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Art Ideas. Need Help.

Journal Entry: Thu Apr 24, 2008, 1:20 PM

I was going to make this a poll, but that makes it hard to explain this.

See, I have a problem with art. Moreso, with making work worthy of being in a gallery. I can do many things, but have yet to find things I love doing and would do continuously to make a body of work. I do not want to create refined gorgeous hardcore realistic pieces. I can do that. It's mentally and physically exhausting, and is boring as hell. Here's what I've been brainstorm today while sitting on the couch watching Black Jack the anime (which is amazing, btw):

Diary As Art. I do lots of sketch pages, but I never really kept a diary. I think I could pick up another blank sketchbook and do an entry a day, in some artistic way. It has been done before, of course, but I make so many little sketches and genuinely enjoy doing it that I think I can elevate it to some sort of higher art form by having a collection of them. When I'm just writing, drawing, and showing how I feel then I don't feel like I'm doing work and that's when I can be most creative.

Legs. I like drawing and painting legs, a lot. I like them for many reasons. They represent innocence, sexuality, and femininity all in one package. They are fun to draw, paint, and photograph. If I just make a bunch of pieces around legs, I think that I can physically do this for the rest of my life and be happy. Because I draw them so damned much.

How to Disappear Completely. I had this idea, which I've been trying to run with. Showing various body parts melting, decompiling, etc. Showing the reasons why people want to hide themselves, why people lose their identity and so on and so forth. While this was fun for literally 3 pieces, a short stop animation, and a whole 8 or so photographs, I've grown tired of it. I feel that I can start this up again once summer comes, and I plan on doing some really big works and some many many small works. I'm just not positive I can run with this.

My thousand eyed blood. That's part of a line from Lolita, by Nabokov. I thought, maybe, I'd just do a series on eyes. Thousands and thousands. Prints of eyes, paintings of eyes, just staring, glaring, looking, observing. They can be injected into any situation to portray how I feel about the world. When I eat, I think people are staring at me, judging me for having that bag of chips. I could paint them glaring, and their face would be a void where one thousand eyes glared at me.

I think all these ideas are good ideas. I have the skills to execute them. I just have trouble getting started, and sticking with it. Each of these would be terribly personal for me. And I'm not used to making personal art. =/ Only recently have I been doing it. Sorry to flood everyone with journal entries, but it's hard to create art when you aren't sure what you want to say, even if you have all the resources.



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OOmmmgggg do a COMICDIARY. Of course it's for people who like/want to make comics as a profession because it improves you like a hell-load, but I could recommend it to anyone, because you get addicted to it and it's awesome. Plus that way you'd have to be drawing everyday and just recording your flow of thoughts by drawing without having to spend too much time and effort to it. So much fun, unless you're a perfectionist. :3

HELL YES LEGS *excited foot-fetishist* I'd be in seventh heaven if you did a triptych of feets, hands and NOSES oh hell yes XD

a-and yes, eyes, I almost forgot I loved eyes as well... preferably a million at once on something.

Personal art is really great, helps ye to grow. I recommend expressing your feelings by drawing, it's awesome. You just need to stop hesitating and GET TO IT.
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I am obsessed with eyes... I don't know what it is but I just love 'em! and paintings of eyes... and of them glaring and staring at you would make me squirm with delight haha

my freshman year of high school... the teacher let me go through all her old magazines and cut out the eyes of the pictures. I would sit in class after my work was done and paste them into a really big collage I have... (now at my mum's...)

!!!! do the eye one!!!!!!!!!!!1

seriously.


I would even BUY a piece from you like that lol. all I need now is the muhnehs....

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I'd even buy "That I Have Found Me" and hang it in my living room.

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I was in that place a few months ago. I felt pressured to make a cohesive series of work, but I wanted to do so many different things, as soon as I started on a series, I got bored and wanted to explore other things.

So what I did was this 30 paintings project of mine. The entire purpose is to explore what I can do, and do my best in each piece to discover something new and further develop my style. Within the 30 I am likely to come across reoccuring themes and concepts. My plan is to take one of the more common themes/concepts and turn that into a real series. That way, I know I enjoy it already because I've discovered along the way what I enjoy doing best without that pressure of being locked into a series.

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I like the art-as-diary thing, mostly because it seems like it would be harder to get tired of, both for you and for the people who look at your pictures. :batman:

Um. My comment looks really short in comparison to everyone else's.
I really liked the concept of the "How to Disappear Completely" series, but I think there was something that was missing in the pieces that just didn't really endear me to the work like the prospect of the title did. I think such words for me have a dark connotation to them, and maybe I would have liked them more if they had a clear beginning and worked toward an end. WHat I see in the images is just the middle part. I think some suffering would do them good.

In short, I think it would be an AWESOME series if you did exactly what you said, show the reasons why people want to disappear, then the action of them doing so. :)


Ahhh, sorry, I'm so rambly! /)_(\
And wow, that was completely off topic.


Sorry.
Hmm... There's this thing about sketches often being better than the final "piece" because they have a lot of personal things in them that get lost during a process of creating one or more final piece(s). So whatever you do, sketching would be a good way to begin. Whether it's legs, viewpoints...

I always carry a sketchbook with me. It's filled with sketches, but also with cards, articles from papers. It ends up being a diary really (a good alternative to the written one, since I am horrible at writing). A collection of parts of the day. Things I've seen. But the random sketching got a bit boring after a while, so I just made assignments for myself, things I wasn't good at but wanted to be good at, or theme's. It's real fun to see the progress.

That's how I do it... But what works for you might be something completely different.

Anyway, I like your ideas :) Acting them out is better than thinking about them. And you could do them all of coarse, though not all at once.

Mmm... Lolita. Weren't you writing something about it for psychology? Or am I mixing things up?
I like the diary as art one; other people's lives are very interesting.

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