Challenging our art! That's what our art teacher has been pushing us to do thus week. We've been doing lots of different exercises to try out different techniques, such as negative space drawings, using limited colour or an unusual medium such as tape, continuous line drawings, and working on a large (A1) scale. It's very easy, especially in an academic setting, to get caught up in the fear of 'doing it right'. Detailed realism is fantastic, don't get me wrong, but it can create limits for your creativity, and can lead to a very perfectionistic attitude. Loosening up your art using different approaches is challenging, but new techniques can bring about surprising results that bring something fresh to your artwork. Showing my continuous line drawing, which I added another two continuous lines on top of it. I found myself stressing about what to draw and how to draw it and whether it would be this, that and the other. I made myself stop, and break out of the excessive planning and perfectionistic mindset, by getting a rather abstract gouache background I enjoyed painting using a sponge and fingers, then did a continuous line self portrait on top. This broke me out of worrying about face proportion, and gave me something to develop and refine a little.
I'll get a few pics of it up tomorrow to show how it loosened up my style a bit. Does anyone out there have anything they do to break their art up a bit? Share it in comments!
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