Before I could delve into what I have learnt over the past few years, I wanted to make a collage of the art I have done so far. And that took forever! I didn't realise I had so much art to scan in. So here goes nothing...
The collage is ordered chronologically from top to bottom, starting from 1997 through till 2010. Initially I wanted to have a line per year, but there were a couple of years for which I couldn't find anything in my sketchbooks. I doubt that I didn't draw those years but I may have been focusing on painting then, or done some loose drawings somewhere. Apologies for the quality of some of those images too... I guess they didn't like being squished, so much detail was lost!
My initial thoughts about my development so far is: what on earth have I been wasting my years on? Surely in 13 years I should have improved more? I seem to have made leaps of progress some years and then promptly forgotten it, returning to the stale thoughtless sketches I often do when I am feeling uninspired but have a need to draw. I guess that is the price I have to pay for choosing to keep art as a hobby and trying to juggle study, work and family as well.
Viewing my work collectively like this does have its positives though. I do seem to have my own style when it comes to sketching, which I never before recognised. I also seem to have tried out a few different media, techniques and genres too, so that is nice to realise. And there are some themes I keep going back to, which I should really pursue in the future...
This is such a great thing to do (must have taken ages, though!), and some of these are really beautiful. I'd be curious as to which ones you really like, and which ones you find stale..
ReplyDeletei think my favourites are these three: line 1, second one in, line 6, second one in and line 10, second one in. although i also like the whole sequence on line 8 - seems like quite a different style
It looks great altogether like this Stani - so what themes are you going to pursue now?
ReplyDelete@Kat Most of the ones I find stale didn't make the cut, so I think I will keep those hidden with the rest of my secrets :P! As for the ones I do... its really hard to pick actually. I like some for the technique used, like line 5, 4th one is done with mixed media and the full painting actually looks awesome. Probably one of my favourites. Pen-wise I like line 4, 4th, and line 6, 6th. But again, the quality of the images is awful with a lot of detail being lost, and those are just details of some big drawings.
ReplyDelete@Alicia: I am not sure yet... I guess I will spend the next few posts reviewing the common themes, what I have learnt and where I want to go from here.
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