Find Your Artistic Voice

you’re not feeling the desire for a prolonged period of time, it’s important to consider whether the current expression of your creativity is really what you want to be doing or whether, instead, you should change things up and be making something else or working in a different way. Listening to your internal desire (or lack of one) is critical to staying engaged with the creative process.

What is it, the ten-thousand-hours rule to become an expert? I made so many paintings that I didn’t like and products that never sold. You have to go through that process and not look at them as failures, but instead look at all of it as taking steps to figure out what you really want to do. Very few times do things simply fall in your lap. You have to stay with it and ride through the ups and downs.

sticking to a consistent set of rules means you are also excluding other things

vector artwork is distinctive from digital drawings made in pixels on a tablet

the artist’s own body

New forms of three-dimensional art like assemblage, installation, and performance art are entirely media-driven

discarded clothing, chewing gum, or even human hair

The word “media” is the plural form of the word “medium.”

develops as a by-product of doing the stuff you enjoy over and over again and making discoveries.

I was just finding ways to keep my work interesting and enjoyable.