creativity 9...is coming !!

hello...here we are again another blog another line of thour, in this little edition I would like to talk about my path and what I would like to do, and also the creativity that I know and understand.

Lets get this ball rolling.... ok basically I would like a job as a concept artist, and now I have seen the amount of people on the internet that are concept artists, its worrying and the fact that there all so good it makes me think that I don't know if my art skill is good enough to get me a job and because I don't like the 3D that much I don't really want to be a 3D artist, I like the 3D art don't get me wrong...its just I like art more so thats what I want to do if I can...... I don't like giving up on some thing I've spent my life doing and I want to get to a good enough level of art I just need some thing to push me.....I mean I will get there but I need more practice and not only that I need more smarts on how thing work, I need that so I know how to convey that in to my art and understand how to draw certain things....I don't know.

Right... the way i think about creativity is that there are so many different factors that drive the need to create, there is also the factor of intelligence it is a bit mad that there are no good stupid artists, I also think that the amount of imagery plays a good part in the hole thing, I don't know how to compile all the factor in to making a creative genius I will try and figure it out though so I can learn what needs to be seen to become a great artist....one day I'll do it, there is still loads I need to find out about creativity like the fact that there are more game artist than I imagined and its only going to get worse and we need to keep on top of the programs that pop up and get better at art, loads to do so little time.

creativity 8........it hits the fan

I am no closer to understanding the root of creativity and have not been able to decipher my own creative pattern, and I think there is now a lot more than meets the eye in creativity if you know what I mean, but its not all bad I have found out things about myself that will help down the road and I have found the limit in to which I can push my self in doing work, I know there are thing with creativity that I know and can now understand but it has raised loads of questions about my self and my spark of creativity, I just don't know any more..........arrrghh ....it matters not I have figured out some thing that most have not and I intend to use this insight to gathering as much skill as I can get my mind round, that is one thing I have learn't time and time again that you have no chance of being able to draw what you see if you don't understand it, I mean that if you see someones work and you think"owwww that head looks good I'll draw that"and you can because you don't understand what the artist was thinking when he drew it and how the mechanism works round the back, you just cant do it.....any way!!!

I have tried to understand the root of all creativity and it just chewed me up and spit me out, there are parts I get like inspiration is the cornerstone of the creative insight but there are factors that come in to it that probably should not come in to it, you know human things like being tired and hungry, but spending the day drawing does use alot of energy in you body, I mean take that for instance pushing a pencil across paper doesn't take up much energy its the creative mind waxes energy while you work. after doing these blogs I do think the mind is like a muscle the way it takes things in and if you don't use it, it suffers and gets slack again.

I still am undecided at the amount of my creative knowledge, and I don't know how far it will take me but I still want to improve my creative mind and see what I can do in a year, It used to be that I improved every other week and could look back on my work from a week ago and see an improvement and I also used to get a great boost of trying to beat my brother in art but he has let his drawing fall down and I have probably surpassed him and thats not good because he was probably my main driving factor and now it is no more.!!!

creativity 7........the start of the end !

in this blog I will try to understand the reason to why I like detail so much and the reason to why I try to cram to much detail in to things where it is not needed. I like detail because of the amount time and effort it takes to create some thing that is a fully focused image, its like what I was talking about in one of the other blogs there are 3 steps to creativity the compiling of imagery, the the thought process to get the image in you head on to paper, and the amount of skill you have as a artist( your drawing ability). so its simple why I like loads of detail in work I see for two reasons I want only the most thought out bits of work for my creative process and I also respect the artist who has done the work of detail because they have probably spent days getting every thing right and that is one of the hardest things getting the image in your head out on the paper in full detail, so yes I respect good artists because of the skill over there own creative minds .....bravo.

