EDIT: I wrote this a week ago, never got round to posting it. So.. I cant say that I still feel the same, I have too many mood swings =A=
Little update: I'm finally getting round to sitting down and getting a serious watercolour done. Planeed and evrything. It was supposed to be a couple picture but after finishing one human, I couldnt raw the other.. Talk about sudden art block =A= so this poor human looks rather lonely. Going to try again today >D
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Ohkay.. To clarify its 1.42 am here so forgive me for any errors. I have to type this now because I'll never get round to doing it tomorrow.
I was just wondering, how personal are your artworks? I was just browsing around DA and I happen to see a few pieces of art that were somewhat personal/self expressive of nature which really made an impression on me.. Not because of the workmanship or anything, but it struck me as to how personal it was. And it made me realize, just how individualistic and well, personal it is to create a piece of drawing/painting/art/whatever.
I know it doesn’t apply to all artists, but for me, majority of my artwork is rather personal. And having posting them up on DA.. Isn’t that like exposing a part of yourself? It does make one feel somewhat ..Vulnerable, which is why I don’t advertise my DA too much among regular friends. I do not like speculations/misinterpretations to happen (esp. due to the nature of some of my art e.g. nudity =A
and when I draw, I need the emotion to materialize the concept. E.g. emo picture need emo feeling while planning/recalling emo feeling but while painting and whatnot can be happy la >A< Therefore, the end product really would be exposing a small part of yourself of which makes me insecure about. Sometimes I just want to purge my gallery and fill it with nice innocent cutesy pretty stuff =A= too much emoness already, even though it doesn't look like it.. Generally I avoid posting such works unless it took more than a week and I’m damn proud of it, then its a total different story.
Well, how do I put this? You draw something to relief your feelings, which you don’t really want people to know, in the form of art, but at the same times, isn't art meant to be shown to send your message across? At times, its like a silent plea for attention or just indirectly getting somebody to hear you out. I wonder if that is why I continue to post art on DA.
Sometimes I wonder if its just because I happen to like certain elements/expressions/emotions that’s why I dump them in my often mismatched artworks, or is it because its because it reflects yourself? Or what you like/find esthetically pleasing makes what you are, the type of artist that you become? And when creating Original Characters, do you often notice that they would carry some of your characteristics? Not up to the point that they would be living your life rather than their fictional ones though. But enough to relate to yourself :S which is why I often steer clear of OC if possible, they just end up ridiculously uncreative. Really admire those that can come up with convincing histories and personalities for OCs.
Feel free to slap whatever sense you can get into my brain via comments XD
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