Today I decided that I want to be an illustrator! Since starting the course I have been a bit wobbly and and on many occasions have considered moving to fine art. I felt that by doing illustration, a huge part of me has been ripped away, as I’m un able to oil paint. This is my passion. I even received an email from my school art teacher saying I had made a massive mistake, one which I’m going to regret. This also means that I feel constantly set back as everything is very new to me.
However, today something switched. I know that I want to do illustration. Whats better than being able to draw all day long? I think that this switch was down to really being immersed in the visual culture. Before coming here, I had lots of favourite artists but I didn’t know many illustrators. With so much of the work I’ve seen my response has been I want to do that. I have a goal, something which I never really had with painting.
During Big Heads, Stanley Chao spoke about how he used to paint but he moved to working digitally when he saw the digital age taking over. Having done a painting, it was a massive process getting it photographed, then hiring a courier to deliver it to the buyer. Working digitally, all you have to do is send it. This was an interesting point, something which I had never considered.
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