Web comic work, illustration work and other stuff I might feel like doing.
Monday, June 18, 2012
...and his pal Smatt. Think I've worked out the look for this next comic. Now I have to do it but keep it under wraps as the anthology I'm doing it for won't come out til late this year or early next.
I'm not so good a realist. :"D I have been told, though, that being a chameleon is a hinderance in the illustration biz as people like a 'brand' they can recognize. So I'm probably not doing myself any favors.
maybe you should "develop" a style for commercial projects and still continue your more personal exploration but more on the side. Of course you have to start getting work in that style first to know it's the "commercial" one!
Yah, I know! Also, for me, part of figuring out how to approach an illustrative 'problem' involves figuring out which style will work best. I simply can't just use one. It feels wrong. Oh, well!
of course once established, your change in styles would show how versatile you are and get you praise. Somehow you are allowed to be creative only after you are pigeonholed into a catagory it seems. I have a similar professional problem since i do web sites, print, photo and video. Every time I try and eliminate one of those things, I get hired to do it. The only thing I've really stopped doing is showing my work, no one ever really cared to buy it anyway.
I'm surprised that you stopped showing your work. The recent drawings have been wonderful. I'm guessing the fine art market is pretty tough, and really, I get it. There's generally a big yawn when I even show work online, and I've thought about not posting anything, but I haven't yet. Heck, even that portrait show I did a couple of years ago had some sales. I'm very sorry to hear of your discouragement.
I would get reviewed in the papers, great ones, my work would even be used to promote the shows, but no one bought anything. When I had a studio in boston I did some group shows with others i shared my space with and sold 2 photos once. I hate being in public anyway, in fact I would ask other people to pretend they were me at some openings. I even put a mustache on a woman I knew and had her go as me! Now I share a little online, with you, ny ex and that's about it. My friends aren't really all that interested. Into the closet they go when I'm done!
Sadly, we're both in that boat, Vince. Local people, coworkers never ask me about my art. Even Boston folks don't. Thing is, I don't think I could stop making these things. -I- like them and I guess that will have to be enough. Pity as you make really good work.
as I keep saying.. the desire to make art is a mental illness, you can't stop yourself and you suffer horribly if you try. I accept that, but it is discouraging when the only interest people show is to say "why on earth would you want to do that?"
...and his pal Smatt. Think I've worked out the look for this next comic. Now I have to do it but keep it under wraps as the anthology I'm doing it for won't come out til late this year or early next.
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is there any style you can't do at this point?
I'm not so good a realist. :"D I have been told, though, that being a chameleon is a hinderance in the illustration biz as people like a 'brand' they can recognize. So I'm probably not doing myself any favors.
maybe you should "develop" a style for commercial projects and still continue your more personal exploration but more on the side. Of course you have to start getting work in that style first to know it's the "commercial" one!
Yah, I know! Also, for me, part of figuring out how to approach an illustrative 'problem' involves figuring out which style will work best. I simply can't just use one. It feels wrong. Oh, well!
of course once established, your change in styles would show how versatile you are and get you praise. Somehow you are allowed to be creative only after you are pigeonholed into a catagory it seems. I have a similar professional problem since i do web sites, print, photo and video. Every time I try and eliminate one of those things, I get hired to do it. The only thing I've really stopped doing is showing my work, no one ever really cared to buy it anyway.
I'm surprised that you stopped showing your work. The recent drawings have been wonderful. I'm guessing the fine art market is pretty tough, and really, I get it. There's generally a big yawn when I even show work online, and I've thought about not posting anything, but I haven't yet. Heck, even that portrait show I did a couple of years ago had some sales. I'm very sorry to hear of your discouragement.
I would get reviewed in the papers, great ones, my work would even be used to promote the shows, but no one bought anything. When I had a studio in boston I did some group shows with others i shared my space with and sold 2 photos once. I hate being in public anyway, in fact I would ask other people to pretend they were me at some openings. I even put a mustache on a woman I knew and had her go as me! Now I share a little online, with you, ny ex and that's about it. My friends aren't really all that interested. Into the closet they go when I'm done!
Sadly, we're both in that boat, Vince. Local people, coworkers never ask me about my art. Even Boston folks don't. Thing is, I don't think I could stop making these things. -I- like them and I guess that will have to be enough. Pity as you make really good work.
as I keep saying.. the desire to make art is a mental illness, you can't stop yourself and you suffer horribly if you try. I accept that, but it is discouraging when the only interest people show is to say "why on earth would you want to do that?"
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