I draw a lot of things in a lot of different styles :)
As you can tell, i love cats (=ↀωↀ=)
(Drawing my part of the trades 2/4)
Age 18
Wrench
Funny hat
French and Algerian
Joined on 9/3/24
Theme? GATO.
JUST DRAW. Your art says whatever you felt your heart wanted out in that moment, like all creative endeavors. It's feeling. Just put your pen to the paper and everything will fall into place. Dont try linear, railroaded results to match some unspoken theme for the people. Dont fall into a stifling box! Just have fun, thats what it means to create.
@LordofRealty
GATO!!!
Yeah, you are right! Trying to fit in a category is not really a good thing. But at the same time, I want my art to tell something, instead of going in every directions.
I've thought about it last month, and I felt like there's a distinction between being "creative" and being "chaotic".
Someone creative is just someone who know how to do it. It doesn't mean he know what to do.
Someone chaotic would just talk and talk, draw and draw, over and over again, until something good come from it. Either a hit or a miss. They can't control themselves.
Both create, but not in the same way.
I'm a bit like that I think. I know how to draw, but I don't know what to draw, so I just draw what I feel in the moment, instead of having a goal.
I love a lot of things, sometimes I don't like things as I used to, I have my time of fixations if you get what I mean : one week it will be full 90s funk, then another month it will be drawing melancholic feels, ect...
I just want to tell and say, but it's just ephemeral. But at the same time, my sentences only get longer and longer, until it cracks from its weight. And then I continue speaking over and over again without saying anything really.
I think it kinda shows in how I wrote this reply too now that I re read it lol
I've ran into many of these thoughts before, where should one focus, what even is a "main style" and so forth as a lot of my stuff is radically different from each other
The solution I've come to is to not worry about it. While it is good to have a "default" look for me at least that is just the look I've done the most and am most comfortable making.
It does not stop me from doing anything else after all since if I have an idea I want to do it. Artists all through history have many styles and mediums under their belts after all even if they also have a known main look.
What's important isn't locking in on one but rather having a good comprehensive view of what you can do so you can approach it all tactically and functionally.
Not every size fits all nor every tool for every job.
Lead with the thing you enjoy most but don't stop doing any idea that comes to mind as it all feeds into each other and you never know when you might need something to look different.
Hope it all goes well ( ´∀｀ )b
just draw what you wanna draw n if you wanna do a theme go for it :3333
your artbook doesnt have to look like some HUGE COOL PORTFOLIO
but ehhhh i dont really know nothin so i could be wrong
Osaka
Perhaps you should write down 5-10 things that inspire you or that you gain motivation from, and in turn get a creative spark that gets the muse-juices flowing.
This way, you'll always have a mini record of what it is that drives you to create art, and this would also help with your issues regarding consistency. Art itself doesn't have to be confined to "making sense", as you've stated.
There are plenty of unorthodox artists over the many millennia of human history that have been so left-field & strange and have been revered as influential figures in their field, just look at Jean Michel Basquiat for example.
To motivate me creatively in my real life endeavors, I generally pull from musicians I'm listening to at the time, and transform the spark of inspiration into alchemical goodness.
Hope this advice gives you some thoughtful ideas :)
SouSTAR
@Osaka
Oh, by "making sense", I didn't meant literal sense!
Looking at Jean Michel Basquiat's art, his art do make sense : he have a consistent color palette and composition, and he use his unusual style to portray abstract emotions. But we can still see what is happening in his paintings, just not completely. It's very amazing!
I'll try to write this list :)
I often listen to music while drawing too! A lot of people do that :3