As a young lad i always had a thing for drawing, whether it was with crayons, mud, pencils or pens. Then as I got older I got lost in the world of comic books, so my love for drawing and comics naturally came together. Over the years I would like to say I got decent at it, so I decided that i wanted to become a comic book artist. Now here is the problem with that, i have drawn two sequential pages in my life. I have always been good at pin up art.
So blah blah life goes on. My art and I separate for a few years, and we do our own thing. Now I am all growed up and suddenly have this urge to hook back up with my art. Thing is i find that the stuff i used to draw doesn't fit in my life anymore, so i decide to try my hand coloring. Now , in my opinion, after 10 colors i dint think i am half bad. I feel a sort of knack for this coloring on the compy thing. Problem is now that i feel like i am getting stuck in doing art for the masses and not for myself. This is no good, being worried about if this person or that person digs it. Screw that, i want to make art.
I have been perusing Deviant Art, a place where artists of all walks hang, from pencillers to sculptors and i am finding myself drawn to digital painting. Now I had a very short stint with some oils back in the day thanks to my grandma, and i had a blast with it. Sorry i am losing my gusto here. Anywho long story short, I find that it is time to create art I love, in a style that fits me. So take a hike comic art, cause it is time for daddy to paint, digitally ( no mess), orcs, and sword swingers, and chicks with big "ahem" guns. I will do this in my style using methods that work for me. not some guy on some art board who thinks, that just because he did a cover for some underground comic, that he is gods gift to artists and his word should be heard as gospel.
So will I suck for awhile, sure. Will I have fun, hells to the yeah. Cause isn't that what art is supposed to be about. Doing something you love, and having fun while doing it?
Rant over.
Monday, August 10, 2009
A change in focus
Posted by Billy VanVorst at 12:24 AM
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