note for later

[egypturnash]

semi-rant: "style is a crutch" -> "style is a trap"

getting out of that trap by deliberately pushing away from what's "easy" and into what's hard
yes, everyone does this, every artist had that phase.

what do you always do? stop doing it. maybe you'll come back to it, maybe you won't. when you come back it'll be conscious.

Kill your "style" to save it. If I hadn't done this three or four times I'd still be doing the horrible awkward pastiche of Jim Davis that I had when I was in high school. seriously.

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[jirris-midvale.livejournal.com]

I find myself going in cycles with this. I want to learn more things, and glue it to the katamari of my art skills. I keep finding myself doing this number: learn/reinforce something that is a fundamental piece of art knowledge -> adopt a new technique for something I already knew that amounts to a 'feat' -> pick up a new medium/do a bunch of work in a neglected medium -> pass go, collect 200 dollars and start again'

I don't mind this cycle, I just need to hurry it along faster.

For example, this year I studied human faces, and adapted what I learned to drawing cartoon people and furries, then I picked up acrylic paints, which lead to me studying color and brushwork, which I am refining as we speak.