This is a personal piece that I started a few weeks back. It came about when I was talking to a friend of mine about how I developed my way of working…keep in mind this is only the rough.
When I was in college I had a hard time finding how I drew and where my Illustration ideas came from with all these things to think about and artists to look up into our heads with no time for it to sink in. We had a week off every 7 weeks but thats not long enough for things to sink in with me. See, my brain is like a Tivo, it records everything I tell it to but I don’t necessarily watch it until much much later. In fact I’m just starting to tune into things from my painting class in 1st year Illustration. haha
I really started to think about things the very last month of my final year. Our teacher gave us an assignment that would last 3 weeks, it was about figuring out who we were. So everyday for a few hours I would go home and write things down about myself that I knew, then I would just listen and watch to how I responded to things I didn’t know about myself. This was actually my favorite assignment of the year because it really focused on how we work and…how we WORK. haha. I knew I had a really short attention span and a short fuse so I worked that into how I would draw and so far, so good.
Dialog is another place where I get my ideas from and when my friend asked me “How did you find your voice” …I thought about it and said pretty much what I rambled about in the beginning but I says to him I says “It was hard to find my own voice when everyone around me was yelling.” So I drew a bird in a cage with other birds squawking around him. THATS IT. YAY BIRDS!
*End Transmission*
Chad C.
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Hey Rey,
Thanks for the support! I’m going to try to work this into color and change the birds around a little bit. I bought some paint markers that go right over wax, should be pretty interesting.
hey there Chad,
I enjoyed getting this insight into your ideas and where your work comes from. Thanks for sharing! I agree – that having as much time as we have had now away from school has allowed us to better understand what we learned. I think when your in the middle of it all it’s hard to look at things objectively.
even in this rough state i’d say it’s looking like a success.