Well here I am, almost a year later after I first dipped my toe into the world of art, the world of being a creative. A whirlwind of a year, and I’ve come out the other end with a little bit more self belief than I started with! Dare I say I actually have some creative talent?
The art is the first proper piece I completed in college, it made me sense my own potential, I felt proud.
The objective? Draw the tree structure using sight-size, then draw it again from the opposite side of the room, then connect the two drawings together. Sheets were draped over the branches mid-way through.
Structure, weight of line, depth, shadows, light.
I learnt a lot, I still have a lot to learn. I’m navigating my niche and specialising my specialism. I’m working myself out. I started out with the Art Foundation course with no confidence and no idea. But I’ve come out of it with some confidence and some idea! So that’s something. Ideas are brewing, requests are queueing, and the self belief is growing.
What matters most is that I’m enjoying it, I’ve overcome the internal pressure of creating to a certain standard, where now I can create just for the sake of it. Run away with my intuition. You have to trust your intuition. Right now…mine says…to create…something. So I will.