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[hughferriss]

i don't know if any of you other artists go through this, but whenever i resume drawing after a long delay, i worry that i may have forgotten how to draw. when i put pencil to paper, there's always a fear that the well will have run dry and the bucket will come up empty

Comments

[danmazur]

Good post. I guess it's true that all creative endeavors contain a certain amount of torment. I always long for more "control" over what I'm doing. On the other hand, there's a kind of delight in that "found object" feeling, that something unexpected and even alien has come through your hands. I guess the best you can hope for is a fruitful dialogue between what you intend your work to be and what actually happens when you put pen to paper (literally or metaphorically). Probably "control" is just learning to anticipate, in general terms, that "dialogue." Of course I say this as one who could never in a million years be hired to do art for video games, so the idea of not being able to produce women they thought were sexy enough hardly bothers me. Can I draw women I think are sexy enough? That's another question... All artists have limitations. The question is, how much of your energy to put into attacking your weaknesses, and how much into developing your strengths? Anyway, from what I've seen of your work, I'd kill to have that kind of "control..."