Summoning Sacred Geometry by Chrissy Clark
I have always contemplated adding a blog to my site. Maintaining a website has always been one of my least favorite aspects of being an artist and keeping my work online. Thankfully, a lot of new website services make it easier, but they all have the ability to add a blog, and, with that, the pressure I put on myself to actually make one.
Why add a blog now?
Well, if I could, I would just shut the rest of the world off, draw all of the time, and just live in my little imagination bubble. Unfortunately, with the advent of AI, I feel like now is the time to start a blog as I feel the need to share my artistic journey.
Like all artists, I will occassionally suffer from art block. It used to really derail me and be a source of extreme frustration until I finally noticed a pattern. Once I recognized the pattern, I had been able to manage it well, until this last time...
Forcing Growth
I didn't really have a block per se, I had an overwhelming sense of lack of improvement. I realized that I had put so much pressure on myself to produce new pieces that I forgot to do things like practice without any intention of producing through gesture drawings, collaborations with friends, etc. I was just so frustrated as everything I was sketching just wasn't catching up with what my brain knew was incorrect. So I decided to take a break from all production of finished pieces to work on improvement.
I worked on figuring out what kind of resources and equipment I would need to do this (I will elaborate on a future blog post) and got to it. It took over a year, but it really paid off. I was starting to enjoy drawing again. I found wonderful stock artists to draw anatomy from and just started sketching every day with no purpose. I'm not going to lie, it was not easy at first, but it did get easier, and I started to be really happy with my finished sketches. With that, it was time to think about production again. I was really inspired, but I also wanted to improve my digital painting, etc. I identified a lot of what was holding me back and got to it.
So what's all this about AI?
About the time I started producing again, the AI image boom was (and is) hitting pretty hard and everything seems so saturated with it, including image searches on Google. I had also seen on some of my various social media feeds where some artists were being accused of using AI to improve.
It takes a lot of hard work, self-evaluation, and time to improve when it comes to artwork. It truly is a labor of love. To have anyone accuse your improvement of being AI driven is a devastating blow as you know how much time and effort you put into each piece.
Thankfully, there is a movement of consumers who will not buy AI work and companies out there stating that they will respect creatives and not use AI work for their products. This gives me a lot of hope.
Either way, I feel compelled to post my statement: No AI is used to create my images. Everything on this site comes from my brain and my hands. I will never use AI in the creation of any of works and do not knowingly support any site or brands that do.
Artwork comes from the heart. Whether it's serious, silly, or selacious, it comes from a real person who used their imagination, humor, or lived experience to produce and thererefore will undoubtedly connect with another person in some way.
Please be supportive of creatives and our journey from beginners to experts. With the advent of and oversaturation of AI images, we all really need the support from fans and consumers.
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