Artist's Block

For those of you that were in STAC last year- remember those grids we made of ourselves on the wall outside of the STAC room? Well, mine was extremely structured.

I tend to think in a rather "defined" manner. Because of that, I ran into some problems. The independent project that Luke assigned me was focused on planes, but more importantly on being loose. I failed.

So I just threw some brain vomit (left side) on the sheet and moped all the way home.
But as Luke always says, you can't make something great without making a crapload of well, crap.

That was yesterday. I was miserable. 

Today, we tackled the problem. I had to practically install the definition of loose into my brain.

I drew features of my body with my left hand and added volume with charcoal.

Then I turned it into a collage. 

I had no clue what I was doing the entire time, but I didn't care. I kind of liked it anyway.

I guess what I took away from this is that it's okay to not know what the hell is going on. You don't have to. Real artists never know what their final product will look like. They just close their eyes and let the "feelings" take over.