Tuesday, November 10, 2009


This week was about personality types; a topic which doesn't really leave a lot of options open for a related creative act. However, one girl in my tutorial said something about not liking having time constraints on her creativity, because she doesn't like to have to output something sub-par or incomplete. This made me think about all the unfinished and mistake-ridden pieces of art which are held up as examples of triumph. What makes something rushed not as good as something slaved over? If you're good at art, you don't need lots of revision, time, or even large amounts of compositional substance (ie. long line count in a poem) to make something good. It's already been said in lecture that art is made up of mistakes. If that's true, and making mistakes is as easy as it seems to be, then art should be easy too.

So in that spirit, I have drawn you this; eyes, and some kind of smoky/elephant trunk thing. It's not intricate, it's not finely detailed, it's quick and automatic, it is me being creative in one short burst and then putting my paper down.

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