design geekery

Adding insult to my injury… here are the many work in progresses that I stopped working on. There are 10 here, there are still others that I won’t touch… these are the ones that have potential to be finished.

This picture upsets me.

Not in the “I can’t believe it” upset but more in the “What is wrong with me” upset. I was looking through my art folder this evening and I came across this painting. I had forgotten about it, it’s unfinished. As I was looking at this, I don’t remember where I was going with this… from the technique I used it was started quite a while ago (I can mostly tell from the hair which isn’t fully visible here as this is a 50% crop from the whole image). I don’t even have the reference image that I was probably using at the time. Now why does this upset me? because it’s rather good for being incomplete. I just don’t know why I stopped working on. I then began to notice that my art folder was full of this unfinished pieces… so good, some really good and some really awful ones. But the point is… why can’t I finish a painting? I get so exciting when I’m starting then just like that I stop and don’t look at it again for years on time. If you’ve been following me you know I’ve posted some work in progress but never the finished versions. Those are still sitting in that folder still untouched. I just don’t understand why I create such beautiful pieces only for them to not be finished and be hidden away till even I forget about them. I need to change that. I need to be the artist I am and I’m meant to be and stop putting underestimating myself. I need to stop convincing myself that I’m not good at art and embrace the god given talent that I’ve been given. 

I’m tired of selling myself short in every creative venture I do. I feel it’s time to take back my art and let it shine.

Joe Madureira on the flipside has improved over the years. The X-Men cover is circa 1994 the Thor vs Hulk is circa 2009. Joe is also another favorite artist of mine and is solely responsible for my “I want to draw comics” phase I went going through.

J. Scott Campbell used to be one of my favorite comic book artist. But as his career has progressed it seems like his drawings skills have decreased. The image on the left is the iconic Fairchild circa 1994. The image on the right is the ill-fated Danger Girls circa 2007.  

I mean really… what happened? 

Brock Davis is a Minneapolis-based artist and musician who works on primarily self-initiated projects in a variety of mediums. (via msced : brock davis)