owww......and the other thing why I try to cram as much detail in to artwork to the point where there is no point because you'll never see it , I don't know why I do this but..... I guess that its because I like to know how things work and I like to think that some one will see my artwork someday and think the same thing I think about detailed artists work, I don't know but I want to create some thing that no one has created before...I know every things been done, but has it because if you think like that then all your going to do all your life is rip off others artwork and not create it your self.......I don't mind what others do, it matters not to me I still need to achieve something......sorry I kind of got lost there. more tomoz

creativity 6 ..... deep down the rabit hole

hay.... creativity again... today I shall look at art work that inspires me, everyone like there own type of art work and I think that the art work that I like has to be detailed, I like the odd simple thing but I love detail in a painting or drawing, I don't like most the classical artists because they are keepers of there own technique and no one else can do it better than them, I like art work that you can unravel with your eye, pick it apart and absorb the skills of another.

I like a lot of digital art but I see it as a easy art style to put detail in to, but I don't mind that any more because I did not like digital art when I first saw it because it seemed to have a lot of cheating factors like being able to undo mistakes, and mixing media that you can not do in the real world, tracing work... I don't like that and adding pictures of some thing and painting over it to get the texture u want, I can't and wont do most of these thing when I using the graphics tablet because undoing is not an option in reality and adding a picture in to it and painting over it, I think this is a foolish way to do art because you will never learn how to paint the thing you used as a picture unless you learn how to paint it properly.

any way I love detail in art work and every time I see some proper art work it inspires me to create some thing as detailed, all tho I can not paint as good as the art I have seen I still pushes me to move falward to get the skills I need, but its not the same with digital art because I don't think its the same thing it still inspires me but not as much as real art.
the picture on the left is done with acrylics and the one on the below is digital I'll let you decided which is better........bye.!!

creativity 5....unfolding

In the last blog I talked about how I was going to find out the source of my creativity, In fact i got in to a convo with my dad over Christmas about graffiti, because he sees it as chavs tagging where as there are 2 types of graffiti there is tags to mark terrortory and there are actual pieces of art, the conversation went on for ages he believes that all graffiti if crime because it is doing some thing to others property and is illegal where as I think that graffiti is a lack of inspiration in young people
because of buildings in this country..... i know it doesn't make sense give me a sec to exsplane .......right you only see graffiti on ugly buildings that don't inspire, I mean you don't see it on churches or a nice building or a new building (I'm not talking about tags here, tags are done by the stupid people I'm talking about the art side of things) I think that the only reason we have graffiti is because of the depressing sceene that we live in, i belive graffiti is a byproduct of building every thing cheap and boring in the 70's and i don't think it will get better. the thing is that the people that are resopsible for the problem will not understand it they dismiss it as vandalism, which it is...don't get me wrong, its vandalism with a purpose !!


ok sorry where was I right the map of creativity........ right what makes me creative, I suppose that there are 2 driving factors there is a desire to beat my rivals and and my brothers and sisters, I know wanting to beat you own family ... not many people can understand it......I wont go in to it. and the other is to perfect the skill that i have learnt over the past 7 years I suppose that everyone has these desires maybe not the same as mine but similar to mine, to understand the what inspires me I have to understand the things that drives me.

I guess that the driving points are like a pillar in which all my inspiration sits and with out this pillar there would be no inspiration on top.......no thats stupid and it doesn't work like that.
ok so if I need to find out why i am inspired by some thing, I will need to understand the reason for the for inspiration in general and I have a basic grasp on this topic I believe that the mid of a creative person strives to create some thing that has not been created before and all tho there are many things that inspire me to create I believe that I have certain thing that help me more than others like some bits of music( if I'm drawing some thing like a robot or some thing i lissen to crazy robot music to try and get the feel for what I'm drawing, but some times my hand will be taken by the music and it will practically draw by it self) i believe that there is a part of our brain that we can switch off in and divert all are energy in to creating and I think i would be a good idea if i find out how this works because I've done it about 6 times and it all ways gives good work.

thats where I'm going to stop for the day because i have many things to do..bye thanks for reading.