I imagine my art style consisting of a bunch of sliders on some big, hidden control board in my brain. Like a sound control board in one of those big, fancy recording studios, each slider controls one part of the balance of the finished piece of music. Only difference the control in my head aren’t for balancing instruments and how they all mix together, they are for balancing artistic levels instead. Or, to put it even simpler; they are for balancing the sizing and proportions, line thickness and color choice.
My past few weeks of really practicing has really improved my artistic control. I feel like my artistic control board got a bunch more sliders. It’s been fun learning how to control all of these new variables. I guess it would be like playing a computer game, and on the character creation screen you have all of these sliders… Chin thickness, eye angle. The all important booby slider.
It’s all building toward something. I can promise you that. In the mean time it’s all going to continue be good ol commission fun!
I’m working on developing a whole new intellectual property, or IP for short. Basically a whole new world to fill with characters and a new story to have in that world. It’s a lot of fun, and one of my favorite things to do. I get pretty exhaustive about it, too. Those who know me can attest. I believe that the best world has no stone unturned. That way stories told there won’t miss opportunities to make themselves more believable, more cohesive, through depth. the more you know about a place, the better the stories you can tell about it!
I’m running into a bit of writer’s block, though. It’s the Tabula Rasa, or however you spell it. The blank slate. There is so much to close from; So many colors I can slap onto my canvas, that I am kinda overwhelmed with choices. I’ve been trying to narrow it down, but I am finding it mighty hard to commit.
It’s also why I haven’t finished anything this week. (Plus I had an awesome wedding to attend. That ate up some time…) What am I supposed to finish? What do I start? It’s a conundrum. I’ll tweet about things as I figure it out.
Updates so late on Wednesday that is might as well be Thursday.
