I have tons of ideas and designs, and 5-6 projects going on basically at the same time.
I have a bunch of loose/scrap papers littered with all sorts of doodles, half-worked sketches and ideas, and designs on but can't seem to find any way to "stick" with one design and continue to flesh it out. Much of it can be attributed to the "Do Not Fail" or "Perfect is not Perfect Enough" with the work. Some of the work is a bunch of historical replica/inspired intaglio prints, so accuracy in detail is critical and I'm not yet fully confident in my skills in replicating a specific style; and some ideas for "trade cards" or larger format business cards for myself and for a living history group….I just can't seem to settle on a design.
So I spent most of my precious time at my studio staring at the work or thumbing through reference books and materials. Then when I'm at my full time job (and soul-pinching, not quite crushing…yet), thinking about how the hell I'm going to get out of there and focus on doing more art work. But when I actually get to the artwork, blaaah. (and then driving back home I'm kicking myself and feel more miserable I haven't "produced" x number of pieces in the little time I have available)
The money/budget issue has become such an issue in its weird way: I don't want to spend money on yet another sketch/drawing paper book/pad, and have been using scraps of copier paper, and then start to worry about long-term "storage" or archiving because that paper isn't acid-free; yet I just threw down nearly $400 in picture framing for a few personal pieces (pieces I won't sell so won't reclaim that money anytime soon)
Soooo yeah.
As for the Sketch book thing, I have a similar problem, too, in that I'm not using the sketchbooks for what I'd intended (mostly a "travelogue" sort of idea where I take notes and sketches and doodles, and any future ideas for new pieces at the time)…And I have 2-3 sketchbooks still in the shrink-wrap.
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Date: 2017-01-02 11:32 pm (UTC)I have tons of ideas and designs, and 5-6 projects going on basically at the same time.
I have a bunch of loose/scrap papers littered with all sorts of doodles, half-worked sketches and ideas, and designs on
but can't seem to find any way to "stick" with one design and continue to flesh it out.
Much of it can be attributed to the "Do Not Fail" or "Perfect is not Perfect Enough" with the work.
Some of the work is a bunch of historical replica/inspired intaglio prints, so accuracy in detail is critical and I'm not yet fully confident
in my skills in replicating a specific style; and some ideas for "trade cards" or larger format business cards for myself and for
a living history group….I just can't seem to settle on a design.
So I spent most of my precious time at my studio staring at the work or thumbing through reference books and materials.
Then when I'm at my full time job (and soul-pinching, not quite crushing…yet), thinking about how the hell I'm going to get out of there
and focus on doing more art work. But when I actually get to the artwork, blaaah.
(and then driving back home I'm kicking myself and feel more miserable I haven't "produced" x number of pieces in the little time I have available)
The money/budget issue has become such an issue in its weird way: I don't want to spend money on yet another sketch/drawing paper book/pad, and have been using scraps of copier paper, and then start to worry about long-term "storage" or archiving because that paper isn't acid-free; yet I just threw down nearly $400 in picture framing for a few personal pieces (pieces I won't sell so won't reclaim that money anytime soon)
Soooo yeah.
As for the Sketch book thing, I have a similar problem, too, in that I'm not using the sketchbooks for what I'd intended (mostly a "travelogue" sort of idea where I take notes and sketches and doodles, and any future ideas for new pieces at the time)…And I have 2-3 sketchbooks still in the shrink-wrap.
*head/desk/repeat*