I have been contemplating being an artist.
There are plenty of people who say that I am an artist, but I don’t see myself that way — generally speaking, my art is based on making information clearer through the design of magazines, brochures, environmental graphics, websites, blah blah blah blah blah.
And I’ve tried to be more traditionally artistic, played with pastels and dabbled with paints, but I just — well, I can’t draw. I suppose that drawing is just one form of art, and there are plenty more; this last weekend I delved into various pieces of art that I really liked and some I didn’t, but none of them had anything to do with drawing.
Today I learned that there is an open studio event happening this weekend, and one of the artists involved is just a few doors down from me. She creates art with photography and it looks rather good — I’ll be popping down the street to take a look at her studio.
Anyway, I keep thinking about converting my garage into a studio, but I’m not certain what kind of art I want to do and what messages I have to impart to the world. I just feel like I have nothing to say, and that my art consists of packaging other people’s words.
Still, it would be kind of cool to paint one wall of my garage in ChromaKey green, just in case I want to make a special effects film.
Anyone can learn to draw.
It takes time and practice.
Do it.
You ARE an artist, you work on computers rather than canvas. That doesn’t make you any less of an artist. You create. When you finish a piece you can say look at my work! Look what I have made.
What you do is not easily done by others.
People pay you to do it.
You love what you create and feel that its a part of you.
You do it because you must do it, not because ‘its your job’.
One could learn to draw and still not be an artist and one could never learn to draw and be a great artist. Do you think Ansel Adams can draw? Or paint? Or sculpt? Would you not call him an artist?
Computers are just one more medium.
You use a keyboard rather than a brush
Look it up!
artist
n : a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination.