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I was just reading my Sketch group forum and read the post by InkandBrush, and it reminded me of something very important.
Heres the post.
Someone asked me why I did Graphite Drawings..since no one seems interested in Black and white drawings or paintings.
Had to think about it a bit. I guess I draw for a couple of reasons. The challenge is to me, unlike painting with color…it is much harder to the the proper shading in a Graphite drawing. And I just like drawing sometimes as a change.
I do know most people have no interest in Black & White Drawings, no matter how well done.
Paper I am using is hot press, “Aquella Fabriano Artistico Bright White Watercolor Paper”, and the pencils I am using are the “Staedtler Lumograph” graphite pencils.
I do not really need to use the Hot press paper, any good graphite paper will do. But I feel this paper holds up very well and I like the feel of it when the graphite goes on.
Also like my black eraser, blending sticks and this blob of blue stuff from the UK.
My response.
Its important to do it your own way, in Art, when I was art school I was constantly being told by other students how approach something. What style I should be doing, this annoyed quite a lot, they claimed to be modern artist, but all they were doing was following the latest artistic trend, to get them into University and choosing the teachers style, I felt this was very sad, not what art is about for me.
I used to purposely decide at the split second, which style to do a piece in and then change my mind, “I think I’ll do an abstract no an minimalist piece, oh no sod it I’ll do a cartoon pop art instead”, it used get me a good reception, very warm. Funny they never got it, well apart from Dave he just used to grin, he was doing his thing.
All artist and great persons in history have had this same belief, be true to thine self, follow your own star.
If all we do is follow the latest trend then we are just sheep, what we paint, draw, sculpt, perform is up to us and how we do it.
Confucius said “there is one thing that is certain, Change.”
We can follow change or we affect change!
Which one are you, did you do it because everybody else did it, or do you do it because it is what you want to do, and to hell with the rest.