cleaning off my workspace from my last project, shuffling sketchbooks from one shelf to another, and started really questioning why I haven't done more with my work. I have tons of art supplies still left to use, and more than twenty full sketchbooks... most of which still have rough thumbnails of, "Man, I really wanna do this some day." or "This is an awesome sketch, it totally needs to be finished."
My sketch to production ratio is horrendously low, however. And now I'm really starting to question that. Is it because I have no place to put the finished pictures? Is it because I don't really see much of a point in doing a real media piece, without a home for it to go to (preferably with the exchange of money in the process)? Digital media is so much cleaner in that aspect. Have an idea, do a sketch, color, finish, post to the world wide web, then just stick the finall jpg/gif/psd/pdf into a "Done" folder and call it a day. No supplies to clean or put away, nothing to scan in and fuss with level adjustments on, nothing to drag outside to photograph in natural light - very clean medium.
I have dabbled in digital art as well. I was just trying to learn digital media, at the same time I was learning traditional media. This created a slow learning curve on BOTH ends, and when I realized I was only marginally happier with my traditional art than I was with my digital art, I chose to stop burning the candle at both ends and improve in ONE area first, before trying to get into the other.
... I just also realize, with as many sketchbooks as I've filled up with learning doodles and exercise sketches, that I am going to go through a LOT of paintings, marker pieces, colored pencil pictures as I build up my experience with real media. Obviously cause meets effect here, and that means I am going to amass a small army of images as I go along.
And I have absolutely no idea what to do with them.
Obviously scan/post them to image galleries, but that will just create a digital copy of a hard copy that will still be there after it is scanned and posted. Do I just toss that into a bin and call it a day? Pop it into a matte frame and hang it on the wall? Pop it into a matte frame and drag it along to cons with me, in hopes that someone might like it enough to buy it?
I'm ashamed to admit that it is thoughts like these that keep me from going forward with finishing a lot of my sketches. I have a LOT of doodles. Years worth of doodles. I've generated a LOT of art over the years, and the gears in my head have just turned long enough to realize, "I am going to have nearly the same volume of finished pieces, as sketches, if I actually bothered to finish half of these things."
... so any advice?
