Posted

May 12th 2005

Mood

Overwhelmed

today i am going to focus on WINGED CHARACTERS or ANGELS or WHATEVER LOSING THEIR WINGS, with or without blood spilling down their bodies in rivulets and pooling on the ground.

geez guys, i know a lot of teenagers probably do this because that's just the way they HANDLE their drawings, with heavy-handed imagery and all, but dang is it ever annoying. i am guilty of BLOOD TO EXPRESS EMOTION myself, it's okay! one of the most difficult things to do in ones artistic career is to let go of your current habits, and essentially allow yourself to relearn everything you know in order to improve. this probably applies more to the technical process of drawing, but we also get attached to certain motifs - in this case, angels with bleeding wing stumps - sometimes to the point where the use of the image feels ingenuine.

i suppose it works in the context of being used to represent something that has CRIPPLED you (because let's face it, most of these bleed-happy angel things are representations of their creator) like maybe some kind of MID LIFE CRISIS or DEATH in the family, but i get the feeling that most of it relates to I AM SAD AND IN HIGH SCHOOL SLITTING WRISTS WHILE LISTENING TO LINCOLN PARK

but you know, maybe this is just a bias on my part. i am overly fond of ambiguity in artwork. anyone who can convey abstract notions, like a sense of uncertainty about the future, without depicting a character staring out at the viewer with BIG SAD EYES, is awesome in my book.

EDIT: in retrospect this is huge and clunky and unreadable, but i guess that is par for the course when it comes to my writing